Friday Follies...
It's another weekend, and we're closing in on the end of the spring break (I'll bet the parents are ecstatic over that). Funny thing, ever since the break started, I can count the number of kids I've seen on ONE HAND, but when school is in session, we have scads of kids going to and from the bus stop. Wonder WHERE they all disappear to?
The good news about that, is that I pretty much ONLY have to deal with the ADULT idiots in the area, and not the YOUNG idiots (until school goes back next week). Lucky me, right?
Still, idiots are idiots, no matter WHAT the age, the weight, the size, the nationality, the religious persuasion, or the skin color.
Seems to be some sort of "universal constant" there.
Anyway, it's time to take a look around and see what's been going on.
** Regarding this G20 "summit"...sorry, NOT impressed. I watch the "Prez" yesterday fielding questions (sans teleprompter?) from reporters, and I will say one thing about Obama: He sounds fair to midland EVEN WHEN he's squirming on that hook...LOL!
But you have to admit...he sure is READY...to SPEND MORE MONEY we just don;t have. At least there is consistencey there.
The grandkids are gonna have ine HELLUVA future...aren't they?
** North Korea ready to launch missile.
Uh oh...this can't be good...and I heard that they pretty much HAVE to fire it, since they already FUELED the damn thing up (the fuel is corrosive,and can't be readily OFFLOADED). Nice rocket you fellas got there...caustic fuel, have to fire it somewhere, don't know what the payload is...yepper, just the thing to start ANOTHER "conflict" in the world...JUST what we need. Thanks, guys.
** Looks like the MSM has caught up with THIS blog.
When I posted back on 29 March about the Mexico/Guns from America thing, I meantioned that there WAS NOT this HUGE amount of arms going to Mexico...and once again, the truth was revealed HERE.
ONLY 17% of the arms that Mexico receives come from the USA, and that INCLUDES those arms bought FROM America from mexico for their police and military (which are then being sold to the cartels thanks to the corruption in the Mexican governemnt)...nice, huh?
** We've got some AFL-CIO people downtown having a protest today, as we speak (about 100).
Sorry people, but it's the economy's fault...blame THEM, and not city hall. They are to blame for a lot of OTHER stuff...trust me.
** You have to hand it to the criminals in this city. If you listen to the police scanner, they are up and out the door pretty damn EARLY. Then again, with crime PAYING as well as it does here, it behooves them to get "cracking".
** Also, while listening to the radio, you hear about people taking CIGARETTES...imagine that!
Now what did I say about these thugs robbing stores for CIGGIES, anyway? I said it WOULD HAPPEN...and apparently, either it HAS, or the perps have read this blog, and saw my post as an opportunity to tap another source for smokes.
** The FWPD has closed down an "after-hours" club
This story appeared in Tuesday's paper, but ti was mentioned in today's editorial page.
(You're really going to like this...AND get a better idea of the crap WE have to deal with daily)
Here's the story:
((7 arrested at after-hours club - Holly Abrams-The Journal Gazette
Drugs and guns were found during a raid at 3009 Oxford St.
City police, along with Allen County police and Indiana State Excise police
entered the building at 3009 Oxford St. with a search warrant and found more than 125 people.
A DJ would play music and advertise prostitutes for sale. The women would render their services to clients in the restroom. Others would buy alcohol and drugs.
These activities stopped Saturday when an after-hours club on the city's southeast side was shut down during a SWAT team raid, Fort Wayne police said.The raid came after two months of undercover work by detectives, said Fort Wayne police Sgt. Mark Walters, who works in the vice and narcotics division.
City police, along with Allen County police and Indiana State Excise police entered the building at 3009 Oxford St. with a search warrant and found more than 125 people. Seven of those people - all adults - were arrested on misdemeanor charges including resisting arrest, drug possession and alcohol possession by a person younger than 21. Others were arrested on outstanding warrants, Walters said.
Inside the building, police found after-hours sales of alcohol and narcotics in progress in addition to the prostitution. During the arrests, police recovered marijuana, crack cocaine, five handguns, money and alcohol.
