Well, at least his sword was extended...

Hahahaha, well at least his intentions were good. Should have sorted it without the police over a beer and a laugh.
 
The sound is a bit different, I would think.

Since the would-be rescuer lives with his mother, he probably wouldn't know!

And here it is...my chance to use the one smiley I hate (but it fits): :jerkit:

J
 
The guy sounds a little touched, but I'd take him for a neighbor any day.

In Bizarro World he will soon be declared a criminal. The charges should be dropped. How loud did the Porn watcher need to hear the film? I mean, I've heard of stereos too loud, but turning up the porn movies?




munk
 
munk said:
How loud did the Porn watcher need to hear the film? I mean, I've heard of stereos too loud, but turning up the porn movies?

munk
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Maybe he was trying to drown out the noise of other activities(?) (See John's post and smiley.) :D

Eric
 
It's hard to tell without having been there, isn't it? The guy could be a majorly over-reacting weenie- who just doesn't know what sex sounds like- or a genuine good guy.

He doesn't have a phone, and he charged out- with a sword?

Friend munk, we are indeed in bizarro world, and I've been in apartments where any small noise was transmitted, so we really don't know what happened here. While in an upstairs apartment years ago in Ohio, our downstairs neighbor checked on my wife and I...we were practicing rolls on the floor, and she thought we might be fighting! :D
 
I like neighbors who check out thuds on floors.

I've lived in some paper thin walled hotels before... I know all about noise.



munk
 
It just goes to show you.

Shoot, move, COMMUNICATE.

you need to be able to do all three. We'll give this guy 1.5 out of 3.

I'll give him an 8.5 on panache, though!

Tom
 
munk said:
I like neighbors who check out thuds on floors.

I've lived in some paper thin walled hotels before... I know all about noise.

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This story goes back to 1969, when it was still the Bureau of Narcotics, and several years prior to the transition to the DEA. The wife and I had just transferred from Philadelphia to Baltimore, and we moved into the third story of apartments in Glen Burnie, MD. Soon after we arrived, my wife informed me that we had a wife beater just below us, and that she had been treated to loud thumps, screams and the sound of a woman sobbing. At the time I was 6'5" and 280 lbs of screaming door opener, and as my wife spoke the idiot below started in on his woman again. I virtually teleported to the guys door and knocked somewhat energetically. The guy made the mistake of opening the door wider than he should have and growled "What chew want?". All 280 pounds went directly to the point of his nose. The guy flew backwards, flipped over his couch and lay on the floor, not even twitching. His wife was one of the most badly beaten women I have seen before or since. I said "When he wakes up, tell him I said the next time I will rip off his arm and beat him to death with it." I don't know what she told him, but there were no complaints ( and I was expecting one ).
 
I guess in the grand scheme of things it's better to go ahead and investigate suspicious activity such as this, where someone's life/health could possibly be threatened, and risk some embarrassment if it turns out to be nothing. This tale would have a completely different tone if someone in the loud apartment had actually been a victim of violence and the guy with the sword had not done what he did. "Bystander apathy" is a real phenomenon.

(I do hope the guy gets his sword back.)

Eric
 
We'll watch someone die in front of us, not lift a finger, but will dutifully charge this acorn with some crime.

We pass legislation like the Good Samaritan Act because those being helped wanted to sue the helpers for not doing it good enough, or for damage.

The porn watcher is embarressed and wants to press charges? In another day and age, he'd have gratefully let the whole thing 'blow over'.

The face of agony is said to be the face of ectasy. Sounds are probably similar too. (I'd hope we'd know the difference)


munk
 
This, to me, is rather like questionable shoots with police. There are times when, if we weren't present, it's really hard to tell if someone has over-reacted, or not.

Now, to be very frank: we don't know if someone listening to a track of someone screaming "NO, Stop!" very loudly was playing, or if it just sounded like the regular sounds some normal people make, at reasonable volume...

but if it's the latter, I can assure you that this man is damn lucky it wasn't me, or someone like me, whose door he kicked in while his neighbor was having consensual sex. Or even just peacefully watching a porno.

It strikes me that a reasonable person, who would be reasonably armed if someone bangs on his door and then proceeds to kick it in, would be more than reasonably justified at taking aim at the madman holding a sword who has just kicked in the door of his domicile, and would then proceed to address the problem with at least two good hollow points, which might reasonably be expected to resolve the issue.

Since we weren't there, we really don't know, and we can't really call it. Yes, this man could have been acting reasonably, or he could be a social maladept who could reasonably have been Darwined out, to the good of the gene pool. We just don't know.

John
 
You make good points John. That is why I made the remark about commo. he looks much better if he has a phone, and tries to call the police first.

A phone can be the most important tool in self defense. This incident shows how the lack of good commo can muddy the waters.

Tom

PS JNARC, I'm glad you did what you did, and that it worked out OK for you.
 
Trust me on this....I had far more detail to work with than what went into my admittedly sketchy post. Months later I shared a beer with the guy...and my point of view was NOT changed.
 
I think that catching the guy just as he was beating her is tantamount to catching a puppy in the act of peeing on your carpet.....he knoooows!
 
Oh, hell- you did the right thing, no doubt, and good on you.

I just meant, in the case in question, we really don't know how it went down, without being there.
 
One wonders when in his eighties and rocking on his front porch, if the guy's wife will push him off the porch from behind....Hmmmm
 
When I lived downtown Atlanta with a previous wife, we woke up to find the house full of cops.

She was the last person in and forgot to lock the front door. A guy, who used to work with me came by at 3:00 am (see why he USED to work for me).

My motion detector lights came on. He knocked on the door. The door swung open. A friendly cop saw this "street person" opening my door and stopped to ask him what he was doing.

The guy was a little drunk or high and he told the cops that my front door was "wide open" and that my wife and I had probably been broken into and maybe murdered. (see why he USED to work for me?? There would have been a murder if he had woke me up at 3 am for $25 to buy drungs or booze, HIS)

Well the cops got nervous and called for backup. Soon my house was full of cops with radios and flashlights. We were alseep on the third floor. I heard them coming up the spiral stair and I gave a loud "Hello?" and turned on the main inside lights.

I guess a middle aged guy in a blue terrycolth bathrobe did not alarm them though I kept my hands in sight and moved slowly. I did not bring my usual shotgun.

Everything was ok. I went downstairs and found four police cars in my driveway and the steet with all their lights going and all my neighbors out in the street trying to find out what happened.

They had the dingbat guy in the back of a police car and asked me if I knew him. I was tempted to tell them "no," but I identified him and they let him go.

He had the good sense to never return.
 
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