Tales From The SOUTH Side...
One is never at a loss to report on the "things" that occur in my part of Fort Wayne...that's for sure.
There's plenty of asshats all around the place. All YOU have to do is choose the age, the weight, the race, and the size.
But before I begin, I want to take a minute to thank Ann Hathaway for seeing fit to bestow upon this here blog an award. HER blog is listed at left. (and if you like ZOMBIES, has she got tales to tell you...lol)
I am now "officially" an HONEST SCRAPPER, as this latest award proclaims.
As per the "rules", I have to provide some kind of list...things that I like, tips on life, things about me...that sort of stuff. So, I might be able to have something put together by tomorrow. I'm still pondering and sifting through my vast mental repository as to what EXACTLY to make a list of. Stay tuned for that.
In the meantime, kids...back on the South side...
CRIME is once again at the forefront of the stories here (like it ever went away).
We are now up to TWELVE HOMICIDES (so far) this year, and the latest one did NOT occur in the SOUTHEAST area.
The disease has been spreading (that's what diseases DO when left unchecked) over to the SOUTHWEST side, and It's not like I didn't say that THIS was coming.
Here's the first tale of a 3-time loser that won't be costing the judicial or penal system ANY more money:
*** (( Slaying was preceded by domestic call - Holly Abrams/The Journal Gazette
The Saturday shooting death of a man on the city’s southwest side has been ruled a homicide, according to the Allen County Coroner’s Office.
Quinton Sentrell Lewis, 29, of Fort Wayne, died after being shot multiple times. His death is the 12th homicide in Allen County this year. All but one of the slayings has occurred in the city.
Residents found Lewis lying in a hallway inside an apartment building at 4320 Kekionga Drive just after 2 a.m Saturday. Fort Wayne police and paramedics arrived shortly thereafter and Lewis was pronounced dead.
Police had been called to an apartment within that same building just after 10 p.m. Friday on a report of a domestic dispute involving Lewis and a woman. Investigators questioned the woman, along with other witnesses, and have made no connection between the dispute and the slaying, said officer Raquel Foster, a police spokeswoman.
Police said they arrested a "person of interest" Saturday on a probation violation charge. That person, who was not involved in the domestic dispute, has not been charged in connection to Lewis’ death, Foster said.
Foster said Monday she did not know whether detectives had determined what time Lewis was shot. Police have no motive or additional suspects in the slaying, she said.
A resident of the apartment building said Lewis lived in the building – but police have no record of that, Foster said.
Lewis previously spent time in prison, and was released in March 2007, according to the Indiana Department of Correction. He was convicted in Allen County in 2005 of residential entry and battery. After his release, Lewis had been arrested several times on misdemeanor charges. ))
Well, no one has come forward to say "what a good boy he was...always joking...life of the party...never want to hurt anyone"...that kind of BS? Amazing. The way this guy ran, I guess the local lockup might have considered placing a revolving door on "his" cell. And what a surprise...he's BLACK!
(who knew?)
Still...good riddance to bad rubbish.
*** And, not too far away from THAT apartment complex (keep the word "apartment" on the back burner - you'll find out why farther down)...
(( Sibling stabbed, ‘critical’ after dispute - Holly Abrams/The Journal Gazette
A Fort Wayne man was critically wounded Saturday after an argument broke out between him and a sibling, according to Fort Wayne police.
Officers were called by staff members at St. Joseph Hospital just after 10 p.m. Saturday, after a man walked into the hospital with stab wounds to his upper torso. The man, later identified as Tayon Jermaine Aron Jr., 27, of Fort Wayne, was then transported to Lutheran Hospital in critical condition.
Police believe the stabbing occurred in the 2800 block of Millbrook Drive, in the Brookmill Court apartments, on the city’s southwest side, shortly before Aron arrived at the hospital. Aron was inside an apartment with family members when a verbal dispute erupted between Aron and a sibling. The two then moved outside – and Aron was stabbed, police said.
Aron’s sibling is a suspect in the stabbing but has not been charged, police said. Aron was initially listed in critical condition. He was no longer listed as a patient at the hospital Monday. ))
Wow...ANOTHER "incident" on the city's SOUTHWEST side. And the guy was...BLACK. Wonder if the deputy chief THERE is doing "as much" as our own deputy chief on the SOUTHEAST side to halt these heinous events.
And this stabbing occurred right NEAR the Kekionga Middle School.
Bet'cha parents around there are a bit more "concerned" as their kids come and go from that school these days.
Wonder how long it will be before the PROPERTY VALUES (there) go in the crapper (and the city/county loses even MORE money)...because we ALL know that crime (and the criminals responsible for it) tend to DO that to once nice neighborhoods...been there...living that, remember?
