Strategically placed cop cars
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At our Houston AirBnB, there are two cop cars parked at the entrance to the neighborhood. One of them is always there, but usually there are two:
Driving in for the first time, I thought it was a nice coincidence that cops happened to live nearby. But look at the neighborhood, and the placement of the cop cars:
A cozy, secluded, reasonably well off neighborhood just off one of the primary highway loops around Houston. I figure this area has had its share of burglaries. One of our neighbors has a security system that says "hello, you are being recorded", every time you walk past their house. The motion detection is so sensitive, the warning plays even if you're across the street.
It's nice that the cops are able to leave their cars at strategic locations like that. I hope it works.
Education is extremely important.
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At our Houston AirBnB, there are two cop cars parked at the entrance to the neighborhood. One of them is always there, but usually there are two:
Driving in for the first time, I thought it was a nice coincidence that cops happened to live nearby. But look at the neighborhood, and the placement of the cop cars:
A cozy, secluded, reasonably well off neighborhood just off one of the primary highway loops around Houston. I figure this area has had its share of burglaries. One of our neighbors has a security system that says "hello, you are being recorded", every time you walk past their house. The motion detection is so sensitive, the warning plays even if you're across the street.
It's nice that the cops are able to leave their cars at strategic locations like that. I hope it works.
@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
One of our neighbors has a security system that says "hello, you are being recorded", every time you walk past their house.
I'm surprised that there's not a complaint about "disruptive noise" or something like that.
But, if it's, as you describe, a crime-riddled neighborhood, I get it.
You might want to take a look at your 2nd amendment protections, just in case. It's Texas, but still...
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@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
One of our neighbors has a security system that says "hello, you are being recorded", every time you walk past their house.
I'm surprised that there's not a complaint about "disruptive noise" or something like that.
But, if it's, as you describe, a crime-riddled neighborhood, I get it.
You might want to take a look at your 2nd amendment protections, just in case. It's Texas, but still...
@George-K said in Strategically placed cop cars:
@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
One of our neighbors has a security system that says "hello, you are being recorded", every time you walk past their house.
I'm surprised that there's not a complaint about "disruptive noise" or something like that.
But, if it's, as you describe, a crime-riddled neighborhood, I get it.
You might want to take a look at your 2nd amendment protections, just in case. It's Texas, but still...
I am probably going to get a handgun. Or two. Then work every day to ensure they are not used against me.
Education is extremely important.
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@jon-nyc said in Strategically placed cop cars:
You’ll be a prepper by summer.
You vastly underestimate my laziness.
@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
@jon-nyc said in Strategically placed cop cars:
You’ll be a prepper by summer.
You vastly underestimate my laziness.
I think @jon-nyc meant summer of 2026.
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@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
@jon-nyc said in Strategically placed cop cars:
You’ll be a prepper by summer.
You vastly underestimate my laziness.
I think @jon-nyc meant summer of 2026.
@George-K said in Strategically placed cop cars:
@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
@jon-nyc said in Strategically placed cop cars:
You’ll be a prepper by summer.
You vastly underestimate my laziness.
I think @jon-nyc meant summer of 2026.
I will be due for a colonoscopy. Maybe the worst part of Trump’s second term, otherwise characterized by peace, unity, and abundance.
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At our Houston AirBnB, there are two cop cars parked at the entrance to the neighborhood. One of them is always there, but usually there are two:
Driving in for the first time, I thought it was a nice coincidence that cops happened to live nearby. But look at the neighborhood, and the placement of the cop cars:
A cozy, secluded, reasonably well off neighborhood just off one of the primary highway loops around Houston. I figure this area has had its share of burglaries. One of our neighbors has a security system that says "hello, you are being recorded", every time you walk past their house. The motion detection is so sensitive, the warning plays even if you're across the street.
It's nice that the cops are able to leave their cars at strategic locations like that. I hope it works.
@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
t's nice that the cops are able to leave their cars at strategic locations like that. I hope it works.
Best behaved police force in Texas. If a cop even looks like being derelict, he's threatened with AirBnB duty. For a week.
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@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
t's nice that the cops are able to leave their cars at strategic locations like that. I hope it works.
Best behaved police force in Texas. If a cop even looks like being derelict, he's threatened with AirBnB duty. For a week.
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@George-K said in Strategically placed cop cars:
@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
One of our neighbors has a security system that says "hello, you are being recorded", every time you walk past their house.
I'm surprised that there's not a complaint about "disruptive noise" or something like that.
But, if it's, as you describe, a crime-riddled neighborhood, I get it.
