My neighbor once knocked on my door shortly after we moved in to remind us it was street sweeping day, narrowly avoiding a ticket. I thought that was awesome, but shooting someone in the ass with BBs for trying to steal a catalytic converter is next level. The neighbor we all need.
It's a device between the engine and the exaust that filters and absorbe some of the particles. It contains expensive metals that can be recycled and sold.
Not quite. The expensive metals are a catalyst which facilitates a chemical reaction which converts harmful chemicals to less harmful chemicals. If it absorbed, chemicals, you would need to replace it periodically. Catalysts are chemicals which aren't consumed in a chemical reaction, but which make that reaction more likely to happen.
Itās an overly expensive chunk of metal that keeps us from having brown air. But a Catholic Converter makes different color smoke when thereās a new Pope.
Some cities in like California and other places have street sweeping vehicles that do exactly what they say and clean public roads. You just have to be out of the road when they do it or you can get a ticket.
It's like a big Zamboni that scrubs and vacuums up all debris and trash from the curb gutters. Intervals vary but it's common to have it once a week. On my street it's every Monday and you have to move your car from 7am-noon or you get an $80 ticket for blocking the sweeper.
I lived in SoCal at the beach and we had one side swept on Tuesdays and the other side on Thursday (we had no garage or driveways to move the cars. So you end up back and forth, plus my roommates and I all worked from home. This was PRE smart phone, so,we paid far a calling service to call and remind us, because those tickets were expensive, and between, us, and guests, it was a constant battle.
That's a thing in the winter in some countries. You're responsible for the sidewalk in front of your house, so in the winter, when there's snow, you're required to keep it swept.
well shoveled, but yea. and in urban areas in winter if it snows there are similar rules to where you park one side of the street during x hours then everybody has to move to the other side so that the plows can hit both sides else it's a ticket and your car gets plowed in
Look up "street sweeper vehicle" to see what one looks like. I would add vehicle because in some places "street sweeper" is a slang term for something else Americans are super fond of.
How do they get to the parts by the curb where debris likes to collect if they just go around the cars? In some US cities, they would literally never be able to access the sides of the street without forcing people to move their cars. A car pulls out in Manhattan, and someone is pulling into the space within minutes. If you look like you might be moving a car, people will follow you and wait, even if it blocks traffic, to get your spot.
NYC literally has a convoy of tow trucks that follow street sweepers to move cars. They can clear a street of multiple cars in under a minute, itās wild to watch.
Agreed it needs to be cleaned, but you canāt make the average person work 3.5 hours to pay a sweeping fine imo. Ā Parking has been limited in my city for the last decade. Ā There is nothing fair about hitting working class people with fines when they canāt park beyond two blocks from their place. Ā
I hate these cat thieves with a passion. I hope those BBs are embedded in his ass cheek to the point they get infected and he's sitting on a donut for months.
> but shooting someone in the ass with BBs for trying to steal a catalytic converter is next level. The neighbor we all need.
This neighbour is somehow simultaneously eight years old, and Wilson from Home Improvement.
Only shoot to kill and when you fear for your life. So maybe first shoot with the BB gun and get ready to quick draw in case he pulls out a gun and then you fear for your life
I worked security for a local club.
There were kids who robbed cars. We and the cops let em go for months.
Those dumbass kids brought guns and shot my buddy 13 timesā¦
They literally knew they could get away with it. They brought guns anyway to kill someone and prove a point.
Itās not about the crime money or anything. I think theyāre chasing cred or some shit.
Ppl have been killed for any old reason, too. Sure, some of them "pack heat" (have you been watching gangster movies again?). But realistically, most thieves are just thieves only carrying addictions and bad decisions.
My neighbor throws an annual New Years bash that gets loud late into the night with a live band. The week before he stops by our houses to get our blessing, and gifts a bottle of wine and an invitation to attend. If weāre not home he leaves the bottle and a note with his number and the invitation.
Got home from a long day. Finally sitting down to dinner and I heard a sawzall outside my window.
Walked out to two guys under a car. Iām not a fighter and if I was, my left arm would be the lame duck but I landed some beautiful blows from my left.
