Can anyone, outside of the police, drive through a neighborhood at night and flo

[CC27]

Star Member Baitball Blogger (19,145 posts)

Can anyone, outside of the police, drive through a neighborhood at night and floodlight


the yards?

It's peculiar. This weekend an ordinary looking van drove through our neighborhood and blasted the yards with bright light as it slowly drove by. It was very selective about which yards it lit up. I had seen a SUV do this a few months back, but assumed it was the police. I'm not sure anymore because the van was selective about which yards it blasted.

It's a double curiosity because our streets are technically private, which means that even the police need permission to patrol our streets. (Well, that's how it works in a right-wing, fanatical property rights oriented community.)

I bet those bright lights were just cops looking for drugs that you sell in the neighborhood DUmmie.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026093314

[thundley4]

Might have been a private security firm responding to an alarm. They might only look at their customers houses.

Of course it could have been some thugs checking out the neighborhood, too.

[FlaGator]

Police don't need permission to patrol a gated or restricted deed community unless the President or someone like that lives there..

[FiddyBeowulf]

Could be they were shining for deer.

[GOBUCKS]

It was reported by a DUmmy.

It never happened.

[landofconfusion80]

^yes! the only point the primitive was trying to make was the fact that it lives in a gated community.

[dixierose]

^yes! the only point the primitive was trying to make was the fact that it lives in a gated community.

Bingo.

[98ZJUSMC]

^yes! the only point the primitive was trying to make was the fact that it lives in a gated community.

...and finds it necessary to remark about it being a reichwing property rights oriented community.

So, move to the barrio and be one with your kindred imbeciles.

[J P Sousa]

It was reported by a DUmmy.

It never happened.

That's my take.
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[DumbAss Tanker]

Star Member Baitball Blogger (19,145 posts)

Can anyone, outside of the police, drive through a neighborhood at night and floodlight


the yards?

No.  Only people with both a car and a spotlight can do that.  Any other questions?

[thundley4]

No.  Only people with both a car and a spotlight can do that.  Any other questions?

I've seen a few cars around here with spotlights mounted by the driver side mirror with no special markings or plates on the cars.

[GOBUCKS]

I've seen a few cars around here with spotlights mounted by the driver side mirror with no special markings or plates on the cars.

In the 1950s and 1960s spotlights were pretty common on cars.

They were controlled by a handle on the driver's side windshield post.

I don't know if they were factory-installed, but lots of people had them.

[thundley4]

In the 1950s and 1960s spotlights were pretty common on cars.

They were controlled by a handle on the driver's side windshield post.

I don't know if they were factory-installed, but lots of people had them.

You can still buy them and put them on your car. I looked for Illinois and there isn't anything illegal about it.

[BlueStateSaint]

I've seen a few cars around here with spotlights mounted by the driver side mirror with no special markings or plates on the cars.

I see them around here, too--usually police surplus cars.

[thundley4]

I see them around here, too--usually police surplus cars.

I also see some private corporation security vehicles with them, mainly security for Archer Daniels Midland.  They pretty much own this town.

[Delmar]

Response to Lint Head (Reply #16)Fri Jan 16, 2015, 12:40 PM
Star Member Baitball Blogger (19,155 posts)
18. I'm not a physical confrontational type.

I tried that once, and they released the Kraken. Never again.

Response to Lint Head (Reply #16)Fri Jan 16, 2015, 12:58 PM
blackcrow (82 posts)
30. I don't think I would confront unknown people in the middle of the night

Some limo services have odd cars.

Don't take matters into your own hands, post a bouncy instead.