Ancestry.com and Cap Gun Dad

The internet blog is the ideal platform for petty rants. With that in mind first we have Ancestry.com. They are now spamming their newsletter. If you click on unsubscribe it pretends to have worked but a few days later you get another newsletter. I thought that Ancestry.com actually had a good reputation but now I recommend adding it to your direct-to-trash filter list.

Then today I had a car pass me and a loud pop goes off in my ear. What the heck was that? The blue RAV4 that just passed me had an open passenger window. OK, it must be a cap gun. But then it turns into a no through road. Right, I'll survey the road and find who did it.

Little kid with his scooter and the "smoking gun" evidence on the garden wall. Yes, it was a little strip of caps.

I did try to explain that it was rude and a cowardly lack of respect to aim drive-by bangs at strangers. Dad should have then apologised and that would be the end of the matter. But instead I was told "didn't I have better things to do with my time" and that I should "get a life". Clearly I do not have better things to do so I took a picture of his car, a blue RAV4.

[UPDATE] I did put my version of the events to the police and they agreed to have a word with the person. The dad was at work but the wife did give her sincere apologies and ensured me that there was no malice involved. Now why couldn't dad have done that yesterday? Strangely enough the dad claimed responsibility for the "accidental" firing of the gun that he apparently didn't know was loaded. How he managed to fire at precisely the moment the car passed and through an open window is another mystery. I am sure that this is the end of the matter.