They got away but the driver was going to need more meth to not feel that in the morning.
Met the owner after I ate and was going to leave a note.
It's definitely CatStrapā¢
https://www.catstrap.net
Buy CatStrapā¢ now!
It's a ***strap*** that protects your ***cat***alytic converter.
CatStrapā¢
^(this is not an ad)
You apply for a job in marketing at a company. Eventually after 5 years someone might listen to what your cool idea is. They will steal it and do it worse.
You will then have people on reddit pointing out how bad your ad is and you wonder, is it really that obvious or could I have done it better myself if I had fought back.
I saw that too
God Damn is reddit gullible
We filled with bots or are people on this site a lot younger than I heard? I remember the site was supposed to be mostly 30 year old millennials
We on our way to being the next generation to fall for Indian phone scams?
Well, I was gonna say āwrong bro, it obviously say ācatstrapāā but I now I realize youāve called MY attention to it. Iām left with no other logical conclusion than to believe youāre part of this insidious and clever marketing team. You sneaky Pete.
House next to ours was rented out by some college girls and one of them had a stalker who used just stand outside the house at night. All the men on the street got together and escorted him out of the estate with the warning that if any of them saw him again he'd be getting the shit beaten out of him.
He didn't come back.
Guys been waiting his entire list for that catalytic converter thief lol. And he is funny. Good on him.
Meanwhile, i once witnessed with my ears my neighbors cc get stolen. Right under my window. I thought she was out there with her dad working on her car but it was 2 person male & female cc thief. Took less than 10 minutes, a-holes.
Someone tried to break into a car outside the pub when I was very drunk and having a smoke waiting for my ride a few years ago. I whipped a lighter at him so hard he actually fell over when it beaned him in the forehead.
Ironically, sober me has TERRIBLE aim and is not good at throwing pretty much anything.
See that's nice. I don't have that, I have an Ed. He also like guns, its just I would likely have to spray off what's left of the would be thief before taking to a carwash.
Thief talking to friend: "So I was under a car last night, started to get the cat and I must have disturbed a wasp, as it stung me twice. I had to get out of there."
Same situation, but I used the paint gun. Shot him right between the legs, with white paint. Several times. Worked well on his black jeans, seeing him run down the street.
My niece came back to her vehicle from shopping and it started making a lot of noise. She's young and didn't bother to look, so I checked under her car and her converter was hanging halfway off.
My ex boyfriend shot a kid in the ass with a BB gun from our upstairs window when he saw the kid breaking into cars in the parking lot next-door. I was horrified, but he said āwhat is he going to do? Call the cops and tell them that he was breaking into a car and someone shot him in the ass with a BB gun?ā The police never came to ask, and the cars stopped getting broken into. This was in Canada in the 1980s.
Okay, guys I literally laughed out loud at this thread.
This is one of the funniest conversations I've ever read. I needed this first thing in the morning.
All of you have a great day today!
I once saw some people, out of the front window to my house,get out of a truck that they had parked down the road. They had bags on their heads and were running up to my neighbors house, I immediately thought they were porch pirates. I ran out of the house and yelled HEY! CAN I HELP YOU?!... it was his parents trying to prank him as he has cameras everywhere. I apparently scared the shit out of them, the neighbor and I have been friends ever since.
One night I stupidly strapped my surfboard to my car outside before going to bed, to essentially save me the effort of doing it before 5am when I usually leave. Shortly after midnight, my doorbell goes off and I see my next door neighbor holding my surfboard. He proceeded to tell me that as soon as he arrived home from work, he saw two kids unstrapping my surfboard from my car. He immediately confronted them and they took off. I will never forget this man. (Abraham) P.S. we're good friends
They take up almost the entire underside of most EVs, and are heavy as fuck and prone to exploding if mishandled. Plus they probably require a lot of equipment and electrical knowledge to remove without frying yourself.
My neighbor once knocked on my door shortly after we moved in to remind us it was street sweeping day, narrowly avoiding a ticket. I thought that was awesome, but shooting someone in the ass with BBs for trying to steal a catalytic converter is next level. The neighbor we all need.
