Believe It Or Else...
Happy Tuesday to you all, and welcome to another edition of some of the odd, the ridiculous, and the outlandish stuff that comes along in our lives.
Now a word of warning...
Please don't let ANY of this happen to you, or you might wind up in the next JACKASS movie...and I hear they're going to try for something new...4-D!
I guess the current 3-D version isn't dumbass ENOUGH...LOL!
So, without any further ado, let's shake the tree of stupidity and see what drops, fair enough?
*** If you're in a UNION, this story might get your attention:
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4347307/why-unions-want-pot-legalized/
The video brings up the recent OTHER video showing Chrysler employees toking away and boozing it up on their lunch break...not a bad "perk" when you're making astronomically HIGH wages so you can cop a buzz, hmm?
I can say that in Fort Wayne, I've worked alongside similar people...they also loved to smoke a joint during breaks AND lunch.
But this happened to be at a window manufacturer that used to be up on Reynolds street, and that was more than a few years ago (Wholesale Windows), in case anyone bought something from them that wasn't up to par...It wasn't ME.
Then again, this DOES make a good case for being able to have a "pliable" populace. Control the PEOPLE, and you control the society.
This smacks back to that movie I told you about several times...WILD IN THE STREETS. You have got to read the synopsis of the film, if not rent it or buy it.
A lot of what takes place in the movie can be seen playing out TODAY...and that film was supposed to be a "satire"...not hardly.
*** What do you do with someone hanging along the river in Fort Wayne?
Well, first, you cut them DOWN...(as this story explains):
(( Police probing death; body found near river / Holly Abrams - The Journal Gazette
A body was found Monday afternoon near the Rivergreenway by a group of students on a canoeing trip, according to Fort Wayne police. Officers were called just before 2:30 p.m. Monday to a bridge overlooking the Maumee River in 1100 block of Coliseum Boulevard South, on the city's east side.
The caller reported the death as a suicide attempt. But police are now describing it as a death investigation.
Officer Raquel Foster, police spokeswoman, said police have no evidence to indicate foul play was involved in the death.
The dead person's identity has not been released, pending an autopsy. Foster said the body is male but she did not know the age.
The body was found about a mile east of the Coliseum Boulevard bridge, south of the Rivergreenway and southeast of Lakeside Golf Course. Police set up crime-scene tape in a heavily wooded area just north of the Maumee River.
Foster declined to say whether the body was found on land or in water.
Police drove their cruisers on the Rivergreenway to reach the body. Other officers, including the department's homicide team, used golf carts.
Crime scene investigators were also called.
Police say the death remains under investigation.
An autopsy could be conducted as early as today to determine a cause and manner of death. ))
I initially heard this call go out, and the FWPD was having a time REACHING the River Greenway.
They couldn't get their cruisers (down) on scene, hence the golf carts.
Now on the ONE hand, you have someone hanging along the river, and on the otter hand, you have people hanging OUT along (and in) our streets.
Curious how that occurs.
BTW, I'd like to know WHAT university or school those students were from, because a CANOE TRIP as part of ANY curriculum is right up MY alley.
Sign me up and get me matriculating!
*** And we ALWAYS never seem to have less of THESE crimes:
(( Bandits flee store on foot, fire at car
Fort Wayne police investigated an armed robbery Friday at a convenience store on the city’s northeast side, according to a report.
The robbery was reported just after 2:30 a.m. Friday at Ricker’s, 5916 St. Joe Road.
A clerk told police two men entered the business. One of the men told the clerk to empty the store’s cash drawer.
The pair then fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash, some Newport cigarettes and lottery tickets, the report said.
As the robbers fled the scene, a woman tried to follow them in her car – until one of the men fired a gunshot at her vehicle, the report said.
One robber was described as a black man in his 20s, about 5-foot-10 with a thin build, and wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, basketball shorts with a white stripe and a black bandanna covering his face.
The second bandit was described as a black man in his 20s, with a similar build and height, with a red bandanna covering his face, and wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and basketball shorts. ))
Well, at least it wasn't in MY part of the ghettohood!
Now this makes the case for NOT being open 24 hours...don'cha think?
And you didn't REALLY have to describe the perps...just hearing that NEWPORT ciggies were snatched told me it was done by blacks.
I've known that since I used to live in Philly...typical cigarette of choice for these people. It's like Colt 45 being taken from a liquor store...or Air Jordans grabbed from a Foot Locker...you just KNOW who the perp is, and it's NOT some red-haired, freckle-faced Irish lad.
Of course the CLOTHING being worn is SO indicative of ghetto-garb in MY neighborhood, and given that a lot of my "neighbors" don't get UP until after 1100 hours, they were most likely the ones involved, because they're out and about LONG after midnight, trust me.
Moving farther SOUTH, we have this little "gem"...
*** (( Southeast gas mart irks crowd at hearing - Paul Wyche The Journal Gazette
FORT WAYNE – Residents in southeast Fort Wayne expressed support for improving the neighborhood but objected to developments they fear could become magnets for crime.
To that end, many of the roughly 30 people who attended the city’s Plan Commission public hearing Monday seemed a little skeptical of the Blackhawk Convenience Center proposed for the northwest corner of East Paulding Road and Hanna Street.
