Think I Just Witnessed a Crime

[OGKooosh]

This is my first time post in TDS so if this doesn't belong here please feel free to move it.

I live on the 5th floor of an on campus apartment facing two large parking lots at my university. In addition to facing the parking lots the entrance to my building is under my room so i when i stay up late sometimes i catch the riff raff coming in schwasted. probably once a weekend if im up late enough with no head phones i hear a few come at me bros followed by nothing happening because to be real most college kids arent big fighters from what i've seen.
TL;DR when i stay up late i hear drunk people on the weekends

however, tonight i was hearing yelling for the second time. then i heard a lot of different voices. they sounded more frantic than drunk college kids talking shit(which i've heard my share of where i live). at that point i jumped up in in my bed to look out my window and saw a car full of people piling into a car, the shouting had pretty much stopped at that point and it looked like someone could have been put in the car and i could have heard a muffled noise or sream. Now I'm 5 stories up and probably 100 yards from the parking lot where i saw this happened. I called the cops cause i've been the victim of a few crimes but i really couldnt offer much help considering im not even entirely sure what i saw. i told them i thought i saw a kid napping.
TL;DR from a distance in the dark i couldnt see much but i think i could have witnessed a kidnapping

i mean since i doubt an arrest will be made and i'll probably never hear back from the police i can only hope i didnt just witness a successful abduction. since this is bluelight largely a harm reduction website for drugs you can imagine i also fear the law to some extent. this incident is also going to create a paranoia that an officer will follow up with me unannounced and come across paraphernalia in my room. basically did i do the right thing, did i endanger myself for a crime that may never be solved, can someone make me feel better about possibly watching a rape in progress? shit makes me sick, if this is too much of a blog post please feel free to do away with it. i just have to write this somewhere, thanks.

 

[freddy47]

^My friend let me be the first to congratulate you on your courage. You did the right thing there is no doubt, whether or not what you actually witnessed was a kidnapping or not. You did what you thought was right and that is that.

I have a friend who witnessed a couple frat guys take a passed out drunk girl into their car. He never forgave himself for not doing something about it.

As for endangering yourself. Just keep your shit hidden well in the next week possibly even month. Cops who come to question you are likely not looking to bust a citizen for reporting something as serious as this. That would set a bad precedent. Cops arresting people for calling them about crimes? That wouldn't go well with the local papers.

Be on the safe side though. Just keep your shit hidden for the next month or so. Keep an eye on the local news for missing persons reports.

Again you did the right thing. Don't worry yourself about that.

 

[muvolution]

You should already be living in such a manner that a visit from the cops wouldn't matter. I would recommend cleaning up your room if you need to. Just because you are a drug user does not mean you are released from your civic duties - it was absolutely the right thing to do to call the cops.

 

[jaurk]

Wow, takes courage to call the cops.
We have an anonymous cop line here in oz.
I hope it all works out for oyu, that's pretty scary.

 

[badfish45]

Clean up your room of course; syringes, pipes, bongs, straws, traces of drugs, any other paraphernalia (because I don't know what you use). Even though they aren't going to come to inspect your house for drugs (and in this case you don't even have to let them inside your room). Unfortunately, bad people get away with crimes like this everyday, all the time. Calling the police however has offered them an outlet on to what exactly happened, so once people are seen missing, the police will start to question where people were, and with luck somebody will drop the ball. But there's no telling, but please you did the right thing, so don't be upset.

 

[stardust.hero]

OG that was so brave of you! I can tell from your words what a kind compassionate soul you are. You did everything you could to help so don't beat yourself up over it.

I have been at bars or walking outside and seen drunk people, boy friend and girlfriend, groups of friends screaming and acting as if they are fighting, being hurt. A lot of the time drunk people "play" that way I've noticed. Lot's of screaming and shady looking business. I can only hope that is the case.

 

[OGKooosh]

bongs,

kind of a pain to hide but yeahh.

thanks for the kind words everyone, i couldnt help but feel like some what of nuisance calling the police with such little information. i've been the victim of a few random jumpings and couldnt let it happen to someone else.

would anyone care to share their experiences working with the cops, i do what i can to keep stuff hidden but if they were to show up unannounced i dont know how in my favor the odds are, i smoke more weed than i should and its something i've been working on. to be honest im ready to go back home and just chill, college is a double edge sword. at this point im just venting cause you guys made me feel so comfortable but thats probably a good thing so im done now. thanks guize

 

[DooMMooD]

Of course call the cops in a situation like that.

I have called the cops twice before. Once for what I thought was a burglary and once for downed electrical lines (no one else to call). Someone else said it, just because you do drugs doesn't release you from civic duty.

And someone else said it right too, make it so that the cops cant send you to jail. Or keep it the way you are and risk that, thats the obvious risk you run doing drugs (jail); they are illegal, and every time you buy one or acquire one somehow you are committing a crime.

I personally think youre being super paranoid though. I doubt they will come to your house and I doubt anything truly bad happened.