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[Misc] Have you ever resorted to vigilantism out of frustration with a lack of police response?
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Quite. I have posted on here before how everyone who has crossed me egregiously has come to a sticky end without any action by me. One protagonist (I won't give details that may identify, but it was when I was at school) was actually dead within a year. This (self-generating retribution) had happend so many times I tend to feel wryly sorry for people who annoy me now, owing to the invitable.
Your name isn't Damien is it ?
portlock seagull
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No. I’m merely not hard enough, besides it’s somewhat inevitable you get identified administering a Chinese burn on account of your proximity to the victim.
Brian Parsons
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I used to live in a small Oxfordshire town that had a very clever drug dealer who was always clean when his house was raided. Two fathers whose daughters had been turned into junkies by this dealer arranged a meeting to get drugs for their daughters. Together they beat seven shades of shit out of him and left in a layby outside Witney. They phoned for an ambulance and left. The dealer is now a cabbage. The Thames Valley Chief Constable said he did not condone the action of the people whoever they were but at least there was one less drug dealer on the streets. Evidently I heard drugs were impossible to obtain in the town for months.
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I've resorted to it a couple of times.
We'd had quite a lot of anti-social behaviour from a gang of youths in our street and one night mine and my neighbour's houses had eggs thrown at the windows. I ran out and bumped into my neighbour in the road. We spotted the gang just down the road still throwing eggs and so gave chase. Caught the slowest of the group. We had to use some 'force' to restrain him
and then proceeded to explain to him what would happen if we ever saw him or his mates in the street again. He nearly shat himself. Never had any trouble again. What is remarkable is how he took us seriously given my neighbour, who was a strapping 6 foot 4 plus roofer, had come out in his boxers, some pink fluffy slippers and his wife's silk gown !
Other time was to remove a tenant and his four uninvited mates from a flat after they had smashed it up.
We'd had quite a lot of anti-social behaviour from a gang of youths in our street and one night mine and my neighbour's houses had eggs thrown at the windows. I ran out and bumped into my neighbour in the road. We spotted the gang just down the road still throwing eggs and so gave chase. Caught the slowest of the group. We had to use some 'force' to restrain him
and then proceeded to explain to him what would happen if we ever saw him or his mates in the street again. He nearly shat himself. Never had any trouble again. What is remarkable is how he took us seriously given my neighbour, who was a strapping 6 foot 4 plus roofer, had come out in his boxers, some pink fluffy slippers and his wife's silk gown !Other time was to remove a tenant and his four uninvited mates from a flat after they had smashed it up.
Wrong-Direction
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Blame the people in charge of us FFS
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Publius Ovidius
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That is also an interesting point as we always pay when we park on the seafront for our afternoon walks at the weekend, BUT there is always a group of people who have converted lorrys and vans who park there and in effect live there. They do not get booked for overstaying their time as according to one meter maid, it is not worth the council perusing these peop,e so they turn a blind eye.
But to the rest of us, we are fair game and if you are 5 minutes over your time, you are fined £25 plus.
mikeyjh
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I'm not sure it's about being 'hard enough', it's remembering that there's ALWAYS someone harder than you so if you're going to go down the vigilante route, it's going to come back and bite you at some point
Quite. I have posted on here before how everyone who has crossed me egregiously has come to a sticky end without any action by me. One protagonist (I won't give details that may identify, but it was when I was at school) was actually dead within a year. This (self-generating retribution) had happend so many times I tend to feel wryly sorry for people who annoy me now, owing to the invitable.
Karma's a bitch.
Thunder Bolt
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We haven't, but a neighbour of ours did. We came out to find our driver's window had been kicked in, and walking along the road, we saw a neighbour's very expensive car had a perfectly formed footprint on it. His glass was obviously a lot tougher than ours.
We knocked on the door, and showed him his car, and ours. We rang the police and explained the evidence was clear to see, but they didn't want to know, but at least we had a crime no. for our insurance!
He stormed off muttering threats about nobody touches my car and gets away with it. We found out later, he'd gone down into town and put a few words into appropriate earholes.
We haven't had any car vandalism since.
We knocked on the door, and showed him his car, and ours. We rang the police and explained the evidence was clear to see, but they didn't want to know, but at least we had a crime no. for our insurance!
He stormed off muttering threats about nobody touches my car and gets away with it. We found out later, he'd gone down into town and put a few words into appropriate earholes.
We haven't had any car vandalism since.
Knocky's Nose
Mon nez est en Valenciennes..
... until another cockroach started selling them, and it all started again? I've a good friend in the constabulary who regularly takes down and/or disrupts drugs gangs. He says that by arresting them you're not eradicating them, you are simply 'creating a vacancy'. They can't win.
We need a new branch of the force called the 'Common Sense Police'.. An elite unit, one in every town - with the power to shoot people between the eyes, chop hands and feet off (or genitals), taser at will, gas/smoke tosspot tenants out of properties, make litterers eat what they've thrown on the street, and have the tools at their disposal to detonate lawns and flower beds with shitting cats on. Any more suggestions?
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A particular harsh case of Sharia law applied by misadventure or karmic destiny.
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That was probably the scary part. Seeing your neighbour dressed like that it probably scared him to imagine what particularly bizarre form of retribution he might be subjected to. Images of gimp masks, studded dog collars and fluffy hand cuffs probably flashed through his mind.
Quite. I have posted on here before how everyone who has crossed me egregiously has come to a sticky end without any action by me. One protagonist (I won't give details that may identify, but it was when I was at school) was actually dead within a year. This (self-generating retribution) had happend so many times I tend to feel wryly sorry for people who annoy me now, owing to the invitable.
You are Don Corleone and I claim my five pounds......
It's almost as if you're confessing.Quite. I have posted on here before how everyone who has crossed me egregiously has come to a sticky end without any action by me. One protagonist (I won't give details that may identify, but it was when I was at school) was actually dead within a year. This (self-generating retribution) had happend so many times I tend to feel wryly sorry for people who annoy me now, owing to the invitable.
The guy was a cock, and continued to be a cock in the work place...by being macho and not putting a guard down on a machine he was using. It was his own doing.
Here's ex cockney villain Dave Courtenay and 'associates' evicting some squatters on behalf of a landlord some years back. Great tele. The action begins on the 3 minute mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfp1W69RuZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfp1W69RuZ0
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I had a similar experience when I was a cub scout when my bike was nicked outside of the cub hut during my attendance at one of the weekly Thursday evening pack meetings. When I discovered it missing my suspicion was immediately drawn to one of the local ne'er-do-wells who was also a nemesis of mine as he belonged to a rival middle class gang of 8 year olds. I immediately tracked down my stolen bicycle abandoned on his front lawn. The disposal or concealing of evidence obviously hadn't yet been mastered in his criminal repertoire and I merely retrieved my bicycle from his lawn. A couple of weeks later he happened to be waiting at the same bus stop as me so it was then that I seized my opportunity to exact retribution. This consisted of wrestling him to the ground and putting him in a headlock while our respective mothers looked away in embarrassment. Justice was swift and ruthless on the mean streets of middle class Hove during the early 70s.
We need a new branch of the force called the 'Common Sense Police'.. An elite unit, one in every town - with the power to shoot people between the eyes, chop hands and feet off (or genitals), taser at will, gas/smoke tosspot tenants out of properties, make litterers eat what they've thrown on the street, and have the tools at their disposal to detonate lawns and flower beds with shitting cats on. Any more suggestions?
Judge Dredd?