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Someone intentionally drove their vehicle into my home (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like, I don't really enjoy airing all of my dirty laundry on here, but when I heard the idling diesel of a pickup parked against me at 9 p.m. for 10 minutes, I sort of knew what was coming.

It's an industrial zone, so tractors at that hour are unremarkable. Pickups, on the other hand ...

They finally headed north and clearly made a U-turn, because next thing I knew, I was hit. Now, you don't want to confront people in Texas. If they're willing to drive into you, guessing at their armaments is folly.

Something needs to be accelerated here. I've now been attacked. I didn't have that on my bingo card for the week, but that's pretty much everything. Musk killing the administrative state sucks, but this is not currently my main concern.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Are you okay? How bad is the damage? Are the police doing anything?

If you've pissed someone off that much all I can suggest is bollards and/or a ditch around your property. You shouldn't need fortifications like that but it seems you do.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I own no property. They drove into my van roadside. And the road has extensive shoulders, so it's about as good as I can get. I mean, being able to afford housing would have prevented this, but ...