About the same level of danger as cutting off someone’s internet connection these days.
Considering that 1) the medications taken by a population to some extent end up in the water, and 2) It’s Florida…my guess is blood pressure meds, heartburn meds, and a whole lotta Viagra.
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… during which time he would be forced to live in a bouncy house.
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Probably all of them.
Or he works nights, was trying to catch up on sleep, and the neighbours have an established pattern of being noisy and inconsiderate. That’s hellish if you’re on the receiving end.
Edit: not that that’s adequate justification for putting a bunch of toddlers in danger.
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So once upon a time at a Burn, my friends and I ended up next to some folks who were constantly blasting 80s/90s Boy Party Music all weekend long. We asked them to turn it down some. It went down for about sixty seconds at most when we did, then went right back up. We asked them to turn the speakers so they weren’t aimed right at our tent. They didn’t. We got a hell of a lot less sleep that Burn than we were expecting to. By the end we were tired and cranky and stressed out, and were pretty delighted when they didn’t turn them on for a while on move-out day. And unhappy as fuck when they cranked them again late in the morning.
So on the way to the portapotties, I “tripped” over their power cord. Which is to say that when they heard the sudden silence and looked at the power box across the trail that they were getting all their power from, I happily waved at them and hollered “Oh. Sorry. I tripped.” I may have still had their extension cord in my hand at this point. It certainly makes a better story if I did, especially if I very pointedly dropped it on the ground while I had their attention.
Later on they tried to give me shit about unplugging their setup - I could have broken their stuff by just depriving it of power when it’s that loud! - but it was pretty half-hearted. Especially since other people who’d been camping in the area cheered when I “tripped”.
So, who knows. Did this “jackass” ask for it to be turned down before doing this? Multiple times? Has this family been having loud parties regularly? Has there been someone in earshot of this guy’s house having loud parties every day for the past week? Was one of the speakers regularly hitting the resonant frequency of Mr. Red Shirt’s bedroom while he was trying to sleep? TFA doesn’t say. We just see this one brief video of him unplugging a cable that turned out to be connected to the bounce house, along with the distinct suggestion that he thought it was connected to the speakers. I want to know more of the story before I point my finger and call anyone a jackass.
It’s also quite possible that everyone involved in this little news story is a jackass. And everyone involved in my similar story, for that matter.
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In my opinion, if you take matters into your own hands, don’t make any attempt to verify the results of your action, and in doing so threaten the safety of children at a kid’s birthday party… yeah, you’re a jackass.
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I heard about this on the news and wondered why it was on the news. Man gets irritated by neighbors. Must be a light news day.
I’ve had this happen before, when a bouncy house started collapsing after a problem with the generator. Deflates fast, and the children inside were rightfully panicking. But it wasn’t a big deal, really. All the adults around worked fast, kept it lifted up, the children got out. Some were still scared, but no other issues. My daughter was among them, so I’m not a removed observer. It just wasn’t that big of a deal. They’re not deathtraps.
Seems there’s a jerk on both sides of that fence, unplugging the bouncy house by the one and by the other making such a huge stink about it in order to get a national shaming party underway.
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As much as I have to sympathize (being a guy who has to wake up at 5am, with neighbors who sometimes throw thursday evening soirees)…
I’d call the cops if I had to on a noise complaint far before I did anything that could possibly hurt kids.
Even if it was unintentional, if you hurt someone’s kid, there’s really no excuse for you. And as much as I’m generally against violence, if you did something intentional that hurt my kid…
Well, as they say, “you’re not going to jail, I’m going to jail”.
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“So far, de man has not been identified.”
I know who it is. It’s… Racist Neighbor!
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Hold up, is a non pearl clutching response even allowed in this thread?!?!
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What exactly is in the Florida water supply?
Off the top of my head: alligators, water moccasins, Burmese pythons, snapping turtles, brain-eating amoebae, breeding cane toads. I’m in GA and that’s all I can see from here, but FL is clearly bucking to become America’s Australia.
Edit: add falling-down-drunk speedboat skippers.
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Well, the family put up cameras after someone had been unplugging their Christmas display…
Which may or may not have featured “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” cranking at 600 watts.
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Two episodes do have an alternate theme.
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If there is going to be a surveillance state it becomes important for each “participant” to be active not passive.
Every story has a beginning, middle, and an instagram account.
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More to the point does it matter? It’s not his property. It’s not his party. The owners didn’t ask him to do it.
He’s wrong no matter what and honestly…if I were one of the parents I’d fuckong scream at the top of my lungs to charge him with the harshest possible crime!!! WHERE THE FUCK IS JEFF SESSIONS ON THIS ONE?!?
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Yeah, it’s pretty rare for disputes between neighbors to just suddenly erupt with unreasonableness. Usually one party has been quietly or perhaps passive-aggressively putting up with crap that doesn’t quite cross the line for a while, but when they finally can’t take it anymore and erupt they look like the unreasonable ones.
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Hopefully no one ever cracks and blows people away.
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