Spaceman Spiff

So earlier tonite, I took my puppy out for a walk, around 7:30.  I'm home alone for the week, the girlfriend is at a funeral so I'm holding it down here with the puppy and trying to keep the house in one piece.

Anyway, our backyard backs up to an empty lot that's partially wooded.  It's an average neighborhood, quarter acre lots, some older homes mixed in with some newer ones.  Past the wooded lot is a cul-de-sac.  If there was a house built on this empty lot, the house would face the cul-de-sac.  

It's dark out, I flipped on the porch light but that doesn't provide any great light past 10 feet off the porch.  The puppy pulls me out the door, off the porch and into our yard.  At the back of our yard, adjacent to the empty lot is a thigh-high rinky-dink fence that doesn't do anything more than delineate the property line.  So the puppy is a couple feet away from the fence pulling on the leash and is all worked up.  And all of a sudden I hear a voice.

"Hi."

I couldn't tell where it was coming from and I looked over my shoulder to my left.  There's a guy that lives on the adjacent street off the cul-de-sac who's disabled and has a dog that he walks around the neighborhood and he usually cuts through our driveway and yard to get home.  It's not ideal but he picks up after his dog and also does really nice stuff like haul our recycle bins from the street.  I'm looking for him but I don't see him.

"Over here."  I look in front of me, about 25 feet past the fence, standing on the edge of the woods on the empty lot is a man, but not the man that walks his dog through our yard.  And it's dark out, but the cul-de-sac has a streetlight that partially lights this guy.  I can see enough to tell that he's a white guy, about 6 feet tall, slim build, glasses, grayish hair and he had on a blue or purple pullover fleece/sweatshirt.  

"Didn't mean to scare you," he said.

"Ah, well...you sure did a good job of it."  Now, my girlfriend and her mother (who owns the house we live in and rents it out to us) know the guy who owns this lot.  Apparently he's been talking about building on it for years and I'd seen him out there this past summer.  I figured it could be him and he was going to introduce himself.  From where he's standing, he could have directly seen into our kitchen and two bedrooms had the lights been on and the blinds up.  And he could have probably seen into our neighbors house directly to our left.

"It's a nice night out," he said.

"Yup, sure is," I replied.  "Nicer than it was earlier."

And after a pause he just said "Well, have a good evening," and he turned around and started walking into the cul-de-sac, kind of towards the house on the other side, for a minute I thought he might be the guy that lives in that house.  But then he turns left and starts running down the street which is a giant hill.   And I'm like, what the **** is going on, who is this guy?  And where's he going?

My puppy is doing her business but after she finishes up I run with her over to the cul-de-sac and stand at the top of the hill and by this point he's three quarters of the way down, still running.  By this point I'm assuming he's not going into any of the houses.  Sure enough, he passes under a streetlight at the bottom of the hill and into a shadow, I couldn't see if he turned right or left.

Ran back into the house and thought about calling the cops.  Instead, called the girlfriend and she said the owner of that lot always drives up to it, parks his car into the cul-de-sac and also doesn't live anywhere else in the neighborhood so it definitely wasn't him.  She told me to go to the neighbors house who are adjacent to the left of the empty lot and tell them what I saw and see if they've seen anything.  I've said hi to these neighbors a few times before but certainly don't know them.  They seem nice and are probably in their late 50s to early 60s.

I walk over there, ring the doorbell, the wife answers and I tell her what I saw.  And then the husband comes to the door and I explained it to him, too.  These neighbors have deer cameras, one on a fence that's by their garage and another one on a tree in that wooded lot, I guess this is something you do when you're retired and bored.  He explained to me that he saw a giant buck there and wanted to keep track of the deer family that lives in the woods on that empty lot.  Then he proceeded to explain to me that he's seen this person in that lot a few times this winter on his deer cameras.

