The Vigilante Justice System

This is an old excerpt from my Myspace blog. In case you don't have access to it...


Interesting Conversations: Part 1
Current mood: amused

This is an excerpt from an interesting conversation that I was a part of in L.A...

Me: When I was in my apartment last night, someone tried to knock the door in. What if someone tries to do that when I am not there.

Other guy: Post.

Me: What?

Other guy: Post. Have one of your boys stand outside of your door when you are not there.

Me: (slightly bewildered) Well...what if it happens when i am there.

Other Guy: If someone tries to do that when you are there, snatch him up and give him a good old fashioned beat-down!!


This was obviously an interesting conversation (to say the least). Sometimes it seems like the vigilante justice system gets as much credibility as the real one. Outrageous incidents happen and years pass before someone recommends calling the real police. Sometimes it seems like people would recommend getting a gun permit before calling the police. I hear someone tell me to take matters into my own hand the vast majority of the time or i will tell someone about a situation and a conversation similar to this will follow:

Other guy: "Call this number! Everything will work out if you dial this number!"

Me: (Slightly bewildered) What is this number?

Other Guy: "Just call it, Man!!!"

Every group has it code and rules that it lives by to varying degrees. But at what point do you call the real police. Where is the line? When do you "Post" and when do you actually call the real police?

Random Thoughts

In the not-to- distant past, I noticed that certain rap albums were in the jukebox at dive bars. This struck me as interesting. You might say, "Who cares what's in the jukebox at a dive bar." I think that if a rap album is successful with its target audience and it is getting playing time in a dive bar in the middle of nowhere, that is an accomplishment. That idea goes for other situations as well...

My online accounts continue to get hacked into. The full extent of the problems that someone can cause if they can hack into your accounts at will is a very menacing idea. I should work harder at remedying this problem.

Recently, I was thinking of playing sports when I was younger. I remember a guy who used to go 0 for 7 from the field when we played basketball, then he would kick someone in the face if they tried to dunk on him or come at him for a lay up. Fights would break out because people would land weird because he fouled them so hard. He was always picked to play: We always knew that the other team was only shooting jumpers when he was on the court. I wonder what happened that guy...

The Captive Audience

Its interesting to think of how many times I have been a captive audience in life. Being a captive audience can take numerous forms. How many times have you over heard a loud conversation that was happening far away and everything that you heard was offensive? Like you should not have heard any of the conversation regardless of the content because you were so far away, but instead you heard all of it and it made you cringe. That situation where people are often standing right outside of your window yelling some sort of verbal battery that is supposedly not aimed at you but very offensive because you heard it is not any better. I have come to the conclusion that you cannot always check the content depending on the circumstances and what was said, but you can always check the noise level...

I feel that I am a captive audience wen I am watching television as well. It usually does not matter to me but occasionally it does. How many times have you been watching basic television and the station showed some sort of content that the station doesn't usually show? If you were watching HBO and it was some R-rated movie you could have at least braced yourself but you had no idea that it was coming because they were showing it on a station that is not known for controversy at 4:00 in the afternoon. Interesting to think about...