Guys I was in the park yesterday and I didn't have my dog on the leash and some guy taught me a lesson by giving my dog some yummy treats. I was so distraught I had to call the police.
Social Media Justice: A "Karen" faces consequences for threatening a Black man with cops
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The thing as well is you dont know what the treat is. Lots of foods are toxic to dogs that are not toxic to humans. I dont mind people asking about my dog when out and about. But stopping to give him treats would be a big no.
Why does one need to say any of this when you know for a fact that the person behaved like a racist. Where is the need to bring in political beliefs and other nonsense into the discussion?
Try pointing out a no cycling sign to a cyclist and they'd sooner murder you in cold blood than comply.
He does it so that the people put their dog on leash, seeing as he's a bird watcher that frequents a protected area of the park he's probably seen thousands of scofflaws gallivanting about with their dogs over the years. More power to him. Scofflaws give the rest of us a bad name.
Why? Because he behaved in a strange way and I was looking for reasons to explain it. Obviously.
I’m not doing any thought experiments here. Just discussing a short video clip (and description from one of the two parties involved - we still haven’t heard her version of events) which documents some fairly shocking and difficult to explain behaviour. I’ve no idea why this offends you so much.
Not sure if he's angry about Karen or Minneapolis police.
If what he said was meant to be sinister and threatening, do you think he’d have included it in his description of events?
Just listen to his tone throughout the video, he is calm, polite and completely unthreatening.
Just listen to his tone throughout the video, he is calm, polite and completely unthreatening.
My dog goes bald if she is given the wrong food. A lot of walkers around my area carry treats just in case dogs bolt from their yards at them. They always ask though. You do have a point but the way that woman was handling that dog shows she was far more likely to be the one that poisons him than the bird watcher.
Is it too much to ask for some civility these days. A shit show of a situation that could have been non existent with a simple "ok thanks" on her part.
Funny story about treats, once, while hanging out in the pet store as we like to do on Saturdays, one of my dogs somehow convinced another customer to open the bag of treats she was purchasing and give her one. 
They also have sample bags of kibble. She's become adept at removing them from the pegs and opening them. How she figured this out, I'll never know.
They also have sample bags of kibble. She's become adept at removing them from the pegs and opening them. How she figured this out, I'll never know.
Questioning someone's mental health with no prior knowledge isn't a thought experiment?
Funny story about treats, once, while hanging out in the pet store as we like to do on Saturdays, one of my dogs somehow convinced another customer to open the bag of treats she was purchasing and give her one.
They also have sample bags of kibble. She's become adept at removing them from the pegs and opening them. How she figured this out, I'll never know.
I hope you called the police.
Funny story about treats, once, while hanging out in the pet store as we like to do on Saturdays, one of my dogs somehow convinced another customer to open the bag of treats she was purchasing and give her one.
They also have sample bags of kibble. She's become adept at removing them from the pegs and opening them. How she figured this out, I'll never know.
and choked his dog too
Correct.
Spot the difference:
Dear Police: please help, some guy wants to give my dog some yummy treats
VS
Dear Police: please help, an African American man is threatening me.
But not his horse, right?
Leave that to the professionals!
Yea i agree. Just ignore him, put the dog on the leash and move on.
My dog gets a bad dose of diarrhea if he eats the wrong food.
It's not vigilantism is it? If he is there to watch birds, dogs without leashes are a problem as they run randomly and chase birds away. It was explained somewhere. Anyway he was polite enough initially when he asked her to leash her dog no? And then he didn't get in her face, did he? If anything she moved towards him. I agree the way he said about the treats was a little threatening but other than that I don't see what you said and I bolded.
most dogs i know will eat absolutely anything, why would a dog owner who's dog gets sick with the wrong food let them wander leash-less?
Na, you're wrong. You don't know anything about him, not sure how speculating about his mental health isn't a thought experiment.
You’ve an unusual definition of a thought experiment. Using your own definition, though, pretty much every post in this thread is some sort of ‘thought experiment’. Everyone is speculating about the character of people they don’t know based on a tiny fragment of their lives. If that bothers you, you’re in the wrong thread.
Pure nonsense. Calling someone Karen isn't the same thing as speculating on their mental health. If anything, there is a clear stark difference. Why you can't see the difference between them is beyond me.
Your definition of mental health is as bad as your definition of a thought experiment. But we’re going in circles here so I’ll bow out.
Again, pure nonsense. If you can't see how speculating on someone's mental health affects their credibility in such scenarios, especially when cops are involved, then you're either unaware or just completely deluded.
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"The fact you are okay with a man threatening a woman and continuing to harass her is disgusting."
From a nfl teams message board i post on after i condemned her behaviour.
From a nfl teams message board i post on after i condemned her behaviour.
Going only by the conversation posted here. So I maybe wrong.
He went straight from "politely asking her to take the dog somewhere else " to 'I will do something to your dog". And then when he saw the lady has got hysterical, he whipped out his camera and started shooting things.
She is a racist alright, but he doesn't seem like a non-confrontational guy for sure.
Now Christian will learn that it's not about him, now it's about blood.
He had all the right to be confrontational as she was breaking the law and she refused to comply when she got call out. He was supposed to back off while she was jeopardizing the environment of a place that is meant to work the way it works and he enjoys periodically?
She had no absolutely any right to put the man's life at risk creating a plot based in a lie (because she didn't feel threatened when she approached him and even he had to say don't come close to me) and using racist antics
He did not say I will do something ‘to your dog’.
And let’s make another thing clear. Asking someone politely and calmly to obey the rules of the park is not being ‘confrontational’. Her refusal is what is confrontational.
Have you read the comments here before responding to what you assume it is they’re stating? Has anyone on this thread condoned her actions? Not that I can see. Some nasty woman gets her comeuppance and life goes on. Does that prevent an examination of the context? Apparently I, and a few others here, have ‘blamed the victim’ for both attempting to understand the context, and for daring to suggest that, though she was undoubtedly out of line, his actions may have been questionable too? Do you not see how damaging that is to fruitful discussion? I honestly doubt you do - I’m not sure, ironically, that you can grapple with that nuance.
If you disagree with what’s being said, great, articulate why that is without ridiculing it and being so overtly aggressive and snide.
Oh yay, a well adjusted American, please do continue to tell us how to interpret common English.
Who the feck are you?
Someone considerably smarter than you x
Idiomatic expressions aren't easily interpreted outside of the linguistic group where they are common.
I get that, but that’s not how I think it reads. I find it rather condescending. The implication is that, now he’s here with his specialist grasp on the English language, that he can rid us of our doubt/erroneous opinions.
Well that’s me told then.