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Yeah, we definitely need to take the guns away from some of these people. If you threaten people with guns for getting near your property, you shouldn't have guns.
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Bigbadwooof
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Baby_Hitler said: Yeah, we definitely need to take the guns away from some of these people. If you threaten people with guns for getting near your property, you shouldn't have guns.
I used to deliver Amazon packages... They started scheduling us to deliver at 3 AM.. When I used to deliver in the country, I had guns pulled on me all the fuckin time. Some alcoholic hickerbilly bitch pulled out a rifle and shrieked, "DON'T MOVE OR YOUR FUCKIN DEAD!"...
They didn't tell people we were going to be showing up at their houses in the middle of the night. I have a friend who is black, and she was terrified to drive up to people's houses at night like that. You can imagine... a black person in hickerbilly country places, poking around people's houses in the middle of the night... It was quite dangerous.
I was making really good money doing it, though, so... Worth it.
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ballsalsa
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I have a customer in a fancy gated community and I'm not allowed to do anything on the south side of her house because her neighbor on that side has already pulled his gun on several workers of various kinds. Place is gated with constant armed patrols and backs up to the ocean. Like, bruh, why you scared of gardeners and shit?
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ballsalsa said: I have a customer in a fancy gated community and I'm not allowed to do anything on the south side of her house because her neighbor on that side has already pulled his gun on several workers of various kinds. Place is gated with constant armed patrols and backs up to the ocean. Like, bruh, why you scared of gardeners and shit?
When I deliver to gated communities in the middle of the night, they usually have their passcode for the gate wrong, because they change it all the time (Im assuming)... Sometimes there will be 4 codes listed, and none of them will work.
Which is great for me, because then I get to check "Undeliverable" and bring it back to the warehouse. A part of me really enjoys making them pay for their stupidity.
Those fucking gates aren't stopping criminals, I promise you. What they ARE stopping is couriers. Aside from that, all they do is alienate people from their neighbors, which probably makes them more likely to be robbed. When you put a gate up, it says "I've got shit to protect", and it also says you're dumb enough to think a gate is protecting it. Aaaand it aaaalso says that you're a pretentious douchebag, and the kind of person people like to steal from.
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ballsalsa
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This community charges service workers $120/year extortion fee for a security card to get in the gate if you enter more than once per year.
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Brian Jones said: Most of the MIdwest has only corn and soybeans for scenery. We could have probably fed half the world, but the reality is the glaciers made McDonalds possible.
Glaciers made McDonalds possible... huh?
The glaciers made the Midwest flat. The corn and soybeans are grown to feed cows.
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ballsalsa said: This community charges service workers $120/year extortion fee for a security card to get in the gate if you enter more than once per year.
What the fuck is that? Logically, the residents should be the ones paying that, not the workers.
As a worker, Id be charging that $120 back to the client. Hell, I'd tack on a $500 fee as an asshole tax, too.
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Yeah, the cost gets dumped onto the customer, for sure. The association probably presented it as a choice between raising association fees or making the landscapers pay for it and the dumbass homeowners fell for it.
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Those fucking gates aren't stopping criminals, I promise you. What they ARE stopping is couriers. Aside from that, all they do is alienate people from their neighbors, which probably makes them more likely to be robbed. When you put a gate up, it says "I've got shit to protect", and it also says you're dumb enough to think a gate is protecting it.
What about criminals cars ? Do they stop those ? You may be able to hop the gate and kick in my door only to find out I have some really cool shotguns , your car will still be outside by the gate though , a long way from your corpse .
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The problem is the psychedelic Renaissance is still in the medicalization phase. It must spread all around medically first. Then the Colchian dragon will be slayed.
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In the meantime, we have fascist pigs in the south sprinkling fentanyl into DMT jars.
It’s gonna be a fight against a lot of propaganda and bullshit. But I don’t think it’s gonna stop this time.(knock on wood.)
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Fascists putting fentanyl in dmt? I'd like 2 know more.
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ballsalsa said: This community charges service workers $120/year extortion fee for a security card to get in the gate if you enter more than once per year.
What the fuck is that? Logically, the residents should be the ones paying that, not the workers.
As a worker, Id be charging that $120 back to the client. Hell, I'd tack on a $500 fee as an asshole tax, too.
I don't know how it works in America, but in Australia you'd just write that off as a work expense for a tax refund..
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Brian Jones said: Most of the MIdwest has only corn and soybeans for scenery. We could have probably fed half the world, but the reality is the glaciers made McDonalds possible.
Glaciers made McDonalds possible... huh?
The glaciers made the Midwest flat. The corn and soybeans are grown to feed cows.
Hmm... I get the sense you have a real birds-eye-view of the machinations of life, old man... I dig.