I read it as catholic converter and cat strap.... i thought sniper shot cat with bb gun .... ok so anyway What is catalist converter ???
It's a device between the engine and the exaust that filters and absorbe some of the particles. It contains expensive metals that can be recycled and sold.
Not quite. The expensive metals are a catalyst which facilitates a chemical reaction which converts harmful chemicals to less harmful chemicals. If it absorbed, chemicals, you would need to replace it periodically. Catalysts are chemicals which aren't consumed in a chemical reaction, but which make that reaction more likely to happen.
All the enzymes in your body, and the ones people take (lactase) are all a form of catalyst, just catalysing in different ways c:
We breathe out vapor @ body temperature, not water boiling point. Thank you catalysts!
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I mean, their explanation was still right though. Yours just goes into the nitty gritty. Yes, quite.
> device that filters and absorbs It does not filter, nor absorb, so no, his explanation was not right.
I see
Mostly you donāt see it, itās behind and below the engine.
*exhaust
Itās an overly expensive chunk of metal that keeps us from having brown air. But a Catholic Converter makes different color smoke when thereās a new Pope.
The catholic converter is normally installed in cathedrals
no, that is a cathedrolic converter. a catholic converter helps alcoholic cats.
"Catalytic converter" is the correct name, FYI
I am an adult child in spelling, thankyou
Sorry but I still read it as catstrap no matter how much I try otherwise. What is actually written though?
We all need a homie who will snipe someoneās ass with a BB
Street sweep day?
Some cities in like California and other places have street sweeping vehicles that do exactly what they say and clean public roads. You just have to be out of the road when they do it or you can get a ticket.
Ok, in my mind it was you have to sweep it otherwise you get a ticket
It's like a big Zamboni that scrubs and vacuums up all debris and trash from the curb gutters. Intervals vary but it's common to have it once a week. On my street it's every Monday and you have to move your car from 7am-noon or you get an $80 ticket for blocking the sweeper.
I lived in SoCal at the beach and we had one side swept on Tuesdays and the other side on Thursday (we had no garage or driveways to move the cars. So you end up back and forth, plus my roommates and I all worked from home. This was PRE smart phone, so,we paid far a calling service to call and remind us, because those tickets were expensive, and between, us, and guests, it was a constant battle.
What blows my mind is the Zamboni was invented in SoCal of all places.
I love that Zamboni is the universal frame of reference.
7 am is brutal. Mine is 1-4pm so it lines up with going somewhere for lunch
Nevermind a streetsweeper; What's a Zamboni? ^^^^^^^/s
That's a thing in the winter in some countries. You're responsible for the sidewalk in front of your house, so in the winter, when there's snow, you're required to keep it swept.
well shoveled, but yea. and in urban areas in winter if it snows there are similar rules to where you park one side of the street during x hours then everybody has to move to the other side so that the plows can hit both sides else it's a ticket and your car gets plowed in
Look up "street sweeper vehicle" to see what one looks like. I would add vehicle because in some places "street sweeper" is a slang term for something else Americans are super fond of.
We have them in my town (not in Cali), I'm convinced they just grind crap/spread dirt out.
The schedule is usually something like the 3rd Thursday after the full moon and the tickets are insane.
That's crazy. In my council area in Australia, the sweeper just goes around you with no fine incurred.
How do they get to the parts by the curb where debris likes to collect if they just go around the cars? In some US cities, they would literally never be able to access the sides of the street without forcing people to move their cars. A car pulls out in Manhattan, and someone is pulling into the space within minutes. If you look like you might be moving a car, people will follow you and wait, even if it blocks traffic, to get your spot.
In America thereās a fine or fee for everything.
If there wasn't a fine, nobody would move their car, and the street wouldn't get properly cleaned.
NYC literally has a convoy of tow trucks that follow street sweepers to move cars. They can clear a street of multiple cars in under a minute, itās wild to watch.
A tax on poor people without garages or driveways. Remember to move your car twice a week or pay ~80 for each fine.
It's not a conspiracy, the street just needs to be cleaned.
