Tuesday Tidbits...

Well, that was something you don't see that often in recent Indiana history...RAIN!
(uh, oh...here he goes again)
Yeah, another gully-washing rain, sure to ruin crops statewide, and flood homes once again.
Will someone tell me when THIS state became the new southeast Asian monsoon season?
(seems like we're trying to get there).
Our Hoosierland weather today will have us seeing partly cloudy skies, light breezes and a high of around the lower 80s.
Oh, and a good chance of some (more) thundershowers later in the day (into the evening)
Guess we could ALL predict that one, hmm?
Anyway, let's grab a tall soothing morning drink, and take this show on the road, so we can see what's been happening..
*** First out of the run-off ditch is our "What the hell happens today, Bob?" feature:
July 14 -
--- Today is BASTILLE DAY (well, not here - just in France, where they DIDN'T invent french fries)

Here's some backstory to their version of the "revolution":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day
(didn't turn out as WELL as ours...just sayin')
---And, it's PANDEMONIUM DAY

Just ANOTHER day for us on the SE side...

(where nothing can be predicted and everything can go wrong)
Where do they keep finding ALL these event days that pertain to OUR part of Fort Wayne?
---It's also NATIONAL NUDE DAY
((...blink, blink...))

Yeah...right...sure....(the missus better leave me alone on this one...lol)
Well, infants get a "pass" 'cause they're cute and innocent (and need changing a lot)...
*** And being it's Tuesday, time for ALL the shots fired across town plus all those wonderful armed robbery calls that the media NEVER tells us about.
Let's see where the fun took place last week...

(and feel free to pick up "the trash.")

SHOTS FIRED and ARMED ROBBERIES - 7/06 -7/12
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JULY 6 -
15F086763 16:07:20 113 SHOTS FIRED 2700 PAULDING RD E
15F086821 18:27:07 113 SHOTS FIRED 1100 ANSLEY DR and ILLINOIS RD
15F086545 04:30:39 53 ARMED ROB 2400 FAIRFIELD AVE
JULY 7 - 
15F086999 02:16:22 113 SHOTS FIRED 1700 WAYNE ST E
15F087379 21:32:36 113 SHOTS FIRED 4000 HESSEN CASSEL RD
15F087007 04:04:39 53 ARMED ROB 2100 SHERMAN BLVD
JULY 8 -
15F087878 21:31:23 113 SHOTS FIRED 400 DALMAN AVE and WARSAW ST
15F087879 21:33:07 113 SHOTS FIRED 1800 MCKINNIE AVE and ANTHONY BLVD S
15F087455 01:23:21 53 ARMED ROB 1700 ST JOSEPH BLVD
15F087747 16:33:30 53 ARMED ROB 2000 CARTERTON DR
JULY 9 -
15F088365 22:03:32 113 SHOTS FIRED 9100 STRATHMORE LN
15F088370 22:12:17 53 ARMED ROB 4800 BLUFFTON RD and WINCHESTER RD
15F088386 22:57:47 58 SHOOTING 3300 CHEVIOT DR
JULY 10 - 
15F088505 08:05:05 113 SHOTS FIRED 600 FALLEN TIMBERS TRL
15F088629 13:46:33 113 SHOTS FIRED 4000 LILLIE ST
15F088812 20:01:28 113 SHOTS FIRED 6500 ST JOE RD
15F088916 23:22:29 113 SHOTS FIRED 800 HOME AVE and INDIANA AVE
15F088928 23:52:25 113 SHOTS FIRED 1200 FRANCIS ST
15F088509 08:19:29 53 ARMED ROB 6400 STATE BLVD E
JULY 11 - 
15F088954 00:42:25 113 SHOTS FIRED 4400 WERLING DR
15F088980 01:50:52 113 SHOTS FIRED 2100 POINT WEST DR
15F089397 22:49:03 113 SHOTS FIRED 4700 FURGE DR
15F089318 20:46:56 53 ARMED ROB 8500 LAKESIDE DR
15F089347 21:38:17 53 ARMED ROB 1900 TILLMAN RD E
15F089402 23:03:31 53 ARMED ROB 600 WALNUT ST
JULY 12 - 
15F089518 01:59:24 113 SHOTS FIRED 4500 HANNA ST S
15F089785 19:25:52 113 SHOTS FIRED 4800 RIDGELANE DR
15F089892 23:37:50 113 SHOTS FIRED 1400 SWINNEY AVE and RIEDMILLER AVE
15F089893 23:37:59 113 SHOTS FIRED 3400 GAYWOOD DR and OXFORD ST
15F089742 17:40:49 58 SHOOTING 2000 CLINTON ST N
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And since we're already working the police blotter, let's see who the morons were who were still setting off fireworks AFTER the 4th:

We're DONE for the season, morons!

