I stalked/followed a black kid!

[CreekDog]

109. ok, i have some questions/comments:

I stalked/followed a black kid!

I lived in the bottom half.

intellectually?

Anyway one weekday afternoon I was working in my home office when my GF stated someone was trying to open up the frosted window to our bedroom. She has always been a bit paranoid but i did go outside to check just to keep her quiet.

So your bedroom window is frosted but your office window is not. Is your office not a bedroom?

I saw a black kid probably 15-18(not good with ages) moseying past my window. He turned around and saw each other briefly as I opened up my door. he then turned back and kept on walking away slowly.

"Can I Help You?" I stated.

"NO!"

okay. sounds believable.

I went back inside. It *did* bother me that my girlfriend was probably right and there was nothing I could do about it. Afterall, I didn't actually see him try to break in.

About 5 minutes later I stepped out for a smoke. About 200 yards away the same kid was still walking away slowly while peering through each lower window as he passed. Not all windows were frosted like ours. a couple times he came close enough to touch his nose to the glass. Not once did I see him try to open a window like my GF claimed.

so you're saying in 5 minutes, the kid walked 600 feet while looking and approaching each window?
you're also saying that he looked in the clear windows, but the only one he tried to break into was your frosted window, which he could not see into? (it's clear that your story indicates he didn't attempt to get into any more windows because he wouldn't have had time to go 600 feet, look at all the windows and also get into one in that amount of time)

also, you could see while smoking, who he was, what he was doing, from 600 feet away. you could also see the windows and watch him go back and forth from 600 feet away. quite impressive!

I started to follow him. about 100 yards away he noticed I was following him though he didn't change his pace.

I thought to myself this was ridiculous. I had work to do and I didn't have time for this. Calling the police was out of the question,more of *MY* time wasted explaining. Maybe needlessly making things hard for a kid that might not actually be doing anything wrong.

trying to decide if this bullshit stands out from the rest.

At the same time I didn't want to be responsible for a burglary minutes later right after i had noticed suspicious behavior and left him alone. And there HAD been burglaries around my neighborhood fairly recently.

oh right. you were helping!

My solution:

I walked back and got into my pickup. slowly drove by the kid and took a picture. The kid noticed and pulled his hood over his head. He needn't have bothered. Stupid me just took a picture of my thumb.

yes, this was a much better idea than calling the cops to report a prowler/peeper.

When I got back I was real proud of myself. Only killed 10 minutes and scared the kid from committing a burglary! He would think twice about doing that in OUR neighborhood. All without having to call 911. Back to work!

i think this is not the way to land a date.

Next day my tires were slashed. Never happened before or since.

apparently you stalked Captain Obvious.