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Old 12-05-2013, 12:34 PM
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Originally Posted by springfield View Post
A neighbor told me yesterday that her husband caught a man in their yard cutting roses and putting them in a cooler. When he asked him what he was doing, the guy just said "I like roses. " The neighbor asked him to leave or he would call the police. He just continued to stand there. Their next door neighbor said there were 2 men in their yard looking around. One of them matched the description of the "rose thief." This is just creepy having strangers wandering around in ones yard.
This post illustrates, in my opinion, 2 major problems with our society today:

1) Individuals undertaking bad behavior without regard for the consequences.
Notice he just stood there when confronted and showed up in another yard later. One poster's comment about getting out his firearm did not seem to me to be unwarranted when the person did not leave...he became a threat to the homeowner at that moment and may have had to face the consequences of his action!!!!

2) Many members of society (ie our board here) seem to want to minimize the bad actions of individuals, make excuses for them, and denigrate an honest opinion of how one poster would handle this threat to his property.
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