FIREWORKS CALL - 7/06 - 7/12
JULY 6 -
15F086501 00:11:27 44FW 1900 CAREW ST
15F086504 00:21:34 44FW 1900 BEAR PAW DR
15F086515 00:26:42 44FW 5300 ARROWHEAD PASS
15F086677 13:04:25 44FW 1900 CLINTON ST N
15F086832 18:40:56 44FW 3200 LEROY AVE
15F086944 23:26:02 44FW 4700 ST JOE CENTER RD and REED RD
15F086958 23:50:48 44FW 4900 ASHLAND DR
JULY 7 -
15F086967 00:29:30 44FW 2900 OXFORD ST and TURPIE ST
15F087426 23:28:39 44FW 10900 AUBURN RD
JULY 8 -
15F087439 00:27:22 44FW 4200 WALKERS RIDGE
15F087494 03:13:43 44FW 2100 HOBSON RD
JULY 9 -
((no calls?))
JULY 10 -
15F088679 14:56:19 44FW 3300 LAKE AVE
15F088701 15:52:00 44FW 5800 LE STEELE BLVD
15F088731 16:40:29 44FW 2200 HOAGLAND AVE and CREIGHTON AVE
15F088826 20:34:55 44FW 6200 JUSTIN CT
15F088833 20:58:16 44FW 5900 STELLHORN RD and OAKHURST DR
15F088862 21:41:58 44FW 900 ST MARYS AVE and; PAPE AVE
15F088863 21:51:54 44FW 1700 HOAGLAND AVE and BASS ST
15F088869 21:59:08 44FW 1300 CHARLOTTE AVE
15F088876 22:11:55 44FW 2800 HOAGLAND AVE and KILLEA ST
15F088875 22:12:35 44FW 3900 OLD MILL RD
15F088879 22:21:34 44FW 1800 GRAHAM DR
15F088888 22:29:24 44FW 1300 SPRINGBROOK RD
15F088914 22:30:47 44FW 3600 OAKPARK DR and EVERGREEN LN
15F088895 22:30:52 44FW 3700 BURRWOOD TERR
15F088917 23:06:14 44FW 4500 SCHMUCKER DR
15F088918 23:14:26 44FW 6200 STELLHORN RD and MAPLECREST RD
15F088925 23:23:46 44FW 2700 FARNSWORTH DR
JULY 11 -
15F088945 00:02:17 44FW 8000 ST JOE CENTER RD
15F088974 01:27:37 44FW 1600 COLISEUM BLVD E
15F088984 01:48:54 44FW 1600 COLISEUM BLVD E
15F088993 02:47:46 44FW 1100 MCKINNIE AVE
15F089166 14:39:51 44FW 5000 JEFFERSON BLVD W
15F089190 15:45:23 44FW 1900 RECKEWEG RD
15F089233 17:12:47 44FW 1900 RECKEWEG RD
15F089302 19:54:02 44FW 3000 ALLEGANY AVE
15F089319 20:49:09 44FW 3900 OLD MILL RD
15F089331 20:59:07 44FW 4700 STRATFORD RD
15F089332 21:11:52 44FW 1400 KENWOOD AVE
15F089359 21:25:22 44FW 1300 LYNN AVE
15F089345 21:26:17 44FW 600 THIRD ST
15F089346 21:30:33 44FW 7200 TANGERINE LN abd; MARKWOOD RD
15F089352 21:40:02 44FW 5800 TOMAHAWK TRL and LIBERTY MILLS
15F089356 21:45:18 44FW 2900 HAZELWOOD AVE
15F089363 21:50:49 44FW 3500 INDIANA AVE and OAKDALE DR W
15F089357 21:57:26 44FW 6100 TANGLE CREEK CT
15F089383 21:59:32 44FW 3700 COOK RD W and; HUGUENARD RD
15F089362 22:04:05 44FW 10800 LIBERTY MILLS RD
15F089367 22:06:17 44FW 5000 WOODFORD DR
15F089371 22:08:33 44FW 2000 KENTUCKY AVE
15F089372 22:13:56 44FW 3200 WOODROW AVE
15F089373 22:14:39 44FW 1300 SOMERSET LN
15F089384 22:14:56 44FW 300 STATE BLVD W and WELLS ST
15F089376 22:15:31 44FW 400 MARCELLE DR and; GONGWER DR
15F089388 22:18:20 44FW 1400 HARRY BAALS DR
15F089381 22:18:56 44FW 3100 GENESEE AVE
15F089389 22:30:56 44FW 700 CREIGHTON AVE W
15F089398 22:50:10 44FW 5100 CHARLOTTE AVE
15F089403 23:06:17 44FW 1800 YALE DR
15F089415 23:07:35 44FW 2400 SOUTHWAYNE AVE
15F089404 23:08:50 44FW 7500 HARCOURT DR
15F089424 23:31:44 44FW 1200 VANCE AVE
JULY 12 -
15F089474 00:45:26 44FW 700 KENWOOD AVE and PARNELL AVE
15F089507 01:38:26 44FW 1500 THIRD ST
15F089515 01:39:30 44FW 1200 VANCE AVE
15F089755 18:22:19 44FW 5900 JEFFERSON BLVD W
15F089789 19:35:27 44FW 4600 JEFFERSON BLVD W
15F089799 19:51:14 44FW 1800 KENWOOD AVE
15F089856 21:21:34 44FW 1800 KENWOOD AVE
15F089848 21:46:25 44FW 2000 CRESCENT AVE and FOREST AVE
15F089857 22:10:22 44FW 7600 DIANE DR
15F089868 22:20:02 44FW 2700 STATE BLVD E and; BEACON ST
15F089865 22:25:51 44FW 2700 CLARA AVE
15F089869 22:34:56 44FW 1200 RIVERMET AVE
15F089871 22:41:20 44FW 2600 MEADOWS PARK WAY
15F089884 22:54:22 44FW 1400 CRESCENT AVEand TENNESSEE AVE
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Well, there you go then...we definitely have a PEOPLE problem when it comes to OBEYING the laws, don't we?
A blind man could see this one.
Moving on...
*** Next up, a story about a perp, a river, and an easy capture...
Here's the story link:
http://wane.com/2015/07/13/suspect-runs-from-police-jumps-in-river/

