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Saw my neighbor throw his dog out of the car (like 6 feet) and then proceed to kick and punch it as it huddled against the door. Called the cops on him and they did nothing. >:

USELESS COPS ARE USELESS

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

NAYRT - My thoughts exactly! :(

That's so sad! Do you know what happened to the dog after that?

It is still with that guy as far as I know. They moved a couple months after that.

Re: What's the angriest you've ever been at the actions of a stranger in public?

diet_poison - 2016-09-13 01:04 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What's the angriest you've ever been at the actions of a stranger in public?

kaijinscendre - 2016-09-13 01:05 (UTC) - Expand

Seven hour bus ride across New York listening to a woman HORRIBLY physically and emotionally abuse her toddler. I wanted to cry.

Oh my God...poor thing.

I would have felt the same way. :( I hope someone intervenes on behalf of the toddler or gets them in a better situation.

When a friend of mine had knee surgery, she had to use a cane. (We were in college at the time.) One day we were at the mall, and I heard a noise; there were two or three middle school aged girls following us and laughing at my friend.

I wanted to say something very mean to them, but my friend hadn't noticed and I wasn't about to bring her attention to it, so I just glared at them. Little shits.

One of my customers was an old lady in a wheelchair, accompanied by a bored caretaker who seemed like she would rather be anywhere else. When the caretaker helped the old lady out of her chair, I smelled fecal matter and saw large brown stains on the seat. I strongly suspected neglect, but they paid in cash and I couldn't get them to order in, so I didn't have a name or address to report.

Ugh. :( That's awful.

A woman was trying to make her daughter (about 5/6 years old) apologize for trying to steal from the store. The kid wasn't traumatized or anything, wasn't crying - she was just refusing to apologize. So the mom wasn't leaving until she did. She was very discreet about it really, and teaching a kid not to steal is a good thing, so I had no problems with them. Then this young man, like early twenties, goes up to them and starts chewing out the mom for "humiliating her kid". Just walked up to this compete stranger and criticizing her for trying to teach her kid not to steal. Chapped my ass but good.

Man, my mom did that to me when I stole a toy from the toy store when I was about 4 and it WORKED. I never, ever even thought about stealing anything again, and I wasn't traumatized by it in the slightest.

I saw the opposite of this. I caught some kid trying to steal candy from the store I worked in and made him put it back. His father thought it was funny. I bet he won't be laughing when his kid gets older and gets busted for stealing something bigger than candy bars.

There are a few moments I can think of from working retail but the one that immediately comes to mind is a woman who came in to the store I was working at with her two daughters, the oldest probably about six. The mom was on her phone talking literally the whole time they were in the store, barely looking at her daughters who tried several times to get her attention and talk to her, apparently the phone was way more important than her kids. The bit that really pissed me off was at one point the younger girl, who was maybe three/four years old, runs into a display and bumps her leg. Being a little kid of course she starts to cry. Mom finally tells the person on the phone to hang on a minute, I think 'at least she's paying attention to her kid now that the kid's hurt herself.' Mom proceeds to kneel down, look the crying child in the eye, and then says 'SHUT. UP.' And goes right back to her phone. Like wtf lady. The kids also walked out with one of these squeaky dog bones we had near the register, mom notices it once they're out the door and takes the toy she knows she didn't pay for and just lays it on the ground outside the door because apparently bringing it back inside would be too much work.

(Second place goes to a woman who I assume was a babysitter, comes into the fitting room with like six small kids around preschool age. All but one are holding some kind of sticky peanut butter snack in wrappers that I will later find strewn about the fitting room. She takes the smallest kid into a room with her, lets the others wander around the fitting room because apparently she expected me to watch them or something. The bit that got me was one of the kids tried to hand the youngest her snack wrapper and the babysitter says 'don't give him that, you know he's allergic to peanuts!' If you have a kid who you know is allergic to peanuts, why the fuck would you give the other kids *peanut butter* snacks?)

