(not mine)
Meanwhile, my neighbor kicked my dog, threatened to shoot my other dog, and then came onto my property and threatened to hurt me in front of my kids. To this day, he’s confused about why I don’t want to be his friend or talk to him.
…all because my little dog smelled his chicken, which he didn’t even have enclosed, which is the law
He came on your property and threatened you with physical violence?
How did that not end with the cops? You would be well in your rights to defend yourself
It did. But they said WE were in the wrong because our dogs were unleashed.
Gotcha.
That may be true, but unleashed dogs and loose chickens do not permit someone to trespass and threaten, especially when you are supervising children. (Implication being if you are the supervisor/parent, and harmed, the children are left vulnerable with the aggressor.)
You have to leash your dogs on your own property? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
Their yard wasn’t enclosed, so our dog got into his yard to smell his chickens. We were told our dog needed to be leashed or in a fenced-in yard. Meanwhile, they apparently didn’t have to.
Sounds like his animals were staying on his property and yours were not. You were in the wrong. He overreacted but don’t let your pets wander on other people’s property.
Legally, he’s supposed to have his chickens fenced in. Just like we are supposed to have a fenced in yard, actually. So we’re both actually “wrong”. Barging into my property threatening to hurt me in front of my kids isn’t simply an “overreaction” either.
build a two meter wooden fence so you dont ever see their face again, problem solved
It makes for the best neighbors.
…all because my little dog smelled his chicken, which he didn’t even have enclosed, which
Yup we’re clearly missing some obvious piece of context in here
He was drunk. His yard was legally supposed to be enclosed, just like mine. My dogs used to go to his house all the time and play (he would intentionally let them come to his house and play with his dogs and vice versa)Yes, even with his chickens out, which my dogs peacefully interacted with numerous times.
A lot of people seem to be invested in this and need context. This happened a couple of years ago. He and I always had open door policies because our dogs were playmates. My dogs were used to going over there regularly, and they always played and were gentle with his chickens. My smaller dog went over there, just like he was so used to doing, smelled my neighbors chicken for about 2 seconds, then went to find his dog friend. My neighbor was very drunk, and kicked my small dog and tried saying he was going to “kill” his chickens, but we all watched as he just smelled his chicken, like he always did, and moved on. Then he threatened to shoot my husky, who wasn’t actually on their property, but outside of it, along with one of his chickens, which also wasn’t on his property. My husky sniffed the chicken and then ignored it. As he said that he was actively hopping the fence and on MY property. Then he got in my face and threatened to hurt me, all while my kids watched, simply because I told him his behavior was bullshit since all our animals were playmates, that they always came into his property and vice versa, and that hes even encouraged it, and gave them treats, just like we did with his dogs, and that his chickens are supposed to be enclosed and not wandering around (since it was now an issue for him). This was after we initially tried apologizing in a civil manner. He still did this. We called the cops, and they lied through their teeth (he and his wife) and said both my dogs attacked his chickens and drew blood (which 100% did NOT happen). Cops said we were in the wrong because our dogs need to be leashed, but again, we looked into it, and yes, even though we were lead to believe that our dogs were allowed over their anytime, our dogs cannot wander into someone else’s property, otherwise they have a right to shoot them I guess. But he was also in the wrong, because his animals weren’t in an enclosed area either. My partner refused to press charges because she said “he was just drunk” but I called bullshit and very much wanted to press charges.
I thought he and I were cool before this. I let him hunt on my property, he would give us some of the things he’s grown, etc. Now I just ignore him and keep our animals leashed on our property. He keeps trying to be my friend. One day I had to tell him to leave me alone please, and he and his friend tried to threaten me again.
So… why isn’t your neighbor in jail?
He assault your family member (pet).
Threatened to injure, possibly kill the other family member.
Got onto your property and threatened violence against you.
Chit isn’t adding up.
Because my partner refused to press charges. I was all for it actually
Dang… that sucks, man.
Sniper-man could be anyone. Even you!
And that’s the last time I tried to change my own oil at the apartment complex…
Nah, just next time you’re stealing a cat, use floodlights and hi-viz, no one will even look at you.
This is it. Don’t get scared now.
Tangentially related: I was driving in kinda-rural SE Pennsylvania last year and I passed an auto repair place that had a big lit-up sign that said “WE BUY CATALYTIC CONVERTERS”. It was so blatant that I figured for sure it was a police honeypot, but if it wasn’t, that’s just all kinds of fucked up.
