I really hope it doesn’t come down to a Wild West scenario. I think we are far from that, but you never know in our society. ....
Agree we're likely far from "Wild West." Honestly, I don't think we've all lost our marbles as much as the press is trying to make out.
That said, this
is an unprecedented time. You're more likely to be scammed or hacked right now than anything else. Cyber Criminals and Scammers are LOVING this. All the work-remotely stuff makes an even MORE target-rich environment (it "creates a larger attack surface" as we cool guys like to say). (I actually had a credit-card get put on hold a couple weeks ago and forgot about it. I called the company yesterday - Synchrony Bank of all places - and got to talking to the CSR. The lady said that her team wasn't allowed to work from home for cyber-security reasons.)
That said, even in my quiet little town, there's always the possibility of a ne'er do well coming through the area and randomly selecting MY house as the one that they decide to loot and pillage.
I always recall an incident from a couple years after we moved into this sleepy, older subdivision. I was standing outside talking to my buddy when a car that definitely didn't belong in our neighborhood made three slow, loud (no muffler) laps around our 1/2 mile subdivision in broad daylight. My neighbor two doors down happened to be out filming something with his camcorder and made a point of aiming it at the car.
The dude in the car went bananas. He stopped in the middle of the road and jumped out of his car with the door left open. He started screaming at my neighbor that he couldn't take his picture and that he was going to call the cops.
My buddy and I (neither very big, athletic, or fighters for that matter) figured we could down this skinny, scraggly looking guy if we had to so we started cautiously making our way across the gap between us to show support. I was staring at the guys hands but they were empty and he was just waving them around.
By the time we had closed the gap, our new "friend" was back in his car and speeding away giving us all the finger. We all exchanged glances (and made sure we all had the complete license plate [HASH=410]#)[/HASH] and went on with our day.
It was at that moment that I realized that it doesn't matter what kind of neighborhood you live in. Outsiders can come in and you're not sitting there 24/7 watching. So yeah, I think no matter what kind of neighborhood you live in, you should keep an argument close at hand - especially now.