Now...these people are being as friendly as can be so I didn't want to upset them by getting angry but the first thing that came to my mind (as I'm sure it's come to yours) is "You've seen this ****ing guy standing in that lot that's right next to your house and can easily see into our house and you DIDN'T ****ING THINK TO SAY ANYTHING TO US?"  I asked him if he'd been able to make anything out from the deer camera, but it's infrared, so it's more just of a shape.  We speculate on who it could be (random peeping Tom, homeless guy, ax murderer, rapist, whatever) and then I told them to let me know when he shows up on their deer camera again.  

Went back inside, definitely called the cops.  They came out a few minutes later, I walked them through what I saw.  They said they'd circled the neighborhood but hadn't seen anyone.

Needless to say, I'm not getting a lot of sleep tonight.  Seriously, what the ****ing ****?  How many times have my girlfriend or I walked the puppy at night, only to have some weirdo standing in the shadows not too far away?  Has he been trying to look in our house?  And why the hell would our neighbors not say anything?  Super uneasy all the way around.

The Notorious BIG documentary on Netflix is really well done.

2 hours ago, Larry said:

 

Please stop bumping the thread in order to state nothing.  

 

You mad at @TryTheBeal!stating facts, bro?

1 hour ago, tshile said:

 

This is just textbook conservative opinion. Takes years of GOP and right wing media identifying someone, then targeting them over the year, to ingrain this mentality with their followers. But the payoff is once they get their followers there, there’s no amount of debating or evidence providing that can change it. 

36 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

Maybe he was referring to his wife? 

Well it was parked off the street, not in the driveway so maybe it was a Qnutter visiting.  

Or silently murdering the entire family.

Mother****er.  Driving home, there's a car parked in front of a house around the corner from mine with a #wwg1wga sticker.  

This WandaVision show is hot buttered dog ****.

Then again, I don't think they were ever safe.

Just when you thought the ankles were safe...

The Last Dragon.  What a ****ing movie.

I'm not sure if this is the right thread or not, but that guy Madison Cawthorn can go wheel himself off a pier.

1 hour ago, Dr. Do Itch Big said:

Post Malone music ain’t even bad. Y’all judging a book by it’s a cover. Should be ashamed of yourself. 

Judging a book by it's cover?  I listen to some great music by some ugly mother****ers.  I don't care what anyone looks like as long as their music is good. 

I can't listen to this ****.  Two songs in, I'm hearing something about sushi from Japan and kickin like Jackie Chan.

I ain't with that ****, Lieutenant.  I need to put on some Dr. Dre and Snoop circa 1993 to cleanse.

I shall try to listen to Post Malone this afternoon.  

Just now, EmirOfShmo said:

 

https://thestreamable.com/channels/masn?market=washington-dc

Thanks, I appreciate it.  That's more than I pay now, but to be able to stream games without having the hassle of using a VPN to get around the blackout on MLB.TV is probably worth it.  Then I can just downgrade my subscription after the season is over.

I will be mailing boxes of my dogs poop if you only get ONE MASN channel in this package.  Like if the Nats and Orioles are playing at the same time and you only get one MASN channel instead of both...boxes of dog poop to the MASN office.  Every.  Day.  

31 minutes ago, Riggo#44 said:

Your daily MASN blows a billion goats reminder. They are broadcasting 0.0 games this spring. All available games are streamed on Nationals.com or on the radio. I blame @Spaceman Spiff.

 

 

MASN does blow goats.  Oh well.

7 minutes ago, bearrock said:

Well, a little positive news on the MASN front.

 

https://www.masnsports.com/masn-news-information/2021/01/masn-to-launch-in-market-streaming-for-all-300-orioles-and-nationals-games.html

 

 

Apparently the app will launch by opening day (not sure if in home only).  Way overdue, but still nice to see some progress. 

It ****ing sucks.  You have to have a cable package to get access to the app...so if you stream TV some other way like I do (Youtube TV), you still don't get access to it.

MASN and I think Oakland are the only two regional sports networks that don't stream on other platforms.  It's ridiculous.

Someone did tell me that they do stream on AT&T tv's month to month television package, I'll be checking that out to see if it's true.

39 minutes ago, clietas said:

I don't think anyone specifically complained. Mods didn't like us using this thread as a "clubhouse". Basically the idea was post less here and post more in the appropriate threads. 