It could be a police honeypot, but if it was a small town or something, they may just pay the cops off.
Whoever this person is I will buy them a case of beer or whatever they want.
Once when I worked in a pediatric hospital, a nurse went to drive home from the underground parking lot, and the car was making a terrible racket, so she went to the mechanic and her converter has been stolen. Like stealing from nurses at a pediatric hospital full of sick and dying children is pretty disgusting.
Wow. That person should be subjected to a BB gun firing squad
Twist; the car owner was working on his car
Nah doesn’t look the same
We all should have a friendly neighborhood sniper-man
Sniper-Man, Sniper-Man,
Does whatever a Sniper can
Shoots BBs any size,
When converter thieves arrive.
Look out, here comes the Sniper-Man
Is he strong?
Listen, bud-
He’s got regular human blood.
He can shoot at your head.
You can run, you won’t be dead.
Hey there, there goes the Sniper-Man
Bravo!
Thank you. I’m no Weird Al, but I have my moments.
Does whatever a sniper can
Does he shoot? Yes he can. That’s why he’s, sniper man.
in the chill of the night
Yeah! I can’t foresee any potential problems with that. It’s not like we have anybody else who is given guns and claim to “protect and serve”. Also I’m sure everybody would be very comfortable with always being watched from above through the optics of a high powered rifle.
(To be clear I know you’re joking. Hence the thick layer of /s)
Cops love the Punisher. They should be absolutely fine with a gun toting vigilante… right?
I like how they intentionally crossed out the correctly spelled brand name that this fake note is trying to push.
Some jacked on uppers marketing bro thinks he is a complete genius for this.
Thought that was a generic term, so that’s nice. Xerox that trademark!
If it’s real, RIP the person whose house the car was parked outside. The strap I’m most worried about is tucked into the losers’ waistbands.
I like how they crossed out catstrap and rewrote catstrap. “no, that’s not what it’s called… Hey frank what’s that thing called to strap down the cat converter? A catstrap? Oh OK that was it…”
Good tactic for selling car straps. Maybe he runs a catstrap company in the area.
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Don’t disassemble peoples cars then. Not hard to understand. They might not be able to buy replacement parts either. And even if, you don’t get to steal from others.
I agree, death penalty for stealing car parts! Otherwise they will never learn from their mistakes.
The euro mind cannot comprehend bb guns.
BB=best buddy so neighbor shot the burglar with his best buddies gun I do understand
It was a toy gun…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xC03hmS1Brk
I don’t care, freedom and democracy are at stake.
I’m just confused because you’re not making any coherent statements.
They’re a troll, block em and move on.
This is the way
Maybe I’m not footoro, I’m president Joe Biden (fuck trump tho)
Come now, no need to be so dramatic. It was an air rifle…not an AR15.
I just remembered what a bb gun is.
you make it sound like somebody was shot to death or at least left bleeding. it’s a bb gun my dude, it only hurts
I always get the impression people making these types of ineffectual statements are thieves. After all if you are a thief you wouldn’t want to get shot and you would welcome a place where you can steal at will.
wild that this is a controversial statement
It’s not controversial, it’s misleading. Clarify that we’re saying “shoot with a BB gun” and it’ll be a lot clearer.
I rather take their hands. At least one hand, preferably in public, on international television for the world to see what is real justice. Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth.
That’s how you end up being a country with one of the highest incarceration rates.
Making sure people have good lives, good jobs, good education, and are financially stable is how you prevent crime from happening in the first place.
And rehabilitation will always be more effective at dealing with recidivism than outright punishment, punishment that invariably treats people as animals, fucks up their ability to socialize and trust others, etc.
Making sure people have good lives, good jobs, good education, and are financially stable is how you prevent crime from happening in the first place.
What the hell is a person being robbed supposed to do about that in the moment?
How you handle a crime in the moment is a different topic than what I was getting at. I’m talking about the structural problems that create crime and how they can be fixed.
Sorry, no authority needs to worry about how people handle their lives until they commit a crime. I don’t need an authoritative figure to make sure I’m living a good life. That’s MY responsibility, as an adult, not anyone else’s.
Sorry, no authority needs to worry about how people handle their lives until they commit a crime.
So if a country’s population is impoverished, lacking education, safe and sufficient food/water/housing, then it is none of the responsibility of its leaders? That is a ridiculous position.