Walters said raids like this are not unusual."It happens quite often," he said. "Probably not on that scale, but there are a lot of smaller places around town where this is going on."
Police said the illegal activity started about two years ago. Police expect more arrests, including possible felony charges, Indiana State Excise Police Lt. John Folk said.
Meanwhile, Oxford One Stop owner Rajdeep Singh is breathing a sigh of relief. For the past year, he said he has been cleaning up trash in the parking lot outside his store, at 3003 Oxford St., after the after-hours parties next door.
His newspaper bundles have been stolen at least three times, including during the most recent party, and patrons to the establishment would often urinate outside his store,he added.
"It was a lot of mess," he said.))
And here's the editorial comment:
((After-hours clubs bring guns, drugs, other big-city vices
As a true midsize city, Fort Wayne offers many of the amenities of a larger city – along with the occasional big-city disadvantages.
Residents were reminded of the city’s urban flavor when police raided an after-hours joint Saturday, where 125 people were drinking, smoking and participating in other vices.
A DJ doubled as a pimp, advertising prostitutes, whose workplace was the club’s restroom. Perhaps that explains why the owner of the convenience store next door complained that club patrons were using the outside of his store as an alternative restroom.
Police confiscated handguns, cocaine, marijuana, alcohol and money. Seven people were arrested, and more charges are expected.
Such clubs have long been on the local scene, selling individual cigarettes and booze and sometimes offering gambling rather than – or perhaps in addition to – prostitution.
And, as one might imagine, they are not the safest places to be.
Police said a November 2006 homicide occurred inside a Lumbard Street after-hours club, and the year before a man was shot in the leg at another club on New Haven Avenue.
In 2000, a man reported being mugged after leaving an after-hours place on Buchanan Street.
With the closing of the Oxford Street establishment, no doubt another entrepreneur will seek to fill the void, and police will eventually catch up with it. Would-be patrons, be forewarned.))
WELCOME TO THE SOUTHEAST SIDE:
...where entertainment festers like a pus-filled sore.
Now I'll be the first to tell you that often, the city views these houses as "party houses", and has a habit of summarily dismissing them as "not as important" as DRUG HOUSES. Got news for everyone...they ARE DRUG HOUSES, and this story kind of says the same thing, doesn't it?
And these are the type of houses you might drive right past and NEVER give a second look at (in our area, second looks are prerequisites for having you shot at, the way these numbnuts behave).
However, it now looks like V/N is beginning to "get it", and by that, I mean that what USED to pass for a "harmless" party house is, in actuality, a haven for every type of illegal behavior and illicit activity.
WTG, people...congrats on the revelation!
Now...if you need HELP with finding MORE of such houses, stop on by or ring me up...you have my number.
** Lastly, Aside from the fact that this part of town needs a DISCOUNT MUFFLER SHOP BADLY, I have to say that when it comes to annoying people, my "neighbors" simply take the cake (and anything ELSE in your house that's not nailed the hell down, should you dare to go somewhere and leave the house locked but unattended).
Our city has a serious PEOPLE problem, and unfortunately, that abrogates the LIBERTY and FREEDOM of the decent citizens in our (recently) "blighted" areas. To deny these rights given by our Constitution TO those people is not only a travesty, but a blatant injustice to those that DO work...those that DO save...those that DO take pride in their property...those are truly PRODUCTIVE to the continuance of this city.
Dressing up a raggedy-ass dog to look like a pure-bred movie icon (that would refer to Renaissance Pointe) will NEVER address the REAL, underlying issue, namely the people that are allowed to commit the crimes...the people allowed to bilk the government of every entitlement coming down the pike...the people who do a disservice to every American by drawing their next breath.
Clearly, when Fort Wayne tackles the TOUGH problems with verve, and begins to reacquire ALL it's neighborhoods, that for so long, have been neglected, only THEN will it see itself as a city that can proudly claim a higher status...NOT before.
Something to shoot for, Fort Wayne...think about it.
Have yourselves a good weekend, and...
Stay safe out there, America.