It’s ironic how the vast majority of the posts here involve a Hide member doing something wrong or being inconsiderate to a neighbor and then getting pissed off because said neighbor does not “man up” and confront them directly, but rather involves the authorities.
Part of being "neighborly" involves talking to your neighbors like grown-ass adults if you have an issue or concern, and giving them an opportunity to correct the issue (that they may or may not know exists) prior to dropping a dime and having Barney Fife or some other .gov agency out.
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Few years back wife and I are in bed in mid-October; we have a newborn in the house. She wakes me up around 1145p and says "Did you hear that?" No, what are you talking about? "Somebody is on the back deck!" Oh bullshit, I'll go look....drag myself groggily out of bed, flip on the deck light, open the curtain...and see some drunk college kid decked out like a zombie trying to get into my back door. I punch the glass and startle him and ask him what the FUCK he's doing, and he starts saying ____________ (name of one of the college kids that had moved nearby a few months prior) should let him in. Informed him he was at the wrong house, he turned and walked away, I went and grabbed my G19 and a Streamlight, then proceeded to clear the back, side, and front yards.
Oh, the college kids next door were having a Halloween party.
I went and pounded on the door where a couple slutty nurses answered. There I was, barefoot with no shirt showing my Dad Bod in full glory in 40F temps, saying "I need to talk to whoever is responsible for this house RIGHT NOW." An older college kid who was a local EMT came to the door and apologized up and down, explained to me what had happened and that they had somebody sober take the offender home, and I told him I had a newborn and if I'd have actually believed my wife and thought somebody was trying to get in my back door I'd have had the gun in my hand when I left the bedroom and its likely that kid would be bleeding out. He apologized again and I left him to have a good time with his party.
Could I have called the cops? Sure, and I'd have been within my rights. But ya know what - they were PERFECT neighbors the rest of the time they lived there, *way* better than the fucksticks that called the cops on my unleashed dog that was literally locked inside my house. Mission accomplished without pulling a dick move and getting any kids busted doing shit I did when I was in college.