KevinCow said:
Vigilantism? Really? Stepping in when you see something that is clearly wrong and within your power to stop isn't vigilantism, it's basic fucking human decency.
Where does the "well it's not my problem so I'll ignore it" mindset end for you? Seeing a 5-year-old getting beaten up? Seeing a 5-year-old getting molested? Seeing a murder about to take place? If your answer remains, "No, I would not intervene in any of these situations even if it was completely within my power to do so," then I'm sorry, you're a completely immoral asshole.
your mistake is convoluting 'doing the right thing' with 'ignoring it'. ignoring it would be to stick your hands in your pockets, walk away and tell your wife you had a quiet uneventful day. Doing the right thing was to ensure that the criminals were caught. they are not the same thing.
Dude Abides said:
Oh, do tell us all about your decades of experience working bank security, bouncing at clubs, and driving Brink's trucks,
my 21-year-old college student friend.
sure thing, I was hired on to a bar at age 17, worked there for about a year and a half, technically illegally as i was underage and working past 9 o'clock. after that job i was hired on with G4S which had just bought out securicors armoured car devision, i did not work on the cars but a friend of mine who had an armed guard license did, not much eventful happened but he was pissed when there was that hubub about one of the armed guards being fired. don't recall her name, but Hamilton's a small city so it'd be easy to look up. anyway i spent about a month running between niagra, Hamilton and st. catherines general hospitals before doing a short gig at... ah fuck i forget the name, but its a fiberglass mine just outside hamilton airport. GSC or CSC or something. anyway the supervisor on site recommended be over to Hamilton specialty bar which had just gone out of business. I spent the rest of my time there, supervising the abandoned steelworks mill out of the scale-house and later a small shack by the transformers. it was a sweet gig but we always had thieves or drunken kids breaking in, they were easily scared off though. nothing messy.
anyway, IIRC us steal bought out the bar and i lost my position to a more senior officer so i quit and worked a night shift at a toys r us for awhile, nothing really relevant here. nowadays i work part-time as a bouncer at the college bar after the regular college security close up shop. [save for two officers at the front desks]
banking knowledge comes primarily from the fact that both my mother and grandmother are former branch managers, one of which currently works at a central accounting unit in auditing.
is that sufficient?
believe it or not, not all of us get by as 21 year old college students on our parents dime, my little man child.
