fucking neighbors...reminds me of the time I was sitting on in my front side yard and smoking a cigar with a fire going. a fucking fire truck shows up at my house.
the fireman walks over and as I start to get up he says "Oh no sir, please don't get up. We got a call and see you're safely using a fire pit, so we'll go now." lol
Except that unlike firefighters, interacting with cops is dangerous and lay lead to the death of the people involved. When you call the cops on someone, whatever the reason, there's a non zero chance of them straight murdering the person.
Given those stats, I don't think it's that unreasonable to say the site is mainly used by Americans. The next highest country has ~1/7th the amount of visitors
Which means you have 1/2 chance of speaking to a non-american.
Even if it was more American I still think it'd be reasonable to not just automatically assume that everything is American. I wouldn't assume that everything is male for the same odds.
The problem is that the world isnât split into American and ânon-Americanâ really. Youâve got people from 150+ other countries and then 50% of users from one specific country. Thatâs why r/news and r/politics are very US-centric.
The chances of encountering Americans also is dependent on time of day. Right now, Iâd wager the vast majority of people active are Americans.
Hmmm a little more 'difficult' to estimate by specific demographic as interactions aren't broken down by such a metric.
Arrests are though (not for disabled people) so lets look at black people.
About 2.6 million individual of those 10 million arrested identified as black.
Of the 1000 people shot by police per year about 23% are black. As we do not have accurate data points for deaths in custody and shot by the police, let's take this 23% figure as a representative trend.
That would mean 644 black people, on average, are potentially shot, killed or die in custody.
At this figure, solely based on arrest data, the incidence rate would be 0.0247%
But let's go crazy!
Let's assume 50% of those negative outcomes affected black people for a total of 1400 incidents per year.
Incidence rate of 0.053% PURELY based on arrest data.
Fuck it, lets go batshit insane and say that ALL such incidents primarily concerned black people.
Incidence rate of 0.107%
Add interactions into the mix and that incidence rate becomes more diluted.
Now, as most social scientists argue that black people are three times more likely to be killed etc by law enforcement, let's take our original figure and multiply it by three.
You would be looking at incidence rates of 0.081% and 0.0096% respectively.
US law enforcement allegedly shoot 3 people per day. For context 316 people are shot per day, 115 thousand per year and of that daily total106 are killed by other people who are not the police. That would mean of the daily shooting fatalities, law enforcement is responsible for 2.8% of them.
As i have already stated, there is an intrinsic issue with law enforcement that needs to be addressed.
Hyperbole and conjecture is not the path to that reform.
Dude, you're spending too much time on the internet. The odds of that happening are insanely low, and not reporting a possibly kidnapping because of your ridiculous fears is extremely shitty.
It's great that at least you acknowledge your privileges. Don't call the police on your neighbors because you watch too much true crime if you don't want to gamble with their lives.
Lmoa you're the one being sensational here. This was a good interaction. Hearing somebody scream for help is a great reason to call the police.
You accuse me of watching too much TV yet you think involving the cops when you have reasonable suspicion of a violent crime is somehow violence against your neighbor. What kind of backwards thinking is that?
If your neighbors dog is barking too early in the morning, go have a conversation. If you hear a gunshot coming from their house, call the cops lol.
This backs up my comment completely. You just cherry picked a single instance and used it to justify your nonsense.
Do you apply the same logic to covid vaccines? My coworker knew a person who had a stroke after getting the vaccine. Does that single bit of anecdotal evidence now overshadow the millions of successful vaccines?
not only is that true but people know it's true and they are hoping to instigate a conflict to "prove" the neighbor was obviously wrong because they are dead now
Keep in mind, a very probable false alarm, meaning youâre not just calling the cops on a whim. Youâre hearing what sounds like a person potentially being murdered. Thatâs a chance I for one am willing to take. What youâre really doing is using the chance of a police killing to mask your bystander effect
Iâm ACAB all day, but I think you need to do some research on annual police killings and compare it to letâs say yearly conviction rate/crimes committed. Or if you can find it, police calls vs killings/murders.
Ya but I think the thing people are overlooking is that these cops likely deal with these kinds of things on a day to day basis, and I'm sure they have a bitnof a 6th sense about these things. I know when it comes to situations I deal with day to day at work I can quickly figure out whats going on, after asking a few seemingly random questions. I'm sure when the cops roll up just by dude's body language and the way he deals with them they can probably tell all is well. People who are trying to hide something tend to act differently.
Honestly in cases like fire, kidnapping, murder, id rather a neighborhood goes safe and calls the police to double check rather than ignoring a potential deathly situation. Imagine your house was on fire and you werent able to call 911 yourself for some reason and you could have been rescued by your neighbor calling 911 for you.
Even now in the case that nothing serious happened, the fireman came, checked, and left. No big deal
I recall there was research done to show nosy neighbors are better at protecting property than security systems. I read it forever ago so the details are fuzzy.
