Don't get me started on this. Stealing is stealing, period. I really don't care if they were in the house or out, if they did not buy it then it is not there's. I love the laws in texas and wish they were all over the country.
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Well... not all of them... *shakes fist* stupid Code Enforcement limiting me to four hens... *grumble*
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The Slide... boy if that's not a good name for it... the proverbial slippery slope...
I mentioned they were not in the house because several postings implied they were.
I never said they were not stealing, or that stealing was right. I never said someone shouldn't defend their life. What I said was I didn't think an air conditioner was worth a human life.
I never said they were not stealing, or that stealing was right. I never said someone shouldn't defend their life. What I said was I didn't think an air conditioner was worth a human life.
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I absolutely agree Mom... problem is that we can't force criminals to do the math.
Hence lives lost, and decent people being forced to live with the fact that they hurt/killed someone. I really just do not know how I would handle that at all. Even with a threat to myself... or my kids (no hesitation I would hope)... I think that would be a hard thing to live with... but I'm a pansy, I know it... which is why I never considered entering the military, police force... heck I couldn't even be the Vet that puts down the 5yo's dog... I can however guarantee that I would majorly resent the *bleep* for making me make that decision...
Hence lives lost, and decent people being forced to live with the fact that they hurt/killed someone. I really just do not know how I would handle that at all. Even with a threat to myself... or my kids (no hesitation I would hope)... I think that would be a hard thing to live with... but I'm a pansy, I know it... which is why I never considered entering the military, police force... heck I couldn't even be the Vet that puts down the 5yo's dog... I can however guarantee that I would majorly resent the *bleep* for making me make that decision...
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In the state of Washington, the answer to that question is "Yes. Yes, it is okay." If you call the police to report that someone is breaking into an outbuilding, they will not appear, unless they are not doing anything else. If you shoot the perps, you go to jail because you used deadly force in a non-life-threatening situation.
I'd really like a taser. Really really. Every time you pull the trigger, is zaps the guy. As far as I know, there's no evidence that you pulled the trigger once or a hundred times, before the cops got there. In the videos, the shootee doesn't scream, while being zapped. I think if every criminal got tased every time they broke the law, WHILE they were breaking the law, crime would decrease. I'd like to mount it under the dash, in the car, so if it gets broken into, the taser goes off and keeps zapping the guy until the car battery runs down.
I have zero tolerance for thieves. If they stole some ears of corn, from my garden, at least I know they took food to feed themselves or maybe their family and I could get behind that. My GPS? My stereo? No, that's not to feed the starving babies of a hard working, down-on-his-luck guy. That's greed, avarice, envy "I want what you got and I don't have the guts to take it from you so I'll wait till no one's looking and then no one will ever know it was me."
BTW, I thought someone *did* steal my corn once, but it turned out it was a moose, that wandered through my yard, on the way to a local park, where he got caught. I never saw the corn again.... fortunately. 14 blocks from downtown Spokane Washington. The moose was almost 6 feet at the shoulder (a baby) and I wondered if you could ride one. Not ride it very long, obviously, because moose are insane at the best of times, but I bet that'd get you on the news. A very short rodeo, with more stomping than usual. But if you did it!!!! You'd probably be the only person ever to go the full 8 seconds.
Bad ideas.... You'd almost certainly get to hear that phrase, in the ER, that always follows a really bad idea. "So how'd this happen?"
"It started the usual way... 'Hold my beer... watch this!'."
In the state of Washington, the answer to that question is "Yes. Yes, it is okay." If you call the police to report that someone is breaking into an outbuilding, they will not appear, unless they are not doing anything else. If you shoot the perps, you go to jail because you used deadly force in a non-life-threatening situation.
I'd really like a taser. Really really. Every time you pull the trigger, is zaps the guy. As far as I know, there's no evidence that you pulled the trigger once or a hundred times, before the cops got there. In the videos, the shootee doesn't scream, while being zapped. I think if every criminal got tased every time they broke the law, WHILE they were breaking the law, crime would decrease. I'd like to mount it under the dash, in the car, so if it gets broken into, the taser goes off and keeps zapping the guy until the car battery runs down.
I have zero tolerance for thieves. If they stole some ears of corn, from my garden, at least I know they took food to feed themselves or maybe their family and I could get behind that. My GPS? My stereo? No, that's not to feed the starving babies of a hard working, down-on-his-luck guy. That's greed, avarice, envy "I want what you got and I don't have the guts to take it from you so I'll wait till no one's looking and then no one will ever know it was me."
BTW, I thought someone *did* steal my corn once, but it turned out it was a moose, that wandered through my yard, on the way to a local park, where he got caught. I never saw the corn again.... fortunately. 14 blocks from downtown Spokane Washington. The moose was almost 6 feet at the shoulder (a baby) and I wondered if you could ride one. Not ride it very long, obviously, because moose are insane at the best of times, but I bet that'd get you on the news. A very short rodeo, with more stomping than usual. But if you did it!!!! You'd probably be the only person ever to go the full 8 seconds.
Bad ideas.... You'd almost certainly get to hear that phrase, in the ER, that always follows a really bad idea. "So how'd this happen?"
"It started the usual way... 'Hold my beer... watch this!'."
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What I said was I didn't think an air conditioner was worth a human life.
Oh, it totally isn't. I just wish the criminals would think of that as well as good people like you. But they don't. I'd never break into a person's home, unless they needed me to, to save their lives.
I saw a show with a woman who drank and used drugs. She stumbled on the idea that she could break into people's homes, instead of working (at the time, she was losing a good job, due to her addiction). The best thing about this "new job" was she could do it as high as she wanted to be. Something like 27 home invasions?
Once, after she cleaned up, her very young child asked why she doesn't drink.
"Well honey, you know how if your cousin eats apples, she breaks out in hives?"
"Yeah?"
"Well if I drink, I break into houses."
What finally stopped her was the fear of being killed, by a homeowner.
I wonder, about the air conditioner thieves... if they die, will anyone miss them? 10 years from now, will anyone remember their name?
What I said was I didn't think an air conditioner was worth a human life.
Oh, it totally isn't. I just wish the criminals would think of that as well as good people like you. But they don't. I'd never break into a person's home, unless they needed me to, to save their lives.
I saw a show with a woman who drank and used drugs. She stumbled on the idea that she could break into people's homes, instead of working (at the time, she was losing a good job, due to her addiction). The best thing about this "new job" was she could do it as high as she wanted to be. Something like 27 home invasions?
Once, after she cleaned up, her very young child asked why she doesn't drink.
"Well honey, you know how if your cousin eats apples, she breaks out in hives?"
"Yeah?"
"Well if I drink, I break into houses."
What finally stopped her was the fear of being killed, by a homeowner.
I wonder, about the air conditioner thieves... if they die, will anyone miss them? 10 years from now, will anyone remember their name?
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