Subj : deaf and dumb
To : August Abolins
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Wed Jan 27 2021 09:34 am
On 26 Jan 2021, August Abolins said the following...
AA> CP> Why is that? I mean your not being comfortable with
AA> CP> involving the poluce?
AA>
AA> I don't like the idea that I would need to get the police
AA> involved. I wouldn't like to deal with the drama.
I get not wanting to deal with drama. If it's not a common occurance I'd not
want to either.
AA> I had an incident of vandalism a few years ago. I reported it to
AA> the landlord first. They inturn reported it to the police.
AA> Apparently it was serious enough to report to the police. But my
AA> first thought was not to bother with the police.
AA>
A police report is usually required if an insurance claim is being done.
There are other reasons as well of course.
AA> This winter, I decorated the outside of my shop with a couple of
AA> seasonal potted decorations. I paid a local artist about $50
AA> each. One morning, I found one of them missing. I could have
AA> taken those piece in every night (but they were heavy), so I
AA> left them as is each night. It wasn't a problem for over a
AA> month. But then, some punk decides to help themselves to one of
AA> them. I didn't bother reporting that either.
That I'm kind of torn about. Simply because of the dollar value, it wouldn't
be very high priority for the police to investigate, unless it was one of
many such incidents in the community.
But, you bought and someone decided it was ok just to ttake it.
AA> Prior to that, it was known that some punk was going around town
AA> and turning off the propane tanks of the businesses. But I
AA> didn't know that until I spoke to the propane company.
AA>
AA> If the reporting is to be effective, it needs to be reciprocal.
AA> In otherwords, it there is reason to suspect that someone is
AA> going around town vandalizing things, then the store owners
AA> should be notified by the police. But that doesn't happen. We
AA> may only read about certain events a week later in the
AA> newspaper.
Besides the police not making it known, do your fellow shopkeepers talk with
each other about things? It's odd that it wasn't better heard of sooner.
AA>
AA> I read into this matter some time ago, and it turns out that
AA> their excuse is that different countries have different
AA> equipment and it is therefore hard to unify everyone on a single
AA> stategy or "code" to fix the problem.
Since VOIP is becoming more common than hardlines, I'm not so sure that that
is a totally honest answer anymore.
AA> But I also read that allowing such calls to come through is a
AA> money maker. The receiving country has a billing mechanism to
AA> charge the calling country. So, why would the receiving country
AA> deny *any* calls when there is opportunity to collect calling
AA> fees. Blocking all those spoofing and spammng calls would be a
AA> big loss of revenue.
I'm sure tax revenue plays a part on the government side.
AA> CP> So now you have the problem of people calling back those
AA> CP> spoofed numbers to complain instead giving some sweet old
AA> CP> lady an earful.
AA>
AA> Not sure what you mean by that.
AA>
Occasionally, I have called back the number on the caller ID, only to have it
be some eldery ladies home number, not some company the message is suppisedly
from.
So "Stop calling me, I have no interest in using your company for
insurance/filing for disability/renewing my car warranty on my 20 year old
car" is directed to this poor woman instead of the scammers.
AA> CP> Probably, Although at 6.5 feet tall or so, I have been told
AA> CP> I tend to look intimidating even though I am thin.
AA>
AA> Height is another plus factor. There is probably less chance
AA> that any punk will want to mess with someone who towers over
AA> them.
There is some truth to that.
By the way, your Handle you use at times Ogg, struck my as familiar, althoygh
I wasn't sure why.
I figured it out, That's the last name of the District Attorney here in
Harris County.
