Nextdoor app

I bet we have some Nextdoor activity in our area…these four made quite the racket while I was walking the dog.

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There's a house about 10 minutes from us, on a busy road, that has a Christmas light display that is just magnificent. It's aligned with music that you can play on your radio, so cars will pull off on the shoulder and sit for a bit to watch.

You know where this is going. My wife said that on the nextdoor app people were bitching about the house, safety hazard, it's going to kill people (and the lights! People will get seizures, you know!). People were calling for the guy to be fined, encouraging people to call the police to report him as a nuisance. I shi* you not.
 
Chuckman said:
There's a house about 10 minutes from us, on a busy road, that has a Christmas light display that is just magnificent. It's aligned with music that you can play on your radio, so cars will pull off on the shoulder and sit for a bit to watch.

You know where this is going. My wife said that on the nextdoor app people were bitching about the house, safety hazard, it's going to kill people (and the lights! People will get seizures, you know!). People were calling for the guy to be fined, encouraging people to call the police to report him as a nuisance. I shi* you not.
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You know what we need?

An address, that's what we need. I'll bet a lot of us wouldn't mind seeing some awesome Christmas light displays before they come down!
 
it keeps you informed of whats going on in your own backyard so to speak. I use it to keep tabs on the crime and such...ignore all the rest.

DS
 
Last week I was out in the yard and heard two gunshots. Maybe, a shotgun vs. the crack of a rifle, hunting on the farm a few miles down the road. I joked to the wife that I could go and check the app and hear complaints about gunshots.

Yes, I $1t you not, there was an inquiry.
and coyotes, cats, dogs, noise, covid, vax vs unvax...
 
Every once in awhile...I browse to see the stupidness on there....and a topic sometimes draws me in. I read...get angry at the comments...but am smart enough just to DISENGAGE!
You got to pray for stupid people...their mind is warped!

DS
 
Chuckman said:
There's a house about 10 minutes from us, on a busy road, that has a Christmas light display that is just magnificent. It's aligned with music that you can play on your radio, so cars will pull off on the shoulder and sit for a bit to watch.

You know where this is going. My wife said that on the nextdoor app people were bitching about the house, safety hazard, it's going to kill people (and the lights! People will get seizures, you know!). People were calling for the guy to be fined, encouraging people to call the police to report him as a nuisance. I shi* you not.
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I feel bad for all the women named Karen out there that aren't like this.....
 
You know the one I hate/love to see is the thread titles of "If I see the guy in the (insert vehicle here) who hit my dog in the street and didn't at least stop to tell me. There's gonna be trouble."

I always point out that if their lazy butt would have been walking the dog on a leash instead of letting them just wonder the streets they maybe their precocious pit bull wouldn't be dead.
 
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Cowboy said:
You know the one I hate/love to see is the thread titles of "If I see the guy in the (insert vehicle here) who hit my dog in the street and didn't at least stop to tell me. There's gonna be trouble."

I always point out that if their lazy butt would have been walking the dog on a leash instead of letting them just wonder the streets they maybe their precocious pit bull wouldn't be dead.
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Yep. Especially in town.

Dogs in the country are another matter, but even so you're STILL responsible for control of your dog at ALL times. So, unless the guy in the vehicle actually came into the yard/house, took the dog outside and ran over him, it's YOUR fault, Karen.
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
Yep. Especially in town.

Dogs in the country are another matter, but even so you're STILL responsible for control of your dog at ALL times. So, unless the guy in the vehicle actually came into the yard/house, took the dog outside and ran over him, it's YOUR fault, Karen.
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My father got a call from someone down the road. Their house was on a steep downhill part of the road. Their dog ran out into the street and go hit by out 1972 Grand Safari wagon. The biggest heaviest wagon Pontiac made. 400CI engine. And the home owner wanted my father to pay the vet bill. My father told him that he needed to keep control of his dogs because cars can't stop that fast, and hung up on him.
 
Sorry, but driving fast enough in a neighborhood to run over a pet, kid, or pedestrian should earn more folks ass beatings.

I get accidents happen when people don't control their pets and yard apes, but I see idiots going 45 mph or higher through tight, spiderwebbed neighborhoods daily.
 
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Chuckman said:
There's a house about 10 minutes from us, on a busy road, that has a Christmas light display that is just magnificent. It's aligned with music that you can play on your radio, so cars will pull off on the shoulder and sit for a bit to watch.

You know where this is going. My wife said that on the nextdoor app people were bitching about the house, safety hazard, it's going to kill people (and the lights! People will get seizures, you know!). People were calling for the guy to be fined, encouraging people to call the police to report him as a nuisance. I shi* you not.
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In my neck of the woods there was someone on Nextdoor asking where they could find a house with lots of lights that were synchronized to music.

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yard mongrel said:
Sorry, but driving fast enough in a neighborhood to run over a pet, kid, or pedestrian should earn more folks ass beatings.

I get accidents happen when people don't control their pets and yard apes, but I see idiots going 45 mph or higher through tight, spiderwebbed neighborhoods daily.
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We're not talking about kids or pedestrians. We're taking about dogs, and pets in general.

Dogs operate on an instinctive level without an understanding of (or the capacity for understanding) human concepts, human intellectual capacities, and human abstract understanding of physics, mathematics, consequences, etc.

