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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:03 AM
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Theres been a shooting in my neighborhood, no one gets in or out
Two helicopters buzzing overhead about every 3 mnutes with the huge search light on. Neigbors are having a collective breakdown. another Saturday night in surburbia.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:06 AM
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1. are you in LA?
I used to experience similiar when I lived in the LA area in the late 80's early 90's.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:09 AM
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4. no, south of sacramento in elk grove
Sac has tons of "Gang related" shootings, the murder rate is up already this year.
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:14 AM
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7. Not just in LA....
I stopped for the night in Fresno several years ago on the way to Oregon and parked the car, went in to pay for the room, and when I went back, put the key in to unlock it and the car lit up. Looked up and there was a helicopter with a night sun pointed at me. Reason? Who knows. They weren't there to make sure I could see the lock okay.

But I went to bed thinking that Fresno was a lot different place than it was the last time I was there, forty years before....
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:17 AM
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9. We moved to california about 4 1/2 years ago
we drove and one of our stop overs was fresno, it was nothing like i thought, neither is much of california. I love the northern coast but most of the state sure doesnt look like it does in the movies.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:47 AM
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17. I lived in San Franscico for awhile , too.
I had an studio on the edge of "the tenderloin" and it got kinda scary, at times, there too. I preferred it to southern CA just the same.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:45 AM
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15. i remember walking to the 7-11 and dodging the roving light
from the helicopter when visiting my sister in Norwalk, CA. I was living in downtown Long Beach, CA , at the time, while stationed on the USS Missouri which was homeported there before it was decommissioned.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:47 AM
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16. My husband is in Fullerton right now
for work, he goes there a lot and he hates it.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:54 AM
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18. I often wonder about that area these days and if things have
changed much. I left about a year before the riots and I believe the there isn't any navy left in Long Beach. If your husband hates it I bet things have not changed much.

ANYWAYS I hope you are doing ok. Its 3AM here on the east coast! :hi:
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 11:19 AM
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20. Lessee, what was the line from...
... the song by Spirit, "those plexi-plastic `copters, they're your special friend...."
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:07 AM
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2. Lock your doors and windows...make sure your garage door is down...
and stay inside!
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:11 AM
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6. i'm cool, lucky for me my across the street friend and neighbor
is a very large police officer and i have my bat, not that it's a big help against a gun but i'd at least try and swing for the fences.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:15 AM
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8. Let us know how it turns out...you don't have a scanner, do you?
I have one, but nothing exciting ever happens.

Hope the person who was shot will be ok.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:18 AM
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10. no scanner, my neighbor told me he'd let us know
i hope it isnt gang related, i'm hoping it was someone cleaning their gun.
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:07 AM
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3. This is a regular occurance where you live?
I say it's time to move.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:10 AM
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5. not usually but sacramento isnt that far
and the problems tend to migrate.
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Susang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:26 AM
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11. Lockdown and helicopters?
You must live in a nice neighborhood. I wish we had that kind of police presence here, we have a shooting at least once a week, more if there's a gang conflict going on.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:30 AM
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12. They have the front of the subby sealed off by 3 crown vics
Edited on Sun Sep-19-04 01:30 AM by chimpsrsmarter
Our city council has a former police officer on it and they just gave local law enforcement a huge contract, quite a scandal brewing over it.
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Senior citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:37 AM
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13. I hear you.

This country doesn't have a class system--this country ain't got no class at all.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:41 AM
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14. Too bad that same police force isnt used
to patrol the second largest propane faciltiy in america which is also located in my town. thats homeland security and theres been no money alloted for that site.
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 02:23 AM
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19. One saturday morning I woke up to cops yelling
PUT THE GUN DOWN! Some weird drunk guy had a shotgun. Damn cops! Why do they have to be so protective of citizens when those citizens are trying to be lazy?! heehee I am just kidding, they did a great job of getting this guy off the streets.
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Baja Margie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 12:21 PM
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21. This is one of the reasons
why we left. Hope to retire in Costa, and now people are moving to Nicaragua. I was born & raised in San Diego, that was 50 + years ago, and it was a wonderful place to grow up, just beautiful. Now, it's a mess, just like the rest of So. CA. Every Mayor we had, with the exception of Maureen O'Connor, was a crook and all of them sold out to the developers.

Heh, good luck, I know, DOA's have not been funded, it's a joke. Someone said something about a baseball bat, forget that, get an axe handle, easier to swing. Maybe this subject could be taken up in one of the other forums, like, why is our society so sick ?

Take care, Margie
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-19-04 01:19 PM
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22. My neighbor just told me that it is a gang drive by
2 teens, one 16 years old was grazed in the neck and a 17 year old is in the hospital, no word on where he was shot. The police have the front yard taped off and they are going through it with a metal detector thing looking for shell casings. I also found out which house it is, its literally right around the corner from me.
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