My neighbor... the sexual offender

[IRescue452]

My guess is his girlfriend got mad at him, judging by the 3rd degree and short sentence. Don't let your guard down, but don't rate him in the same category as child predators either. That's not fair since you don't know his story. I have a relative who's a sex offender for being with a 17 year old when he was 18 or 19. She got mad at him. Sure he was stupid for being with somebody underage, but he isn't a child molestor and he isn't predatory. Get an alarm system if you don't already have one. And don't use a toxic chemical like wasp spray on anybody unless you want to be charged and sent to prison yourself.

[Karen]

My guess is his girlfriend got mad at him, judging by the 3rd degree and short sentence. Don't let your guard down, but don't rate him in the same category as child predators either. That's not fair since you don't know his story. I have a relative who's a sex offender for being with a 17 year old when he was 18 or 19. She got mad at him. Sure he was stupid for being with somebody underage, but he isn't a child molestor and he isn't predatory. Get an alarm system if you don't already have one. And don't use a toxic chemical like wasp spray on anybody unless you want to be charged and sent to prison yourself.

If you look at his age (currently 38) the date of the offense (2002) and that the other party involved had to be between the ages of 13 and 17, I doubt it was a "girlfriend mad at him" situation, frankly.

[ramanth]

Never hired a broker. HUD hires local realty companies to sell the properties. According to HUD the home appraised at $25K and that was what it was sold at. Was the fact that Mike lived next door the reason it was appraised so low? Not sure.

I'm sure having a known offender can lower the price of a home...that I don't doubt. I'm just saying I'm not sure if the government (HUD) cared.

What's done is done. I'm not moving.

[pomtzu]

I'm confused!
You can't use wasp spray for self defense, but you can use a gun??? That doesn't make a whole lot of good sense to me! If someone were to break in my home and threaten to kill me, I would use whatever was at hand to protect myself.

[Lady's Human]

I'm confused!
You can't use wasp spray for self defense, but you can use a gun??? That doesn't make a whole lot of good sense to me! If someone were to break in my home and threaten to kill me, I would use whatever was at hand to protect myself.

Guns (hence bullets) have immediate effects. shoot perp, perp goes to ER, perp might live, might die, but the effects of gunshots are pretty well known and dealt with.

Wasp spray has some nasty chemicals in it. Long term medical effects are a crapshoot.

If someone attacked you in your garage and wasp spray happened to be what you had on hand, I don't think there would be any issues.

Someone attacks you in your kitchen, however, the question could be easily raised about why the wasp spray was in your kitchen.

Mace/pepper spray comes in small spray bottles designed for personal defense. (some of which shoot pretty far). Wasp Spray, however, is normally in a pretty unwieldy can.