But wait...we're not QUITE finished, yet...
*** (( Vigil disturbance leads to drug charge
The man accused of a disturbance during last week’s annual candlelight vigil for crime victims, which took place inside the Allen County Courthouse, has been formally charged, according to Allen Superior Court records.
Tituse James, 28, of the 3400 block of Oliver Street, is charged with possession of cocaine, battery and resisting law enforcement. He was being held in lieu of $16,500 bail.
A court security officer found James on the third floor of the Courthouse, during the vigil – which was taking place on the first floor. The officer asked James to leave the third floor. James refused and started yelling obscenities, court records state.
James reportedly then struck the officer, as the officer tried to escort James out of the Courthouse. Fort Wayne police assisted, and James was arrested.
During an inventory of James’ property, an Allen County Lockup officer found more than 3 grams of cocaine in a pocket of James’ pants, records state. ))
During a CRIME VICTIM VIGIL for Christ's sake....who ever said that drugs don't lead to chronic stupidity, hmm?
Oh, the perp was BLACK, in case you were wondering.
*** Here's an article that "rates" the Section 8 apartment complexes in our fair city (and, as could be predicted, it's not all sunshine and lollipops):
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20100426/LOCAL/304269989/1002/LOCAL This article says that HUD gets "low marks" for it's housing...wow...BIG surprise THERE, hmm?
Well, YOU know...and I know it's not the "housing" that is the REAL issue here...it's the SQUALOR brought about by the PEOPLE that infest...I mean "inhabit" such apartments, isn't it?
Housing projects (either vertical OR horizontal) do NOT destroy THEMSELVES, do they?
They need "help", and that's where the dregs of society come in, folks.
It's the "people" (and I use that word loosely) that bring the crime, the trash, the irresponsibility, and the apathy with them (along with the welfare checks that YOU have bought and paid for) to take an otherwise habitable venue, and completely and utterly turn it into a damn filthy cesspool of human flotsam. And we keep allowing it to be done over and over again, never holding those responsible for this mess...well, responsible.
Someday, we'll learn...but unfortunately, NOT today.
*** Also, there is a SYNTHETIC marijuana out there posing as a form of INCENSE, called K2.
Now, since INCENSE isn't "regulated" or banned, people are getting off on this crap.
Even though the incense has a label on it that reads: NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION, people WILL be people (read dumbasses) and try damn near anything, which means "If 'ya can roll it...'ya can smoke it". The "lawgivers" are scrambling about as to HOW to approach this new-found bane to society.
(good luck with that one)
*** Lastly, today, we have another one of my personal favorite "pet-peeves"...


In the following pictures, you will notice a total of SEVEN FWPD police cars stopping at a particular residence (rented by...all together, now...BLACKS) down the street (within a bloody week). The FIRST call that precipitated the THREE-car run wasn't even on the police blotter...go figure.
Another case of "missing data" (how convenient), much like the SECOND harassment call I placed to dispatch over "Mr white-trash-loudass", who STILL comes by the house at least ONCE per day.
My beef with the handling of such matters stems from the fact that on those THREE calls at the other house, the city has NO basis for making ANY money from ANY citations (no one ever left in ANY of the three calls in cuffs), while, all the time, EACH AND EVERY time this loudass boom car passes my house, that's ANOTHER $250 the city police just pissed against the nearest wall.
Now, if the department were a bit more "PROACTIVE", they'd bop over to RADIO SHACK and buy a couple DECIBEL METERS (which can be had for UNDER $90 for the low-end models), sit an unmarked car in my area, and "ticket away" until you run out of citation books...
Well, (to me), that's what PROTECT AND SERVE should be meaning, right?
Truth be told, I'm not feeling ALL that PROTECTED, aside from my personal firearms (to which any one of them is NEVER out of arm's reach). And as for being SERVED...yeah, I kind of "feel" served...on a platter...to the local human refuse...with a frigging apple in my damn mouth (obviously to keep me quiet). Hell, add a nice burgundy wine, and you've got the makings of a meal fit for a king (or a mayor).
This has become a far cry from what America meant to me...
We used to STAND for something. And it was usually something a lot more NOBLE than what I'm seeing these days.
I know there are others that feel the same way as I do.
But yet, there are so many more that really need to feel this way as well.
United we stand, divided we fall, was the saying...and you know what?
It still can apply, especially in times such as these.
Now is NOT the time to be divided against one another.
It is the time to stand together...to take back our neighborhoods, and our nation.
It's time to bring America's nobility back into vogue.
But hey, that's just *my* opinion...based on the facts presented to me every single day.
Be well, make a difference to someone, and...
Stay safe out there, America.