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Re:A man who lives in a Boeing 727 in Oregon (2020) by dang on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:49PM (#29884867)
Please don't take HN threads further into tedious flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:A man who lives in a Boeing 727 in Oregon (2020) by kube-system on Monday January 10, 2022 @05:38PM (#29883892)
It's property crime. They'll write up a report and you can give it to your insurance company. They're not going to investigate it in-depth or serve as your personal security force.

The most effective solution is probably to put up a fence and cameras.

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Re:A man who lives in a Boeing 727 in Oregon (2020) by anon_123g987 on Monday January 10, 2022 @05:44PM (#29883970)
Of course. I guess, what I wanted to say is that anything is better than setting up a trap and just executing the guy, like the other commenter said.
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Re:A man who lives in a Boeing 727 in Oregon (2020) by TaylorAlexander on Monday January 10, 2022 @05:36PM (#29883852)
In an area surrounded by "Trump Nation" flags, the police very likely have those flags on their property too. They may well do nothing if you are reporting their friends, and they will definitely do nothing if the perpetrators are actually officers.
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Re:A man who lives in a Boeing 727 in Oregon (2020) by throwawaygh on Monday January 10, 2022 @05:42PM (#29883949)
Reporting property damage to the police is never useful. Where I live, they won't even send an officer out.

I have a few friends who own property in West Virginia, so probably similar vibes to rural Oregon. A report to the police out there for something like this would probably be counter-productive. At best.

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Re:A man who lives in a Boeing 727 in Oregon (2020) by s5300 on Monday January 10, 2022 @05:43PM (#29883964)
While this is starting to get into flame war we don’t want on HN (so I wont comment further on it past this)

The police in “Trump Nation” areas of our country tend to be very kind & permissive of skirting the law to the rest of those who identify with their same political views, and it often goes the same for the Sheriff, and sometimes even further up the chain.

Simply put - I don’t know the entire context, but if one of the reasons they’re harassing this person has to do with the fact he’s of the “wrong” political views, the police aren’t going to do anything to those harassing him.

That is one of the reasons our gun laws are nice, but sometimes when the “wrong side” exercises their right to self defense, the sitting president publicly calls for their execution without trial. [1]

@anon_123g987 if it weren’t literally poison I would be more inclined to agree with you on not using excessive force. But somebody who dumps poison on your property probably doesn’t think very highly of your life, and may over time take more brash measures against you. Also, having somebody work security on your property definitely isn’t a trap, especially in rural areas.

[1]https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/trump-fugitive-shoot...

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