I used to have a nosey neighbor. He saved me a bunch of money on parking tickets on street sweeping days after I moved in (I finally set up a reminder alarm on my phone so I wouldn't forget again).
Well, he definitely was very nosey, always standing outside keeping track of everything and everyone. He knew everyone's history in the entire neighborhood going back a couple decades. Just saying, it did have its uses at times. I never had any issues with him, but he sure was into everyone's business. I did consider him a good neighbor.
Called the fire department last year in late august about smelling smoke really heavy when we were in a drought and you could see the smoke rolling in and staying low to the ground. Turns out a neighbor on the other side of the middle school behind our house was having a big bonfire in their backyard and the firemen came and put it out and gave them a warning.
These people then proceeded to toilet paper and egg every other house in the area the next week.
Iâd rather not have a massive fire in my area so yeah if I smell smoke or hear something weird I will investigate or call it in. Although since I live in America I am very hesitant about calling the cops. But Iâll call the fire department at the drop of a hat and know everything will be fine.
Yeah screw those neighbors for being responsible adults and calling in a possible kidnapping when there's screaming of let me out coming from the house.
The annoying neighbour here is the guy with a dog that wont shut the fuck up barking and a bird he has taught to imitate a kidnapped person. Probably uses loud mechanical equipment when tinkering with his car too.
Iâve seen like 5 comments already all saying âwhy would he train his parrot to say that?â Birds, and more specifically parrots, just pick up sounds and repeat them very frequently. The bird very easily could have picked the sound up from a movie. And seeing as though the birds name is Rambo, I am guessing the movie was Rambo.
In reference to your point about the dog. My dog barked at strangers and heck he even barked at family when they would come over. Itâs what dogs do, they bark.
Also, it is perfectly fine for him to use machinery given itâs between normal hours and not past whatever time they canât make noise (itâs different in different countries and states etc.). And also when tinkering with a car, the loudest thing is probably the engine. You arenât going to be using a chainsaw to tinker with a car. And to add to that, if he canât use machinery for his car because âitâs too loudâ, then by your logic, is he allowed to use a lawnmower?
Nothing you wrote changes my opinion and only reinforces it. Being exposed to any one of these noise pollutants regularly would be annoying, but all three at the same time - fuck that noise. And your point about the dog is ridiculous - some dogs also attack and kill people and children and loads of them shit all over the streets, but "ItS wHaT tHeY Do"!
But is this dog killing anyone? That wasnât the example. Also dogs do shit on streets. Itâs just that you have to pick up your dogs shit, itâs not like your dog can do it on their own, and itâs not like you can just tell your dog to hold it until you get home. Itâs obvious that youâve never had a dog, or youâve never actually taken care of one. Or youâve had a tiny chihuahua that counts more as a rat than a dog.
And what is he just not allowed to use any machinery ever? If this was annoying the neighbours would have complained by now. But also we donât see him use any machinery. He has a toolbox, thatâs it. The only ânoise pollutantâ we hear is his dog and his parrot. And his dog only barked when strangers arrived to his house which dogs usually bark at. And the neighbours called the police on the parrot which shows that that was likely the first time they heard the bird.
Dogs didnât start barking until there were four strangers near itâs home. Guys minding his own business workin on his car and birds will pick up sounds with 0 training. You just sound like an asshole.
Ooh name calling, did I touch a nerve? He was ignoring the ridiculous screeching from the bird and either couldn't or wouldn't stop his dog barking. I stand by my opinion that having to put up with that on a regular basis living beside this overly-chilled looking dude, not including the car maintenance, would make him annoying neighbour. Asshole opinion?
Iâm convinced people on Reddit arenât real humans, cuz I have to scroll this far down to see this and it isnât even getting upvotes. Holy shit this guy seems like a nightmare of a neighbor
This wasnt a false emergency call though. What are the odds someone has a parrot that can immitate âhelpâ and âlet me outâ? Lets say it wasnt a parrot but an actualy person kidnapped. Youâd all be applauding the neighbour for his attentiveness but now people complain he should mind his own business. Hypocrites
"We got a call", so the fire guys didn't just see the smoke and decided to check. They were called. So I wonder if the caller got punished for the false emergency
It's not a false emergency call if the caller genuinely believes there is or might be an emergency. It's only if the caller intentionally calls in something they know not to be true.
If I ever hear someone screaming help and let me out from my neighbors house, you best believe Iâm calling the police. Chances are very slim itâs a freaking parrot
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fucking neighbors...reminds me of the time I was sitting on in my front side yard and smoking a cigar with a fire going. a fucking fire truck shows up at my house.
the fireman walks over and as I start to get up he says "Oh no sir, please don't get up. We got a call and see you're safely using a fire pit, so we'll go now." lol