And I read about car break ins where someone smashed a window and stole an expensive laptop just sitting on the seat. Or worse, leaving it there and not even locking the door.
Dumb, but I’m from NY where reportedly people got rid of their garbage during the garbage strike by wrapping it up nicely and leaving it in their cars.
I’ve heard of people doing that to porch pirates by putting garbage, the more disgusting the better, in Amazon boxes.
In Saskatchewan in the summer time, you always lock your car doors so you don’t come back and find a box of zucchini on the seat.
How can you live in a country that is SO Darwinian that – at any moment – you may be squashed?
That’s probably better than finding a banjo on your seat.
In the ‘a lie is half-way around the world’ way, I’m seeing tweets about the righteous shooting of the huge 6-foot black man (note actually Ralph is actually a 5’8" 140 lb boy) who was shot inside Lester’s house (ignoring the glass from the storm door where there is video of Lester cleaning it up).
Also popular is the NY Post article showing the ‘No Soliciting’ sign on Lester’s door. I guess if Ralph had been attempting to sell band candy (is that still a thing?) maybe there would be an argument for ‘defending his castle’?
People (not all but way too many) suck.
Around here (Vancouver Island) it’s tomatoes.
I don’t know if it’s still a thing, but if I had kids in band, I wouldn’t let them go door to door selling it like I did when I was that age. I hated it, it was embarrassing and awkward, but I never thought I was putting myself in mortal danger.
Clearly I need to move to Vancouver.
Vancouver isn’t on Vancouver Island (though Victoria is). Come for the vegetables, stay for the lower risk of getting shot (though we certainly do have some gun violence, unfortunately).
Mike Pence weighs in that the shooters were probably just terrified of the massive crime wave engulfing America.
Ironic, given that the shooters are the crime wave.
I Googled the ZIP code where this happened. The violent crime rate is extremely low. Methinks that Mr. Lester (the shooter)'s fear may have had another source(s) for his pathological anxiety and apprehension.
To be fair, though, after hearing that Russia inadvertently dropped a bomb on Belgorod – a Russian city – I did wear a Kevlar motorcycle suit on my walk with my dog today.
So … there’s also that.
I think it was Walt Roosevelt who said “the only thing we have to fear is us.” Or something.
I’m pretty sure it was during the Trump/Pence administration that we had literal rioting in the streets. Now? Not so much.
The reading today is from the book of Punter, Chapter 9, Verse 17: “All we have to fear is me.”
–Firesign Theatre
Or to quote the late great Walt Kelly, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Why didn’t the guys who made it back from WWII with their souvenir weapons cause a wave of murders in 1995?
Maybe because soldiers who actually went to war wouldn’t shit their pants in fear because a black teenager knocked on their door?
'Zactly.
They almost certainly tended to curmudgeonliness, conservatism, paranoia, and senility to the same degree as oldsters throughout history and on into the reasonable future.
However they were not, a) armed to the teeth, and b) imbibing a continuous steam of blatantly false propaganda about the extreme stranger danger that can only be met with concentrated semi-automatic weapons fire delivered pre-emptively just in case.