re: Have you ever called the police on someone?

Sitting at work the other day and look out my window. I see a small parking lot where bank employees park and noticed a young male (turns out it was a juvenile) looking in windows. Eventually made it to a Lexus SUV and opened the passenger side door. I started freaking out once he opened the door cause I already had a suspicion what he was doing. I called a guy back to my office and he was smart enough to pull his phone out and start recording. Zoomed in on the kid so it was a perfect video. I called 911 and was talking to the operator as I watched him as far as I could. About the time I hung several cop cars flanked in from several directions. The kid said he didn't do it, well the cop at the scene was watching the video the guy at my work recorded and said "Does he have a red hooded sweatshirt, black pants, red shoes? I am looking at video, he did it. Take em downtown".

CSB I know, but it just happened two weeks ago.

Yes twice I think when we were behind an obviously impaired driver.

Background: My parents neighbor across the street was a rich alcoholic crack head.

I was home from college one weekend and late one night he was beating up his crackhead girlfriend of the month. He was off his rocker and after beating her hard (the one period I remember him being sober he was a roid head) and took off in his F-250. Called the cops and gave his license but nothing happened to him most likely because of who he was.

FF a couple of months later. I'm home around Christmas and on Friday he's so fricked up he puts gas in his diesel truck and I can hear his truck making all sorts of noises coming down the street. Next day I come home from the bar around 2:00 and while drunkenly eating chicken nuggets on the front porch hear a loud crash. Wake up Sunday to find out he had a massive heart attack and died on his back porch.

Just some annoying neighbors one time. I had done the right thing and asked them politely several times to quit parking in front of my house because they sort of blocked me in. Parked in front of my mailbox in a cul-de-sac and halfway blocked my driveway. The mailman actually left a note on their car once. I saw it when I got home from work. I lived in a townhouse at the time since I was just a year out of college, and we shared a driveway with the neighbor. The guy 4 units down let his kids stay there, but with all single car garages, they had to park in the street. Which was fine, just don't block me from entering or leaving. One night I saw he was parked in front of a hydrant so I called the police. Told them about the multiple times they parked in front of my driveway, mailbox, and now the hydrant. They got there in about 10 minutes and the owner comes running out with the keys apologizing. He had told his sorry kids not to block people in but they did anyways. It never happened again.

Only one time. An 18 wheeler was swerving across several lanes of traffic.

A guy was heaving belly-sized rocks onto the 4 lane roadway at night. Weird as hell.

A couple weeks ago I woke up at 3 in the morning to like 12 gun shots right outside my apartment. I looked out the window and I saw a man run to his car and speed off. I was sure somebody just got slain so I called the cops. Well the cops never ended up coming... Finally after like 45 minutes I hear some sirens so I look out the window again but I get a phone call from a blocked number. I answer it and it was just deep breathing. I was sketched tf out and I went straight to sleep. Nothing ever came from this but I still havent went check the ditch area where the guy was running from.

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yup, called them on the pos meathead roughing up a woman in the parking lot of Felix's gym. Cops show up, talk to both of them and leave...and the woman gets in the car with the guy. go figure

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Often, people's approach to these situations is along the lines of "Well, they're going to get back together anyway. Why should I get involved?", which is irrelevant. You do your part to address the situation that's in front of you and not be concerned about what may or may not happen down the line.

Neighbor down the street is a registered sex offender. I looked him up in the registry and it said he had molested a child. I was driving by one night and I see him walking two kids (approx 3-4 year olds) into his front door. Called the police, but I didn't stay around to see it play out. I know he still lives there so I guess nothing came of it.

My calls generally go something like this...