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Shadows got a new dent
Just one more reason I'm glad to live near a redneck small town, everyone
is too busy getting drunk on cheap beer on a truck tailgate somewhere; they
can't manage walking in the street anyway.
cathy
On 5:41 pm 06/07/07 "Lance LaPrarie" <sciroccojunky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I just went through a similar situation last night running to get some
> smokes. Two girls walking dead center of the street bouncing a
> basketball. I drove up to them and they didn't move at all. I went
> around them and broke traction for about a block. They didn't even
> look around. I think its some sort of power play for some people.
> I've seen punk kids playing ball in the street and get all bent out
> of shape that we have to get by. They'll barely move to let me by.
> However, I live in one of the most liberal states in the union so I'd
> take the brunt of any hair on thier head that gets disturbed. Don't
> get me wrong, I'm not a conservative person in any way shape or form.
> I believe in personal responsability. You mess with the bull you get
> the horns. You walk down the middle of the street where there are
> clear sidewalks on either side and get hit it's your own fault. But
> being in Washington State it doesn't work that way. They find some
> reason how the system put those people in the street and we should
> have known better than to run them down. Then you're paying
> restitution for the rest of your life.
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> On 6/6/07, Marc Getty <marc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I too hate people who walk in the street when there are sidewalks.
> > Where I grew up there were no sidewalks so it was exciting (small
> > town, okay) to go
> > places that had them and not to have to walk in the very dangerous
> > road. Now
> > that I live where there are sidewalks I use them and on the rare
> > occurrence
> > I walk in the street do so knowing it is the realm of cars and
> > take more then enough care.
> >
> > People who live 'round me on the other hand do not feel this way.
> > They walk
> > in the street next to perfectly good sidewalks. Me, I enjoy
> > proceeding full
> > speed ahead at them and nail the breaks at the last second giving
> > off the full howl of my snow tires on the road. They often get
> > onto the sidewalk after doing so. Often, but not always.
> >
> > At my old apartment I did this to some folks and then stayed
> > walking in the
> > street. I took this opportunity to park my Benz which I was
> > originally driving, get into my Sciroco and do it again to the
> > same folks. Needless to
> > say I was enjoying myself and they were on the sidewalk.
> >
> > "I am really sick of it. Send them all back home. I am not
> > predudiced, but I
> > ..." hate old people and want them to go back into their coffins!
> >
> > -Marc
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: julie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:julie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 6:33 PM
> > To: A Org, Scirocco
> > Subject: Shadows got a new dent
> >
> > I was coming up a steep street here in Amsterdam called Storrie
> > St. It was about 7pm and the sun was setting at the top of the
> > hill. The sun was right
> > in my eys even making seeing the traffic light hard to see. Thats
> > normal so
> > I was cautious.
> >
> > All of a sudden I see sets of legs. I came to a fast stop. it was
> > a young hispanic man on the left near the center of the road, 2
> > children about 3-5 years old and a caucasion woman. Both adults
> > were early 20's. All 4 were walking abreast down the street.
> >
> > Now there ARE sidewalks on both sides of the street, nothing
> > blocking them.
> > But they walked in the middle of the road.
> >
> > I yelled at them to get out of the road, that I couldnt see them
> > due to the
> > sun. The woman and the kids, just calmly walked around the car,
> > but the male
> > started to scream at me in spanish, kicking the cars DS fender as
> > he walked
> > near the car. I opened the door to see what he did and he started
> > screaming
> > again. "Gonna kick your fu**n face in bitch" and one more kick at
> > the rear wheel arch.
> >
> > The woman who pulled up behind me, just sat and stared.
> >
> > I called the cops and made a report. All I learned was that if I
> > had hit them, I would have been at fault, irregardless. Not enough
> > damage to Shadow
> > for them to do much so that was it. Fuckin great. Assholes like
> > that run the
> > town, make it difficult to live with out fear, and they get away
> > with it.
> >
> > I am really sick of it. Send them all back home. I am not
> > predudiced, but I
> > dont enjoy being made to be afraid in my own home town by some one
> > who will
> > not learn the language, low job possibilities but demanding social
> > services
> > to help them.
> > Come here, learn the language, make an effort to be an active
> > member of the
> > community, then I'll bend over backwards to help. But these new
> > people in this town?
> >
> > We are too afraid to stand up for our own rights. If we do? We're
> > labled as
> > predudiced.
> >
> > >> I just re read that lot. Man am I pissed off.... Sorry for
> > venting
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