Arkansas Prank Went Wrong

[GordonGekko]

Originally Posted by Tombstone RJ

well, you can always call the cops too! There's no way I'd go outside with a loaded gun and just start firing shots...

Bingo!

While there is a time and place to protect yourself with deadly force, this was not the case. A simple 911 call and a couple minutes later cops would be all over this. Let the professionals handle this type of shit, and keep yourself from going to jail.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

Bingo!

While there is a time and place to protect yourself with deadly force, this was not the case. A simple 911 call and a couple minutes later cops would be all over this. Let the professionals handle this type of shit, and keep yourself from going to jail.

That's hilarious. Yeah, they'll be heading out Code 3 for a ****ing vandalism call. What world are you living in?

[Tombstone RJ]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

That's hilarious. Yeah, they'll be heading out Code 3 for a ****ing vandalism call. What world are you living in?

point taken, but here's the thing--you gotta exhaust every opportunity to allow the police to enforce the law before you start shooting things up. Now, I live in a town where the cops are about 5 minutes away and they would be in my driveway in a flash. But most people live in cities where it will take the cops 15 minutes or so to show up. Either way, the guy should have at least dialed 911 before he went all blast-o-rama and ended up killing a teenybopper.

[Reerun_KC]

Originally Posted by Tombstone RJ

point taken, but here's the thing--you gotta exhaust every opportunity to allow the police to enforce the law before you start shooting things up. Now, I live in a town where the cops are about 5 minutes away and they would be in my driveway in a flash. But most people live in cities where it will take the cops 15 minutes or so to show up. Either way, the guy should have at least dialed 911 before he went all blast-o-rama and ended up killing a teenybopper.

Cops are 30 min from us.


Can we shoot now?

[Tombstone RJ]

Originally Posted by Reerun_KC

Cops are 30 min from us.


Can we shoot now?

no, you should move.

[GordonGekko]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

That's hilarious. Yeah, they'll be heading out Code 3 for a ****ing vandalism call. What world are you living in?

So you're saying calling the police is not the right thing to do? Instead you'd rather do what this guy did and spend a stretch in prison getting your shithole gaped open? I don't live in your world...

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

So you're saying calling the police is not the right thing to do? Instead you'd rather do what this guy did and spend a stretch in prison getting your shithole gaped open? I don't live in your world...

No, what I'm saying is it's a useless thing to do. And once again, I'm not saying coming out guns blazing is the right thing to do either. The simple fact is there really isn't a goddamn thing you can do. You can't rely on the law, nor can you take it into your own hands. ****ing punkass kids are pretty much free to do whatever they want and it's frustrating.

[rolltide2014]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

No, what I'm saying is it's a useless thing to do. And once again, I'm not saying coming out guns blazing is the right thing to do either. The simple fact is there really isn't a goddamn thing you can do. You can't rely on the law, nor can you take it into your own hands. ****ing punkass kids are pretty much free to do whatever they want and it's frustrating.

THIS. I just had the entire local community college basketball team try to break into my apartment about a week ago, at least 6, but I think more like 10 6 foot+ tall black guys huddled around my door at 1 am. I grab my .357 and call 911 and it takes the cops 23 minutes to get there. We are 0.6 miles from TPD HQ, not to mention we have 2 TPD deputies living on-site as the property's security, who I never heard anything back from. Nothing done about it. They live right above me, and we've had numerous problems with them. I have 50+ documented instances I've reported them for and not a damn thing is being done by anyone. Of course the apartment complex management is going to always side with the side they are drawing 15 rent checks from a month, as opposed to my 1.

[Tombstone RJ]

Originally Posted by rolltide2014

THIS. I just had the entire local community college basketball team try to break into my apartment about a week ago, at least 6, but I think more like 10 6 foot+ tall black guys huddled around my door at 1 am. I grab my .357 and call 911 and it takes the cops 23 minutes to get there. We are 0.6 miles from TPD HQ, not to mention we have 2 TPD deputies living on-site as the property's security, who I never heard anything back from. Nothing done about it. They live right above me, and we've had numerous problems with them. I have 50+ documented instances I've reported them for and not a damn thing is being done by anyone. Of course the apartment complex management is going to always side with the side they are drawing 15 rent checks from a month, as opposed to my 1.

this story, it need more explanation please. Why, why were these basketball hooligans trying to break into your apartment? do tell....

[GordonGekko]

Originally Posted by Tombstone RJ

this story, it need more explanation please. Why, why were these basketball hooligans trying to break into your apartment? do tell....

Lol, everyone in this thread who is biased against calling the cops is going to have a 'story' where they called the cops and nothing happened or were 3 hours late or some shit, even though it's just a story of theirs and could be completely fictitious and in no way can be verified to what they are saying is accurate. We just have to take their word.

I've called the police once in my life and they were there in a few minutes if I remember correctly, so who knows.

[rolltide2014]

Originally Posted by Tombstone RJ

this story, it need more explanation please. Why, why were these basketball hooligans trying to break into your apartment? do tell....

I almost posted the whole thing from the beginning, but figuring I'd get 50 tl;dr's, I figured it wasn't worth the time. Here you go:

So my fiance and I live in a 1-br apartment about 5 miles from the UA campus, and about 2 from the local community college. It's a brand new apartment complex that just opened this school year, and we were one of the very first applicants and requested a top floor 1-br so we wouldn't have to deal with anyone above us. Well how they constructed the buildings is the bottom 2 floors consist of 1, 2, and 3-br flats, and 4 and 5-br townhouses account for the top 2 floors, so we were SOL and stuck with a second floor 1-br below one of the townhouses. It just so happens that the 4 townhouses in our building are all taken up by the basketball team from the community college. We've had numerous problems from day 1 (mid-August 2013) and I have documented records of 50+ incidents we've had with them in basically 6 months. Ranging from loud music all hours of the night, people coming and going and slamming doors and yelling all hours of the night, at points they were stomping around or wrestling or something that drywall chunks broke out of the ceiling around our light fixtures in 3 different rooms on different occasions. Once they found out it was us reporting them, they've gone out of their way to antagonize us and found out how to get away with it. They'll stomp around and yell for a minute or 2 and then run down the stairs, sometimes stopping to pound on our door for a second before jumping in their cars and high-tailing it before the police or security even have a chance to respond.

The other night was totally different though. As previously referenced, they're normally obnoxious about it, but this was them obviously trying to be quiet and unnoticed and is a whole different ballpark as far as I'm concerned.