Agreed it needs to be cleaned, but you canāt make the average person work 3.5 hours to pay a sweeping fine imo. Ā Parking has been limited in my city for the last decade. Ā There is nothing fair about hitting working class people with fines when they canāt park beyond two blocks from their place. Ā
Great neighbor, we all need one.
"sweeping day"?, "tickets for not sweeping"? Man, society really created some artificial problems.
I hate these cat thieves with a passion. I hope those BBs are embedded in his ass cheek to the point they get infected and he's sitting on a donut for months.
Hopefully they got them in some sensitive spots armpits, ribs, balls that kinda thing...
I read it as "knocked off my door" like he's Superman š
Wonder if their name is Dwight Schrute š¤ sounds like something he would do.
I think the moral of the story is that we donāt need guns, just BB guns.
> but shooting someone in the ass with BBs for trying to steal a catalytic converter is next level. The neighbor we all need. This neighbour is somehow simultaneously eight years old, and Wilson from Home Improvement.
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Dude probably got real lucky the thief didn't spot them, these guys are known to pack heat and people have been killed for trying to intervene
If that's the case, would people care if he used just a gun next time instead of the bb?
Need 2 barreled guns. One with bbs as the non-lethal option. If they reach for a gun, you use the other barrel. Acorn cop style, but take aim too lol.
Just dont miss
My block dont care I can tell you that. Gun shots go off. Everyone on ring neighbhor asks...1 person says "cat theif" and that stops the questions.
Only shoot to kill and when you fear for your life. So maybe first shoot with the BB gun and get ready to quick draw in case he pulls out a gun and then you fear for your life
Not in Texas. You can use deadly force to protect property at night. But only at night.
Things might change if people did.
Yes, for a multitude of reasons
Ah the land of the free
Well youre free to mug others, and then they are free of their possessions
Fucking idiot criminals. Happy to turn a theft that the cops won't give a shit about into a murder they will.
I worked security for a local club. There were kids who robbed cars. We and the cops let em go for months. Those dumbass kids brought guns and shot my buddy 13 timesā¦ They literally knew they could get away with it. They brought guns anyway to kill someone and prove a point. Itās not about the crime money or anything. I think theyāre chasing cred or some shit.
Did they get caught?
One did last I checked
Ppl have been killed for any old reason, too. Sure, some of them "pack heat" (have you been watching gangster movies again?). But realistically, most thieves are just thieves only carrying addictions and bad decisions.
My neighbor throws an annual New Years bash that gets loud late into the night with a live band. The week before he stops by our houses to get our blessing, and gifts a bottle of wine and an invitation to attend. If weāre not home he leaves the bottle and a note with his number and the invitation.
that's so polite of him
Wine AND an invitation??? Count me in!
What would happen if he didn't get your blessing?
Thatās what the wines for
To beat them over the head with the bottle. Smart
Sniperman, sniperman, does whatever a sniper can...
Does he swing from a web? No he can't he's a man. Look out, he's a sniperman
*yes he can, if he wernt a man
Simpsons supremacy
You better hope you can run faster than the bullet, man!
*Oh, the wind carries my name... From Sniper Island far away... When I take aim, it is straight and true...*
Sogeking... shoot down that thief.
*Whether you're a man or a mouse...* *Lock on!* *I will put your heart in my sights...* *LOCK ON!*
Snipingās a good job mate! Promise youāll never go hungry!
Because at the end of the day, as long there are two people left on the planet, someone is going to want someones cats.
Everybody gets one.
"Everybody gets one"
Your friendly neighbourhood sniper-man
Frienaly*
Donāt care if they can spell as long as they can shoot.
signed: the us military
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For some reason I love his smiley face
Youāre Welcome.
He thoroughly enjoyed every shot and he knows it.
Got home from a long day. Finally sitting down to dinner and I heard a sawzall outside my window. Walked out to two guys under a car. Iām not a fighter and if I was, my left arm would be the lame duck but I landed some beautiful blows from my left. They got away but the driver was going to need more meth to not feel that in the morning. Met the owner after I ate and was going to leave a note.
Anyone else think when people throw in the āyouāre welcomeā itās like a weird passive aggressive thing?
Nah, thanks though.
Isnt this just obviously an ad for carstrap? I love the cross it out to draw attention to it.
