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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a neighbor who leads the neighborhood watch program.  His house sits at a point where he can see a lot of the street.  If a situation like the one you describe happens he masks up, goes over to the car, knocks on the window (steps back 6 feet) and says in a very polite tone "hey there, do you need help or assistance?"  He explains that we're a close neighborhood that watches out for each other.  Most of the time it's someone making a call (better to park than to drive while distracted) or something equally innocent.  Is it possible for one or two people to approach the car and ask?[/quote]

This would be my exact approach if I did anything at all.

If the dude showed up a second day I would definitely ask what the deal is.[/quote]

And when he told you to f**k off, what would you do?  Call the cops? [/quote]

Maybe. I mean, this isn't the Starbucks or a local park's parking lot - which, by the way, are both places that the cops might come and ask you what your deal is. This is a residential street. Part of asking someone what they are doing there in a situation like this is to let them know that people are observing their presence. This is not a foreign concept and we're not talking about someone sitting outside for a half hour or forty five minutes (also a long time) on a phone call or reading a book.[/quote]

So someone is doing something legal, and not bothering anyone.  You ask/demand to know what they are doing, which you have to right to require them to tell you.  They, not very politely, refuse to tell you.  And for that, you call the police?

This is the literal definition of a Karen.  No different, at all, from the dog-walking woman in NYC.  [/quote]

It literally is not as that situation was completely and totally different.

For all of you who have never seen a neighborhood watch sign or heard of the concept, it is a thing. And not some terrible, nefarious thing. If someone tells me to fu*K off on my own street, where they are the ones behaving in an odd manner, yeah, I'm going to weigh whether I should call the police non-emergency line.

Some weirdo was following my teen/tween girls home from the bus stop last year. It was a neighbor that told me he saw the driver slow down and roll down his window to take a long look at my then 13 and 10 year olds. Neighbor walked behind my girls past his house to our house to make sure they got inside and stared the weirdo down as he quickly rolled up his window and left. He gave me a description of the car. If we had seen it again, cops would have been called.

#NoRegrets [/quote]

Person A is engaged in legal behavior that Person B finds "odd."  Person B asks what Person A is doing; Person A declines to respond.  Person B calls the police.

Yeah, it's the same thing.  You may not like to think of yourself as a Karen, but I have some bad news for you.  [/quote]

Except for the fact that you got the scenario wrong, sure. In NY, the woman had her dog off the leash in Central Park where off the leash wasn't allowed. The guy (birdwatcher) confronted her and then she turned on him and used his race as a factor in calling the police when she was the one actually doing something illegal. See, it's not the same thing.

And I don't really care what you think or what you call me. Have a good weekend.

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That NY woman wasn't even a US citizen.   She should have been deported.   [b]Someone like that contributes nothing good to our society.[/b]  [/quote]

If by "someone like that" you mean someone who calls the police on someone else who is doing nothing illegal, then we are in complete agreement.  [/quote]

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