I worked tech support for a streaming service for a couple years. Had a guy call in cause he couldn't log into his account (he was typing his password wrong on his TV). He was an absolutely terrible person. He was screaming awful things to me for 20 minutes while I was trying to help him.

After that call, I memorized his email. Every couple weeks I would pull up his account and log out of all devices.

Had a neighbor that would walk into my backyard, take my can of gas for my mower and put it in his car and mower and then return the can.

I found this out because I had begun to a little suspicious that this 5 gallon can was always nearly empty every time I went to mow the lawn and it was only like a 1 quart tank on the lawnmower!

This was back before cheap easy security cameras so I had to set up a WebCam from my laptop with motion detection software. Caught the guy going into the backyard literally five minutes after I left the house.

For the next week, every time I had to go to the bathroom, I would go in that gas can. Now full of urine, but still smells enough like gas to fool an idiot. Then I left it on the back patio again. Made a big show of checking the fluids in my car, packing a few bags. Made sure the neighbor knew I was getting ready to go on a trip and I’d be gone a while. Hoping he takes the bait.

I come back home in about an hour. (Car trouble 😉) The thief is in his front yard pulling the rope on his lawnmower so hard. It looks like he’s going to have a stroke. Turning bright, red and cursing. Later he gets in his car makes it a couple blocks up the road and it suddenly breaks down….

I check the gas can on my patio…empty!

The Dogon people who live around lake Antogo in Mali consider the lake to be sacred and only permit themselves to fish there once per year, they have a big ceremony where loads of people, mostly adult men, go in to the lake at once and catch as much as they can in their baskets amidst the good natured frenzy.

I've seen images from this ceremony posted with captions saying that the people are starving and they're so hungry they're fighting over the fish. Whilst there is some food insecurity in Mali, that's not what's happening in the pictures. It's a festival! The misleading captions annoy me because they're taking something joyous from a traditional African culture and twisting it to fit the 'poor Africa' narrative.