Nice but I always found glorification and excitement with violence jarring. Too many people have this righteous justice fetish where they just look for an excuse to shoot someone. Somehow most are from USA but it could just be a coincidence.
Be like faramir “I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.” Violence and its tools isn’t to be excited about in itself. It just sometimes is a morbid reality when all else fails.
Too many people would want to kill that thief excited to try out their new glock and too many people would applaud the doer.
Ok but how do you suggest we stop people from stealing catalytic converters?
Fix economy
Hail corporate.
Oh you God morons are going to start posting here too?
Oh shit, my bad, iheartcheese. I didn’t realize this space was restricted exclusively for high quality discourse. Judging from the beans, denim, tits, cats, and propaganda littering the front page of any non-filtered Lemmy aggregate, and given the general theme of a place called justpost, I just took it for granted that general shittery was the norm rather than the exception, ergo: memes, cliches, etc., welcome. My sincerest apologies. Obviously I’m the asshole here.
so brave
So…it was a joke? You aren’t actually one of those morons who believe corporate brain washing made him post this?
Hailcorporate is supposed to be a way of calling out marketing posts disguised as real events.
Considering the note was signed “your neighbor” and outlines a set of events that would be incredibly unlikely in real life, and there’s a specific brand called out to “stop this from happening to you”…
I’m not OP and I’m not the person you were replying to, and maybe this makes me a cynic, but since it doesn’t matter either way for this post I’d say the advice to protect your catalytic converter is good advice and I’m going to intentionally avoid the named brand on the likelihood that they tried to guerilla market and have people spread their ad for them which is what I see.
and I’m going to intentionally avoid the named brand on the likelihood that they tried to guerilla market and have people spread their ad for them which is what I see.
I think that’s a bad idea just because if this is not guerilla marketing, it might actually be the best choice. The thing to do is research the brand.
I disagree, but I’m willing to accept it as my hangup. It’s potentially problematic, but I feel a strong hatred towards being manipulated into buying something. I feel that way about this product, and am actively choosing to never consider giving them money because of that.
If it weren’t a catalytic converter protector, maybe I’d give them more consideration, but seeing as how this is literally a strip of conductive material that sets off an alarm if it’s cut as compared to beefier metal options that will physically delay and deter thieves, and I don’t live in an area with really much of any rate of catalytic converter theft, and I don’t like what I’ve perceived to be a scummy marketing tactic, I’m out.
I have no idea what the product is like in this case, so that’s fair. And I would, of course, not presume to tell you how to spend your money. I guess I’m thinking about similar “friendly suggestions” I have gotten to use Linux over the years which, if I didn’t know Linux wasn’t (inherently) commercial, might have thought meant that Linux was an inferior product that was being guerilla marketed. And I would only know that by looking it up.
Not the best analogy, but I hope you understand what I’m trying to say.
That was how it started. But then they ‘grew’ and started saying any time a normal person posts anything with the name of a product they are doing so because corporate brain washing has affected them and they are doing so against their will. Seriously, go look at the side bar on their sub. it says so.
I seriously doubt this is an ad because…well…who’s gonna bother with fake ad posts on this tiny pointless little corner of the web? So…he must be one of the brainwashing flavor of crazies.
In other words…a moron.
I’ll clarify my own take separate from the discussion of the original subreddit: I don’t think an advertising person posted this to Lemmy, I think an advertising person made the original photo, shared it on probably Facebook, got enough organic interaction for other people to start sharing it with good intentions and without much thought as to whether it actually happened or not, and OP saw and posted it here after it filtered out to the wider internet.
I can see how someone would say that what I described is brainwashing with extra steps, but I think of it more as an exploitation by marketers who know that people don’t usually expend more critical thinking on ultimately harmless pictures shared online.
I dunno, it’s a hard thing to be militant about, because it’s always a personal read.
When I was working for a summer camp watching over preteens, they had a game night in the cabin with Apples to Apples (a Cards Against Humanity for kids (which I believe predates CAH but more people are likely to know that then apples to apples)). One of them was getting frustrated that their answers weren’t getting picked, and I decided at the time to mention something along the lines of “well, maybe he likes less serious answers and likes more sarcastic ones”.
They latched on, and from that moment forward all they could talk about was how variously much they either liked or didn’t like sarcasm, and would ask every round whether the judge for the round “was sarcastic or not”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the same filtered parroting is what you’re against, and if so I would agree and also say that I do think that the call-out is appropriate on this post. I don’t want to put words in your mouth though, so if I’m off-base I’ll be happy to stand corrected.
