Some teenagers broke into a vacant property on my block and were destroying the place. They broke all the windows were running around and smashing holes in the wall. I feel bad because acab but I didn't know what to do. I don't particularly want kids destroying my block and I talked to my neighbor who lived next door and he seemed legit scared about the situation. I don't feel like confronting them would have been safe since it would have been many of them and one of me.

Could I have done something different?

Update I don't even know if the police ended up coming but it quieted down within 10 minutes of my call. A couple cars were broken into and one was stolen.

    • macabrett
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      1 year ago

      unlike you, I have faith that the teenagers will fuck up the new property too

      but whatever makes you feel better about calling the cops for property damage

        • macabrett
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          1 year ago

          more fun than calling the cops on kids, yeah

          you posted this in a community titled "all cops are bastards" and are upset people think what you did sucks

        • booty [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          oh, i see, you actually were just here to start shit. cool, waiting for the :ban-hammer:

        • artificialset [she/her, fae/faer]
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          1 year ago

          You could have gotten those kids killed. You should seriously self crit and think about the severity of what you did.

        • macabrett
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          1 year ago

          Let me clarify for you:

          I was joking when I said the kids were keeping the rent down. I was also joking when I said I had faith the kids would do it again. The only thing I am serious about is that calling the cops was a shitty thing to do.

            • macabrett
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              1 year ago

              I'm not sure what I did wrong here, but I'm sorry and in the future I will no longer make fun of people who call cops on kids when you're in the room

                • leftofthat [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  I don't think they backed out they were clearly joking about the motivations being property value related

                • macabrett
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                  1 year ago

                  But... it was always a joke. Do you think I actually thought kids were destroying property to keep rents down? Do you think I think kids care about that? Do you think I think kids would be doing it if it weren't a vacant property? Do I need to label every joke? I'm not sure why you're so angry with me. I hope everything's going okay with you, but I don't think I've caused you harm comrade.