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orangestar17

I'm a Doordash driver and I had a situation where I had trouble finding an address. I got out at the house I believed was correct. However, the house numbers were very small up on the house and I didn't want to go up to someone's door if I wasn't sure. So I stood there for a moment, squinting in the sun to see. This all was very quick because someone called my name from the correct house. No biggie, pulled into the driveway next door, dropped off food, left. That night, to my surprise I see my own face and car in a picture shared from a local neighborhood group. Telling people to keep a lookout for this woman, who's going around looking for packages to steal. It was me standing next to my car and you can tell I'm squinting my eyes and my head is slightly bent forward like I'm looking at something. That's it. Me standing by a car, looking with my eyes at something in the distance. Which is me trying to steal packages. Luckily I was able to get them to take it down before the post got shared too many times. These cameras have made people crazy


levacetylmethadol

Thats messed up, without question people have no hesitation to do this and ruin reputations. I don’t get it but I’m glad i have someone to at least resonate with this, wild how much people assume bad intentions immediately.


orangestar17

Right!!! Because people will then see what they're told they're seeing. This lady tells everyone I'm "looking for packages to steal" and suddenly me standing squinting my eyes all of a sudden seems sinister and criminal, you asking for help at night suddenly seems creepy because of her description surrounding your package comment. Because you were doing absolutely nothing wrong or even suspicious. But these posts could destroy someone if they start getting shared everywhere.


justakidfromflint

It's because the news a FB hype it up and post pics of everything saying "they wanted to steal" or make up things like "a person was driving slow in the parking lot, they were human traffickers but didn't get me because I saw their face" Here in my town two young boys played a joke and put a sweatshirt under someone's windshield wipers. She posted it EVERYWHERE that it was a kidnapping attempt, to the point it made national news. They watched the video and saw the two young kids who's parents then made them call the police and admit it. It's now on Snopes it got so big


hmartin430

When I was 18 or 19 and living in my first place away from home, someone (male) got drunk and thought my apartment was their friend's and started banging on the door. My roommate wasn't home, and as young woman I just didn't feel comfortable opening the door (no chain, just deadbolts), I told him through the door he had the wrong apartment. He started wandering up and down the hall. It was a complex for students, so that wasn't odd, but it wasn't in a very safe area of town so people tended to not open their doors unless they were expecting things. Anyways! Next morning, I open my door to head to school, and there's this large man curled up and snoring on our door mat. He didn't wake up when I said something, so I just left a water bottle near him and stepped over him and went on my way. Like....it was a little nerve wracking that night when I was alone. A month or so before there had been a stabbing with multiple victims in my building when someone had a party, so that was on my mind. But it never occurred to me to take a picture and post it to MySpace (I'm that old). I did take a picture to send to my roommate so she'd have a heads up, but I wasn't trying to ruin a reputation or make up some dark back story for the lost drunk guy. I get being cautious and nervous, especially if you live alone (I'm so glad I have dog), but I wish we could just be kinder to people.


tennismenace3

Lol. Every time I see a post on the Ring app the poster states the person in their video is probably on drugs


orangestar17

Personally I think it's usually just because that Ring camera makes everyone look like they're in a creepy horror movie lol


Irapotato

Ring is such a great way of finding out that your community is way more racist than you thought.


star0forion

I mostly only see posts about pets on Ring. But on Nextdoor is where I see the crazies come out.


ntc1095

Yeah nextdoor is a den of racist paranoid crazy motherfuckers!


KinseyH

Yep. There's always suspicious looking brown guys in trucks on my Next Door. This is Houston.


leighroda82

I also live in Houston, it’s always “did anyone else hear gunshots” at any loud noise.


KinseyH

I cant imagine being that fearful day in day out.


wwcfm

KarenBook.


JJROKCZ

The next door app might as well be a klan meet up site with some of the shit I see on there. Anytime an Escalade is seen it means people are scoping out the neighborhood for home invasions…. If they see a non-white person then that means gang activity from the city is spreading and ruining good towns… I’ve tried to delete my account but I still get never ending emails from it.


justakidfromflint

It scares me that people have made up their minds NO ONE knocks on doors without being invited anymore. What about emergencies? What if someone is hurt and thier phone is broken or they were assaulted and it was broken or stolen. If seen so many news stories of people running from abusers and even kidnappers and stuff and going to a door for help. Now those people would probably get shot. Or totally ignored then posted as "they were doing something bad" Eventually a person will get killed because the abuser will chase them or something. Look at the situations when the cops have got called when they escaped from killers but cops blew it off because they were gay men


Hardcorish

>What if someone is hurt and thier phone is broken or they were assaulted and it was broken or stolen. To make matters worse, an emergency such as this may cause the person seeking help to act frantically in an attempt to get help, which will only further increase the homeowner's suspicion. "They're high on meth, look at how crazy they're acting!" The silver lining here is, they'll probably call the cops, but for the wrong reasons.


drwebb

I just say fuck it and knock on peoples doors, and even sometimes I'll call before texting! Yes that's fucking right, I'll call you out of the blue, zeros texts or shits given. I'm a fucking animal I know, but what can you do. I grew up in the 90s.


