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I'm surprised you didn't knock on their door yourself and say "hey, me and the other neighbors are concerned".
I'm also sure a motel has terms and conditions as well as faculty of its own. Calling someone wouldn't have been unforgiven.
I have a slightly different perspective/experience with police. I might not see their justification as perfect given they're appointed on a statehood basis and I don't see the state's authority as binding, but all my experiences with them have been somehow positive, more positive than I can say my experiences with civilians are, especially those who try to backseat drive how order in the world works. If I have a threshold like is asked, it's the time I called them to tell them a park faucet was broken and leaking, the kind people might use for a hose, and people were livid at me the next day when the faucet was barricaded with "out of order" barriers, like they'd rather massively waste a resource than give up an asset.
Interfering in a domestic dispute is a really, really good way to get assaulted.
Yeah, but it would be distress-based. I for one can't imagine myself not being human about things.
That's why you generally would want to call cops; it's supposed to be their job, and they're supposed to be trained to do shit like that. No, they often aren't, and don't do their job, but they're probably better equipped to deal with it than most non-police are.
I have gotten in the middle of something before--a driver in a huge pickup truck trying to run over a motorcyclist that he was angry at--and shit is not fun. It's one of the few times that I wish that I remembered to carry concealed regularly, or at all.
You say that like I didn't suggest something like that too.