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Those fucking gates aren't stopping criminals, I promise you. What they ARE stopping is couriers. Aside from that, all they do is alienate people from their neighbors, which probably makes them more likely to be robbed. When you put a gate up, it says "I've got shit to protect", and it also says you're dumb enough to think a gate is protecting it.
What about criminals cars ? Do they stop those ? You may be able to hop the gate and kick in my door only to find out I have some really cool shotguns , your car will still be outside by the gate though , a long way from your corpse .
You live in a gated community? 
You would! 
If someone shows up to rob your house while you're home, they deserve to be shot. You don't rob a place without doing some homework first! Anywayyys... I'm sure you're a real tough customer. If there's one thing I've learned about tough guys in my life, it's that they are usually quite easily outsmarted.
One thing is for certain, gated communities create an obstacle for police/fire trucks, and negatively affect response time.
I started a thread about this a few months back, and Christopera made some insightful responses. He seems to know a lot about this subject:
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christopera said: I agree that gated communities are a political thing. They should be outlawed.
That said, gated communities with one large fence around several housing units are the least safe. Those with the large gate and the individual gates are on par with no gates. There is quite a lot of information about this in numerous urban geography study's. A lot of developers love the idea of gated communities. It is a cheap way to upsell a property because most people feel safer with a gate even when in many cases they actually increase crime. Fences and gates are relatively cheap. Gated communities tend to be a lot less community oriented, as you might tell by the fact that they are trying to avoid the community, and that overall reduces willingness to monitor the surroundings, self police, etc.. Also, rich people are afraid they might be less rich, while poor people don't have much to lose. It's why a lot of poor people are more charitable than the rich.
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christopera said: It's usually easier to commit crime when 1) people have a presumption that crime is lower, meaning people aren't vigilant, and 2) when the property/people is separated from the community at large meaning others aren't available to be vigilant.
Put this in the context of the American police force. How often do the police stop crime while it is in progress? Probably a fraction of a single percent, the rest of the time they just react. What really prevents crime in good communities is the ability for the community at large to police their space. No police needed. Many gated communities are simply walled off from access to the greater community, and thus do not benefit from that self policing. Instead they rely on a fence/wall/gate and sometimes a private police force. Of course there are many types of gated communities, so you can't get too crazy trying to make distinctions without writing a huge paper. Anyways, there is very little proof that gated communities are actually safer, and in many cases they are worse. However, they provide the perception of being safer, and people of course want that. Climbing a fence, or cutting a whole in it, or driving around the gate, isn't exactly rocket science. Just like busting a window and climbing through it isn't hard. That's why having good community around is generally the safer bet. People tend to pick up on odd behaviors faster than a fence realizes it was climbed.
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I always thought there should just be a signal that emergency vehicles can use that automatically opens all gates at gated communities. But it would basically be like a skeleton key signal. So it would have to be built-in to everything.
Downside. If somebody ever figured it out. Like somebody worked for an ambulance just to find out this key. They would be able to open every gated community by duplicating it.
I still think that would be worth it.
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You live in a gated community? 
You would!
No , I was speaking hypothetically . There's about a mile of open space behind my house with huge coyotes and giant hawks . It's wild. The point I'm making is if you can't drive a car up to the house how much stuff are you going to steal ? I don't see dragging a safe down the street and back over a gate . Maybe a small tv . It just seems like a bad idea to me if I were a thief , you aren't going to get that much it seems a decent deterrent .
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If someone shows up to rob your house while you're home, they deserve to be shot. You don't rob a place without doing some homework first! Anywayyys... I'm sure you're a real tough customer. If there's one thing I've learned about tough guys in my life, it's that they are usually quite easily outsmarted.
I doubt it would be easy , I don't even shoot to kill , I shoot torture . I wasn't being hypothetical about the shotguns and when it comes to archery I don't fuck around . Have you seen that Rambo movie where they break into his house ?
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Someone here told a story about a relative who confronted a burglar. They got into a shootout. The thief was killed and the homeowner was shot in the intestines and now has a colostomy bag. Somehow this story was being relayed as an example of a good outcome 🤦♂️
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Who steals a TV in this day and age? If I was gonna rob a house I'd be looking for compact valuables like jewelry, guns, and so forth. Maybe steal a nice car out of the garage to transport the shit, if available but I'm certainly not an expert in burglary.
My dad had a buddy with a ranch and a big ol chocolate lab. The dog would sometimes disappear into the hills for a week or more at a time and dude would always be worried that he wasn't coming back. After a while the local coyotes seemed to be getting larger with abnormal brown fur and the mystery of wtf the dog was doing was solved.
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For real, a really good tv is like $500. Sure you can spend more but the returns are diminishing quickly on that. Like if somebody came in my house and said I’m taking your tv, I’d probably carry it to their car just to avoid the hassle of confrontation.
That said I don’t have much of value in my house outside of like my refrigerator and son. It’s a nice place that comfortable, but stealing a couch and a king size bed isn’t really a thing.
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