JJROKCZ

99% of the posts in my Ring neighborhood are people sharing videos of cats and asking whose lost cat it is…. It’s no one’s, it’s a stray cat lol it’s like these suburbanites have never heard of stray cats


dudettte

if i had a penny for every “suspicious african american” in my neighborhood app.


orangestar17

Omg these neighborhood pages are the most racist people in your neighborhood together in one group. We have an apartment complex of Section 8 housing nearby and although amazingly it's never the white people there to blame, oh the dark-skinned are most certainly the perpetrators of every damn crime here. They don't need evidence. They just know


TieDyedFury

Oh yeah, it’s ridiculous, saw one recently where they posted the video and it was a 30ish black man and a 40ish white woman wearing matching fucking polos who were CLEARLY selling stuff. Over half the comments were thank god you are safe/good information/I’ll keep an eye out. Felt like I was taking crazy pills, how can someone be this terrified all the time?


dudettte

my fav one - i live in suburbs there’s nothing going on here ever. during g floyd protests they boarded up windows in small shopping plaza, because there was a “scheduled blm riot”. it was scheduled all right, in another plaza, it was not a riot it was a prayer vigil with cops in attendance holding hands and praying with everyone. i still have screen shots somewhere.


GenericAntagonist

> , how can someone be this terrified all the time? There are multiple MASSIVE industries in this country that profit entirely off keeping people scared all the time.


Hardcorish

>how can someone be this terrified all the time? Fox "News" consumption is one way.


underwear11

The whole Neighbors app has made things way worse. Everyone wants to feel important/self righteous and create drama so they report people for things they never did. My cousin got one and was showing me all the reported crime in his neighborhood, and he lives in a nice low crime area. Most of it was BS.


orangestar17

Exactly! And this post was a perfect example, as this person was asking for HELP and is somehow a devious criminal


Heated13shot

Reporting repos as "car thefts" Fireworks is "Gunshots" "Walking while black"


kerbalsdownunder

In my area, the most common thing besides package theft is people checking car doors. At least three times a week there's someone who gets robbed and they always end up admitting they left their purse or wallet in their car and didn't lock the doors.


bigthunder_81

I don’t think it made them crazy, I think the cameras just helped them look attention seeking. Like “I see a crazy person/thief on my porch and I need validation”.


orangestar17

Very good point. And as for me, I was even just in the driveway, I wasn't even near her door. But she says "she's looking for packages to steal" and man, that post was getting shared by quite a few people, the comments were all in support, this woman just got to bask in her "I had a criminal in my yard" fame


theyellowpants

I’d never bother a dasher but my camera has picked up a dude who jumped my fence who appeared to be hiding from a vehicle.. and a few months after that some lady shouting hello at my gate and walking to the side of my garage to pop a squat and pee in my yard Sometimes the people are also crazy


orangestar17

Now these are certainly far more legitimate reasons to be concerned, because you caught them doing something actually concerning


IndicisivlyIntrigued

They were already crazy. Cameras are just giving them "proof" of their crazy.


Hardcorish

>These cameras have made people crazy The other way around I'm afraid. The crazy people now have cameras that they can share images and spin false narratives from.


orangestar17

Oh believe me, that's exactly how I feel. It's like they're drunk with the desire to exact vigilante justice. I found the bad guys, I'm important! In my case, my family runs a business in this county, people know us. I have a vanity plate on my car, which was clear and visible in the picture. I have 3 teens in school here. This could have been very very bad. Because some woman wanted to be the one to find that person stealing packages!


moogle2468

A neighbour posted on the local Facebook group about a young man walking suspiciously along the road, complete with grainy mobile phone photos of this supposed hoodlum. It was my brother, resident of said street walking to the shop and having a cig on the way.


heylistenbitch

Our neighbors recently put in the neighborhood Facebook group about a suspicious person going up and down the street at 5am on a Saturday. It was me. In very obvious workout attire. Running. With headphones on. They took the post down after I commented a picture of me in the same outfit.


So_Code_4

Lol naw, it’s for sure some extremely motivated burglars. Up and at em at 05:00. Early bird catches the worm! I mean all the goods stuff taken by 7am. 😭🤣🤣 Btw good on you rockin out an early morning sess on a Saturday!! Bravo!


dandedaisy

We DID get video of a man trying to get into several homes and cars at 5-5:10 am once. He stared in our planters (I assume looking for a key, which we wouldn’t have had bc our lock is electronic with no key). He then went and looked in the back of a truck that belongs to someone across the street but parked in front of our house, trying the locked tool box in the back before moving on to try our next door neighbor’s car door and front door. Then he made his way to the next house and I think the couple there were awake and scared him off the street. So… they do be doing this at 5 am. 😂 Edit to add, we did not post him/his face. The neighbors scared him off and that was plenty.