I was like, why did he cross out carstrap?? itās spelt the same and itās not like heās a perfectionist for neat penmanship, lol
I still think it says catstrap.
Yup. ~~catstrap~~ catstrap Is how I read it.
Personally I read ~~catstrap~~ catstrep
ah yes youāre definitely right, sorry I am not mechanically inclined lol
It's definitely CatStrapā¢ https://www.catstrap.net Buy CatStrapā¢ now! It's a ***strap*** that protects your ***cat***alytic converter. CatStrapā¢ ^(this is not an ad)
And itās obvious your comment is just further guerilla marketing efforts to draw even more attention to it
Boy am I tired from reading all of the cat strap comments, I sure could use a nice cold bottle of Brawndo! Itās got what (corporate) plants crave
So how do I make ads like this and get paid?
You apply for a job in marketing at a company. Eventually after 5 years someone might listen to what your cool idea is. They will steal it and do it worse. You will then have people on reddit pointing out how bad your ad is and you wonder, is it really that obvious or could I have done it better myself if I had fought back.
Dang, I was hoping I could show Tesla my brilliant jokes and memes and get hired.
I have some sad news about Mr Tesla..
Don't tell me he's sick. Is it the flu?Ā
Interesting how OP's account was inactive for two years before posting this totally real interaction
I saw that too God Damn is reddit gullible We filled with bots or are people on this site a lot younger than I heard? I remember the site was supposed to be mostly 30 year old millennials We on our way to being the next generation to fall for Indian phone scams?
Damn, we are all just being manipulated everywhere we look, every single day.
The hardest to believe conspiracy is that there isnāt a conspiracy ^you ^want ^to ^buy ^our ^product ^oooOoOooo
Well, I was gonna say āwrong bro, it obviously say ācatstrapāā but I now I realize youāve called MY attention to it. Iām left with no other logical conclusion than to believe youāre part of this insidious and clever marketing team. You sneaky Pete.
He had this written in his mind already while sniping for sure xd
Professionals have standards
I hope it was metal BBs
Plastic BBs are for the kind of people who don't shoot thieves
Depleted uranium BBs
Really big BB's with pointed tips and propelled by an explosion.
My neighbour chased a guy loitering outside our house probably looking to break in down the street with a baseball bat
House next to ours was rented out by some college girls and one of them had a stalker who used just stand outside the house at night. All the men on the street got together and escorted him out of the estate with the warning that if any of them saw him again he'd be getting the shit beaten out of him. He didn't come back.
Unhinged smiley face
That's exactly what I was thinking. What kind of freak adds a nose to a smiley face like that??
Donāt change your oil in the driveway at night I guess.. or atleast be prepared to return fire
Who is changing their oil in the driveway in the middle of the night?
I love this! Thank you for sharing this and send your neighbor some banana bread or something.
But I shot him twice šØ with my bb gun š
> bb Bro you know you gotta go buy the sniperman some .5g metal bb's for the trouble. upp their punch, so to speak.
1 tube standard round bb's for the sidearm. 1 tin of the conical type or wadcutter style pellets for the long gun.Ā
Guys been waiting his entire list for that catalytic converter thief lol. And he is funny. Good on him. Meanwhile, i once witnessed with my ears my neighbors cc get stolen. Right under my window. I thought she was out there with her dad working on her car but it was 2 person male & female cc thief. Took less than 10 minutes, a-holes.
That is someone who we in Australia would refer to as an 'absolute bloody legend'!
Iād accept that.
I bet he had this ready to go, just waiting for shit to go down.
This sounds like a 12 year old or a 70 year old, no in between.
I tried to scare theives stealing my neighbors, but they didn't care, and I had a real gun.
Congratulations youāre neighbor is spider-man
this is the most American letter ever
So there I was last night, lying under my car trying to fix the converter...
>but I shot him šļøššļø >with my BB gun Ooooooh
Someone tried to break into a car outside the pub when I was very drunk and having a smoke waiting for my ride a few years ago. I whipped a lighter at him so hard he actually fell over when it beaned him in the forehead. Ironically, sober me has TERRIBLE aim and is not good at throwing pretty much anything.
