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X ` Man

On 4/16/12 2:50 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:04:26 -0400, X `
wrote:

On 4/14/12 8:36 PM, wrote:

You have to take words at what they are, not what they might be.

If they tell you that you don't "need" to eat all your peas, it
doesn't mean you can't.
That really sounds more like a liability issue for the police. If they
imply that he should follow someone and they get hurt, the police
would be liable.
I have been to a number of NW meetings with the cops and they tell us
it sure would be helpful if we can watch the person until they get
there but be careful. In fact that is really the only way they
actually catch anyone.
If they see the guy a block away, he can say "it wasn't me".
Theoretically they need "reasonable suspicion" even to do a "Terry
stop".

Gee, and I thought SW Florida was where all the "fancy" people lived. If
I were you, I'd find a new neighborhood where the crime rate is lower
and "neighborhood watch" is not such a big deal.

"Crime" here is mostly kids drinking and smoking dope in the park with
the occasional band of "car hoppers".
They are always white kids and usually from the neighborhood. That
still does not keep most of the people here from being scared
****less.
I don't mind going out there to see what is going on myself and I talk
to everyone I see. (unarmed)
I suppose I will be killed someday but what the ****, it beats dying
wheezing in a hospital from "old age" ;-)
I am pretty good at defusing problems before they escalate and that is
why I have said several times, if there was just an ounce of civility
in that encounter from either one of them, Trayvon would still be
alive and George would still be working at the insurance company.

Perhaps neigborhood watchers who are as deep into vigilanteism as
Zimmerman need to have psychological tests before their assume their
duties of not walking around the 'hood armed and eager to be provoked.