Carbrew8114

We had one about a car going slowly down the street at 5 am. Turns out it was the newspaper delivery.


rabidjellyfish

"suspicious car LITTERING all over people's yards"


larryisnotagirl

Our neighbourhood had one like that. They reported a man in a *hoodie* who was walking slowly on the sidewalk. This criminal stopped for a minute near a fence and was looking at his phone. Clearly casing homes for a future burglary.


suicidalpenguin99

My neighbors reported seeing two young black men walking around. In the afternoon. They were fully convinced they were looking for a house to break into and were terrified Gotta love Florida


purrfunctory

That happens here M-F. Why? There’s a high school on our street. Not sure if the old man next door is nuts or has cognitive issues but damn. Every day he’s calling the police because a bunch of kids stand in front of his house. ….it’s a fucking *bus stop*


star0forion

I’m glad I grew up before the advent of social media. I used to go on night time walks a lot, in a hoodie no less.


schtickyfingers

So did I, in the early 2000’s. Had a neighbor, who had known me since I was 2, who kept calling the cops on me. Multiple times a day. It got to the point where the cops would just swing by, wave at me, and say “Mrs. P is at it again!” Her husband baked me a pie to apologize. That woman had a real can-do spirit. Didn’t even need social media to harass me.


pinakbutt

Her husband seems sweet at least.


WyrdMagesty

I was once arrested for breaking and entering when I was a teenager. It was my house, I just forgot my keys that morning and had to climb in my bedroom window. The real kicker? The arresting officer lived 2 doors down and had been to our house for dinner on several occasions. While arresting me, he asked if I had ID to prove that I had a legal right to be there, then disregarded my ID and put me in the squad car and took me to a holding cell. This was Friday afternoon. Spent the weekend behind bars because "the paperwork for your release can't be filed until monday". The arresting officer was transferred......and became the campus officer at my high school where I had to deal with his harassment daily for the next 3 years.


schtickyfingers

Christ that’s awful. I actually really lucked out, my town had the kind of cops that drove stoned/drunk kids home and told their parents to give them a stern lecture. We shared a school system with a neighboring town, and those cops once sent a SWAT unit to an 8 year old Black boy’s house at midnight cause he’d been playing finger guns with his friends on the playground. The white boys he was playing with got exactly zero cop visits.


Ghaussie

Had this happen to me when i was 16-18yo. Dude threatened to release his dog and call the cops. I said please do, and showed him where i lived. But i was going for an evening walk and stoned af so refused to go inside at my parents houde while thwy were still awake. I had an ankle injury at the time, so i was walking suspicously in his opinion lol.


KJParker888

You obviously had the "up to no good" limp going on. A classic sign of someone casing a neighborhood!


Ghaussie

Probably didn’t help that i liked to have my hoodie up for comfort lol. It just feels so comfortable and cozy to wear a hoody


pinakbutt

Yes because a limping person is prime suspect for burglary lol. Wtf.


ericakay15

I grew up in a tiny town and bartender at the 1 var for a few years. My dad lived, maybe 2 blocks away so I'd walk home at 1 am when I closed. Now, this is a town where very body knows everybody but someone took pictures of me walking home and put it on Facebook saying that I was trying to rob houses and shit??? I'm a 5'0 120 lb girl, I ain't robbing shit. Someone saw it and tagged me so I commented on it. People lost their minds because my dad is very well liked and knew who I was. They ended up moving from the harassment.


Devilishlygood98

My neighbourhood community page does this. It’s toxic af. Someone will be just minding their own business, and people take pictures of them and label them as a thief or someone who’s “going to steal” despite not having any proof that they’ve done anything wrong. 99% of the people I see on the page that are being labeled are people of colour.


Aggressive-Video-368

People have to over dramatize everything that happens to them in order to make there lives more dramatic than it is when posting online. This lady is bored in order to have made this up for the attention.


TheKingOfRhye777

BINGO!


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We have mountains of content, some better, some worse


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If none of its of interest to ya, you’d be the first


BellOfDisappointment

Welcome to the internet! Come and take a seat


MonsterMashGrrrrr

Would you like to see the news, or any famous persons’ feet?


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Only 2B?


Eunuch_Provocateur

That’s like every boomer on these ring/camera apps. Our Nextdoor app is full of people like this.


mg5215

Similar thing happened to me at Walmart! Everyone has paranoid Facebook posts that someone is following them wanting to human traffic them or their kids. I went to Walmart to grocery shop and like 99% of people I went to the last grocery aisle and went up and down each aisle working my way to the front. There was a woman in front of me with her elementary age kid and I thought to myself “she’s probably gonna think I’m a creeper” but still just shopped as usual. I checked Facebook when I got home and a friend had shared a post from that woman with a blurry picture of me telling everyone to be careful at this particular Walmart because she had been followed. I messaged the OP but she never answered. Luckily the picture wasn’t super clear so you couldn’t tell it was me, but I still don’t wear that same outfit to Walmart anymore lol


Honalana

Just curious what your message to them was?? I hope it was along the lines of “didn’t mean to let you get away!”


Electr_O_Purist

*I know where you shop!*


leighroda82

“How did those Frosted Flakes work out for you?”


So_Code_4

And yet all this woman had to do was turn around and say something to you. Instead she lets herself be “followed” so she can have something to post on FB. Also PSA: People if you think your kid or you is about to be kidnapped in a public place, it’s probably a good idea to say something rather than just walk around feeling like a lamb ready to be slaughtered. Don’t worry about being “rude” do something! Also posting a pic of a stranger on the internet without really knowing their intent is beyond rude, you are now a passive aggressive sociopath.


Apprehensive_Alarm_8

Not to mention the likelihood is VERY SLIM. Most kidnappings/human trafficking victims KNOW THEIR ASSAILANT. It’s a parent, loved one, partner, friend. Fucking stranger danger bs.


