Can we talk about something else? So, Hello. Hello out there. In any situation going wrong, a window of opportunity inevitably cracks open.

And in that small space of time before it is discovered and slammed shut,

the lives that may hang in the balance are at the mercy of those intuitive enough to climb through and save them.

If there is smoke, then there is fire, they say.

But wait, maybe it's just a harmless thing, maybe it's just somebody having themselves a little

cookout, smoking a stowgy while smoking some brisket.

Let's just hold a phone here a second, see if we can't detect a note of Hickory. There's a fine line between

optimistic thinking and foolish cowardly hesitation. I've been there, seen bruises on at-risk kids, noted a flinch when I reached over

them to grab a pencil. I've asked too late if everything was all right, hesitated to act

because of how uncomfortable the whole thing can be, to assume the worst.

But in these situations, moments where it's conceivable that someone is in trouble and needs an outsider to be brave enough,

intuitive enough, to act on their behalf, to climb in through that window of

opportunity and save them. There's no time for hesitation, no need for it, other than to give a prospective perpetrator the benefit of the doubt.

And anyone who has fostered a situation that creates any question about the well-being of those that are in their

charge or outright possession deserves no benefit.

What's the worst that can happen if you're wrong? If you climb through a perceived window of opportunity to help someone only to find that everything is fine?

You'll be commended for your concern is all, those that bristle that take offense to being questioned probably have something

to hide. Either that or they're just plain aggravated by busy bodies which is understandable but

better to be deemed a busy bodd than later feel responsible

for a dead bod. Welcome to Dark Topic. I'm your host, Jack Luna. This is episode 014, where there's smoke. So, Back in the late 90s a Connecticut teenager begins breaking into houses at night,

preferably with plenty of people sleeping within, a family to study to watch

over with his night vision goggles and listen to the breathe, thrilling in the feeling of power power knowing he could snatch all of that peace

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