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Treasure
Member
06-26-2002
| Tuesday, July 09, 2019 - 12:41 pm 
Oh, yes, I can do that, too. Thanks, Kar.
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Kookliebird
Member
08-04-2005
| Tuesday, July 09, 2019 - 1:39 pm
Never click on a link in an email. Always go directly to the website or call them about the email.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 09, 2019 - 1:42 pm
It definitely could be a scam. Well in this case it is for sure a scam..
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Heckagirl631
Member
09-08-2010
| Tuesday, July 09, 2019 - 4:34 pm
I get emails like this occasionally. I just go directly to my paypal account. There is never anything wrong.
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Jmm
Moderator
08-15-2002
| Tuesday, July 09, 2019 - 5:26 pm
I love getting those e-mails - I don't have a paypal account. LOL
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, July 09, 2019 - 5:39 pm
LOL, Jmm, I too get a lot of those type emails for accounts I don't have.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Tuesday, July 09, 2019 - 6:08 pm
I get iTunes all the time. No account.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 10:01 am
I live in a residential area. Commercial street is not far. DVM is very close. I do not like LOUD cars. Don't hear them often, but sometimes . . . . Learned a new term this morning. LOUD cars not having an exhaust problem are "hobby cars". Owner / driver not a kid -- a little older, 20s, 30s.
Recently heard one go by my window time or two. Then when I was out walking the dog -- LOUD car. It went one direction, then another. Noticed it at a stoplight. I thought when the light turns green, it's gonna . . . . It was LOUD. It turned left onto street where I live. So where's it going. Into a driveway / garage not far from where I live. So I have the address. Got home. Do I report to police? I called. Asked if police keep record of LOUD cars. No. So I didn't report. Then thought police probably don't get reports because when you see / hear LOUD cars, can't get plate numbers so have nothing to I.D. cars. So I called back and reported. Police came to talk to me and then said he was going to talk to car owner down the street. So my question: Would you report LOUD car.
Related question I'm curious about. I'm in the Chicago 'burbs. I don't know if it's true in more of the Chicago area or any place else in the country -- for Quality of Life problems (e.g. dog barking, LOUD cars, etc), here you call 911. When they answer "What is your emergency?", answer "Quality of life call." How 'bout where you are -- call 911?
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 10:31 am
Barking dogs and loud cars are not emergencies, calling 911 for those things is not appropriate. Use the non emergency number for the police department for this type of thing.
I thought I read something recently where some cities were starting to impose fines for people using 911 improperly. This was for the type of calls for instances such as not getting all your chicken nuggets...
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Sugar
Member
08-15-2000
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 10:34 am
I am not aware of any place that has a Quality of Life, noise type things where one uses 911 and was surprised to read in the post that Chicago does.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 10:36 am
Yeah, we don't have that either. We have an information line for all non-emergency calls.
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Mack
Member
07-22-2002
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 10:41 am
We have a non-emergency police phone number. They like, actually request, you use it to even report car accidents where there are no injuries.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 10:48 am
I have posted before about how i watch live cameras of volcanoes. well one of them blew and I missed it, luckily, there is a time lapse option for the last 24 hours near the top that allows you to see the past, If you want to see Stromboli blow.
the near camera - not great because it gets all smoky
http://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/sicilia/messina/stromboli.html
the far camera
https://www.skylinewebcams.com/en/webcam/italia/sicilia/messina/stromboli-sciara-del-fuoco.html
one person got killed, another injured, the island was evacuated, people are already coming back. but the thing that cracked me up ws an article that said many tourists ran into the sea to escape the volcano.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 10:53 am
I think in Dallas it is a 411 number. Or 611. I don't live in Dallas anymore so I wouldn't have ever called it.
In Dallas calling 911 is for life threatening emergencies, not nuisance issues.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 10:57 am
I'm in Du Page County -- 'burbs west of Chicago. It may be this county only?
Don't say "do not use 911 for quality of life / non-emergency calls. WHERE I AM, YOU DO!!! Seems strange, but that is what is done here.
A few years ago I went through the Lombard Citizens Police Academy. That's where I first learned this. There is NO non-emergency number for police.
Looks like not true any place else in the country. I wonder about other parts of the Chicago area?
What about my other question -- would you report LOUD car(s) if you could identify the car?