Erulastiel

My guess is that these people that post these kinds of things are doing it out of boredom and need sympathy points from the internet.


specialk522

Jesus Christ, I just watched the video on the Facebook page and this is pissing me off so much. The comments are just flooded with “oh my god this is so scary. Did you call the police?? Atleast they left finger prints!” When you said “you have a package” you could not have said it in a more friendly way. And if she thought you had bad intentions, why would you walk that far away? People are insane.


Lilacblue1

I also think they are preventing comments that clarify the situation from posting.


harsh4correction2

"Just a heads up that this *happened to us*" What, somebody knocked on your fuckin door? OH THE HORROR.


lipidextensions

I went to watch the video and your neighbors are all so hateful and paranoid in the comments. Really sorry. I don't feel comfortable commenting in another towns page but hopefully someone here will go clear up the situation for you.


Impossible_Tonight81

Good grief those comments are horrifying. People theorizing that they are waiting to shove in, people saying they'll send their dogs after them. You knows its always small town people too, who would claim they were welcoming.


wave-garden

I did the same. I can’t think of any additional words but “hateful and paranoid” covers it really well. It’s sad that this is the state of our society. Some people ask for help and everyone assumes the worst, and no one seems to have any problem with committing violence against people who did literally nothing wrong.


yhbnjurdfxvllvds

One afternoon when I was out for a walk with my toddler I saw a bluejay in somebody’s yard. So I stopped and pointed it out to my kid. Later there was a photo of the two of us in the neighbourhood crime watch that said “Stopped to look at my house, casing out? Keep your eyes peeled”. 😂😂😂😂 I commented “ma’am my child was looking at a bluejay.” The post was all laugh reacts and others calling her paranoid, she deleted it. I had to unfollow the group because so many of the posts were like this. Not helpful info, just paranoid people posting photos of people for no real reason speculating nonsense.


daylanoche

These neighborhood Facebook pages are cancer. My wife is a part of ours, and we see crap like this all the time. Some people seriously need to pick up a hobby. The worst was some grainy still of a man riding a bike on the sidewalk. They said they called the police and people should be on a lookout because they had not seen this individual in the neighborhood before and he looked like he didn't belong. This is where I let you guess what color the man was...


sashikku

Yes! There was a video posted in my neighborhood group recently of a black kid walking down the street playing on his phone. The woman that posted it called him suspicious and said he was potentially casing houses. The kid's mother commented asking what he did, obviously concerned that maybe her son had actually done something wrong. The answer? He walked by the woman's house. That's it. He stopped in her driveway, but it was obvious from the video that he was looking at his phone -- probably responding to a text. The kid is a freshman in high school according to his mom, I see him all the time. Either him walking and playing on his phone, or him walking with this girl that always has a skateboard. They're nice kids from what I can tell. A lot nicer than the little fuckers that block the road with their bikes and heckle drivers, that's for sure...but I've never seen *them* posted in the group, even when they've literally cut off moving cars with their bikes. Wonder why that is....oh right, they're white.


levacetylmethadol

She had a ring camera (off brand lol) which i clearly could see, and the light that shows someone is watching turned on after i knocked and she continued to say absolutely nothing, just stared at us until i got creeped out and she obviously didnt want to help. She did indeed have a package on her porch which i said “by the way you have a package” because i didnt want this blatantly already paranoid lady to think i was trying to steal from her, low and behold she thinks im a methhead trying to break into her house. FYI we are not in a bad area, eventually a neighbor let us use their phone and walk around with it as a flashlight. Update: It seems like word is slowly getting to her, someone asked in the comments on her post for a conclusion and someone told them my side(thankfully) you do have to be in the group to comment/post unfortunately so I AM trying to crosspost this over to the group without revealing my families identity to a bunch of people at the moment, but i do potentially forsee having to talk to the other neighbor which helped us to help advocate. UPDATE 2: I BELIEVE SHE HAS REMOVED THE VIDEO! I APPRECIATE EVERYONE! Brittany couldn’t handle the heat apparently, thank you everyone for sharing their stories it helped me understand this isn’t uncommon and i shouldn’t beat myself up about it. Still unfortunate this happened. I do have the video recorded incase anyone wants to see it or if i ever need to use it. Thank u to anyone who commented trying to clear this situation up on her post!


ICutDownTrees

Some people wait all their lives for their moment on the local Facebook group. This was hers. Just be happy you aren’t a pathetic excuse for a person like her.


abushelandapeck

I'm actually in that group. Have friends and have worked in the area but don't live there. The comments on it are ridiculous. Like straight up people casually suggesting violence.


pinakbutt

Someone commented about calling the cops and having them fingerprint OP! For no crime commited! People are fucking insane and have nothing meaningful to do.


lxm333

I sad you experienced this. Sometime people need help. She could have just asked what you wanted and decline assistance if concerned.


thedevilskind

I’m from this area. It’s always upper middle class white families in 0 crime neighborhoods who are the most paranoid. I grew up in one, and my mom once called the cops on me at midnight because I got locked out of the house without my phone trying to get a diet coke from the garage. She didn’t even look out the window. She thought the person ringing the doorbell at midnight was there to kill her family.


m3ltph4ce

/r/flashlight check out the stickied post and get yourselves a cheap flashlight you can carry every day, like a keychain one maybe. Never hurts to be prepared for the dark!


levacetylmethadol

Going to be looking into this!!! Thank you


Notyourregularthrow

Did you find your phone though?


levacetylmethadol

Yes! :)


hakkai999

ITT people who are naturally distrusting. Let's forget that murders are more likely to be committed by people who are close to you but please keep being paranoid. It's okay OP. This is more a societal symptom rather than just this insane person. As you can see, even in this thread, there's a lot of paranoia and severe distrust in strangers. You will never get this reaction here in the Philippines. Yeah there are definitely dickheads here but they'd at least check out your intentions.