Very young children operate on this level, too, though they at least have the capacity to grow beyond that as they age.

But dogs and other critters cannot.

We are charged with their care in the human world and if they came to harm, it's OUR fault as their caretakers.

Dogs may not just run out into traffic, they may also deliberately run AT that traffic, even chasing it. I've had dogs run after my car, snapping at the wheels. Non-pet critters do stupid crap, too. Frickin' squirrels change their minds on millisecond time scales on which direction they're going to run, and I had a deer run completely across the road in front of me AND THEN CIRCLE BACK AROUND INTO THE ROAD AND RUN STRAIGHT AT ME after having made it safely across the road in the first place.

A child may, indeed, come to harm in the street...even if a driver is driving at or below the speed limit. We can all make up valid circumstances in which this may happen.

As a driver, we're responsible at all times for our vehicles. Even so, that child's caretaker is ultimately responsible for monitoring that child and taking all necessary actions to prevent them from coming to harm because of their youthfully ignorant actions.

And all it takes for tragedy to strike is a moments inattention at the wrong time...an underestimating of the child's true capabilities...ignorance of safety requirements...whatever.

Yes...people that drive to fast endanger others, pets or people. But there are plenty of places where higher speed traffic runs right alongside people's homes...40 - 50 - 60 mph, even. These are typically rural places, with yards right up to the traffic areas.

In town...traffic laws are established per zoning requirements. And you're absolutely correct...those lower speed limits are set in residential/school zones for a reason. I've no sympathy for people who violate them and end up causing a tragedy.
 
Cowboy said:
I am surprised it doesn't have a dating portion. Kind of like Craigslist missed connections or whatever it's called.
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It would be cool if someone at the site up to provide pop-ups on this. Can you just imagine the Karen backlash!

"There are three wh*res within one block of you!"

"Lonely housewives in your neighborhood want you to call on them!"

"Little Sally's not so little any more! Click here for the newest 18 year old hot-to-trot babes in your neighborhood!"
 
RetiredUSNChief said:
A child may, indeed, come to harm in the street...even if a driver is driving at or below the speed limit. We can all make up valid circumstances in which this may happen.

As a driver, we're responsible at all times for our vehicles. Even so, that child's caretaker is ultimately responsible for monitoring that child and taking all necessary actions to prevent them from coming to harm because of their youthfully ignorant actions.
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There are physics involved.
a car has a range of minimum stopping distances when moving, based on speed it is traveling.
If you are moving 5mph to get over a speedbump, you still can't stop fast enough to prevent death when something runs right under your tires.
One of my aunt's more traumatic moments in life was when she was a security guard and watched an old man walking towards a bus that was coming to a stop. The driver was already on the brakes. He probably tried to brake harder, but even my aunt waving him off couldn't make the bus stop fast enough to keep the old man from putting his head under the bus tire.

I had an appointment with a guy to give me an estimate on some work here - he was late and i was getting pretty mad... he showed up with a dent in his bumper and said he had to deal with notifying a neighbor that their dog ran out in front of his truck while he was driving up the road (55mph speed limit). He saw the dog on the side of the road... but when the dog decided to run out into the road, there's nothing he could do for 150 feet or so.... I've hit a good few small animals that way, and had to drill it into my wife to do the same. She came home crying about having hit a squirrel because she didn't swerve. I reminded her that she came home - safe, and without having run off the road into the swamp or a ditch or trees. I value her life above that of any squirrel.
 
DrScaryGuy said:
I've hit a good few small animals that way, and had to drill it into my wife to do the same. She came home crying about having hit a squirrel because she didn't swerve. I reminded her that she came home - safe, and without having run off the road into the swamp or a ditch or trees. I value her life above that of any squirrel.
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Squirrels are crazy that way. They see you coming and go into a panic, running back and forth like mad. Had more than one become two two dimensional that way.
 
my wife just told me about a post she just read on nextdoor
someone posted that their bank account was compromised and some $ were withdrawn, one reply was that banks are FDIC insured and they are obligated by law to refund the stolen amount immediately 😀
 
kcult said:
So, I just received an invitation via snail mail to start using the app for our neighborhood.

Do you use the app and did you get invited with a letter from your mailbox? This one was "signed" by Mary Bell and the street name of a road down the highway in another neighborhood. Seems weird.

So, you using it, or what? Do you find it useful, a pain, just okay?
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PAIN! If you want to hear from a bunch of whiny neighbors, or if you've lost your cat, sign up. Otherwise RUN!
 
Then there is this. Don't know if it was a joke or just someone totally ignorant that bright a Coyote or large fox into the house thinking it was a cold dog.
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fishgutzy said:
Then there is this. Don't know if it was a joke or just someone totally ignorant that bright a Coyote or large fox into the house thinking it was a cold dog.
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Were there ever any following posts? 😂
 
fishgutzy said:
Then there is this. Don't know if it was a joke or just someone totally ignorant that bright a Coyote or large fox into the house thinking it was a cold dog.
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"I think that may be my dog. See if he will react when you call him. His name is Meep Meep."
 
I’ll see if I can dig up the video of Jay “Chef” Hicks screaming, “NEVER GET OUTTA THE BOAT….IT WAS A F*ING TIGER!!!!” and post it….lol
 
We seem to get these regularly in my neighborhood.


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