My son asked me a few months ago if he could go âdoorbell ditchâ. He and his friends had taken it to ninja level with ghillie suits and everything. I told him he couldnât ask me that. He was perplexed and I had to say it really slowly twice more until he got it. Then I winkedâŚ
Heâs a good kid. Made some people pause their tv for 30 seconds and get up, they will be ok.
Never test Grannyâs knowledge. You canât teach her.
Good. Egg really sucks to clean off of auto paint.
If a mom-and-a-half throws an egg-and-a-half at a house-and-a-halfâŚ
(To be honest, though, this woman seems more like half a mom.)
Or they just got the baby to sleep after being up all night. Or theyâre elderly and infirm and getting up for the doorbell results in a bad fall. Or theyâre in the middle of making dinner, and something either burns or boils over while theyâre wasting time checking the door.
Why would you be proud of this?
Because in the larger scheme of things, this is harmless fun.
(edit: because the chances of dire consequences are infinitesimal, and easily countered by equally infinitesimal potential postitive outcomes (getting up makes them avoid getting hit by meteorite, helps their heart, serves as test foir doorbell system, etcâŚ))
If you canât see that, our world views are probably far too different for communication to be fruitful.
But Iâm willing to try.
The rules are for everybody else, right?
I like to live in a civilized society, where we think about how our actions might affect others.
The rules are here to be skirted every once a while. Full compliance at any cost leads to a boring world.
âFunâ is not a four-letter word.
Youâre missing the point. Are you familiar with the idea that a cop has to be very careful about what she/he sees? That boys in ghillie suits playing army using peopleâs doorbells is probably worthy of a toot on the siren and a megaphone telling them to go home, not the swat team.
In any case, clearly you would be the crabby neighbor who is a big challenge because you go apeshit trying to catch them. Did you see âDances with Wolves?â âStands with Fistâ indeed. In fact, they probably get bonus points for snapping a pic like that.
And clearly I am the terrible neighbor with the rotten kids.
You could be an interesting neighbor. From the first look of it, I wouldnât mind such one.
This is whatâs happening in my neighborhood this Fall:
Iâll take the occasional TPâing or egging over this. Itâs urban, not out in the sticks. People are going to parks trying to get a deer ⌠and failing miserably.
The right tool for the right job. This asshole wasnât concerned about doing it right though.
Please donât shoot at large animals unless you will use the meat, have (legal) permission, and can be mature enough to handle a weapon that kills if thatâs what needs doing.
(Iâd say a .30-06 would have been about right for this job.)
LOL - Good luck finding a deer thatâs going to give you permission!
Iâm sure every parent has handed an egg, or water balloon, or unwanted hamburger to their kid and said âGo on. Do it.â. Itâs bonding.
But 15 dozen sounds like hard work. I donât love my kids that much.
TPâing and egging are not on the same level. This mother abetted the wanton destruction of peopleâs property, costing thousands of dollars in damage to homes that are probably trying to save money for the holidays or their kidsâ education or their 401K. Toilet paper doesnât do that. And donât tell me she didnât know what she was doing. You donât get to throw eggs through someoneâs window and claim ignorance. Comparing this womanâs orgy of vandalism to TPâing or door ditching is just plain stupid.
@slybevel means donât go around firing off lethal weapons in undesignated areas where you might kill or injure an ecologically necessary or endangered animal or another human being, and donât do it if you donât know what youâre doing and how to kill the animal quickly. Unless youâre a vegan, criticizing responsible hunting is hypocritical. The only people who have any business hunting with a bow and arrow are a very small handful of exceptionally skilled archers who can kill with one arrow and one shot. Unfortunately there are a lot of incompetent amateurs with zero regard for hunting laws who get loaded and go torture wildlife and occasionally roaming pets. IMO, those people should spend a few weeks in a county lock-up; theyâre much more hazardous than the pot smokers serving long sentences in state prisons.
Sure, but responsible according to the standards of whom? I was joking about permission because most people seem to only abide by human laws, while making no effort to negotiate these with other species. One animal giving a second permission to kill a third sounds dubious to me.
Other than that, I agree that suffering and waste should be minimized.
Fair enough. Iâll respect the view of anyone who criticizes the hunting of other animals as long as they donât willingly contribute to the factory farm system that brutalizes animals far more than a clean kill in the wild. Which pretty much limits it to vegans in this case.
Iâve hunted wild game, dear and rabbit. I didnât care for it, but found it no more immoral than preparing a chicken salad or a sushi roll. Iâm an omnivore (limited, but only because I like to eat fairly healthy and lots of meat is not), so I wonât criticize hunters that eat or sell the meat of their kills provided they obey hunting laws and know what theyâre doing when they kill the animals.
I have a lot more thoughts on the just treatment of non-human animals and the responsibilities of humans to them and also our responsibilities to each other in terms of eco-stewardship and biodiversity. Unfortunately, delving into them here would be severely derailing. The short version is that I try not to contribute egregiously to the suffering of any sentient creatures (as I believe most animals with a CNS are to varying degrees), and I respect people who go further than I in making that ethos a part of their own lives.
Obviously you are lacking brain cells because I did no such thing.
Get your comparison operators straight, man. You missed a few buttons.
Iâm sincerely sorry. I was trying to reply to the whole thread in one post because Iâm badly jet-lagged. I intended no personal attack on you. But if I made one anyway, thatâs on me. I may very well have misinterpreted your sentence and, if so, thatâs my responsibility. Youâre someone whose posts I generally enjoy and respect, and whatever offense I caused, I regret.
ETA: Going back, I see I put this under my direct quote of your comment:
Comparing this womanâs orgy of vandalism to TPâing or door ditching is just plain stupid.
I honestly canât recall if I had your comment or the whole thread in mind when I said that, but I am sorry for how I rebuked a position you didnât assert. Youâre not someone I consider stupid at all.