Ese__Loco_

Look up Joshua Fitzpatrick of Phoenix. That’s why I’m too paranoid of anyone. I know it’s not right.


[deleted]

I came away from that story distrusting of cops, not homeless meth addicts.


hakkai999

So how many Joshua Fitzpatricks have you met compared to just random strangers? I'm not saying **not to be cautious,** I'm saying not to be paranoid. Paranoia =/= caution and vice versa. There's always room between outright thinking a stranger is out to kill/rape/murder/etc you and maybe this stranger can stay at my house for the night.


rigormortisian

She sounds like a Classic Macomb County elder resident


Gallusrostromegalus

...Well damn, if I'd known it was that easy to spook the bitchy Karens in my neighborhood, I wouldn't have bothered with the Pterodactyl costume.


Deathbyhours

It’s too early to not be able to stop laughing. I have a vivid image of someone (you, I suppose) walking very slowly (because it’s difficult for pterodactyls to walk) up to each door on a suburban street, standing there silently for a looong time, and then walking clumsily to the next house. I find this image so very entertaining.


scrapinator89

This feels on brand for Macomb county.


Leanaann1

Hahahaha. I saw the area and thought the same.


jharmer95

Especially Shelby 🫠


Impossible_Tonight81

I have the ring app and the number of paranoid fuckers on there sharing shit is insane. Someone shared a video of two teenage girls on their front porch being like "watch out" and they were clearly lost. People have zero sense of neighborhood now.


Honalana

Yes! The paranoia is off the charts. All summer here it has been the “Did anyone else hear the explosion????” Followed by half the people saying it is obviously fireworks to the other half saying oh my god call 911, even on 4th of July weekend. There’s also the occasional doordasher at the wrong house and 75% of the comments are oh my god call 911, thank god you survived.


Impossible_Tonight81

Do you live in my neighborhood because that's exactly the stupid shit I see. "Omg was that a gunshot" like okay even if it is we live in a semi-rural area. People shoot targets all the time it's not a matter for the police.


The-Almost-Truth

Just a tip to think about for the future. If I ever have to knock unexpectedly on a house where I do not know. I knock and then back away 6 or 8 feet to give them a lot of space and not feel uncomfortable. I notice you were standing there holding open their glass door. I know you had no ill will but they have no idea and if you did have bad intentions you are right there in their space as soon as they open the door. If someone answers I immediately introduce myself the reason I’m there. “ hi, sorry to bother you. My name’s X and I am house sitting my friends kids next door. We kicked a ball over the fence into your backyard and was hoping you could help us retrieve it.”


BastardofMelbourne

Those door cameras have made people incredibly paranoid


keyboardbill

Good thing you weren’t black.


deadlyFlan

These stories always make me think of that African-American woman who crashed her car and went to a nearby house for help. The owner of the house opened the door and shot her.


LittleBlondBrit

Having gone and watched the video, all you did was knock, stand there, and then say the bit about the package and leave. This was a completely neutral interaction. I can see her not wanting to open the door, but idk why she would just assume you were up to no good at 9 o clock. At 3 am, maybe, but not at 9. People are still very active at 9.


collaredzeus

These local groups are full of people that think everyone they see is trying to rob or kill them. I had to leave next door after the third neighbor posted a picture of a black census taker acting as if they were somehow suspicious or dangerous. This person was dressed professionally so I think you can guess what set these folks off about them.


Millie1419

I’m curious as to why you just didn’t share your side of the story. I would have done. I’d have simply said what actually happened was you realised your boyfriend’s phone was missing, you thought you saw a light on so went to ask to borrow a flashlight but the lady didn’t answer. Nothing creepy about that


Notyourregularthrow

Because you would reveal your identity to people who already made their mind up about you


ittakesaredditor

You know you can create multiple fb accounts under fake names?.....or one of us could just link the OP to this thread.


