Mugging on St. John's Place
While Fort Greene’s had most of the headline-grabbing crime news in recent weeks, Park Slope got a taste this past weekend in form of an old-fashioned push-in mugging. Gowanus Lounge reports on an email posted on the Park Slope Parents board: A neighbor on my block (St Johns between 7th and 8th Aves) has reported…
While Fort Greene’s had most of the headline-grabbing crime news in recent weeks, Park Slope got a taste this past weekend in form of an old-fashioned push-in mugging. Gowanus Lounge reports on an email posted on the Park Slope Parents board:
The number one thing one can do to minimize the chances of this type of thing happening are to avoid listening to your iPod or talking on your cellphone on the street. On top of that, we’re always shocked at the number of houses that fail to adequately light their stoop areas. There should be a law…
“I have not seen these conditions in years and hope to GOD I wont live thru that crap.”
Glad to hear you say that you don’t want these conditions to return, though people could be forgiven for thinking otherwise. The point is that we don’t have to let bad economic times ruin the fundamental goodness of our neighborhoods.
I’m not going to debate this crap, I mean.
The What
someday this war is gonna end…
I was wondering how long it would take for the what to return to his fucktard behavior. Time to get better meds, what.
You know something folks? I’m going to debate this crap and do you know why? The future is staring you in the face. We are going thru difficult times now. I have not seen these conditions in years and hope to GOD I wont live thru that crap.
If you believe you have made a good decision on buying here then deal with it. Let’s not turn this board into thebrooklynian. Where people complain about everything.
I understand why some of you are upset with me because I’m point out the reality in your decision making process.
Have fun…
The What (I’m going back to the forums, where it’s fun)
Someday this war is gonna end…
“Neighborhood Watch, people. Time to band together.”
That’s what I am talking about!
Xander Crews is clearly a sad little man with a sad little you know what by the looks of most of his posts…
“But why? Why does the guy that rips someone off get protected? What is the point?”
Fear, indifference, or, in the worst cases, a certain sense that the victims “deserve” it (e.g., see Xander Crews sad little post).
Touche TD! In fact, I was putting away my Walkman back then (and all of my copied-from-the-radio cassette tapes)!
Also, things frequently got ugly over the smudging of pristine sneakers.
Cobblehiller — You don’t snitch because if you do, and you are outed as a snitcher, bad things happen to you. That’s the message there. Like you get a beat down. Or, depending on the severity of the crime and the level of the person you snitched on, you get shot at.
Neighborhood Watch, people. Time to band together.
cobblehiller–this sort of saying would appear to be a remnant of the bad old days (which the What would like to see come back) in which people felt that it was safer to side with the criminals than with the police. IF neighborhoods are so indifferent to the situation on the streets, or if the residents have so little faith in the police to protect them from the criminal element then this sort of attitude can sprout up. And its the biggest thing to fight against in my opinion. Calling people out for their transgressions is the only way to promote standards of decency.