Originally Posted by snowklinger

David Z I generally like ur posts but the comments that you quoted to make him look like an asshole are out of context. That cat just went into his garage and pissed in his car.

Originally Posted by david_z

Yes. You fucking shot someone's cat and then lamented that you "didn't kill it". I don't like cats, but you're still an asshole A) for doing that and B) for saying that.

I understand you may be concerned particularly about the dog but it sounds like it was probably an honest mistake.

Let me explain why I think calling the cops on your neighbors is rarely a good idea unless there is actual crime against person/property in progress, or someone is in imminent danger...

Calling the cops on the people who live next door to (or down the street, or around the corner from) you generally doesn't do much to promote positive relationships/community especially when it is over relatively mundane/trivial shit like "someone's cat pissed on my car" or "someone left their garage door open for more than 2 hours in violation of Subdivision Bylaw 3634 section 15b." When this happens you quickly become "that asshole who called the cops on us when our puppy escaped out the gate". And you have to live next to them for as long as you both live there.

It's a much better use of your time to try and resolve things man to man, than to call the cops to intervene in every piddly little neighborhood dispute.

You've sent them four or five emails but how many times have you talked to them personally about this? How many times have you let them know what your concerns are? How many times have you civilly told them something like, "Look, I'm not trying to cause any trouble here but I've asked you a few times and if you don't keep your pets in check you're not leaving me any other options than to call animal control"?

Now, if you've done all these things and these people are either idiots or assholes and they simply don't respect you or anyone else in the community enough to take care of their pets and follow basic rules of human decency, they've left you no choice but to call the cops.

But you're still an asshole for shooting their cat.

Originally Posted by BurtonAvenger

Simple solution: Flame Thrower.

Originally Posted by BurtonAvenger

What you don't drive a Lotus to the mountain with your snowboard sticking out of the sun roof?

Originally Posted by Krug

Now,
I can live with being an asshole for shooting their cat as it ran away form the scene of the crime. I'd do it again. Now, I have talked to them repeatedly face to face and over the phone. They have this attitude that comes across as if I'm bothering them. Also, this is just one of the issues myself and others have with them.

Originally Posted by Krug

You do understand also that the cat didn't pee on the car, it peed in the car while it was parked in my garage of my house on my property.

Originally Posted by david_z

They sound like they are probably class-A douchebags, in which case (as I made clear, before) you're not overreacting by calling cops/animal control to address the situation if you've exhausted other avenues, and it sounds like you have.



Yes, I understand this and it doesn't change my opinion.