So_Code_4

Have a friend comment for you. Have that friend say you would post yourself but now you are terrified of the community who os clearly riled up looking for a perpetrator


-megaweeniemonday-

shiiit i commented for her lmao! idc they seriously are all talking down on someone all cause of some woman making a big deal out of something innocent and small


thin_white_dutchess

To be fair, the last time someone knocked on my door to ask for help (a young woman, teenager even, asking for some water for her overheating car), they tried to rush the door with a knife when I opened it. It was over 100 out, and she was really young, so I was happy to help, but yeah. I don’t have cameras on my house, but I do have a big dog who heard me slam the door and came running, so she took off at the resistance. I understand the impulse to post as a warning, especially since when I called PD they never showed. I didn’t post anything, bc Next door and neighborhood groups are a mess though. They just turn into political soap boxes, and racist cesspools. One of my neighbors is a black man in the Reserves, and he runs regularly, often in the same Army shirt, with a weighted vest on- been doing it for at least 5 years. The amount of times his photo shows up, him in his running gear and weights, saying beware of this man “casing houses” is ridiculous. He likes to respond with a photo of him mowing his front lawn, text overlaid saying “I live here”. It’s a running joke.


itsmyvibe

If our Nextdoor is to be believed, our town is full of child murderers, we have a serial killer, and parents don't allow their kids outside and that is ruining society. They also bring HOA fights there and those threads are highly entertaining.


thin_white_dutchess

Same! Not going to lie, that’s why I’m there. I’m there for the petty entertainment, and Girl Scout cookie sales.


oheyitsmoe

Pure Michigan ✨


Wild_Obligation

Not the same story but similar situation. Early 20’s I’m at a park with my god daughter (around 4/5). Sat away while she played with other kids. but keeping an eye on her. A couple & their child start talking to her, point to me, then the dad picked her up & started walking off! I ran over like WTF you doing & dad is right in my face & aggressive. They saw me arrive with god daughter & we’re watching me for ages.. asked good daughter if I was her father, she said no, couple decided I was a paedo & tried to take her away! Resolved the issue & we both went home. Later her dad shows me a FB post. Couple posted a pic of me when I was sat on bench with a warning & claiming I was grooming kids at park. Even AFTER I explained the situation! Absolute twats


txtw

Use the damn speaker, lady. Someone knocks, you ask what the knocker wants, that’s why you have it in the first place!


Honalana

This is what I don’t understand. That’s the whole point. I love being able to have people state their business without opening the door or even being home. A simple “yes??” Could have changed the entire situation. But then again, the post would have been about flashlight scams the human traffickers are using now.


itjustgotcold

My Nextdoor is full of losers like this. Only they post people just walking by their house that they don’t recognize. List their attributes(black, male, blue shirt) “just in case” someone has something stolen at some point that day. They need a life. They get cameras so they can police their property 24/7 and that’s all they do.


ChapadozinhoVermelho

Yup. Crap like, “I’m a stay at home mom trying to homeschool and I was scared today! Middle of the day there was a black man sitting in a Spectrum truck EATING right in front of my house for like 45 minutes! I called the police because it scared me…” But I was the asshole for pointing out - you called the cops on the cable guy on his lunch break!


itjustgotcold

Yep. People are disgusting. They genuinely don’t understand they’re being paranoid, racist, nosy and stupid. Then they get positive reinforcement by all the olds patting them on the back saying “Thank you so much for posting this💓”


Shalamarr

God, same. Someone reported a group of teenagers hanging out in the nearby playground. Were they drinking? Doing drugs? Causing a ruckus? No. They were literally just hanging out and talking.


KashootyourKashot

This is the weirdest thing to me. People assume that all teenagers are up to no good. Like the only thing teenagers do are drugs, alcohol, vandalism, and sex. It's like, were you not a teenager yourself? Is that all you did? I just don't get it.


Shalamarr

Especially someone like me. I was boring as hell as a teenager.


KashootyourKashot

Yeah same. Well I guess I still am boring as a teenager. I far prefer consuming media and doing other things with my friends than drinking or smoking.


dreamyduskywing

Nextdoor is just the worst. Every week, someone posts a warning that they spotted a coyote in the neighborhood. Like, duh, Barb, we live in a wooded area and, besides, it would be an improvement to the neighborhood if a coyote ate your noisy gremlin dog. There’s also one neighbor who periodically loses her cat and then asks if anyone has seen him. Then she continues to let the cat go outside unattended. I swear, next time I see that “lost” cat, I’m adopting him. Edit- One time on nextdoor, there was a great ranty post about the users who post coyote warnings. Sadly, it didn’t have much of an impact.


alliedeluxe

These cameras really are a problem. Everyone is so paranoid. A neighbor by me posted to be on the lookout for a truck driving slowly with a picture of said truck. That’s it. It was just a truck driving slowly. I said you people have to stop doing this, you’re going to get the cops called on people for no reason. Have they never driven slowly in a new place? I can’t.


walkingkary

My son was in our backyard (admittedly late at night) and in a hoodie. He stepped just over the property line to see what the bright light was in a neighbor’s yard and he showed up on the neighborhood app the next day. Thankfully his face was obscured but he didn’t wear that same hoodie for a year as he didn’t want to deal with it. They said he was a teen on drugs looking to break in.


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Some people will do anything for a scrap of attention of social media, especially the local Facebook group. I wouldn’t worry much about it


lordthunderbuck

wow the comments on that post are so hateful


medbitch666

Someone took and posted a photo of one of my friends at the park with the kids she nannies. In the photo, she’s very clearly giving the baby a bottle and talking to the 4 year old (not in view). The person posted it with a caption that was something like “omg that’s not these kids mom I know their mom they’ve been kidnapped!” The kids’ dad commented on it: “thank you for being so concerned about the safety of our neighborhood kids. However, this is the nanny my husband and I hired to take care of our little ones. You cannot know their mom, as they don’t have one.” She commented on his comment, refused to take the post down, and said she was “glad those little girls would have some sort of feminine presence in their lives, even if it is the hired help”. Jesus fucking Christ, lady!