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 11:27 am
About the loud car, no. I guess is someone was deliberately making a nuisance of themselves by tearing up and down the street deliberately annoying the neighbors I would consider it, but as a general rule no (I used to have a neighbor who rode a scooter back and forth but as long as she quit doing so by 10 p.m. I never said anything...not to mention that she ended up running into my (legally) parked car and throwing herself off one night - just proves you shouldn't drink and drive!). I have been tempted to call on dogs before but fortunately those neighbors moved.
I'm pretty sure that there is no law against driving loud cars, at least not where I live. I'm just happy if people wait until 7 am on a Saturday or Sunday morning to start mowing their yards.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 1:15 pm
there are if you deliberately make it loud by removing the muffler.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 2:38 pm
Sadiesmom, maybe that could be the case. IDK.
Regarding quality of life calls to 911. I e-mailed DU-COMM. This is their reply:
"Yes, DU-COMM dispatches for all calls regarding well-being concerns."
DU-COMM
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 2:40 pm
I think the difference therein lies in the fact that by deliberately removing your muffler you are rendering your car in a state that is justifiably reportable...here in Texas we have a lot of loud vehicles but they are street legal. But no, having said that, unless a car was doing donuts in front of my house at 2 am to deliberately ignore me I'm not going to call the authorities. I really don't want to cause myself any stress with my neighbors@
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 3:02 pm
The problem is that the idiots doing donuts and street racing in loudc(or any) vehicles, also tend to cause accidents.
Those people are discussed in Nextdoor.com here.
Our city has listings of numbers, including noise issues.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 9:40 pm
In my city of 85,000 people in western Washington state, we don't seem to have a non-emergency number for calling the police, and the police officers who post on Facebook and NextDoor say it is okay to call 911 for non-emergency crimes. I will occasionally call to report what looks like gang graffiti, even though we don't seem to have gangs in our town. When I call, I immediately say, "this is not an emergency, so feel free to drop me if another call comes in." They always say it's fine and to go ahead with my report.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, July 12, 2019 - 12:48 am
We have three numbers for grafitti.. The city, the County and the district that controls the floor control canals.
We had a bunch of graffiti in that channel recently and quite a discussion ensued o NextDoor, including "oh, boys will be boys", said by someone who couldn't see the graffiti from their neighborhood. Not to mentioned that even we could see it was van graffiti.
Anyway someone called and some of it on cinderblock walls was painted over, then I called on some down on the canal wall. The only part residents had to handle was on a vinyl extension of the fence.
https://www.fountainvalley.org/9/How-Do-I
One of our pages, another has tons of phone numbers..
My city has about 56,000.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Friday, July 12, 2019 - 6:24 am
Many years ago I remember a non-emergency number for police in the phonebook. (Remember phonebooks?  ) Not a number you had to call often. Then during Citizens Police Academy we had a tour of DU-COMM. As I said, that's when I learned about calling 911 for quality of life calls, etc.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Friday, July 12, 2019 - 11:18 am
So you all made me curious and I googled City of Dallas Quality of Life and apparently this is a committee that has just recently been formed (or at least their agendas only go back for about a year). Of course I don't actually live in the City of Dallas so it really doesn't apply to me.
The City of Crandall's way of handling it would be for you to go and talk to your neighbor and try to read a compromise before you go to the authorities...or post it on the neighborhood Facebook pages, which seems to be where all the disgruntled comments get posted!
After hours and weekend we don't even have local 911 service - it is directed to the County.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, July 12, 2019 - 11:55 am
I think most places urge the compromise approach with neighbors re dogs, music, noise, but it can be dangerous and frustrating.
At my last condo, the city had more gang problems and we were subjected to loud music, parties and gunshots at times.
I had a street in back of our small complex where now and then there would be a party that was loud in an ear bleeding was.. As in giant speakers, strobe lights, booze and they went late.
I called on one a block away only after hours of noise. Called the non emergency number, and it was stopped. Then I had one right in back of me and naturally they put the stage, sound and light system blaring mariachi music right by my back fence. Under my bedroom window.
Windows were rattling, walls were thumping. I could look down and see the party. After 5 hours, when it was 1am, I looked and guys were arriving with cases of bottles of booze. The music was still going. I called 911 and let them hear it. They came out and it got quiet and then someone banged on my door, having gotten into our gated complex and through a window told me I had to let them play a little bit more!
I was the only one not afraid to call. The police told me they were fine with a 911 call on these parties and preferred to nip things in the bud early on.
But it really is up to each city and each police chief.
Thankfully, I was able to move away and eventually sell that condo!
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