[oceanperch]

If it is like here as I posted earlier to you it can be any variation.

If it was a road with just a few homes like out where I am we all keep in touch re: moving, vacations, dog sitters ect. so anything out of what a neighbor has updated us on is called in such as a Ryder truck loading up furniture. It happens in town too the funny thing there is it more often is an ex moving things out when the homeowner is gone. Domestic stuff too.

Also in town if someone coming through is playing music too loud or speeding ect someone calls it in. More so in town where you have density population for the petty calls than out here where we just keep each other updated and ignore the rest.

Though the petty call at times turn out not so. A woman was 86ed from a store and refused to leave so when police where called in and tracked her she led them unknowingly to a stolen Van with 4 others in the van who had warrents and so 5 idiots where taken off the street at once. All bad guys from the big city/valley.

[NerdDad]

Don't think it happens just in TN or NC. I grew up in a very small West Texas town. My little sister was constantly being stopped by the local cops (usually on her way home from shcool). She always had beer and they usually only wanted to know where she'd be when they got off duty so they could have a beer. Before she could get home, somebody from church had already called mother and she was waiting at the door. She was a good kid, never ratted her big bro out for buying her the beer for the occasional use of her car.