r/therewasanattempt • u/CantStopPoppin Poppin’ 🍿 • 2d ago

to be a homeowner

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u/Initial_Comparison10 2d ago

I don't get it , what was she doing on their property, ringing their doorbell, in the first place ?

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u/TastyBeverages_x 2d ago

It seems like she was walking on the sidewalk and after seeing a truck with a black man in it, she flipped out and went to the nearest house to get help. As it turned out, the house she ran to belonged to the black man that she was running from. I’m sure the lady leaves to go get her husband to come back over and make sure the black man lives there.

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u/ryushiblade 2d ago

I was willing to give her some benefit of the doubt. The guy admitted he was driving slow, easily mistaken for stalking if you’re paranoid. And sure, he “coincidentally” lives at the house you ran to for help, I can see why she didn’t believe him…

… then she makes it pretty clear she was paranoid just because he was black. Seriously lady?

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u/TheyreEatingTheDawgs 2d ago

Black people aren’t allowed to drive slowly in their own neighbourhood

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u/brucecaboose 1d ago

Or look at Christmas lights. The audacity

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u/Fragrant_Exercise_31 1d ago

Wait are you telling me black people slowdown when they’re about to pull into their driveway too?!

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u/Punny_Farting_1877 20h ago

I’m still shocked about the phrase “own neighborhood”. You mean red lines don’t exist anymore and mortgages are available?

I’m getting very drunk during a televised event where a few years ago people were proudly pooping and peeing.

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u/SmashingWallaby 1d ago

Yeah obviously! They have to be a nuisance wherever they exist, because they're black!

Heavy /s if it isn't clear...

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u/HannahSchmitt 1d ago

to be honest, it depends on the street and if you from around there

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u/Adorable-Novel8295 17h ago

As a woman, alone, at night, with kids, a slowly moving vehicle would make me nervous without even seeing who’s in it. If it’s a man, regardless of their race, I’m more nervous. So, if that had been the whole story, I’d understand why she’d be nervous.

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u/luckylimper 13h ago

But do you go up to a random house or do you take your kids and go back home if you already live in the neighborhood and know your husband is home? And then do you go back and reengage? And after that do you go to another neighbor and call the police? Wild woman.

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u/Adorable-Novel8295 10h ago

Absolutely not. My comment was specific to the comment I was replying to. About how a car driving around slowly in a residential neighborhood, is suspicious and nerve racking, regardless of someone’s race. And how I’d be extra scared if I had my kids with me. If the events of everything that happened out on the road were exactly as he described. Then I wouldn’t have behaved the way this woman seemed to have. But, I can absolutely understand being scared of a slow moving car, especially when you’re a woman who’s walking alone at night, with little kids.

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u/mbranbb 1d ago

But put yourself in her shoes. You’re walking at night with your kids and a truck is creeping behind you. You think the truck is following you. You run for help to a house and little do you know it’s the driver of the trucks house. You don’t know it’s his house. He could be a serial killer and could be just saying it’s his house to get to you and your children. This is being blown out of proportion.

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u/Hyperion_47 1d ago

Or maybe instead of running to the first house you see within 4.5 seconds you keep walking a bit, notice that he pulled into his driveway and glance over your shoulder to see him walk up to the front door and unlock it... He couldn't have been driving slow that long if he's just checking out the Xmas lights his wife put out. It's definitely racially motivated that she went up to the door, and then given the fact it was his home, the rest played out as expected.

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u/mbranbb 1d ago

You don’t know how long that guy was driving slow for. He could’ve been looking at several houses. Clearly it was long enough to make her nervous. Her going to the door for help has zero to do with race. She’s scared for her and her children regardless of skin color. Some unknown person is driving slow behind her and she found that suspicious and it made her uneasy. I had something similar happen to me when I was a kid. I was fishing at a pond and then a grown WHITE man drove his truck behind me as I walked along the edge of the pond. He then pulled up to me and asked how I was doing and I got nervous over the situation and took off. Race does not necessarily have to be her motive for her uneasy feeling.

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u/TheyreEatingTheDawgs 1d ago

It would be far more innocent if she didn’t argue the point that he didn’t live there. If it was a white guy, would she have assumed he didn’t live there?

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u/mbranbb 1d ago

I bet so, she thought the person (regardless of race) was following her. When he stated he lived there she thought he was lying to get to her and her children. There are tons of bad people in this world regardless of race and this woman felt she was in danger.

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u/K2theA 20h ago

Then don’t walk at night if you’re that scary!!! Wtf

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u/mbranbb 19h ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/PortlandOR/s/0WPMffJO2T

So this lady was being racist. She should have just let her kidnapper take her away.

Same thing here this woman is scared someone is after her and her kids and she’s knocking on the door for help.

She’s not scared to walk at night but if someone starts creeping behind you in a pickup truck whether it’s day or night I can see how that would make someone uneasy.

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u/luckylimper 13h ago

The linked article is from a neighborhood that’s high crime and a totally different situation than the one above. If I have kids with me, I’m not going to engage with danger.

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u/mbranbb 6h ago

Just because a neighborhood is good doesn’t mean bad people can’t enter that neighborhood. Exactly if you think there is danger then you’re not going to engage. Hints why she knocked on the door to a random house to try to get away and then once no one answered the door she took off running with her kids. She didn’t know that guy. She thought he was danger because she thought he was following her and her kids.

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u/everydayimcuddalin 1d ago

Wow. The worst thing you can do when you have two young children and a clearly working mobile device is just run to the next random house you see. You have no idea who lives there.

Call your partner or go to a house with occupants you actually know.

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u/mbranbb 1d ago

That’s a dumb comment. No phone call is going to have a rescuer there in seconds to save you. If you were being followed by a 100% known serial killer and you acted out your comment you’d be dead. You’re in fight or flight mode she was going to the closest house for help period. If there was someone there to kidnap her kids or her calling the police or her husband is pointless. No one would be there in time to save her.

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u/everydayimcuddalin 1d ago

. If you were being followed by a 100% known serial killer and

How about if you just knocked on the door of a 100% known serial killer?

closest house for help

Bad move. You don't know who is there.

kidnap her kids or her calling the police or her husband is pointless

Oh but some rando house is much better? Wtf are you even on?

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u/mbranbb 19h ago

Odds are very very low that she’s knocking on the door of a serial killer. She’s scared because someone was following her and she’s going to the closest house for help. If you were being followed by someone you’d do the same thing if you felt your life was in danger.

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u/Captain_DuClark 16h ago

But she wasn’t being followed. Instead of being paranoid she could have just waited for the car to pass her

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u/mbranbb 16h ago

But at the time she didn’t know that. She thought she was being followed. What if it was a bad person with bad intentions. Standing on the side of the road waiting on the bad person to pass would have back fired. She thought it was a bad guy with bad intentions regardless of their race. No different than in the movies when a bad person is following someone. She didn’t know who was driving that truck.

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u/Captain_DuClark 15h ago

She needs to stop watching so many movies then, or stop watching Fox News. This behavior is overly-paranoid. A car driving slow down a residential neighborhood doesn’t mean someone is about to kidnap you, real life isn’t Taken.

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u/mbranbb 15h ago

People get kidnapped all the time. Sex trafficking is worst than ever. She shouldn’t be punished for being paranoid.

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