What would you do if this happened to you? … 114

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Lady runs over neighbor’s cat. What to do.

Thoughts:

1. You have framed the neighbor as mean so you feel justified in killing the cat. If the neighbor was nice, how would you have handled it? It seems like you just don’t want to tell someone you killed their cat.

2. What would happen if you did tell the neighbor? When would have been the appropriate time? The day after. Now you have an issue where if you tell the neighbor you killed the cat after he’d done all the searching, you look like an even worse person.

3. How often do you think this happens? You know, I see signs from time to time, lost dog, lost cat…and I feel terrible. How many dog and cat murders are going unreported? Killing someone’s family pet happens….there are actually neighbors who kill pets because they are annoying or they are just sick people. In this case, it was an accident.

4. Does this offense happen in the age of neighbor Ring cameras and the like? My neighbor has a ring camera and he tells me when people are casing my cars and my house in the early hours of the morning. It’s amazing what we don’t know is going on around us. If the cat murder would have been caught on camera, doesn’t that pretty much obligate you to tell the neighbor.

5. What was the cat doing or you doing when you ran it over? Pulling into your own driveway and killing a cat on your property almost makes it justified. It’s not like you lined the cat up to kill it…right?

6. The framing of the neighbor.
a. Calls police when suspicious looking kids are close to his house
b. calls the police when there is loud music
c. sued a neighbor for tree branches falling in his yard

We had a story earlier in the week where in florida, you now have to report your name and address if you are making a code enforcement complaint. In this case, the neighbor who has made the complaints is known. Did that stop the complaints?

Navigating the good neighbor environment is super tricky. There could be local customs that you have never seen. Things could change with the type of home you are in, or the location of the home. As an example, in an urban setting, you’re bound to get loud music and noises bombarding you everywhere you go, but out in farmland, it’s unlikely to hear anything or to even see your neighbors.

Source: https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/08/dear-prudie-awful-neighbor-searching-cat-ran-over.html

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