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People around me are really loving mad about kids playing ding-dong-ditch, the "game" where you knock on someone's door/ring the doorbell and run out of sight before they can get to the door. The types of replies I've seen in the last couple of weeks across multiple different posts, not verbatim: - Call the Sheriff's Office and have them patrol the neighborhood more often. - They might be disturbing someone elderly or with a health condition where an unexpected act like this could cause them to die. - This one is verbatim: "Save them a spot on the Waffle House wait staff," which was surprisingly met with a reply of "We love eating at the Waffle House and are thankful for the wait staff and cooks who prepare and serve our food." A reasonable and measured response. - Parents, you can put location tracking apps on your kids cell phones. - They can be arrested for trespassing and harassment since they are on private property uninvited, call the Sheriff. - This could be someone trying to escape sex trafficking. Yes, escaping being trafficked by alerting you at your front door, then running away, makes sense. - Lots and lots of "good way to get shot," "might end up getting a response they don't expect" (hint hint) responses. If I'm not expecting anyone to knock on my door or ring the bell, I'm just not gonna answer it. Second time I might look through the peephole. I'm not going to have a panic attack, poo poo myself, call law enforcement, get a weapon, and decry service workers, very tactically of course.
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Chief McHeath posted:People around me are really loving mad about kids playing ding-dong-ditch, the "game" where you knock on someone's door/ring the doorbell and run out of sight before they can get to the door. The types of replies I've seen in the last couple of weeks across multiple different posts, not verbatim: But what if you imagine the person ringing your doorbell is black?
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Chief McHeath posted:- This one is verbatim: "Save them a spot on the Waffle House wait staff," which was surprisingly met with a reply of "We love eating at the Waffle House and are thankful for the wait staff and cooks who prepare and serve our food." A reasonable and measured response. Honestly, I was all set to believe you were in my neighborhood until I got to this point. No Waffle Houses around these parts. Is it some TikTok or meme or something going around to do them? I figured ding-dong-ditch died out with free range childrearing.
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Feb 18, 2022 09:55
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Blue Moonlight posted:Honestly, I was all set to believe you were in my neighborhood until I got to this point. No Waffle Houses around these parts. There are still kids being raised in suburbs who are bored as gently caress and have literally nothing to do outside.
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Feb 18, 2022 10:30
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Uh. There is no difference between orange and white besides the color. As far as I know at least. https://twitter.com/dril/status/473265809079693312
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Feb 18, 2022 12:02
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Nextdoor emailed me this but by the time I tried to click it to read more the post had been deleted now I think I missed an enlightening discussion about the ethics of kids being in my yard
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Feb 19, 2022 08:24
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Chief McHeath posted:People around me are really loving mad about kids playing ding-dong-ditch, the "game" where you knock on someone's door/ring the doorbell and run out of sight before they can get to the door. The types of replies I've seen in the last couple of weeks across multiple different posts, not verbatim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_F_e4Bznzk&t=32s
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you broke my grill posted:Nextdoor emailed me this but by the time I tried to click it to read more the post had been deleted now I think I missed an enlightening discussion about the ethics of kids being in my yard Yeah, ND has a policy against public shaming, so if you post a picture of someone and complain about them, it will get auto-modded and sent for review to the moderators, who will probably remove it. My guess is the kid was standing in the Public right of way within 8 feet of the road and this brain genius thinks he owns that because it’s contiguous with his yard.
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Feb 19, 2022 09:34
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I'd be curious to know local bylaws of people who scream about "kids being on MY sidewalk", because I know in a few places the path that leads to your front door is technically not yours, and is actually a public path. I also worked for the government a few years back and people tried the "this is private property" line on me. I was a representative of the Crown, I have authority on your property ya dingus. Owning a house makes a lot of people crazy.
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Feb 19, 2022 19:24
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Did you wear an actual crown when you did this?
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Feb 19, 2022 21:11
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Ralph Hurley posted:Did you wear an actual crown when you did this? No but I realize now I should have.
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Feb 19, 2022 21:30
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Around here, (Ontario, Canadastan) Typically the city owns "your property" up to at least the water shut off valve. In the case of my parent's house, thats like 2/3 the way up their driveway. At least they're not the "git off ma lawn" types.
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Feb 19, 2022 22:38
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Here in my Oregon town, the strip from the street to the sidewalk (if there is a sidewalk) is a public right of way, but maintenance of the sidewalk falls on the property owner. If there is settling and you end up with massive trip hazards due to the concrete breaking and shifting then it is up to the property owner to mitigate. Which means a lot of sidewalks are pretty hosed up. I should say that its been about 3 years since I last checked into this policy, so perhaps its changed, but I somehow doubt it.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Here in my Oregon town, the strip from the street to the sidewalk (if there is a sidewalk) is a public right of way, but maintenance of the sidewalk falls on the property owner. If there is settling and you end up with massive trip hazards due to the concrete breaking and shifting then it is up to the property owner to mitigate. Which means a lot of sidewalks are pretty hosed up. The other caveat is that you usually can’t cut down a tree when the roots are damaging the sidewalk. So sometimes you will see some property owners make little 6”x6” ramps out of cement from one square of sidewalk to another.
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Feb 19, 2022 23:08
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Fashionable Jorts posted:No but I realize now I should have. Just a workaday crown, nothing fancy. Anyway, so much for Pitt the Elder and his Willaim Pitt posted:The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter -- all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!
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Feb 20, 2022 03:36
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That's why I agree with Barney about Lord Palmerston
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Feb 20, 2022 03:47
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Not nextdoor but close enough. 