 

Such as vids going in the Friday night music thread. N memes going in the miscellaneous humor thread. Much like the no football talk request in the old rtt long ago. 

This whole place is kinda like a clubhouse though.  

1 minute ago, Mr. Sinister said:

 

I live in the back country, right up against the woods. Its gonna be biblical, and I'm gonna have to clean all that **** up because it's designated private property 🙃

Dammit, have you gone to Sunshine to get a burger yet?

I don't know how you live less than 20 minutes away from that place and don't visit at least once a week.   I hear they got that blue cola you fiend.

2 minutes ago, Mr. Sinister said:

 

Sure sounded like you were talking to me 🤔 . But at any rate, yeah, it sucks, but we've been too outta pocket in the rtt, so this is really the last stand. It ain't gonna come back after this one, so we all just gotta make sure that if too many vids get posted, we dial it down and keep it moving. 👍🏼

I'll edit em.

1 hour ago, TryTheBeal! said:

Soon.

 

 

Yeah right, how's South Carolina's backwards ass escape this thing?  What, they're too afraid to fly over from east New York into Vermont and Massachusetts?

Get a new map. TTB.  You're making @Mr. Sinister sad and I don't find it amusing.

1 hour ago, d0ublestr0ker0ll said:

Daisy Fuentes...

 

What was that dating game with Carmen Electra?  They had a smokin hot blonde before her with a hell of a sense of humor.

Singled Out!  Jenny McCarthy.

2 hours ago, d0ublestr0ker0ll said:

 

Holy ****, Road Rules.  I actually liked one of their seasons.  The dude who looked like the lead singer of The Offspring after he cut his hair and got a spiked flat top.  I think it was the first season.

 

My sentiments exactly, I felt older than I was.  It was cutting-edge debauchery.  Now it's cutting-edge douchebaggery.

 

MTV had spring break back in the day tho.  They had chicks wearing bikinis with underboob.  Watershed moment.

 

We'll be back after these 20 commercials...

Yes, yes, yes...Daisy Fuentes...

10 hours ago, d0ublestr0ker0ll said:

 

I didn't like The Real World either.  Outside of the dude whose nickname was Snot (or something like that) on the first season, and the gay dude who had AIDS during that season...the rest of the series sucked.

 

After Beavis and Butthead ended, I was done.  At least their show had them reacting to music videos.  Hey, if you think about it, they're the OGs of the reaction video phenomenon.

I liked Real World as a kid (I'm talking like, 11 and 12 years old) because it felt like an adult thing to watch.  But then I remember watching it in my early 20s and thinking "This is some manipulative ****, they're just taking all these people from different backgrounds and having them live together and documenting what chaos ensues."  It was the first episode of a new season and these people couldn't make it past, like, 3 hours before having a giant fight.   

I'm sure Road Rules has aged terribly, too.

MTV was once great, but I've not watched it in forever, either.  Being able to watch music videos endlessly was awesome.  

35 minutes ago, goskins10 said:

 

The origin is to include the men since the baby shower is traditionally for jsut the women. SOme people have them and a baby shower some have them instead. At least that is my understanding. 

 

Do what you want - but again when it starts risking lives it has clearly gone too far.  

 

I don't know of a single man who gives a **** about being part of a baby shower.  The less things I'm invited to, the better.  The less events I have to throw, the better.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeff-bezos-might-targeting-nfls-225253213.html 

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What Happened: Bezos has explored taking an ownership position in the NFL's Washington Football Team, according to Front Office Sports.

The current Amazon CEO is said to have held talks about buying a stake in the team, which plays in Washington D.C.

 

Three minority owners of the Washington Football Team hired Moag & Co, a Baltimore-based sports investment banking firm to explore a sale. Bezo’s attorney held talks with Moag & Co, according to the report.

Current Washington Football majority owner Dan Snyder has claimed an extortion campaign forcing him to sell the team is being wagered. Snyder blocked the sale of a stake in the team by existing owners using his right of first refusal.