Army guys

i live on song shan rd right smack in 四獸山. right in front of my apartment is a huge mountain with hiking trails, lots of dense brush etc… it’s quite nice. however, at the base of the mountain over a little wall there sits an area with a little cement dwelling, a few lamp posts, and always 2 or 3 army guys. they sit on the lawn or sometimes fiddle around inside the little cement house. the thing that bothers me is that i’m on the rooftop and everytime i go outside to hang laundry or just chill they insist on shouting “HALLO” which makes me wonder if they are perched there with binoculars. it’s quite unsettling because they are always looking up in the direction of my apartment. although they are across the street and down in their little area, it’s quite open and i can see if they are facing my apartment. I fume at the thought that they might have binoculars and are nothing but a bunch of peeping toms. I don’t even know what purpose they serve but they are there every single day without fail.

and how does one go about telling army guys to stop shouting and stop watching me when i’m outside?

Don’t walk around nude.

[Would you walk around naked if you could?

Maybe we now know what kind of fiddling’s going on :laughing:

In the same way one goes about stopping gravity.

Be cool, ignore them, get good curtains and tall plants.

Bored Army guys, powerful Army binoculars, boredom, -lesbians? , boredom, males, boredom, yelling at her seems to make her excited (excitement revealed by binoculars to be agitation is the mother lode for bored guys), boredom…:bulb:

:laughing:

If they’re always doing that and it’s done in a way that makes you uncomfortable, I would say that’s harassment. Maybe you should complain. I mean these are the guys who are supposed to be protecting us against evil. Right?

They are weird. I saw them today. One just stood there for an hour playing with a stick. Luckily the stick didn’t get any longer.

That place is an Army outpost. The Army guys are on duty. Used to be places like this every mile or so in the 60’s and 70’s. They used to live there in the past. They also used to have gardens planted to give them some veggies to go with their rice. Four legged concrete posts about 20 foot high with a platform and an AA gun used to be scattered all over the landscape. all of them with their little live in garrison of 2 or 3 soldiers.

[quote=“Shin-Gua”]That place is an Army outpost. The Army guys are on duty. quote]

why would there be an army outpost on a random mountain street in taipei?

[quote=“Shin-Gua”]That place is an Army outpost. The Army guys are on duty. quote]

why would there be an army outpost on a random mountain street in taipei?

why would there be an army outpost on a random mountain street in Taipei?[/quote]

Why not? It’s their country.

I’ve found that curtains are a good way to foil the prying eyes of neighbors.

They have to put all those draftees somewhere.

They’re bored (and horny) young guys, stuck in a box for a year and a half. Their behaviour is not surprising.

Brian

No… You go to the clergy for protection from evil, or maybe to get a dose of it.

why would there be an army outpost on a random mountain street in Taipei?[/quote]

Why not? It’s their country.[/quote]

:unamused: realize that… just wondering why… seems like a very random place to station a few army idiots who don’t even have the decency to DO their job but rather watch me hang laundry or sit and have a beer… they can’t see IN my house but when i’m on the front porch it’s a free forall.

[quote=“Comrade Stalin”]Don’t walk around nude.

[Would you walk around naked if you could?

Maybe DO walk around nude and they’ll stop.

[quote=“Flicka”][quote=“Comrade Stalin”]Don’t walk around nude.

[Would you walk around naked if you could?

Maybe DO walk around nude and they’ll stop.[/quote]

Now [i]that[/i] is cold! :bravo: :laughing: :laughing:

Make friends with 'em.

The reason they were scattered all over the place was two fold:

  1. No transportation required if you live at your gun position. Also, a quick reaction time in case of a crisus.
  2. The local population was considered hostile at one time, so station a few troops among them to keep order.
    :sunglasses:

While I understand that being gawked at is uncomfortable and disrespectful; nobody wants to feel out of sorts in their own home, you may want to consider that seing you is the high point in their otherwise dreadful day.

Try to shrug it off.

Or maybe sit or your patio with a few friends drink beer on a really hot day point at them and laugh while you guzzle your ice cold beer…

:wink: just kidding

Give them something to look at. Arrange discretely for large quantities of Russian sailor porn to be dropped off at their home using one of those messenger services.