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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2017 12:04 am    Post subject: Being a vigilant neighbor goes terribly wrong

Someone broke into my neighbors garage tonight. I caught the shadow on the camera and heard the garage door go up...

I crept outside, barefoot with a brick in one hand and a dead iPhone in the other, terrified looking at a half open garage door at midnight.

I almost killed my 70 year old "other neighbor" with a brick.

I yelled into the dark garage, "come out with you're hands up, I have a brick!"

It was the most honest and threatening thing I could think of.

Cane first, my older neighbor stumbles out, "dont kill me lakerjoshua, its me, put down the brick!" He says.

I'm at a loss for what just happened. Who should I tell? Nobody was hurt and I don't think the old guy hauled off any tools. But seriously, what the???
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2017 12:09 am    Post subject:

Would you be willing to use that brick, LJ? You can do it in self-defense, but don't curbstomp the guy once he's down. That'll get you a prison term. See American History X.
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2017 12:23 am    Post subject:

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Would you be willing to use that brick, LJ? You can do it in self-defense, but don't curbstomp the guy once he's down. That'll get you a prison term. See American History X.


He has a walker dude. I'd have only tossed the brick if he was capable of moving faster than a " brisk hobble".

Which begs to question, how the hell was he going to drag away that blower and band saw?
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2017 4:43 am    Post subject:

Good thing you had a brick, who knows what he would have done had he had that walker.
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2017 6:34 am    Post subject:

Why did you assume it was a break-in? What happened after you realized that it was him?
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2017 8:10 am    Post subject:

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Why did you assume it was a break-in? What happened after you realized that it was him?


We have had a lot of break ins and car thefts recently.

The garage door was opened half way, middle of the night, no lights on. It appeared to be a break in.
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PostPosted: Tue May 23, 2017 9:25 pm    Post subject:

Buy some Pepper Spray at Fry's for $5 (it might be $4) and put down the brick...
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2017 9:37 am    Post subject:

lakerjoshua wrote:
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Would you be willing to use that brick, LJ? You can do it in self-defense, but don't curbstomp the guy once he's down. That'll get you a prison term. See American History X.


He has a walker dude. I'd have only tossed the brick if he was capable of moving faster than a " brisk hobble".

Which begs to question, how the hell was he going to drag away that blower and band saw?


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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2017 9:38 am    Post subject:

unleasHell wrote:
Buy some Pepper Spray at Fry's for $5 (it might be $4) and put down the brick...
what happens when the wind is blowing?
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2017 9:47 am    Post subject:

do you really go by "lakerjoshua" in real life?
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2017 10:28 am    Post subject:

Thugnomoe wrote:
do you really go by "lakerjoshua" in real life?


Don't you?
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2017 2:59 pm    Post subject:

doesn't everyone?
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2017 4:38 pm    Post subject:

Sure all the time at starbucks, chick fil a, whenever they ask for a name. It sure beats going as ClipperJoshua or PelicanJoshua.
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2017 5:04 pm    Post subject:

splashmtn wrote:
unleasHell wrote:
Buy some Pepper Spray at Fry's for $5 (it might be $4) and put down the brick...
what happens when the wind is blowing?


Pick up a brick or a H&K...
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2017 5:06 pm    Post subject:

I use "lakerjoshua" at my HPV support group meetings.
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2017 7:24 pm    Post subject:

Huey Lewis & The News wrote:
I use "lakerjoshua" at my HPV support group meetings.


So do I.
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PostPosted: Wed May 24, 2017 7:29 pm    Post subject:

man works as a plumber and his closest weaponized object is a brick
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2017 5:46 am    Post subject:

dood23 wrote:
man works as a plumber and his closest weaponized object is a brick


Can't legally shoot someone on my neighbors property and didn't want to clean brain matter off my pipe wrenches.....

Hence, a brick.
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2017 5:48 am    Post subject:

Chronicle wrote:
Thugnomoe wrote:
do you really go by "lakerjoshua" in real life?


Don't you?


Only at my HPV groups so people think I'm Huey.
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2017 9:11 pm    Post subject:

lakerjoshua wrote:
dood23 wrote:
man works as a plumber and his closest weaponized object is a brick


Can't legally shoot someone on my neighbors property and didn't want to clean brain matter off my pipe wrenches.....

Hence, a brick.


But YOU can get shot bringing a Brink to a Gun Fight on your neighbors property...

Personally I would not have done it.

Either call the cops or watch what unfolds (then call the cops if necessary)..
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PostPosted: Thu May 25, 2017 10:03 pm    Post subject:

I'm happy I only had a brick and I didn't accidentally shoot my neighbor.

Edit: I'm a firearm owner as scary as that sounds.
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PostPosted: Fri May 26, 2017 9:37 am    Post subject:

you should have gone in plumbers crack first.
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