Deonta - whatta dumbass.

Deonta Arrington was the unfortunate, and possible would-be robber of a Burger King located in the 2500 blk of Spy Run Ave. around 0600 hrs, where police had been tailing his silver Impala in connection to other armed robberies.
When police noticed Arrington in the drive-thru and then enter the BK (where he was seen to be "acting strange").
The store manager got the attention of the officer, and pointed to the kitchen, where Arrington had run out the back door.
A brief foot pursuit ensued, where Arrington got hung up on a thorn bush.

BUSTED!

It was right after he freed himself from the bush that he fell into the St. Joe River and was swept two block downstream, before being taken into custody.
Inside his Impala, police found an ASSAULT RIFLE, along with several items of clothing, including black gloves.
The car was impounded as part of the investigation.
But Deonta doesn't have to worry about being a pedestrian - he got a FREE RIDE downtown to the local JAIL (and some new DRY clothes, too no doubt...hope he likes ORANGE).
Arrington was charged with resisting law enforcement and possession of a firearm by a known violent felon.
And here is his RAP SHEET:
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DEONTA ARRINGTON 
Male Black
5' 10", 145 lbs
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Charge(s)
02D05-1109-MC-002407
NA
ARRINGTON, DEONTA C
09/20/2011
Allen Superior Court 5
MC - Miscellaneous Criminal (Citation)
Decided
35-47-4-3(b)/FD: Pointing Firearm at Another Person
35-47-2-1(a)/MA: Carrying a Handgun Without a License
35-44-3-3(a)(3)/MA: Resisting Law Enforcement
35-44-3-3(a)(1)/MA: Resisting Law Enforcement
35-48-4-11/MA: Possession Marijuana/Hash Oil/Hashish/Salvia/Synthetic Cannabinoid
02D05-1109-FD-001281
ARRINGTON, DEONTA C
09/23/2011
Allen Superior Court 4
FD - Class D Felony
Decided
35-47-4-3(b)/FD: Pointing Firearm at Another Person
35-44-3-3(b)(1)(B)/FD: Resisting Law Enforcement: draws/uses a deadly weapon, inflicts bodily injury
35-44-3-3(a)(3)/MA: Resisting Law Enforcement
35-47-2-1(a)/MA: Carrying a Handgun Without a License
35-48-4-11/MA: Possession Marijuana/Hash Oil/Hashish/Salvia/Synthetic Cannabinoid
02D04-1211-CM-006039
690606
ARRINGTON, DEONTA C
11/06/2012
Allen Superior Court 4
CM - Criminal Misdemeanor
Decided
35-44.1-3-1(a)(3)/MA: Resisting Law Enforcement
9-24-19-1/IFA: Driving While Suspended
02H01-1506-IF-002334
000057038765
000057038765
ARRINGTON, DEONTA C
06/10/2015
New Haven City Court
IF - Infraction
Pending
9-21-5-3/IFC: Speeding - Exceeding Posted Speed Limit
9-24-19-1/IFA: Driving While Suspended
02D06-1506-CM-002301
719591
ARRINGTON, DEONTA C
06/22/2015
Allen Superior Court 6
CM - Criminal Misdemeanor
Pending
35-48-4-11(a)(1)/MB: Possession of Marijuana
9-24-19-1/IFA: Driving While Suspended
==========ADDRESSES==========
  103 Riley Dr. 
  Fort Wayne, IN 46825
 Allen County Jail
  417 S. Calhoun St.
  Fort Wayne, IN 46802
  Other Agency Numbers
109126 Allen County Sheriff's Department, 
154692 Fort Wayne Police Department
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*** Next up, did you know that a NEW study  claims that the SOUTH SIDE of Fort Wayne has (I hope you are sitting down for this)...
ROOM FOR DEVELOPMENT...!!!
((...record-scratch...))
NO...F$CKING...SHIT...cripes almighty...
Well, gee, 'YA THINK???

