The Bitching Thread

[enkoujin]

Explaining my cowardice or course of actions here:

The downside of being a pussy, next time man up and actually interact with someone.

Tolerant of some mad man shouting angrily outside your door?

Man up and do something about it or call the cops, just ignoring it hoping it goes away is a pretty vaginal course of action.

Thanks for taking great interest in my anecdote, Archangel.

Someone is furiously swearing repetitively across from the house from you and you think it would be safe for you to walk over and ask what's wrong? I mean, granted, I was the one who suggested that I should've done that in retrospect. i.e., if I knew it was a suicide and some guy was swearing was yelling about it loud enough for other people could hear, I would have went over to find out what was wrong. I'm not physically strong or agile either, so if it was, say, a homicide and I walked over there, things could have turned ugly for me.

However, I didn't know his situation and another fact is that the guy was yelling (not directly from his balcony), but inside his house with his window open. He never came outside asking for help and I was in my room facing the other side with headphones after I first heard him yell. I heard from my sister that he had been yelling constantly every time.

Like I said, I live in Canada in a quiet neighbourhood. You don't expect any sort of violence to be happening much and the only times I've interacted with emergency services or called for help are when I'm directly involved in the situation (e.g., someone vomiting or someone clearly being harassed).

As previously stated, I want to emphasize that I was locked up in my room with headphones, so I was oblivious to how long he was yelling for. EDIT: until my sister told me about it when she came to sleep and I went down to see three police cars and ambulances there.

Good job, a life which could have possibly been saved was lost on account of you not giving a shit.

I don't know what exactly happened. The suicide, quoted by the man, was "she hanged herself". I'm not too sure whether or not I could have stopped it if I intervened because I don't know whether she killed herself earlier in the day by herself and the man discovered her like that or if she killed herself in the presence of the man.

There is absolutely no possible likelihood of that having happened.

Archangel is right. Calling the authorities and actually confronting the situation is the best course of action.

Would you call the police if one of your neighbours was angry and cursing without any great details? All I heard was "fuck fuck fuck" and not something like "OH MY GOD, PLEASE HELP ME! SOMEONE CALL HELP!"

It's not like I was in my living room the entire four hours listening to him curse loudly. I have to admit that I did close an intervention window because when I initially heard him screaming. I was tutoring my sister from the living room at the time when the screaming first started and closed our window and told her to concentrate on her homework instead of listening to the man.

I think Buff is right at least initially. A guy just cursing over and over is not going to get much of a reaction out of me. The problem is that it continued for over 5 hours. A half hour I can understand maybe even an hour but anything beyond that is just completely unreasonable.



Don't be too hard on yourself. Based on what you said even if you had called the cops right away it wouldn't have changed the outcome much, given that the woman was already dead. Don't focus on the fact that someone died across the street from you either, such things happen. Death is one of those things that can really unhinge people especially if they feel they are somehow responsible.

Thanks, Abdula. I really appreciate your input.

Don't ever call the cops for any reason.

Thanks, Y, but apart from the shady dealings with higher-ups in the force along with some [corrupt] police officers (where they turn a blind eye to a co-worker's law breaking), I trust my Canadian police force to help me when I'll need it.

Step 1) Don't call the cops.
Step 2) Smoke some weed.

I have never ever tried any marijuana products nor do I wish to experiment it anytime soon, but I'll just take that as "chill out and don't worry about it". Thank you, Assertn.

Thanks to Kraco as well.