Total stranger? Once I was at the zoo and there was a kid there with his dad. Seven, eight years old or so. Kid was crying, his dad told him to stop because "only girls and babies cry, and you don't want to be a girl, right?" Except they weren't alone, the guy's wife and daughter were right there.

Also I have a neighbor I barely know. Years ago, he stopped me in the street to ask "so, you like older guys, right?" i was an adult, but I didn't look it and I was definitely not interested in him since that was the first and up until last week only spoken interaction I ever had with him.
So I've been dogsitting and the other day he's walking by and sees the dog and says "I'm gonna get a dog."
I say something like "that's nice." He continues.
"I'm gonna teach it to hunt ni***rs. Sic! And it'll kill 'em."
His adopted niece and nephew are black. I'm not close with his brother, the kids' dad, but I need to figure out how to tell him, although it's hard to believe he wouldn't know his brother is a racist monster.

When it's immediate family like that, and you're not close, I've got to wonder what would be accomplished by telling the father. I mean, odds are he already knows his brother's a racist fuck and if he somehow has missed it, you've accomplished what, exactly? Do you think he's going to say, "Hey, brother of mine, some random acquaintance says you're evil. Never darken my doorway again!" If the kids have another parent in the picture, it might make more sense to check in with them, in a "hey, do you know this is going on?" kind of way.

I was at the Harvard Arboretum, and this wretched boy walking with his family ahead of me reached into a young sapling tree and tore off a huge branch, most likely killing the tree. For no reason. He looked around 12-13 years old, and his family was right there, and no one said shit to him for destroying a tree, in the middle of a fucking TREE SANCTUARY. I wanted to scream and dropkick them all on their asses out of the park.

There have undoubtedly been other times I was furious at strangers, but that's the only one coming to me right now.

Isn't that a fineable offense?

Re: What's the angriest you've ever been at the actions of a stranger in public?

skeletal_history - 2016-09-13 12:34 (UTC) - Expand

Re: What's the angriest you've ever been at the actions of a stranger in public?

(Anonymous) - 2016-09-13 21:56 (UTC) - Expand

Out at a restaurant, a guy at a table behind me loudly pronounced his opinion that minimum wage is more than people deserve and they're whining money grabbers for daring to want minimum wage to increase.

The one phrase he vomited that had me shaking with rage was "40 hours a week should be a vacation!" in the part of his diatribe dedicated to people who have to work two jobs to make ends meet.

At my old check out job we had a regular - he had OCD or something. Idk. He was harmless. He would rearrange our groceries while getting his, sir civic number of items, would have to take and put each item down a few times. No big deal really. He lived far away but came to our store cause we were okay with it.

One time this group of young men followed him in the store and were disrupting his habit, mocking him. Pretty mad so I kicked them out. They tried to get in later by trying to get me to find it funny and asking what's wrong with the guy. Told them it was none of their business and to get out of the store.

So mad.

Man. :( It's good that you stood up for him, though!

This middle-aged woman that came into the fabric store where I work. She was trying to extend a few dresses with some cuts of contrasting fabric, but as she's discussing the options with me, she notices that another customer has come up to the other side of the cutting table-- a man of South Asian descent, as it happened. She immediately seized up and started acting like he was suspicious, sending him dirty looks across the table and covering her nose as though he smelled bad, literally dodging out of his way when he went to go look at something.

I was livid, but as I wasn't managerial at the time, I couldn't tell her to leave, so I just intentionally cut her fabric badly and gave her incredibly bad advice on how to attach them to the dresses. Afterwards I apologized to the man she'd been so incredibly rude to, and he broke my heart by telling me that it was nothing he wasn't used to.

I work in a Post Office and on this particular day, I had a colleague in with me for some training. I was handing over a parcel to a young black fellow and my colleague was serving a middle aged woman, counting out some money to her.

The woman looked over at my customer very obviously and said to my colleague "can you count it out to me a bit quieter? I don't want everyone to know what I've got." It wasn't even a large sum of money, she was just being an obviously racist bitch.

My customer, mercifully, didn't notice. Even if he did, he's a far nicer person than she is. I don't look at her the same way when she comes in now I know she's openly racist.

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