My apartment complex has a Facebook group that serves the same purpose. It’s kind of a mess.
Last week someone posted their security camera footage showing some homeless guy (in his-vis) casing their patio. The neighborhood watch quickly confirmed this scumbag had been poking around the property for days. A police report was created. People went out looking for him.
A couple hours later, the maintenance guy replies to the thread saying the guy is a contractor fixing damaged decks. There are signs up everywhere about it. People got email notifications. And yet they still found a way to create a panic and also waste the cops’ time.
Any time there’s a “popular” thread in that group, it’s always something like that.
My advice is to never join any online community with your neighbors. It’ll just scare you by how fucking stupid the average person is.
My apartment complex has a Facebook group that serves the same purpose. It’s kind of a mess.
Last week someone posted their security camera footage showing some homeless guy (in his-vis) casing their patio. The neighborhood watch quickly confirmed this scumbag had been poking around the property for days. A police report was created. People went out looking for him.
A couple hours later, the maintenance guy replies to the thread saying the guy is a contractor fixing damaged decks. There are signs up everywhere about it. People got email notifications. And yet they still found a way to create a panic and also waste the cops’ time.
Any time there’s a “popular” thread in that group, it’s always something like that.
My advice is to never join any online community with your neighbors. It’ll just scare you by how fucking stupid the average person is.
You can’t waste a cops time as they are 10,000% worthless.
ACAB
This is like, the entirety of nextdoor. That is the most toxic place on the Internet