re: I stopped a burglary last night...

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walking down the middle of street with a stream light. I didn't go in between houses or under vehicles.

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Thanks for clarifying, that's much more rational than what I was envisioning. Still, what where you seeking to accomplish? Was the desired end state to corner these low lifes and hold them at gunpoint while calling 911 and waiting for cops? Would you have pursued if they ran? Were you prepared to use lethal force on 2 humans you chose to go searching for? On one hand I'm glad criminals still have to fear folks like you but seems a bit rash to go searching for them yourse!f in dead of night.

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I'm getting ripped on my neighborhood facebook group for my description of the perps and methodology of stopping the crime.

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Why?

They were either white or high yella and lanky males. What do they want you to say?

And what's wrong with the way you handled it? The only way you could have handled it different maybe is if you had a gun on you and shot it up in the air scaring the shite out of them.

You took a little risk going to the fence and yelling at them, but frick them. They are the ones who are scared so the odds of them doing anything else other than running off are pretty low.

Go to sleep now and wake up later tonight and just sit in the dark to see if they come back. Bring the gun with you this time..

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I don't think "high yella" is politically correct.

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What is he supposed to say to describe the perps? Mixed?

fricking Eskimo and high yellow is off limits now?

We are so fricked

Reality is violent. Most Facebook Neighbors hate reality.

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I honestly got those from black people

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Aha! So you admit to cultural appropriation, bigot?

Those are THEIR words and we can’t say them!

You didn’t say high yella in the neighborhood group. Lol

From Wiki..The Louisiana Redbones historically lived in geographically and socially isolated communities in the southwestern Louisiana parishes, ranging from Sabine Parish in the northwest and Rapides Parish near the center of the state down to Calcasieu Parish in the southwest,[1] including parts of Orange County, Texas and Newton County, Texas. This area is roughly coextensive with what was once known as the Neutral Ground or Sabine Free State, an area of disputed sovereignty from 1806 to 1821 that was primarily bound on the east by the Calcasieu River and the Sabine River on the west.[2] Most families ancestral to the Louisiana Redbones came from South Carolina (where they were at times classified in some census records as "other free persons"),[1] although some families came from other Southeastern states. A review of newspaper articles, land grants, census records and other documents referring to the Redbones indicates that the main settlements of Redbones to southwestern and south central Louisiana and southeastern Texas took place over the course of many years,[3] although some members of Redbone families are noted as settling in the Neutral Ground before 1818 when the land was finally and officially considered part of the United States.

I looked this up because my grand parents lived in Montgomery, La. and would warn us kids not to try to swim the river, because the "redbones" lived on the other side.
That knowledge and the fact that I knew I'd drown after about 10 feet did the trick.

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