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Feb 20, 2022 07:19
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that's not what karma is
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Feb 20, 2022 11:18
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Free groups are probably ripe for this thread. We've learned to get really annoyed when people claim something we're offering immediately and then are horrible at communicating to actually pick it up, sometimes ghosting entirely and forcing us to reach out to the second place person. Other people get outraged at the idea of doing a lottery for some items which are more desirable, complaining that this interferes with how quickly the giver will be able to get rid of the item, like any item just has to be gone RIGHT NOW. Just recently, we put out a box with some sheets in it for a woman and the mailman put our Universal Yums box on top of the box we set out for the woman. She proceeded to take both the sheet box and the snack box, then opened the snack box and texted us about it. She was supposed to bring it back the past few days but yesterday she "wasn't leaving her house but she only lives 5 minutes away so we could pick it up". Just infuriating. If we'd accidentally taken someone's package, we'd have returned it right away. Days wouldn't need to pass by and we wouldn't put the burden on the people whose free stuff we just got and whose package we'd stolen however inadvertently.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Free groups are probably ripe for this thread. We've learned to get really annoyed when people claim something we're offering immediately and then are horrible at communicating to actually pick it up, sometimes ghosting entirely and forcing us to reach out to the second place person. I can't tell if this is sincere or quoting a Nextdoor post.
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Feb 21, 2022 10:35
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To the person who stole my St Patricks day flags from the front of my house, this is not the way to get the Luck of the Irish
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RoastBeef posted:To the person who stole my St Patricks day flags from the front of my house, this is not the way to get the Luck of the Irish It's how you get the luck of the English!
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Feb 22, 2022 13:38
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:It's how you get the luck of the English! I thought that was the Maxim gun.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Here in my Oregon town, the strip from the street to the sidewalk (if there is a sidewalk) is a public right of way, but maintenance of the sidewalk falls on the property owner. If there is settling and you end up with massive trip hazards due to the concrete breaking and shifting then it is up to the property owner to mitigate. Which means a lot of sidewalks are pretty hosed up. That is pretty standard around the US. Generally, if it is a huge hazard the city tells you to fix it or they fix it and bill you.
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Neutrino posted:That is pretty standard around the US. Generally, if it is a huge hazard the city tells you to fix it or they fix it and bill you. What? That’s stupid as hell. I’m in Connecticut and you’re responsible for leaf and snow removal of your section of the sidewalk but actual structural maintenance is the town’s responsibility (unless you specifically go at it with a jackhammer or something obviously).
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:What? That’s stupid as hell. I’m in Connecticut and you’re responsible for leaf and snow removal of your section of the sidewalk but actual structural maintenance is the town’s responsibility (unless you specifically go at it with a jackhammer or something obviously). The way I always explain to anyone in the US is that the local government is you. Any work that is done by the town or city is funded by you through taxes, assessments, fees, or whatever. Lots of things are paid through direct assessments and not through a general city-wide tax. This is one of those things, the same as if your street or sewer gets rebuilt.
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 Got this notification in my spam mail account, and rushed to see the post but it was unfortunately deleted 
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:It's how you get the luck of the English! Update: only a PEACE OF GARBAGE would steal a flag 🍀🍀🍀
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I'm not on Nextdoor but I got sent this from my mom who is. Everyone be on the lookout for this new internet fad.
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Back in the day they just had telephone fads where young people would plan out cow tippings over a party line but this internet fad thing is global. 
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Comment on a post about local vandalismquote:isabella well it’s nice to hear you grew up and saw the error of your ways. Pure distilled Nextdoor in that the kids "running amuck" deserve physical violence but the ones just quietly doing something on their phones, they're also wrong somehow.
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Atillo posted:Comment on a post about local vandalism The old people around me get upset every time kids are setting off fireworks at 2:00 AM, and start complaining about the fact that the police won’t investigate and arrest them for terrorism. I normally chime in saying it sounds like it is normal teenager behavior and we all did donuts on parking lots and blew stuff up as kids. There is usually a younger guy that then calls me an idiot for using illegal fireworks 25 years ago.
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I feel like it would be fun to claim responsibility for some of this stuff and just say "oh hey neighbors, that was me last night setting off fireworks, walking past your doorbell in a hoodie at 9 PM, etc. Sorry for causing any alarm!" Just totally play it straight and accept responsibility for whatever they are so afraid or disgusted about.
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Feb 24, 2022 01:01
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Yeah I was both people doing that handshake deal on the corner, it wasn't what it looked like
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normally mine has some crazies. lately, just lost pets, and people looking to sell their crap. Also don't give money to this one specific "homeless" guy "he lives in my condo complex" have this, as a refresher https://i.imgur.com/mLWfTY5.mp4 i'd guess pigeons, but i don't know nothing about birds pretend i blurred Lafayette-Winona .. I don't even know where that is, and i live ... here?
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Tbh those are some pretty birds, and aren't doves technically pigeons?
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blight rhino posted:have this, as a refresher Mourning Doves, which are basically pigeons they're the ones that go "hoo-woOOoo hoo-hoo-hoo" in the morning or evening, super common
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Martman posted:Tbh those are some pretty birds, and aren't doves technically pigeons? They're part of the same taxonomic family. Wikipedia posted:Columbidae (/kəˈlʌmbɪdiː/) is a bird family consisting of pigeons and doves
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blight rhino posted:
Heh, maybe for you. For me? Just a tuesday.
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