If you'd have shot him, there would have been a mountain of paperwork.
A few stolen bikes, they can just ignore it.
Police is a union job, they don't want to do any actual work.
If you'd have shot him, there would have been a mountain of paperwork.
A few stolen bikes, they can just ignore it.
Police is a union job, they don't want to do any actual work.
Less Work wrote:
If you'd have shot him, there would have been a mountain of paperwork.
A few stolen bikes, they can just ignore it.
Police is a union job, they don't want to do any actual work.
Yep, mistake was calling the police in the first place.
No need to get them involved.
I will tell you how upset I am: I got in new racing flats today, and I haven't even opened the box yet.
Dead Serious wrote:
He started walking towards me, and I showed him my gun.
The rest of your actions are commendable and all, but I really hope you did not pass on the opportunity to ask him if he had tickets to the gun show...
Curious though, why did you not make a citizen arrest and save law enforcement some time and resources?
You should have shot a couple of bullets in tires making bike unusable. No need to get the police involved unless suspect is an illegal, if so depending on where you live they will either claim Sanctuary city status or call I.C.E.
M.A.G.A...
Dead Serious wrote:
I saw an adult who looked very similar to the picture of a man who has been stealing bikes and breaking in homes this afternoon leaving the neighborhood on a big kid's mountain bike. I asked him to stop, and he pulled a U turn and rode off. I turned around, and he stopped. I asked him where he got the bike, and he said "___ you". He started walking towards me, and I showed him my gun. He stopped, turned around, and rode off again. I called the police and followed him into a cul de sac.
I showed the officer the picture. The officer asked him his name (he had no ID) and told him he could leave. She didn't even ask him any questions (other than his name). She was more upset that I confronted him than she was about someone repeatedly stealing from our neighborhood. She also told me that no police reports have been filed, and I inferred that she didn't believe me that multiple bikes have been stolen. (I found out later that a report HAD been filed two days earlier.) Needless to say, I am very disappointed with how the call was handled and will be filing a complaint tomorrow when the PD opens.
If you had a white and blue(black?) mountain bike stolen today, I sure am sorry.
I am Dead Serious. Be ever vigilant.
She did the right thing. Photographs of him in the neighborhood aren't proof of anything and would not justify a warrant to search his home. And he is not required to possess an ID or proof of ownership of the bike.
I know you're not the only one, but I'm curious as to why you believe it is necessary to carry a gun. I'm old and there has never been a situation where I wished I had one - not even close.
SDSU Aztec wrote:
I know you're not the only one, but I'm curious as to why you believe it is necessary to carry a gun. I'm old and there has never been a situation where I wished I had one - not even close.
It must be nice to have such upper-class privilege.
Not all of us can afford to avoid riff-raff in our lives.
OP said he/she lives in an area of bike thieves who break into homes.
So it's pretty clear to have a gun at all times.
Basic rural living, really.
Try that with skateboards wrote:
Bikes aren't real property anyway.
best post in this thread
Dead Serious wrote:
I got in new racing flats today
say no more.
you race in flats => you run long distance reasonably fast => you are skinny
you walk around the neighborhood with a concealed firearm + you are skinny => you are a skinny adult with an inferiority complex due to your skinny stick arms. This complex leads you to irrational thoughts such as
bikes were stolen in my neighborhood + there's a guy riding a bike => that guy must be the bike thief
a possibly angry guy is approaching me => I have the right to escalate the confrontation with threats of deadly force
where you should start is to undo all the fantasizing about shooting people or other compensations for your physical inferiority that you've undoubtedly done ad nauseam for years, maybe decades. Not good thoughts.
licensed wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
I know you're not the only one, but I'm curious as to why you believe it is necessary to carry a gun. I'm old and there has never been a situation where I wished I had one - not even close.
It must be nice to have such upper-class privilege.
Not all of us can afford to avoid riff-raff in our lives.
I've lived in many places and have not been assaulted by "riff-raff". Can you share an example of when carrying a gun saved you from serious bodily injury or even death?
Bad Wigins wrote:
Dead Serious wrote:
I got in new racing flats today
say no more.
you race in flats => you run long distance reasonably fast => you are skinny
you walk around the neighborhood with a concealed firearm + you are skinny => you are a skinny adult with an inferiority complex due to your skinny stick arms. This complex leads you to irrational thoughts such as
bikes were stolen in my neighborhood + there's a guy riding a bike => that guy must be the bike thief
a possibly angry guy is approaching me => I have the right to escalate the confrontation with threats of deadly force
where you should start is to undo all the fantasizing about shooting people or other compensations for your physical inferiority that you've undoubtedly done ad nauseam for years, maybe decades. Not good thoughts.
The best part despite all that pent up aggression, he didn't even have the balls to do anything
SDSU Aztec wrote:
I've lived in many places and have not been assaulted by "riff-raff". Can you share an example of when carrying a gun saved you from serious bodily injury or even death?
Yes, but it would be TL,DR.
Maybe if you cower in fear in your basement, you've never seen the Real World.
The Police effectively acts as Body Guards for the elite.
That's why they don't feel they "need" guns, because they've stealth-outsourced to "chosen" armigeros.
Happens literally all the time wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
I've lived in many places and have not been assaulted by "riff-raff". Can you share an example of when carrying a gun saved you from serious bodily injury or even death?
Yes, but it would be TL,DR.
Maybe if you cower in fear in your basement, you've never seen the Real World.
I live in California where there are no basements. I'm against assault weapons but I'm fine with with people owning handguns or carrying them so I don't know why you feel the need to insult me. Where is this Real World that I've never seen?
OP proved (again) that "guns don't kill people" like lib-america contends.
Showed common restraint, even with piffly so-called "police" dept.
Learn the Dictionary wrote:
Learn the Law wrote:
You brandished your weapon. You were in the wrong and lucky you didn't get charged.
Showing is not "brandishing".
Federal law defines brandished as, “with reference to a dangerous weapon (including a firearm) means that all or part of the weapon was displayed, or the presence of the weapon was otherwise made known to another person, in order to intimidate that person, regardless of whether the weapon was directly visible to that person. Accordingly, although the dangerous weapon does not have to be directly visible, the weapon must be present.” (18 USCS Appx § 1B1.1)
I'da shot the prick clean between the eyes and then returned the bike to whoever the kid was who'd had it stolen.
The Fuzz is just waitin until the dude has tooken a few more bikes and then they will throw him in the slammer. Can't have a respectable PoLice Sale unless you have at least 30 or 40 bikes to sell. How do you think they replenish their donut fund?
When I was ten my bike was stolen, I haven't been the same since.
In Saudia Arabia they cut the hands off of thieves. Guessing the don't have much of a problem with stolen bikes.
M.A.G.A...
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