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comment by oyster
oyster  ·  2709 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Post-election spate of hate crimes worse than post-9/11, experts say

This one is pretty broad.

    He or she engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits acts which alarm or seriously annoy such other person and which serve no legitimate purpose.

I mean Christ read this one,

    Either (a) communicates with a person, anonymously or otherwise, by telephone, or by telegraph, mail or any other form of written communication, in a manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm

And this,

    Makes a telephone call, whether or not a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legitimate communication

All of those things are considered harrassment and all are pretty "meh" things that people generally handle on their own. That doesn't mean they just aren't harrassment anymore, I've dealt with some things on my own before that definitely still counted as crimes. I'm going to be honest with you though, my appetite for this conversation has pretty much died, so even though I may actually enjoy talking to you about it I'm going to spend my time out in the world today.