Comments on: Max sees a shooting

By: aliecat

aliecat — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:29:00 +0000

I fled Stevens Community when the crackheads started to look a little too twitchy, and then a gang of teens were walking the streets robbing and beating people with bats during the day/early evening, and THEN a couple was stuffed in their trunk at the SuperValu, driven to their apartment, robbed, the women raped, then stuffed back in their trunk and finally dropped of on the shoulder of I-94E. Stevens was/is a really great neighborhood, but I just had enough (although, watching the ATF use a battering ram to bust some drug dealers in the building next door was fucking awesome).

By: tara_r

tara_r — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:32:03 +0000

Chicago has 6 murders this weekend alone.

I would bet Kansas City has similar stats. Murders are so frequent there, they don't even make the news. It's sad. I SO don't miss it!

By: DouglasG

DouglasG — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:23:01 +0000

Sweet Caroline! Bump bump bum…

By: cjc

cjc — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:12:09 +0000

Ooh, Jane, I’ve done that a couple times. It’s rather embarrassing, but I made sure to tell them that I wasn’t charging them a single cent for the entertainment.

By: baker

baker — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:02:47 +0000

Charez Jones, Vernice Hall, Tyesha Edwards. Rare, but still a fact.

By: jane

jane — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:30:04 +0000

Speaking of busses, I just rode the 3 from the U to the 5th St. garage. The I was the only one on the bus for the last 6 blocks or so, and the driver didn’t know I was there. He started singing “I’ll Be There” in a beautiful voice. And thanked him when the bus arrived.

By: jane

jane — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:27:39 +0000

Aren’t you in the MNvengers?

By: kc!

kc! — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:19:30 +0000

shut up David, if we have a reason to stay up to Midnight, we do.

And to be fair, there have been some mistaken identity and revenge killings in the last year where the person killed had nothing to do with gangs or drugs, but it is rare.

By: mnblrmkr

mnblrmkr — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:11:54 +0000

mayor ryback said something similar a couple years back and was skewered for it.

In a large part because he said it shortly after or before a bystander was killed during a crime (don't remember the exact timing).

Doesn't change the fact that he and kc are correct.

It's much safer to fly than to drive, but tell that to the passengers (and their families) of the Air France flight.

By: mnblrmkr

mnblrmkr — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:07:58 +0000

No kidding. They even go to bed by 11 on the weekends.