nextdoor with vin diesel

In 2014, I was introduced to the online app Nextdoor.  If you are not familiar with Nextdoor, don't install it.  Essentially, it's a hyperlocal version of Facebook made up of your actual neighbors.  But like any social media, add in the minutia, the comments, the anger, the thinly veiled racism...

For additional reading and context I would suggest you view:

• ​Twitter's Best of Next Door. 
  
  • Read the Potato tweet.
• Cunningham's Internet Law
• Godwin's Internet Law

And now, on to Vin Diesel. 

In spring of 2014, the self-appointed mayor of our Nextdoor neighborhood posted that his newspaper had been stolen.  He was "pretty sure" that the roofers working in the area had taken it - it was there when he opened the windows first thing in the morning, and after he made coffee it was gone.   

A reasonable assumption, because when working on replacing shingles, one just wants to get caught up on world affairs. 

Mark the brown people square on your Nextdoor bingo card.  I let that one go.

​A few weeks later, he posted about a 'muscular, bald, darker skinned' man walking his dogs off-leash, and while the dogs were well-behaved, his wife and his dogs were very upset, and agitated by this and he felt menaced.  Now it's go time.

Reenactment of dog walker.

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A few days later, I posted the following - in Crime & Safety...
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He responded quickly.

One killjoy posted a Google reverse image search, and blew the gag that it was Vin Diesel.  Bummer.  

At this point, the post went 8 comments deep, and hit all the Nextdoor hot buttons: threatened lawsuits, fines, back and forth accusations, really classic stuff. 

​The next day, I posted this:

Guessing I had been muted or blocked by the original poster...

​There was one more post to go, and the payoff.

Yes - you read that right, the couple complaining about the dog off leash
- always walks with their dogs off leash. 

You can catch Vin Diesel next summer in Fast and Furious 9.