Coronavirus has people calling the police and shaming neighbors on social media [View all]
Source: Tampa Bay Times
Hillsborough County deputies arrived at the house in the Lake Magdalene area Friday night to find a crowd of 15 gathered around the wrestling ring in the front yard. Some were wearing costumes.
The deputies explained Florida’s stay-at-home order and the crowd dispersed, apparently before the main event.
People made hundreds of calls to law enforcement agencies across Tampa Bay over the past two weeks to complain about neighbors not following stay-at-home orders, at least as they saw it.
Often the officers arrived to find nothing enforceable going on. Sometimes the offenders had already left, and sometimes there was no offense to begin with. Other times they found clear violations, explained the issue, and people listened. Very few got more than a warning.
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This has been an issue in Clearwater. One of our neighbors had a pool party and got flamed on the neighborhood watch. It started a debate with the TP45 nuts.
In Floriduh, nothing is enforced (yet), so I wonder how long it will be before there is gun play.
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