Posted on 07/09/2012 8:53:16 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Hi... Sorry to post this here but something strange just happened and I need some Freeper advice.
I was sitting at the computer about 7:15AM this morning reading FreeRepublic when the doorbell rang. Really? At 7:15AM? Most likely, it could only be one of two things. My friends and relatives wouldn't show up unannounced at that hour. It had to be those skinny religious dudes in white shirts and black ties, or... Our house was being cased!
From our master bedroom, I hear my wife asking, "Who is it?" Don't know, I tell her, pausing, straining to hear. Then the doorbell rings again, this time four or five times, rapidly, impatiently.
Okay, gotta see who it is now. I get up and approach the front door. Through the little frosted pane on the inner door I see a large, very dark shadow, looming, shifting from side to side, with the head almost pressed up against the outer security gate, trying to peer inside. Dammit, I'm an idiot for not grabbing my gun!
I open the door and there standing before me is this skinny black guy with dreadlocks, in his late teens. He's got on a dark stretchy psychedelic t-shirt and both of his arms are inside the shirt, out of view. But you can see they are moving around a lot inside the shirt, wrapped around his thin frame. Like he's simultaneously hugging himself and scratching himself all over at the same time. Holy crap, that's weird right there. I can't see his hands. Does he have a gun?
"Is JAZZmeen home?"
Jasmine? Do I look like I have a daughter named Jasmine? Or Shemika? Or Qwanisha? NO! Maybe Amber or Victoria. JAZZmeen ain't happening. Ridiculous even to ask, and he'd know that if he wasn't on drugs and stupid.
"No, you've got the wrong address."
He turns and goes. I go to the side window and look out. He's with another tall skinny black guy now. They don't stop at my neighbor's house, but walk to the corner, turn right and disappear from view.
Okay, what should I have done? The police say you should report suspicious activity. But what did I see? Some guy rang my doorbell at seven o'clock in the morning. Okay, maybe he was an itchy crack addict in dreadlocks. But so what?
OTOH, I KNOW we were being cased and by not reporting it I may have contributed to one of my neighbors getting ripped off, or worse.
So here I sit, with my 1911 locked and loaded one foot from my right hand, wondering... should you report something like that as being "suspicious?"
Opinion:
Hi LibWhacker.
Call the police and ask for extra patrol for “suspicious circumstances — possible casing the area.”
Describe the subjects like you described here.
Take a few minutes to evaluate your home security/security systems.
go away and don’t come back you are a narcissist nincompoop
“And if you know it’s the cops, why go out the back door?”
Probably because if you open the door to talk to a cop, they are always trying to peer inside to see if there is anything “in plain sight” that they can cite as probable cause to search.
Don’t open the door for anyone that you don’t know or weren’t expecting.
Yes, they were casing you. This is common tactic to see who is home, how alert they are, etc. No answer means kick the rear door in. A dead giveaway is when they are trying to look everywhere but at you and they are starting with that “uh, uh, uh,” crap. That’s just he pause before the lie.
Don’t be afraid to call the police; you might have just had a contact with the neighborhood burglars crew. If they weren’t, these chuckleheads will know that the neighborhood watch is alive and well and it would be behoove them to not fall into a case of Sudden Involuntary Reparations Syndrome.
I don’t think it’s mandatory to use ‘sarc’ is it?
I’m certainly glad you used your trademark smiley, otherwise I would just be so incensed, I’d probably think of some way to shoot you and then lie about it.
We’ve all got some of that in us, otherwise why would we enjoy seeing ourselves in print so much?
I keep trying to go away, but I just can’t quit FR...
oh yeah...;-)/sarc
sorry, I forgot
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