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In reply to the discussion: Help Wanted: Only Psychopaths need apply [View all]NJCher
(42,885 posts)My neighbors are psychopaths, I think. They are executives in the pharmaceutical industry. What's troubling is they are also an M.D. and a Ph.D., too. Now how do I know they are psychopaths? Well, how they treat their dog, for example. They chain the dog up and leave it out in cold weather. (FYI, I rescue the dog and bring her in my house). They will not spend one penny on this poor dog, other than the most basic of food. They did, however, (unasked) reimburse me $100 for the toys and treats I bought for her.
They pay no attention to the rules of the town. Example: burn tree debris. TOTALLY AGAINST THE RULES HERE. They don't recycle. TOTALLY AGAINST THE RULES HERE.
One of them is directly in a position handling programs that essentially buy off doctors to get them to use the company's pharmaceuticals.
Four or five houses, four or five expensive sports cars, yet they won't even buy their dog a
bone or put up a gate so she can roam around their sizable,expensive property. What kind of values are these?
To speak to these people, you would think they were perfectly lovely.
So that's what I see, right in my own neighborhood.

Cher