u/BandagedTheDamage

Should I report this to the police or let it go?

Two days ago I decided to take my dogs to a local dog park. This is something I do often since I have high energy dogs.

I was in the park with my two dogs when a woman arrives. She brings in her 3 young children and her 1 dog. They all walk over to a bench, take a seat, and keep to themselves. Some time passes and it becomes clear that her kids are eating snacks out of a container. My dogs notice. They saunter over there and sit underneath the bench, scavenging for crumbs being dropped by the children. One of my dogs is now in competition mode. A piece of food falls and she body checks my other dog and the woman's dog to get the crumb. Chaos ensues.

This woman notices the check and yells at my dog. She leans down as if she was going to hit my dog, but restrains herself. She screams over to me "yo, come get your f*cking dog". Now I'm pissed because a) she was dumb enough to allow her kids to bring food into a dog park, and b) she somehow thinks this is my fault. I get up and say "do your kids have food? because that's not a good thing to bring in here." Well, that was a mistake, because she starts going OFF. She starts cursing at me and calling me an idiot. She called me a liar for saying her kids have food. Asked if I was stupid because they clearly "only have water". As she got more worked up, she was rambling about how my dogs are threatening her kids. I tried to tell her that if they put the food away my dogs would leave, but she wouldn't listen to a word I had to say.

Throughout all of this, I am trying to call my dogs to come back to me. They can't hear me over her screaming. I finally get up and walk over there. She puts her hands on her hip to pull a g*n out of her pocket. I stop in my tracks and say "how am I supposed to remove my dogs if I can't approach you?"

Thank god she finally shut up so my dogs could hear me calling. They came back to me and I turned around and went back to my area.

I was terrified and didn't make a big deal out of it. But some other bystanders said I should report her to the police. A friend of mine managed to get a picture of her and her license plate.

Should I report this or just let it go?

EDIT: conceal carry is legal in my state

TL;DR Woman becomes irate and reaches for her g*n at a dog park. Should I report her to the police?

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u/BandagedTheDamage — 1 day ago