Humpday Happenings...
If you ever find yourself (un)fortunate enough to live in a part of a city that has become "blighted" (by design), you might have to consider some lifestyle changes. That's just the way the cookie crumbles, kids...
You will probably become more aware of your surroundings...checking the garage when you come or go to see if anyone might be hanging out nearby, or making sure YOUR property doesn't become the newest place to "chill".
But, aside from all the changes, you will find one thing out above all; you'll NEVER be at a loss for things to blog about.
In fact, there will be times that things will downright amuse you, and you will discover that you've become a tad "prophetic" when it comes to predicting how the latest bunch of neighborhood "newbies" will act when they move into the latest rental crib.
Now you regular readers already know that I live in the beautiful SOUTHEAST side of our glorious city of Fort Wayne.
And residents of this city should KNOW what that entails.
I can always count to two distinct responses when I tell anyone else living in Fort Wayne where *I* live:
1) Rib-tickling laughter
2) Severe pity
Both are enough to want to make me honestly look forward to the afterlife.
And yet, these days I really don't let it bother me...much.
A lot can be said for this part of town, but it usually doesn't consist of anything pertaining to "good".
(unless you consider leeching off the taxpaying public a "good" thing, like most all of "neighbors" have found out)
Here are some examples from today's paper of some of the typical behavior we've come to know, love, and expect.
** Southeast-side crash sends 5 to hospital
Girl, 4, critically hurt as driver apparently turns in path of SUV
Holly Abrams /The Journal Gazette /Laura J. Gardner The Journal Gazette
A crash on the city’s southeast side Tuesday sent five people to two hospitals, including a 4-year-old girl with critical injuries, Fort Wayne police said. The crash was reported just before 1 p.m. Tuesday near East Paulding Road and Winter Street.
Talisa Dudley, 31, of Fort Wayne was driving west on Paulding Road when she tried to turn south onto Winter Street, said officer Michael Joyner, city police spokesman.
A GMC Envoy heading east on Paulding Road struck Dudley’s Oldsmobile Alero. Police believe Dudley’s view was obstructed by another SUV – also heading east on Paulding – in a separate lane, Joyner said. The driver of that vehicle did not stop to talk to police.
"She (Dudley) was distracted by her daughter in the back and turned into the path of the Envoy," Joyner said.
Dudley was taken to a hospital in fair condition. Her daughter, Jalisa, 4, was also taken to the same hospital with critical injuries, Joyner said.
There were two adults and three children in the SUV. The adults and one of the children were taken to a second hospital – all in fair condition. The other occupants were not injured. Police did not release any names Tuesday.
The crash remains under investigation by the Fort Wayne-Allen County Crash Team.
An electrical pole on Paulding Road was struck by the SUV and cracked from the impact, but the damage did not affect power to nearby residents, Joyner said.
Traffic was diverted on Paulding Road for at least two hours as police worked to reconstruct the crash scene.
habrams@jg.net
Now I can tell you right now that most people around here DO NOT pay attention while driving, and this is the part of the city with the DENSEST population...(hmm, seems that much IS very true...they ARE all dense...DAMN dense)
We're always hearing about someone involved in some crash, if not a hit and run....
Guess all that alcohol these people have in their bodies IS taking a toll. Or could it be that CELLPHONE they have surgically grafted to their frigging EAR that causes all this? Maybe it was that roach they dropped between their legs while driving? Who can say.
But I can tell you that we have WAY TOO MUCH speeding in residential areas here, both of the two AND four wheeled varieties.
People around here ARE actually either drunk, high, or just plain STUPID...AND they also DRIVE.
(usually newer vehicles than the working class, I might add...where DO they get them anyway?)
And if that isn't enough, how about this?
** Delivery prompts arrest
The Journal Gazette
A Fort Wayne man was arrested Tuesday on a felony charge of dealing nearly 16 pounds of marijuana after the drug was delivered to his home, city police said.
Onesimo Gonzales, 33, of the 3700 block of Winter Street, was being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.
Police said Gonzales was arrested after he opened a package delivered to his home containing 15.8 pounds of marijuana. Detectives had seized the drug from a local delivery service and had it delivered to Gonzales’ home, police said.
Following his arrest, Fort Wayne Neighborhood Code Enforcement condemned Gonzales’ home because of electrical and structural violations, police said.
Yes sir...when it definitely, POSITIVELY...HAS to get there by TOMORROW...the stash, that is...count on UPS.
(or was that FedEx?)
This was a good sting op, and I commend the LEOs involved.
Yep...ANOTHER "satisfied customer"...LOL.
(Dumbass...!)
But we're not "quite" finished yet...
** Charges grow after inmate’s escape
The Journal Gazette
A Fort Wayne man accused of forging a signature to get out of the Allen County Lockup now faces formal charges.
Dion Waller, 29, of the 900 block of Ridgemoor Drive, was charged Tuesday with escape, forgery and false reporting or informing. He was being held in lieu of $20,750 bail.