Not related to your main point, but Apples to Apples is my favourite card game, and I’ve never heard of Cards Against Humanity
Based.
Must read.
we were on your side until you kept talking
Who is “we”?
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Would a bb do much at all? If i caught someone in that position i dont think a bb would be persuasive enough
I’m not a thief, but I would probably stop whatever I was doing if I started getting pelted with BBs. Lol
Also not a thief but I’ve seen what a BB does to flesh. Definitely in the “stop what you’re doing immediately” category.
Bro, bb guns shoot through metal buckets. My friends and I used to shoot bb guns at all sorts of objects. So yes. You could absolutely fuck someone up with a bb gun.
Stings like a motherfucker, can break skin depending on the BB material and velocity. It also sends a clear message; I can see and hit you from here.
I use .177cal steels at 400fps. Unless i could pop a nut, it would probably just annoy them
With the right bb gun, you shoot them in the cheek and they get to spit out the BB. Even airsoft guns can embed into your skin, lots of videos with people “popping a pimple” - squeezing out a bb from their forehead.
Umarex boy here. Airsoft is for kids
Kool. Doesn’t change the fact that it can indeed hurt someone, and a propper bb gun will do damage.
Lol. Lmao even. Have you seen airsoft players?
Yep. Kid.
OK grandpa time for your meds.
It can potentially take out an eye too. You won’t “shoot your eye out” like the kid is warned in a Christmas Story, but you could definitely shoot someone else’s eye out.
Well you would also become aware that someone is watching you and not approving of what you are up to.
Unless they’re going to kill you for whatever they want to steal that will usually deter them.
“I very much approve of what you are doing but I also like shooting people with BB guns. Please feel free to carry on with whatever you are doing while I shoot you in various limbs.”
It depends. A bed and bath is pretty relaxing. You’ll probably end up being friends afterwards.
It would definitely hurt and probably get stuck in your skin
Probably get stuck in your skin??? Probably? Have you ever shot a bb gun? That shit can go through thinner metal with ease. It can easily shoot through an aluminum bucket (both sides). I’m absolutely shocked at how many people here think bb guns are like airsoft guns. Ya’ll clearly have never used a bb gun. One shoots metal balls. The other shoots plastic.
fun fact, human skin has this weird property of being incredibly, soft. So more than likely it would expend all of its energy moving your skin around, and then just bounce off leaving a pretty bad bruise or something.
It’d fuck you up if it hit you in the eye though, for example.
no. bb’s penetrate skin, can confirm. had to have one pulled out of arm muscle meat. stupid fucking brother
i could see it going either way, depending on where it hits, and how far away it was. Projectile physics is weird, and impact physics are even weirder.
yeah I got it from a pump action bb rifle, into the meaty part of the bicep. Of all my siblings, my youngest brother seemed to be the most willing to maim and torture us for his own entertainment.
I have owned and shot many types of guns over the years including bb guns. I don’t normally shoot people with bb guns so I’m not sure of the exact damage it would cause so I was vague, sorry for not writing an essay on the type of wounds it would cause.
I didn’t mean my answer to come off as aggressive. Apologies if it came off that way. I was just talking to everyone here in general ha. I’m just a bit confused as to why people don’t consider bb guns to be a potentially serious weapon. I’m just imaging what would happen if you were to shoot someone in the face with a bb gun. I feel like it would be game over for that person. Either permanently fucked, or killed.
Losing an eye sure but I think death is a bit far for a bb gun (I have done 0 research) but maybe a pellet gun where the projectiles are more bullet shaped maybe. It also depends on how the gun operates and how fast it sends the bbs
Edit: 4 deaths per year in the US I stand corrected
Ha that’s because everyone just buys real guns now.
I wonder what the number would be if in included people shot by other people when brandishing a bb gun… maybe not
What’s a bb?
bb is probably short for ball bearing, which is basically just a small hardened metal ball often used in “bearings” to make it even more confusing, ball bearings, use ball bearings as their primary mode of design.
Big butt
Small metal ball
I stared at this wondering what a BTS gun was.
I mean they’ve got dynamite already so…
I read BTS gun and that got me really confused, like a ray that shoots kpop at the target lol
Don’t underestimate musical weaponry.
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