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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality is DCUM is full of BBQ Becky’s so of course they think this is awful. How many threads have been posted here with people asking if they should call the cops about various non-criminal irritants like music coming from the roofing crew working across the street? I posted last summer about someone at the pool calling the cops TWICE on two boys who said they had left their pool passes at home and everyone here was like “well that seems fine, they can’t swim in our pool without a pass!!!”

DCUM is predominantly middle to upper middle class who’re women who are used to tattling on people who minorly inconvenience or annoy them because they a) would never have to worry over someone else causing them to lose their job for the same and b) don’t know or care what it’s like to have to actually fear interacting with law enforcement. They’re all identifying with the author here who they see as doing nothing wrong and got  her book deal unfairly taken for this. [/quote]

You're another poster conflating this very specific situation with the BBQ Becky types of situations. Someone above did the same thing.

If you cannot see the difference between people who create a senseless flap over a person doing a perfectly normal thing (like barbecuing in a park or using a pool or having a lemonade stand), and people who call out identifiable, uniformed employees in their own work setting, violating the rules they are supposed to enforce  -- there is no getting through to you. There is a difference, whether or not you choose to engage your critical thinking skills and see it.

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It’s the same. BBQ Becky claimed barbecuing in the park was against an ordinance. It perhaps technically was but it wasn’t hurting anybody just like the metro employee was technically breaking a rule but also not hurting anyone. [/quote]

Sure, until you potato salad dumped on your new shoes.[/quote]

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