Waller was originally behind bars for violating a protective order when he escaped Aug. 12 by forging the signature of another inmate, court documents said.
Confinement officer Michael Girardot released Waller, who had a name and physical characteristics similar to those of another inmate, according to Allen County police.
Now you'd "think" that ANYTHING this guy hands ANYONE that is WRITTEN should be suspect, given his "track record", right?
I guess not.
And this is just in ONE day.
Also, we're STILL waiting for the (flawed) judicial system to get THIS asshole dumped in the hoosegow:
** New jurors seated in ’08 slaying trial
Rebecca S. Green / The Journal Gazette
Twelve new faces heard old evidence in Allen Superior Court on Tuesday as the second attempt to try Dametrick Gray for his alleged role in the April 2008 shooting death of Adrian Carswell got under way.
Charged with robbery and felony murder in Carswell’s slaying, Gray, 23, first stood trial in June.
But Allen Superior Court Judge Fran Gull declared a mistrial after a juror said she felt threatened by someone allegedly connected with Gray after court proceedings the first day.
So Tuesday morning, Allen County prosecutors and Gray’s defense attorney picked a new
jury – 10 women and two men along with a female alternate.
Carswell’s death on April 1, 2008, came amid one of the deadliest weeks in Fort Wayne history – nine homicides in a week and six in just 30 hours. The 24-year-old Carswell, who had prior convictions for drug possession, was found shot to death inside a maroon Dodge Intrepid at the Three Fountains apartment complex in southeast Fort Wayne, bullet wounds to his head and neck.
Prosecutors also have charged Demarcus Morgan, 20, in connection with Carswell’s death.
Prosecutors believe Gray, on parole at the time of the shooting, and Morgan shot Carswell in a robbery sparked by poor-quality marijuana they had bought from him. (Maybe they should have called Onesimo Gonzales with the UPS drop?)
Testimony opened again Tuesday with Linda Fincher, a Three Fountains resident who said she saw two men exchange a handgun near the maroon car.
She said she saw one of the men get out from the back seat then saw the pair exchange the gun, putting it in a small backpack-like bag before leaving.
Fincher then testified she saw two women in a black SUV pull up alongside Carswell’s still-running car. One of the women got out, looked into the maroon car and screamed.
The first woman to look inside the car, Kimberly Webb, was a friend of Carswell’s who was visiting her mother. She thought at first the man inside the car was sleeping. She peered through the car’s window and realized the man wasn’t breathing.
She told her mother to call the police.
"It caught you by surprise, didn’t it?" Deputy Prosecutor Jason Custer asked.
"Surprised wasn’t the word," she said.
Gray’s sister’s ex-boyfriend also testified, telling the jury that Gray had been complaining a few days before the shooting about the quality of some marijuana he had bought.
Gray’s sister, Kashae Gray, testified her brother borrowed her car that morning. She told him to bring it back early so she could take her son to the doctor.
While waiting for her brother to return, Kashae Gray heard news of the shooting on television. When her brother arrived, later than she had hoped, he and Morgan went back into her bedroom. They changed clothes then asked her to drop them off at another apartment
complex.
She complied and then her brother called almost immediately, asking her to pick him up again, she said.
As they drove to the doctor’s office, Dametrick Gray asked his sister to stop at a trash bin, where he tossed a grocery store bag, later found to contain his shoes, according to testimony.
Crime scene technicians testified about finding a bullet and a spent shell casing at the scene, as well as Morgan’s fingerprint on the outside of a window on the car.
rgreen@jg.net
And we're also STILL waiting for the NEXT trial of Anthony Parish, the piece of human garbage, whose trial has been moved back AGAIN...to November (well, he IS already in jail on ANOTHER murder charge anyway).
Nice to know the LEOs won't have to LOOK far to find his ass whenever the trial starts, hmm?
Let's just hope the PROSECUTOR'S office doesn't decide to drop the ball here. This boy NEEDS to be placed AWAY from humanity...FAR away.
But it's not like there isn't all that much to "enjoy" in OUR part of town...
Like I said...you learn to "adapt" your lifestyle so YOU don't become the next statistic, or an honorable mention in some crime-related article in the paper.
Now, I don't know about you, but I sure have come to look at all this "cultural diversity" in a WHOLE new light.
Perhaps only a few bad apples are spoiling the bunch, but it DOES stigmatize a LOT of people who rightly do not deserve to have themselves taken to task for those of their race who ARE being the nuisances in our neighborhoods.
And like I always say, any manner of change that needs to be implemented HAS to come FROM that ethnic community, because they sure don't take much to having us "outsiders" point out character flaws and even tell them right from wrong (which invariably falls under the jurisdiction of the LAW).
Perhaps...someday...those that NEED to wake up, actually WILL.
Then we can get about the task of working TOGETHER to better the community we ALL live in.
Helluva concept, ain't it?
Have a great day, and don't forget to...
Stay safe out there, America.