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Sorry...
I am simply not calling the 'local' constabulary for an 'open door'...
"911, what's your emergency?"
"My door is open..."
"Well, maybe after our two officers get done directing traffic at the fatal accident on the highway, and the barn fire two towns over, I'll have one swing by..."
Not all localities here have 'police', and most people I know like it that way...We have no town police, the constable has been relegated to opening and closing the gate on the town beach, and the closest state barracks is 20 miles on back roads...We do occasionally pay the next town up to do 'traffic patrols' when school opens, just to remind people to slow down..."Sheriffs" around here run traffic duty on construction projects, and are process servers...
I guess I am glad that many of you live where cops can quickly come to run through your house because you left your door open, but around here they have better things to do with my tax dollars...
If I become a statistic, so be it...
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