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I'm happy to live (and work) in a small town where we still don't bother to lock our doors or our cars.

For probably the most honest, unpolitical, unromanticized, comprehensive look at what's happening to our cities and why, rent "The Wire".

From the city of "Brotherly love", we've already had over 300 murders this year. That doesn't count anyone who lived.

Super Smooth wrote:

TubaTinker wrote:I'm happy to live (and work) in a small town where we still don't bother to lock our doors or our cars.

You do take the key out of the car?

Usually not when it's in the driveway. The one I drive is a beat-up '91 Olds Cutlass I call 'Christine'. Remember the movie? Yeah.... this one tries to kill anyone who is in the drivers seat... including me several times. I figure if anyone ever does take her for a joyride, I'll hear about on the 10 o'clock news!

Hey! It's off to an Octoberfest gig tonight! Gotta love that oompah music!

bloke wrote:As people like me abandon these decaying centers, those who remain are, collectively, more-and-more likely to elect and re-elect leaders who will do nothing about the crime problems. I'm thinking that our advancing communications and distribution systems may soon render population centers somewhat obsolete, anyway.

Just a few days ago was the 50th anniversary of the publication of Atlas Shrugged. Who is John Galt?

bloke wrote:For those who do make the exit to pastoral America, an abrupt adjustment is best made to align oneself with the customs, mores, and heritage of the local constabulary. A quick glance at our fleet brings the point home:

You better be able to deliver what you advertise, though. Country folk can spot a faking city slicker in a second.

Rick "who leaves his keys in his farm truck, if you know where to look" Denney

bloke wrote:one might also take note that the most "off-beat" make of vehicle driven is "DODGE".

Heh. I thought those were INSTRUCTIONS!

ben wrote:I'm glad they didn't try to get into the house and fold up my tubas into 3 ft sections!

Does that imply that your tubas are also made of copper and painted brown!?

Wow, and you still live in Indy? I grew up there. Things changed after I left, pretty dramatically over time. I grew up in the 50's and while we did lock our doors, I went to a big city park all by myself all the time and played and rode my bike around in places that couldn't even be seen from the street. Two years after I graduated, my high school had cops in the halls.

MA

What high school Mary Ann? I grew up on the North East side and attended North Central were the police are very present all the time.

The whole business of "scrap metal" has gotten to be a pretty big problem. There is little to any regulation regarding the purchase (how hard can it be to spot the methed out idiot with a pick-up of burnt copper wire as a thief?) of "reclaimed" metal. Locally, we had a fellow who tried to sell a bunch of brass urns from a cemetary--that one did get caught. The latest trend is to take wire from phone/electrical lines along the railroad tracks. Can't be seen from the road, and caused, to date, about 600K damages to the utilities.

You can't tell me it is easier work to pull, strip and burn this wire than it is to work a real job--oh, wait, I forgot, there's that whole drug testing thingy.

Ally"who hates thieves, and loves taking them to jail"House

schlepporello wrote:

UncleBeer wrote:

bloke wrote:one might also take note that the most "off-beat" make of vehicle driven is "DODGE".

Heh. I thought those were INSTRUCTIONS!

'Nuff said.

So does FORD mean it will go over water better?