Attitude Chicken

We had us a VISITOR.  Another one, yes.  No, not a visitor to the office,  just a blog visitor.  And not a good visitor; one who tracked in mud, peed on the toilet seat, and dumped ashes in the plants.  And he's UPSET with us and our violent, violent ways.  Let's go kick his ass!  I believe in Sadlyizing trollypantses, so let's get to the mockery - then to the shunning!

In a gorgeous display of Internet Bravery, Anonymous Concern Troll (I call him ACT -'why you wanna call me ACT?' - the acronym also means Asbestos Containing Tile.  Like asbestos tile, it contains a useful additive that looks benign, but conceals toxicity and should be encapsulated or removed. Heh)   chided me for being a victim.

Most people who steal stuff do so to sell the stuff so that they can get other stuff they need - like FOOD. 

It's just as likely that he would use the cash for drugs or alcohol. You're  jumping to unsupported conclusions there, bunkie.  And don't get me wrong; I have plenty of sympathy for people with drug or alcohol problems.  It still doesn't give them license to break the law.

You know what?  it doesn't matter what he was using it for.  He could have been planning to use the cameras for producing child porn too.  It's all bullshit theorizing and rationalization, and there's no evidence for any of it.  In Ruppert-speak, the fact is that the instant this man broke into the front door, he made himself a criminal, and compounded that with every door he broke into.  All we know for sure is that he was willing to break at least some laws in order to obtain somebody else's stuff.

And how do you know it was the same guy who was there the first time? You said that the office is over a bar, so how do you know that it wasn't just some confused guy who had a couple or three too many to drink?

Couple reasons, ACT.

FIRST:  The fuckin front door was locked.  You had to a) have a key or b) know how to force it.  In three years of occupancy, the door had never been forced, even with the bar downstairs; the odds of it happening over two consecutive days are not worth considering unless your innumerate.

SECOND; my door was locked.  The dude had to kneel down, reach in through the busted door, unlatch the deadbolt, and then come in.  not a series of actions you take by accident or in befuddlement.  It was obvious he knew hoew to open the busted-ass door, and it was obvious he wasn't a casual visitor because he didn't knock.  You know, knocking?  On Doors?  What you do at a door not your own to request entrance?

Geez, dude, he broke into five different doors!!  That's a lot of 'enhanced door-opening' for someone too drunk to realize he's in the wrong place.  

And I don't know that you aren't down on your luck. But you also seem to have a job, and an office, and a house and other such luxuries. Do you also have insurance? Will insurance cover the material things that the person (most likely more needy than you) took?

So the fact I have a business makes me a fair target for anyone who feels less fortunate than I?  Well, I feel less fortunate than you, so how about I come over and take your car?  You have insurance right?  Maybe you have a motorcycle, or a nice bike.  I bet you have a pretty nice computer, nicer than mine.  Just go ahead and  drop those luxuries by as soon as you can, mmmkay?

And why is it okay for you to call for others to threaten violence on your behalf when you are upset that someone took some things that you already took the pictures off of and most likely will be reimbursed by insurance over? Because, truth be told, the threat of violence is what you are invoking when call upon the police. Milwaukee's finest aren't going to make people bend to their will through negotiation. They will do that through a threat of violence, and they will take violent action if their orders aren't obeyed.

Umm, actually, Milwaukee's Finest will do exactly that; at least that always the first approach. An old roommate of mine is a Milwaukee Cop, and they're trained in negotiation and confrontation.  Violence happens as part of their job; many criminals aren't as nice and friendly as you assume this one was, but the cops don't use violence in every encounter.  In fact, several different officers dealt with me on that night and not once did one of them shoot me.   Believe it or Don't!

I read through the post, and the comments and with the exception of Pinko talking about punching air, your assertion that anybody threatened violence is baseless.  The comments (with the exception of yours, of course) mostly just expressed concern for my well being and one or two related their own burglary stories.

So you're saying the simple act of calling the police is invoking violence?  How does that work, choadlump?  Any time the police show up for any reason, they're going to assault someone?  Traffic Stops?  What if you buy Police Raffle Tickets?  My insurance, which you feel will compensate me adequately even for the camera that was a personal gift from my dead father, requires that I make a police report.

Besides, I didn't call  the police on a whim.  The criminal was standing in my office!   Nobody had any idea who the guy was or what he was capable of.  He might perfectly well have been armed.  He may have fled, just to find a weapon and come back.  He did not announce his attentions or his presence.   After leaving my office, he might have decided to lurk outside the door to assault me.  As I see it I acted quite accordingly in bringing the police into the picture.  

But I guess that you are fine with violence when it is used against those who would dare fuck with your shit.

What an astonishingly baseless thing to say.  Nobody advocated violence.  I didn't say I was 'fine with violence'.  ACT decided to simply use my actions in calling the police as evidence foraccusations of endorsing violence.  

I wonder if he exhibits the same consideration to all victims of crime?  "Hope you enjoyed it, you must have been asking for it" to a woman who was raped?  "Well, the guy probably had a good reason to do it" To the family of a murder victim?  "Other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"

Yes, it was all just stuff.  In fact, I think the commenters  mentioned this; it was where they also  mentioned relief that I wasn't harmed, so I can see where our Visitor would have missed this.    And with the exception of the one camera, it can be replaced.   But the assumption that the dude wouldn't have happily harmed me or somebody else is unwarranted, and the unfounded assertions of a propensity towards violence are just laughably wrong-headed.

Maybe our Visitor, ACT, knows the Dude.  I would think the MPD might have an interest in ACT if so.    Maybe that's why he's working anonymously.  Hell, maybe he  IS the emu who broke in.  

Yes I said it. EMU.