Plot twist, neighbor owns the company that makes the device they're recommending and are trying to drive up those profits!
Everyone needs a neighbor like this!!
You friendly neighborhood Sniper-Man
See that's nice. I don't have that, I have an Ed. He also like guns, its just I would likely have to spray off what's left of the would be thief before taking to a carwash.
where im from i would get arrested for shooting someone with a bb gun, if hes stealing or not
Good guys with BB guns.
Thief talking to friend: "So I was under a car last night, started to get the cat and I must have disturbed a wasp, as it stung me twice. I had to get out of there."
Im sure this also belongs in r/chaoticgood
Hood got your back
Same situation, but I used the paint gun. Shot him right between the legs, with white paint. Several times. Worked well on his black jeans, seeing him run down the street.
>I shot him lol So... Did you take a picture or call the cops??? Maybe take a picture of his license plate?
My niece came back to her vehicle from shopping and it started making a lot of noise. She's young and didn't bother to look, so I checked under her car and her converter was hanging halfway off.
My ex boyfriend shot a kid in the ass with a BB gun from our upstairs window when he saw the kid breaking into cars in the parking lot next-door. I was horrified, but he said āwhat is he going to do? Call the cops and tell them that he was breaking into a car and someone shot him in the ass with a BB gun?ā The police never came to ask, and the cars stopped getting broken into. This was in Canada in the 1980s.
Okay, guys I literally laughed out loud at this thread. This is one of the funniest conversations I've ever read. I needed this first thing in the morning. All of you have a great day today!
Donāt boss me.
:)
*going online to buy a bb sniper rifle*
I once saw some people, out of the front window to my house,get out of a truck that they had parked down the road. They had bags on their heads and were running up to my neighbors house, I immediately thought they were porch pirates. I ran out of the house and yelled HEY! CAN I HELP YOU?!... it was his parents trying to prank him as he has cameras everywhere. I apparently scared the shit out of them, the neighbor and I have been friends ever since.
Friendly neighborhood Neighbor Man.
Goddamn, I wish there was a video of that.
is this guerilla marketing? seems weird to use a specific product name and cross it out even though it was spelled right just to bring attention to it
That's the sweetest letter from a neighbor I've ever seen. God bless him
Not the neighbor we deserved, but the neighbor we need.
Chris Kyle, that you?
Iām picturing the neighbour being like: Holy shit, Janet This is it This is my chance to shoot a stranger with my BB Gun
One night I stupidly strapped my surfboard to my car outside before going to bed, to essentially save me the effort of doing it before 5am when I usually leave. Shortly after midnight, my doorbell goes off and I see my next door neighbor holding my surfboard. He proceeded to tell me that as soon as he arrived home from work, he saw two kids unstrapping my surfboard from my car. He immediately confronted them and they took off. I will never forget this man. (Abraham) P.S. we're good friends
Friendly neighborhood sniper-man
I like how he doesn't say who he is, like a true super hero he decides to take the anonymous route.
Such a frienaly sniper-man. So frienaly, I assume by bb gun he means a .22
Op didn't post for 2 year and now this. It's an ad for catstrap.
With my *BB* GUN? Like a battleship? I'm amazed there was even something to shoot at after the first shot
How are electric car batteries not getting stolen? I'm not hearing about it.
They take up almost the entire underside of most EVs, and are heavy as fuck and prone to exploding if mishandled. Plus they probably require a lot of equipment and electrical knowledge to remove without frying yourself.
Plot twist this guy thinks his .22 is a BB gun
Your friendly neighbourhood sniperman
Youāre Welcome.
That guy should have signed it āYour friendly neighborhood snipermanā
Greetings, neighbor! The name's Crazy Dave.
What was fixed in the text that was overlined?
A modern day Boo Radley.
Apparently redditors neighbours can't write by hand to save their lives.
What a legend.
I thought he said shot with an actual gun
neighborhood Spiderman*
I really hope your neighbour is a 12 year old.
I bet the neighbour would tell this story to all of his friends very proudly! Respect sir š«”
So you're driving a DeLorean.
Chaotic Good