Reply #: That's a very valid question, and thanks for asking it... I can honestly say that

[Ghost in the Machine]

under the circumstances you described, Manny would still be alive with no worries. Being born and raised in Miami, I know that a lot of homes in neighborhoods look alike there. If someone was in my yard, taking stuff out of my boat, I'd walk outside, pistol or shotgun in hand, and ask them "what the fuck do you think you're doing?" Their words and/or actions would decide what happened next. If they stepped towards me in a threatening manner, they'd be shot.

In your case, being new to the neighborhood and all, Manny probably still would have gone to jail if I didn't know you and/or couldn't get in touch with you to verify his story. If I knew your name, and Manny could tell me your name, he might not have gone to jail. It wouldn't be too awful hard to look in the driveway next door and see a boat almost identical to mine. However, where I live now, I don't have that problem. There's 12 houses up here on our hill. My family and I own 6 of them and we know everyone else who lives here. We know who visits whom, who belongs here and who doesn't. If there's a strange car in a driveway up here, phones start ringing with us checking on each other. There's only one way (road) in and out of here...

Now... if I woke up in the middle of the night and found your friend in my house, he'd be shot, no questions asked. You don't "accidentally" enter the "wrong house" in the middle of the night, especially when all the doors are locked. If you're in my house in the middle of the night, you broke in... period.