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Lahdee  | | posted 20-Dec-2007 3:45pm |
Not anyone that's a victim of crime, but cruelty. |
FauxLo  | | posted 20-Dec-2007 3:54pm |
FoxTurtle has friends that have had pee thrown at them from a cup, so... |
| RGirl | | posted 20-Dec-2007 6:30pm |
I have been. In high school for a while I was harassed quite a bit, they even called the house and said stuff to my parents. It was because I am gay. Got tripped, got pushed, got my books pushed out of my arms. Drive by harassment on the walk to school, in school, on the walk home from school, and then the phone started ringing after school. As an adult, Anne and I, we've had vandalism done to our cars and the yard. Stuff written in the dirt of the windows of the cars. Nothing here so far though. |
| thecomic22 | | posted 20-Dec-2007 8:44pm |
Nope. |
Galomorro  | | posted 20-Dec-2007 8:56pm |
Other. I think some occurrences are hate crimes but I haven't experienced anything directly in a long time myself, that I could really prove. |
cloudhugger    | | posted 20-Dec-2007 9:37pm |
No, not personally. |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to FauxLo) posted 20-Dec-2007 9:39pm |
Who would go through all the trouble of peeing in a cup? Wouldn't that be challenging as an impulsive act? Or was it something they just happen to have handy? |
| jettles | | posted 21-Dec-2007 8:48am |
i know some young people who have been harassed in high school, (physically, damage to their cars, lockers etc) for being gay/lesbian. my partner and i volunteer and are on the board at a local group for gay/lesbian/transgender/bisexual and questioning youth. that is where i know them from. |
| labjog | | (reply to FauxLo) posted 21-Dec-2007 10:22am |
> FoxTurtle has friends that have had pee thrown at them from a cup,
> so...
That's a really pissy thing to do to someone!
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| Enheduanna | | posted 21-Dec-2007 12:22pm |
Not that I can think of. Unless you count survivors of the Holocaust. |
| FauxLo |
FoxTurtle thinks it was done with intent, as it happened at a gay night club, so... |
| FauxLo | | (reply to labjog) posted 21-Dec-2007 12:44pm |
 FoxTurtle loves a good pun, so... |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to FauxLo) posted 21-Dec-2007 1:44pm |
I can't believe sometimes that it is the 21st century and nonsense like that is still going on. |
| FauxLo |
FoxTurtle agrees, so...  |
| bill | | posted 22-Dec-2007 1:33am |
It's too bad that the opposite of hate crimes is not love crimes. |
| mrmarm | | posted 22-Dec-2007 8:20am |
Not to my knowledge expect that prick who told people I was the town bicycle.?  |
| mrmarm | | (reply to FauxLo) posted 22-Dec-2007 8:20am |
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| mrmarm | | (reply to bill) posted 22-Dec-2007 8:23am |
What's the opposite of hate crimes? |
| bill | | posted 22-Dec-2007 8:40am |
Loving good deeds? |
LindaH  | | (reply to bill) posted 22-Dec-2007 3:50pm |
Love crimes might be stalking, or maybe it would be giving money to beggars (is that even a crime?) |
| Iseult | | posted 22-Dec-2007 5:15pm |
Not that I'm aware of. |
| mrmarm | | (reply to LindaH) posted 22-Dec-2007 7:45pm |
Or even crimes of passion? |
| LindaH | | posted 22-Dec-2007 8:02pm |
I wonder if a person would get charged for painting over graffiti.
