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<p>[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 1532471, member: 36230"]Fine points all, but there is a very big difference between alerting security to someone simply sitting in a car and stating that they are "watching people come and go". Everyone handles things differently, and there is no guarantee that security is not going to take an assumption as fact. Unless there is good and valid reason to believe the person is up to no good, care should be taken with such reports, and even then the same could be accomplished without the finger pointing.</p><p><br /></p><p>This really is no different that someone seeing a guy sitting in his car near a playground, and instead of reporting just what they saw, the person calls the cops and says the guy is selling drugs or trying to kidnap children. While there is nothing wrong with staying vigilant, there is when fear and/or assumptions turn into accusations.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Depending on the individual security person and how they interpreted the report, this could be a possible outcome. While Jim and most security may act in a professional, non confrontational manner, this does not mean all security will. I highly doubt anyone here would take kindly to being accused of stalking prey when in reality, they were simply sitting in their car waiting on friends, looking at coins, taking to their wife on the phone, whatever, and all because a possible assumption was (or may have been) reported as fact. This is why I asked (in my original post) how the OP knew what this guy was doing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BooksB4Coins, post: 1532471, member: 36230"]Fine points all, but there is a very big difference between alerting security to someone simply sitting in a car and stating that they are "watching people come and go". Everyone handles things differently, and there is no guarantee that security is not going to take an assumption as fact. Unless there is good and valid reason to believe the person is up to no good, care should be taken with such reports, and even then the same could be accomplished without the finger pointing. This really is no different that someone seeing a guy sitting in his car near a playground, and instead of reporting just what they saw, the person calls the cops and says the guy is selling drugs or trying to kidnap children. While there is nothing wrong with staying vigilant, there is when fear and/or assumptions turn into accusations. Depending on the individual security person and how they interpreted the report, this could be a possible outcome. While Jim and most security may act in a professional, non confrontational manner, this does not mean all security will. I highly doubt anyone here would take kindly to being accused of stalking prey when in reality, they were simply sitting in their car waiting on friends, looking at coins, taking to their wife on the phone, whatever, and all because a possible assumption was (or may have been) reported as fact. This is why I asked (in my original post) how the OP knew what this guy was doing.[/QUOTE]
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