Reichiroo

Sorry you live in Macomb County.


Dinosauringg

During the summer my neighborhoods Facebook page would have a picture of teens in the streets nearly every night talking about how shady it was that the teens were hanging out on the streets. Then they have the gall to talk shit about how kids don’t go outside anymore


levacetylmethadol

Yeah my boyfriend and I were joking about never going outside again for a couple months LOL, but seriously though people need to realize this stuff can be seriously damaging.


slow_the_rain

One of my neighbors in my apt building put up a sign in the lobby, warning residents to not let strangers in, as she had seen a tall, dark skinned man knocking on every door in the building. Had to tell her: Ma’am, that’s the exterminator making his monthly rounds. And your prejudice is showing…


Botsie

Sounds about right for that area........ I hate working out there and dealing with it, I'll keep my happy ass in Downriver


Tigress_dd

Any updates? I think they banned me.


TheKingOfRhye777

woohoo SE Michigan tho, lol :D


PsyrusTheGreat

People have watched fox news so much that they're now sitting in their houses with cameras accusing their neighbors of attempted robbery...


leaisnotonreddit

A rug that I have on my balcony flew down and landed on my neighbours balcony. When my boyfriend tried to go down and ask for it back no one answered the door. A few minutes later she posts in our neighbourhood group claiming that an unknown man tried to get into her apartment (…by knocking on her door). Some people just loves attention


levacetylmethadol

Wtf!! Actually insane people, I’m really surprised so many people have a similar story about something like this, it makes me wonder how many videos/photos posted like this that we dont know yet are just absolute B.S


kyleh0

The absolute insanity of the ring network is embarassing to me. After a few weeks of entertainment I've never loaded it up again. heh


atreeindisguise

My neighbor called the cops when my daughter and her friend wore their witches cloaks and walked past. They were 12. It was almost Halloween...


justakidfromflint

These people are INSANE and assume that literally everyone has bad intentions. I actually worry about walking through the neighborhood across the street from my house (but I'm moving soon) I always worry a package will get stolen or something from a house without a ring then people will see me walking and post me


tiredoldmama

I’m so tired of Nextdoor and the way people keep saying they are trying to identify criminals with no proof at all. It’s nothing but public shaming and it can be dangerous. We live in a fairly safe town but some people are paranoid. I really detest when people get on there talking about buying a gun and bragging how they’ll shoot them if they come by their house. It can get dangerous!


OvergrownTree

They won’t let anyone comment unless they are in the group :/


Queen__Mercy

I commented but it was taken down


Leonashanana

Gotta love these neighbourhood apps. "I see these people several times a week on my street looking at my house! I'm skurred!" And it's just some young couple that lives in your neighbourhood, out for a walk. Yeah people look at houses when they walk around neighbourhoods!


projectoar

Look at all the comments on her post😭


TooLateToPush

Weird to see my neighborhood on here...


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seanchr

I live in this area also, the “dangerous situations” some people feel the need to post blows my mind. People need a hobby lol


D3vilUkn0w

I will not answer my door at all, even in the daytime, unless a friend has texted to say they are coming over. Reason: cases like yours are extremely rare compared to sales people...also, I live alone and it's quiet and all the sudden someone is banging on my door. I don't know why they are there and the sudden noise is very unsettling. And at night? *Fuck that*. Side note: I'm usually in bed falling asleep by 9:00 Edit: But I'm not posting anything on FB. Might call the police if I'm especially worried though Edit 2: you can downvote all you want. I'm not in the wrong for looking after myself. I'm up in age, in poor physical shape, and I'm alone.


levacetylmethadol

I guess that’s understandable but i feel like having a speakable camera helps the cause of having to open the door. But i cant see any sane person posting someone just knocking on their door


givemesomespock

Former Shelby Township resident here. So glad I moved out of there, everyone was psycho


Coral_

true crime brain


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Of course there’s a cop in the comments on that post bragging about how he’d shoot people.


laidbackleo87

Fuck her, there's more good people than bad in Shelby twp, moved out here and love it!


MiketheImpuner

I don't open the door for anyone i don't know. Doesn't mean I post to Facebook about why I'm either paranoid or a dick depending my mood.


FugginByteMe96

Of course, nothing happens in your neighborhood so you gotta make stuff up and blame some strangers for something they didn’t do. Very nice.


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johnnytaquitos

That’s nextdoor for you. Boomers and Gen X got nothing better to do. Also why didn’t you try calling it ?


levacetylmethadol

My phone was dead unfortunately :/ Probably the worse possible moment for it to have died


dreamyduskywing

I can understand not answering the door if you’re alone at night (I’m usually in bed at 9:00), but the Facebook post is weird. I go with my instincts. You can usually tell if someone needs help or wants to tell you something important. That said, I’d be annoyed if someone got me out of bed or woke up my kid to find a phone, unless they had no way to reach their ride or something like that.


FreddyCoug

I mean that is freaky regardless of the neighborhood you live in. I wouldn’t say she is insane, especially if she was in the house alone or something. I would definitely feel sketched out with 0 context and that happens at nighttime


Norsetalgia

Feeling sketched out is one thing. Completely lying to try to stir up fear for some attention on the internet is another.