You might want to take a look at your 2nd amendment protections, just in case. It's Texas, but still...
I am probably going to get a handgun. Or two. Then work every day to ensure they are not used against me.
@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
@George-K said in Strategically placed cop cars:
@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
One of our neighbors has a security system that says "hello, you are being recorded", every time you walk past their house.
I'm surprised that there's not a complaint about "disruptive noise" or something like that.
But, if it's, as you describe, a crime-riddled neighborhood, I get it.
You might want to take a look at your 2nd amendment protections, just in case. It's Texas, but still...
I am probably going to get a handgun. Or two. Then work every day to ensure they are not used against me.
You're a big guy. What fits you (in a handgun) probably won't fit the wife. But close may be good enough.
An AR with a collapsible stock will fit both of you. I suggest you do not get a pink one or even a Hello Kitty dustcover on a regular black one.
Add in a youth model 20gauge with a 21" or so barrel (it will fit her and you can accommodate it), and you'll be set to go.
There's probably a gun range somewhere around Houston. Maybe even two...
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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Here's Horace in a year or two...
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Here's Horace in a year or two...
@Doctor-Phibes said in Strategically placed cop cars:
Here's Horace in a year or two...
The trick to not needing to be one of those people is to live in a neighborhood where everybody is one of those people.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Strategically placed cop cars:
Here's Horace in a year or two...
The trick to not needing to be one of those people is to live in a neighborhood where everybody is one of those people.
@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
The trick to not needing to be one of those people is to live in a neighborhood where everybody is one of those people.
You should come to New England. We don't have any of that shit here.
Well, some people have as unconvincing dye-jobs as the guy, but the open shirt and chest-hair would definitely be frowned upon after Labor Day.
And the lady's stripes are very unbecoming.
I was only joking
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He knows which end the pointy things come out of. He's handled one before and his finger is out of the trigger guard.
Her. I hope that thing's unloaded, because she's a moron.
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He knows which end the pointy things come out of. He's handled one before and his finger is out of the trigger guard.
Her. I hope that thing's unloaded, because she's a moron.
@Jolly said in Strategically placed cop cars:
He knows which end the pointy things come out of. He's handled one before and his finger is out of the trigger guard.
Her. I hope that thing's unloaded, because she's a moron.
They're both personal injury lawyers. I'm sure there's a joke in there somewhere if we work together to bring it out.
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@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
The trick to not needing to be one of those people is to live in a neighborhood where everybody is one of those people.
You should come to New England. We don't have any of that shit here.
Well, some people have as unconvincing dye-jobs as the guy, but the open shirt and chest-hair would definitely be frowned upon after Labor Day.
And the lady's stripes are very unbecoming.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Strategically placed cop cars:
And the lady's stripes are very unbecoming.
She's not much into makeup and hair care, either.
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@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
@George-K said in Strategically placed cop cars:
@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
One of our neighbors has a security system that says "hello, you are being recorded", every time you walk past their house.
I'm surprised that there's not a complaint about "disruptive noise" or something like that.
But, if it's, as you describe, a crime-riddled neighborhood, I get it.
You might want to take a look at your 2nd amendment protections, just in case. It's Texas, but still...
I am probably going to get a handgun. Or two. Then work every day to ensure they are not used against me.
You're a big guy. What fits you (in a handgun) probably won't fit the wife. But close may be good enough.
An AR with a collapsible stock will fit both of you. I suggest you do not get a pink one or even a Hello Kitty dustcover on a regular black one.
Add in a youth model 20gauge with a 21" or so barrel (it will fit her and you can accommodate it), and you'll be set to go.
There's probably a gun range somewhere around Houston. Maybe even two...
@Jolly said in Strategically placed cop cars:
@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
@George-K said in Strategically placed cop cars:
@Horace said in Strategically placed cop cars:
One of our neighbors has a security system that says "hello, you are being recorded", every time you walk past their house.
I'm surprised that there's not a complaint about "disruptive noise" or something like that.
But, if it's, as you describe, a crime-riddled neighborhood, I get it.
You might want to take a look at your 2nd amendment protections, just in case. It's Texas, but still...
I am probably going to get a handgun. Or two. Then work every day to ensure they are not used against me.
You're a big guy. What fits you (in a handgun) probably won't fit the wife. But close may be good enough.
An AR with a collapsible stock will fit both of you. I suggest you do not get a pink one or even a Hello Kitty dustcover on a regular black one.
Add in a youth model 20gauge with a 21" or so barrel (it will fit her and you can accommodate it), and you'll be set to go.
There's probably a gun range somewhere around Houston. Maybe even two...
Good plan.
