{"id":25,"date":"2007-07-02T11:04:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T15:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/07\/02\/should-i\/"},"modified":"2007-07-02T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T15:04:55","slug":"should-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2007\/07\/02\/should-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m often the one to close up at work. We share a long &#8216;driveway&#8217; with another business, which is now out of business. From time to time&#8211;maybe about two times a month&#8211;there&#8217;ll be a car sitting, facing us, in the parking lot of the neighboring business. They&#8217;re far enough away that I&#8217;m not too concerned for my safety: if they were to come after me, I could get into my car long before they got to me\/it.<\/p>\n<p>Being the paranoid person I am, though, I always worry that they&#8217;re waiting until I leave to rob the place. So I&#8217;ll typically drive away and then come back a couple minutes later, although I don&#8217;t drive up the access road\/driveway, I just carry on the main road as if I weren&#8217;t snooping on them. They&#8217;re often there for 10-15 minutes, and, when they&#8217;re gone, I&#8217;ll drive back up to make sure they&#8217;re not somewhere on our property. Tonight I was able to jot down their license plate, although I worry they may have noticed that I drove by at like 2 MPH and noticed me noticing them.\nThis time, as I drove by after leaving, I noticed another car pulling in. I drove by a bit, turned around, and went by again, as the two cars were leaving.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> always the same car(s), but it <em>is<\/em> always the same spot. They&#8217;re clearly not (thus far) looking to rob me \/ my business, nor are they doing anything else obviously nefarious. However, it still seems <em>incredibly<\/em> suspicious to be waiting in your car in the parking lot of a deserted business at 1am.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my question: what do I do? I&#8217;ve been tempted to call the police and report it as a suspicious car, but I can never decide if I should.<\/p>\n<ul>\n    <li>They may well be doing nothing wrong. The police would be obligated to check it out, in which case I&#8217;m sicking the police on people who are doing nothing wrong.<\/li>\n    <li>They may well be doing something wrong. It&#8217;s not breaking into my business, and it&#8217;s not mugging me, but it&#8217;s really pretty suspicious. (Selling drugs seems the most likely explanation, although all the evidence I have of that is that they&#8217;re sitting in an abandoned parking lot and meeting someone at 1am&#8230; Hardly proof.)\n<ul>\n    <li>The police would be obliged to investigate and would probably catch wind of what was going on. A vote for calling them in.<\/li>\n    <li>It&#8217;s not like the suspicious cars don&#8217;t know where I work and what type of car I drive&#8230; Even though I always park right in front of one of the security cameras, I&#8217;d still hate to come out of work a few days later and find my tires slashed and my car egged.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So do I call the cops next time or not?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m often the one to close up at work. We share a long &#8216;driveway&#8217; with another business, which is now out of business. 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