Now I want to try and think of 'good deeds' that could get a person in trouble. Crimes of love. |
| mrmarm | | (reply to LindaH) posted 22-Dec-2007 8:09pm |
I know one, I like to boast about this one; it was my graduation day and there was this girl who liked me and she's 14 and when I got up on stage to get my 12th grade certificate she popped there's streamers into the air during the assembly she got suspended for three days. |
| LindaH | | posted 22-Dec-2007 9:24pm |
Yeah that would count. I was thinking more along the lines of taking it upon yourself to be helpful, only you have to break a law to do it. Filling a pothole, painting over grafitti, etc. I've done little rule violations for good reasons before. I remember thinking 'This is someone else's job, but I'm only being nice!' |
| RGirl | | (reply to bill) posted 22-Dec-2007 10:46pm |
I commit love crimes on a daily basis.  |
| bill | | (reply to RGirl) posted 23-Dec-2007 7:56am |
that is so HAWT! |
| mrmarm | | (reply to LindaH) posted 23-Dec-2007 6:38pm |
Hm I try to avoid these scenarios and dislike making a person feel obligated to 'help out'. |
| RGirl | | (reply to bill) posted 23-Dec-2007 7:18pm |
I know, isn't it?!  |
| LindaH | | posted 23-Dec-2007 7:54pm |
I don't think anyone should feel obligated to 'help out' but I don't think someone should hold back either, just because it's 'someone else's job' or they need to get permission, or someone might think they are doing something wrong. |
| mrmarm | | (reply to LindaH) posted 23-Dec-2007 8:04pm |
Still I wouldn't know if they'd do the same back, or even appreciate what I've done. |
| LindaH | | posted 23-Dec-2007 8:08pm |
Well, I do stuff they don't even know I've done. Like if a picture is falling off the wall in a bathroom, I'll scrunch the nail back in and bend it so it stays on better. That sort of thing. If someone walked in, the first thing they would guess is that I'm up to something. I hate that feeling. |
| mrmarm | | (reply to LindaH) posted 23-Dec-2007 8:12pm |
Exactly I'd try to avoid it, or point out when I'm done the picture had fallen, because it isn't likely that the owner of the house would expect me to put the picture but in it's place. |
| LindaH | | posted 23-Dec-2007 8:16pm |
I was thinking of those fancy public bathrooms with pictures in them. Places where strangers are likely to encounter you and wonder wtf you are doing. Years ago, people could take it upon themselves to do things like that, and there would be no trust issues between strangers. I wish society was still like that. |
| mrmarm | | (reply to LindaH) posted 23-Dec-2007 8:19pm |
I doubt this country has enough class to do something like that, I think better understanding of concepts that are more modern then in the olden days has lead to insecurity and confusion and suspicion. |
| LindaH | | posted 23-Dec-2007 8:43pm |
What concepts? |
| mrmarm | | (reply to LindaH) posted 23-Dec-2007 8:46pm |
I guess concepts of common concern like rapists and perverts etc |
| LindaH | | posted 23-Dec-2007 8:53pm |
Well, yeah. That's true. A grown man would feel understandably weird trying to guide a lost little girl to the front info desk at a store. I think it's sad that parents are afraid to let their kids play at a friend's house because they don't know the parents, though. That seems weird to me. |
| mrmarm | | (reply to LindaH) posted 23-Dec-2007 8:56pm |
I know I shouldn't say this but my ex best friend's father's a little like that. |
| FauxLo | | posted 24-Dec-2007 1:07pm |
FoxTurtle doesn't particularly care for one of the "friends", so...  |
| mrmarm | | (reply to FauxLo) posted 24-Dec-2007 7:23pm |
So your urine? |
| FauxLo | | posted 25-Dec-2007 5:21pm |
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| mrmarm | | (reply to FauxLo) posted 26-Dec-2007 8:06am |
turtles don't urine do they, no it's just they have difficulty peeing into a cup being I'm right aren't I, |
| FauxLo | | posted 26-Dec-2007 1:10pm |
FoxTurtle is thoroughly lost, so...  |
| JessicaWoman99 | | posted 26-Dec-2007 8:39pm |
Something I hear or see most of the time and all because of who that person is |
| kcthedog | | posted 27-Dec-2007 7:41pm |
No! I can not recall such an incident! |
| mrmarm | | (reply to FauxLo) posted 28-Dec-2007 7:44am |
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| Biggles | | posted 15-Jan-2008 3:37pm |
Not personally - at least not reported crimes, I know a few gay people and Muslims who haven't been treated particularly well at times, but I'm not sure if that would amount to a "hate crime". |