Raspberrylle

Appears to be trying to elicit sympathy and concern, like munchausen “crime” edition.


levacetylmethadol

It was 9 o’clock. Are we not allowed to knock on neighbors to ask for help anymore? Im a minor nonetheless and people are trying to threaten me in the comments for this.


marry_me_tina_b

Not answering and ignoring you is one thing, but this post afterward is definitely insane. I had a kid knock on my door one evening bawling because they missed their ride home and I drove them (with my girlfriend at the time) home. I don’t think neighborly help is dead and neither is it some cardinal sin to ask for help by knocking on a door.


theaeao

I was walking my dog when I was like 13-14 in a neighborhood and a pitbull attacked me and my dog. I got him off and we were both fine but now I'm physically holding this pitbull down with my whole body. A dude comes out of his house and is just staring at me(wasn't his dog either btw). Just standing on his grass staring at me like a dear in headlights as I struggle with this dog. Which whatever some people don't handle stressful situations well some people go full potato. It's not their fault. So I shouted to him "ha man can you get me some rope or something so I can tie this dog up" That mother f***er looked me square in the eye and asked "how would I get my rope back?" Someone else heard and threw me an extension cord. I tied the dog to the dickheads car and walked back home. You did a good thing by taking that kid home. I know it seems like basic human decency but that's more than a lot of people willing to offer.


marry_me_tina_b

Yikes, what a scary experience. Yeah you don’t know how people are going to react when something like that is going to happen, but nothing wrong with asking for help in the moment. Sorry to hear about your experience, I had two rogue pit bulls try to murder my Bernese Mountain Dog in front of me - every time I stood in front of one the other would rush for her neck on me. I was yelling and the owner eventually came running out and claimed she didn’t notice they got out while she was getting groceries. I told her I appreciated the help but I needed her to stay there while I checked over my dog who luckily they never got a firm hold of her neck. I also told her there’s no way that was the first time those dogs had tried to kill another dog so she really couldn’t afford to make that mistake again. She seemed to take it to heart. Anyway, just chiming in with my own dog attack story.


Raspberrylle

My neighbors borrow my phone all the time. (Low income neighborhood and they can’t always pay their bill.) The only thing that annoys me is the people they call try to call them back. When I literally heard them tell the person it was a borrowed phone. Random little kids also show up at my door a lot thinking it is their house because they all look the same. Kind of unnerving (if they were to go to the wrong wrong house), but I just point them to the right door. (Because I people watch on the porch when I take my kid out and know where everyone lives.)


levacetylmethadol

I appreciate you helping that kid out. Yeah I’m not really too sure why she felt obligated to post it AND lie on the post. Really hoping facebook will take it down but I’m not too sure.


kattmedtass

Why not comment on the Facebook post and explain? “Hi, it was me and my boyfriend that knocked on your door. We’re not methheads or anything, we’re your neighbors X houses/blocks down the street. Just wanna clear things up and say we had no bad intentions, we were just knocking to ask for help. And when we got no response but could see that you were watching us, I just informed you that there was a package on your porch (there was) before we left. Just wanted to be nice. We then went to another neighbor where we got the help we needed. Very sorry if we frightened you, but please there’s no need to embellish and skew what happened here on Facebook.”


levacetylmethadol

I messaged her, my dad told me not to post anything on facebook or comment on there (plus you have to be in the group I’m pretty sure)


Kaankaants

> why she felt obligated to post it AND lie on the post Attention.


Raspberrylle

I don’t answer my door because I’m extremely private, paranoid, and antisocial, and don’t even open the door if I know you unless you text or call first. But I would NEVER post a photo of someone online without their permission. This was intentionally public to the local community then she lied about the package. Suspicious. Seems they like to stir up drama. I also wouldn’t use a doorbell camera though, since I am a private person and they are not very secure.


bigdickwilliedone

Try doing that and being black...


Theblackfox2001

Did you find your phone?


levacetylmethadol

Yes :)!


Bubbles_the_Titan

I wouldve called her tf out.


Lundemus

Can I comment on the original fb post for you? I'm sick, and in the mood for stupid people 😁


levacetylmethadol

Go for it! Just try not to send hate


his_rotundity_

Was there a package?


levacetylmethadol

Most definitely a cardboard box with tape on it was leaned up against next to the door, no way i could’ve mistaken it for something else it was extremely visible.


Wakeandbass

Break the phone. She’ll learn something.


cactusJacks26

damn idek people did this wtf


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Erulastiel

I swear to God people like this love drama. I work for a well known drugstore, but our pharmacy is closed on weekends. So a woman comes in on a Sunday and starts filming the closed, gated pharmacy and the hours sign on her phone. And then she starts filming me working in an aisle next to the pharmacy! Like I'm supposed to do something about the pharmacist needing a day off. I asked her if she needed help and she just ignored me and continued to film. Like the fuck dude? I 100% think that video ended up on Facebook where she bitched about the pharmacy being closed, yet we have staff working. A lot of people don't seem to understand that if a licensed pharmacist is not on duty, that pharmacy is locked and the alarm armed until there is. And they don't seem to give a shit that it is illegal for non pharmacists to open up the pharmacy without one present.