The $2.2 million project would feature a 12,000-square-foot retail store and gasoline station and although its owner, Vaqar A. Mallhi, promised not to sell alcohol, residents have other concerns.
Led mostly by local clergy, neighbors expressed displeasure at an outlet that duplicates other businesses in the area. After the hearing, they continued to voice their opposition.
"Why do we need another gas station when you already have one nearby?" said the Rev. Isaac Fincher, pastor of Eleventh Missionary Baptist Church.
"I just think something else more useful to the community could be put there. That’s all I’m saying."
The area already has two bars nearby as well as gas stations, which can serve as havens for illegal activity, Fincher and others said.
Churches also dot the neighborhood, which has seen its share of violence, residents acknowledged. "Why not put a community center there or something like that?" said Michelle Fanroy of True Gospel Prison Ministry. "We need something productive."
Her husband, James, expressed similar sentiment. "We pour all of our resources into these stores, but we don’t get anything back," said James Fanroy, minister of True Gospel. "They take our money, but we never get anything back."
Some members of the audience said blacks are welcomed as customers but often aren’t offered jobs. "Where are the electricians, plumbers and masons when these businesses are going up?" James Fanroy said.
Archie Smothers did not speak during the meeting but took offense at James Fanroy’s accusation. Smothers, who is black, will be the general contractor on the Blackhawk store.
"I didn’t say anything because you had a lot of church people speaking and you can’t fight the church," he said.
Project engineer Greg Roberts told Plan Commission members that "we want to be good neighbors" and the retail outlet would not sell alcohol or offer adult entertainment or similar undesirable products.
The commission will address the matter again at its 1 p.m. Monday business meeting. ))
Now THIS, the clergy will speak out on...What about the blacks being GUNNED DOWN on the SE side?
Don't hear much about THAT anymore, do you?
(well, not until the NEXT murder, anyway)
Don't hear these preachers speak out against LOUD music, or the TYPE of music being played and listened to...or nothing about the crumbling black FAMILIES, the thug lifestyle, or rampant STDs and single motherhood at earlier ages, do you?
But ANOTHER convenience store...they're drawn out like moths to a flame.
Granted, we DO have too many of these stores down here...along with liquor stores. The corner bars have been here from the old days when it was predominantly white AND working-class (and not entitlement-driven).
I will commend the preachers for stating we already HAVE a store like the one developers want to build VERY close to the proposed site.
Another gas station/snack joint is the LAST thing we need down here...along with at least 27 other banes that society detests that come to mind.
Those in favor of such another store will argue about being able to get "needed" things...bullsh*t.
Even IF the place does NOT sell booze, it WILL indeed become "just another hangout" for the refuse of this part of town (where DRUGS will be sold and shootings WILL occur)...you can BANK of that.
I've already seen it happen, and one place that really comes to mind is that BP station near South Anthony Blvd. & McKinnie St...you know, the location where all the other SHOOTINGS have taken place over the last few years.
See, ya gotta remember something about THIS part of Fort Wayne...
The MAJORITY (composed of the minority) of the citizenry simply don't give a DAMN about almost everything, EXCEPT what they can get for FREE.
They already get free food, free housing, free money...what the hell more could they possibly want?
Well, they STILL have to pay for drugs, and that's where YOUR things come in. Call it the urban-barter system. They steal YOUR sh*t to hock, pawn, or sell, so THEY can get (relatively) free drugs. I mean it only cost them the time it took to break into YOUR abode and swipe YOUR stuff, right?
Hell, since we moved here (and it was still a lot more stable an area to live in) we have lost close to ONE HUNDRED BUSINESSES.
Yeah, we DO have a Menards and a Wal-Mart and a K-Mart...but that's STILL about it, people.
(I don't count all those booze stores and sparky-marts and dollar stores)
And you have those dear, sweet, innocent (and apparently STILL oppressed...or is that just LA-ZY?) Africant-American "neighbors" to thank for it, along with their Hispanic and white-trash counterparts ALL on the collective dole.
It might be (and usually IS) a LOT of things down here in the recently-outted ghettohood, but there's one thing it is NOT, and that's BORING.
Well, even that's not totally true...the PEOPLE are boring out the ass (and often quite predictable), with the way they do the SAME sh*t over and over, day after day, year after year.
But you never know when another rock will come through a window...or some bullets. And you can ALWAYS count on lawn trash from the paws of some throwback with no regard for civility.
Meanwhile, most of the city (good old boy) fatcats sit at their downtown office desks, raking in those glutinous salaries, going home to their NICE neighborhoods, surrounded by DECENT people with nicely-kept yards, and children that are brought up to respect others.
All the while, this part of town is allowed (by design) to slip farther into the crapper...quietly awaiting the next round of re-re-regentrification and re-re-rebranding...as soon as it's able to line more elitist pockets with ill-gotten cash...all in the name of urban renewal and "diversity".
I have to admit, there are many days when I grow weary of hearing THAT same old hackneyed tune being played down here.
I'd best go put on some Beethoven or Brahms...and sooth my savage breast.
(or maybe some AC/DC...)
Be well, make a difference to someone, and...
Stay safe out there, America.