Random Unthreadworthy Questions

[KQ]

It's 11:20pm and I just heard 2 gun shots (hand gun). Should I call non-emergency?

No screaming or anything but def. Not normal.

[skiJ]

what did you decide, KQ (?)

My thought this morning is,
Call your neighbor - especially if you see lights On - and just say,
' I am just calling to make sure everyone is okay - I believe I just heard gunshots... '


Good luck ! skiJ

[Meadow Skipper]

It's 11:20pm and I just heard 2 gun shots (hand gun). Should I call non-emergency?

No screaming or anything but def. Not normal.

That would have kept me awake for a while.

[Touring_Sedan]

Of everyone in our neighborhood who "heard a gunshot" actually heard a gunshot our homicide rare would rival Chicago's.

[riser4]

I trust KQ to know the difference.

[old goat]

Probably someone shooting at varmints. Like our friend who years ago ran out of the house naked and started blasting the noisy bullfrogs in his pond with a shotgun. While his kids watched.

[KQ]

what did you decide, KQ (?)

My thought this morning is,
Call your neighbor - especially if you see lights On - and just say,
' I am just calling to make sure everyone is okay - I believe I just heard gunshots... '


Good luck ! skiJ

My neighbors are far away. All I could tell is that it was north of me on the otherside of the river.

I just let it go. Figured I documented the time so if it was something bad I could at least tell someone when and what I heard.

[KQ]

I trust KQ to know the difference.

Yup. I could tell you if it was a hand gun, shot gun or rifle.

So quiet out here it's hard to miss.

[riser4]

Yup. I could tell you if it was a hand gun, shot gun or rifle.

So quiet out here it's hard to miss.

What about a pistol shooting snake shot? Or a shotgun or rifle caliber "pistol"? Or a pistol caliber rifle? Hmmm, can you distinguish those?

[Buzzworthy]

Of everyone in our neighborhood who "heard a gunshot" actually heard a gunshot our homicide rare would rival Chicago's.

We also live in a city full of city folk.
But yeah the amount of “was that a gun shot” on the apps is beyond ridiculous.

[Ted Striker]

It's pretty much every day in my town. About 80% are hoonigan fart cans, 10% fireworks, and 9% transformers exploding.

[old goat]

It's pretty much every day in my town. About 80% are hoonigan fart cans, 10% fireworks, and 9% transformers exploding.

Exactly the reverse here. And every time a squirrel BBQs itself during fire season it takes hours to get the power back on because they turn off the auto resets and have to visually inspect the entire circuit. Better than having Truckee go the way of Lahaina I suppose.

[nickwm21]

Do I really need a will?

Wife and a young kid. Life insurance policy thru work. Bank accounts are jointly held. Wife is listed as 100% beneficiary on the investment accounts.


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[Core Shot]

Do I really need a will?

Wife and a young kid. Life insurance policy thru work. Bank accounts are jointly held. Wife is listed as 100% beneficiary on the investment accounts.


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It does make it quicker and easier for her.
Just print a free interwebs will for your state and get two witnesses. It’s not that hard.

[Meadow Skipper]

Do I really need a will?

Wife and a young kid. Life insurance policy thru work. Bank accounts are jointly held. Wife is listed as 100% beneficiary on the investment accounts.

House, vehicles, etc? Yes to the will. It shortens and eases probate and all that legal shit.

[old goat]

A will and a trust are different, at least in CA. A will just says who gets what but doesn't bypass probate and all that legal shit. That's what a trust is for. They're popular here because the lawyers get a percent of the estate if it goes through probate. In your situation I would think a will would be useful for making sure your kid gets your estate when your wife dies, rather than her next husband's kids.

[anotherVTskibum]

House, vehicles, etc? Yes to the will. It shortens and eases probate and all that legal shit.

Probably depends on the state, but real estate helps with the right type of deed passes to other listed owner(s) without further ado. I think it's "joint tenancy with right of survivorship", but IANAL. Key point is that--at least for the people I knew who dealt with it--they simply became full owners of jointly held real estate, no need to deal with probate or anything else, including taxes.

A will is likely a good idea, and while you're at it, make sure to have primary and secondary power of attorney setup.

[Meadow Skipper]

A will is likely a good idea, and while you're at it, make sure to have primary and secondary power of attorney setup.

And a living will for that matter.

[Mustonen]

Joint ownership with rights of survivorship makes the big stuff easier. Wills for all the stuff that isn’t easily titled as such. Important to remember that joint ownership doesn’t mean 50%; it means all and nothing at the same time. You wouldn’t try to define what happens with your share of a home jointly titled when you kick off your mortal coil, because your interest evaporates the moment that happens.

I’d trust my wife to make reasonable decisions about our stuff even if she had more kids with the next guy. If that’s your concern, though, I think you’d want to find a different vehicle than real estate and similar to protect their inheritance, or look into giving the stuff to your kids now and giving yourself and her life estate rights. That means you get to live there/use it until you die, but you don’t have an ownership interest for anybody to spar over.

Joint titling of vehicles creates some liability concerns, such that a lawsuit can attach to property that you own even if it’s your wife’s vehicle and she’s the one who was texting and drunk and ran over that poor guy with 12 kids.

[RShea]

Do I really need a will?

Wife and a young kid. Life insurance policy thru work. Bank accounts are jointly held. Wife is listed as 100% beneficiary on the investment accounts.


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Not to sound morbid but, What would happen if you and your wife both die at the same time or very close together? The young kid is not going to be able to do any of the required stuff, so while some may say you do not if joint with rights to survivorship if you die and she does not and all the stuff going to your wife, a will would make it easier on her in most all states.

At least discuss with a lawyer and get their opinion on things like Living Will, Trust, Power of Attorney issues, etc.

[jm2e]

Advance Directive/Medical Power of Attorney: doesn’t need to have anything more than a Primary Decision Maker and a Successor Decision Maker. Doesn’t require a lawyer, a doctor or even a notary. Just a couple witnesses. Takes 2 minutes. Without it, you’re at the mercy of whatever arbitrary code that state dictated.
Examples I’ve personally seen:
1) Husband and wife on ventilators with COVID. 18 year old kid is oldest child and only “adult. She’s the one deciding whether to pull the plug or keep mom/dad around as a vegetable.
2) Wife on ventilator. Been separated from hubby for 10 years because he abused her. Now he’s in jail. They’re legally married, so he’s the state designated decision maker. Kids have zero say.
3) Parent on ventilator after car crash. One daughter was driving, and she’s in jail because she was drunk. Other daughter wants to pull the plug on brain dead mom. Daughter in jail won’t let her because if mom dies it’ll be manslaughter for her. They each get an equal vote in the decision.

So yea, get your shit together.

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[old goat]

When we did our trust the thing we gave the most attention to was who would take care of our kids if we both died.

[Danno]

I’d trust my wife .

You're remarried?

[lowsparkco]

When we did our trust the thing we gave the most attention to was who would take care of our kids if we both died.

I need to draft and notarize one just for this reason. My wife asked about it a couple of times right after our daughter was born, now nearly 5 months later I needed a reminder. Thanks.

[Bunion 2020]

I have little to no fashion sense and DGAF. For the past 30 years I fit into Carhartt pants, size 32-32. Then seemingly over night I can bare squeeze my ass into 34-32s. And it isn't that I have put on weight around the middle (I have), it is that my hips seem to have widened.

WTF?