And they STILL haven't found a DAMN thing!

What the hell have I been saying for damn near a DECADE?
And this "lack of vision" is nothing "new"...cripes it goes back to the Win Moses era in this city, and has not changed one damn bit since.

Not hard at all to figure it out, right?

We don't have squat here anymore (we've literally lost HUNDREDS of stores/businesses over just the last dozen years), so that HAS to mean we have PLENTY of space available for SOMETHING (other than effin low-income housing), right?
Here's the story link from WANE:
http://wane.com/2015/07/13/study-shows-room-for-development-in-citys-south-side/
How quaint, they even include a MAP showing ALL the EMPTY SPACES (which WANE did a series back in 2013 ( "The Big Empty"), and one can also add in the series "Is Fort Wayne Really A Dangerous Place?", because THAT series is at the heart of the matter whenever it comes to development.

Giving an "F" is still being TOO kind.

Remember the story about that one developer (Don Steininger) who was saying just last month (as I have said ad nauseum) that it was the CRIME that was a BIG DETERRENT to development down here?

Wow...look at ALL that NOTHING!

A link to his interview is at the site, or you can check my archives from June 2015.
As long as the CRIME proliferates (as is evidenced in JUST the calls I post here once a week) developers are going to be extremely reluctant to "take a chance" with a business.

The ONLY "game" down here these days.

Hell, one has ONLY to reference all the recent "dollar store" robberies (granted not ALL the robberies occurred on the SOUTH side), and see what a RISK is run with certain businesses.
Add to that, the possibility that those robbers ARE indeed hailing from the SOUTHEAST side of town, and you can easily see it's not even close to being a good environment for new business ventures.
Anyone remember the Southgate (Foot Locker) kidnapping and robbery?

The best they have to offer?

What about the liquor stores robbed, or Kroger having carts of booze stroll out the door...all perpetrated by BLACK MALES...liker they don't have anything BETTER to do, right?
It's not the business community that is failing the SOUTH SIDE of Fort Wayne...it's the BLACK COMMUNITY   that has failed ITSELF (and the city) because of it's own inherent disdain for believing that THEY are at the root of the problems down here.
That community would RATHER look elsewhere, like at the local law-enforcement, or the city to piss and moan about housing (which many of them seem to trash not long after they move in).
I have SEEN what such people bring to a neighborhood, and it's not even close to rainbows, unicorns, and lollipops, folks.
It's everything that could be dredged up from the low-information and callously disrespectful flotsam that is passing for ethnic humanity.
A damn shame the older blacks are dying off...they used to be able to CORRAL such behavior, but with an entitlement society running THEIR lives, that has fallen by the wayside.
*** Last back to the mud puddle...sure, OUR part of town needs a serious "reboot" when it comes to BUSINESS, but moreover, it REALLY needs an infusion of DECENT PEOPLE...period.

We need folks who VALUE what they work for and earn in life, and appreciate the fact that they live in the best damn nation on the planet, in spite of what this president is attempting to do to uproot what we call AMERICAN VALUES AND PRINCIPLES.
One would think that if someone is GIVEN something, they would pretty much take it and shut up, but not these days...

Today, they who receive all this free shit are NEVER content and certainly are NEVER appreciative...they just want MORE, and will stop at damn near nothing to obtain it...that is NOT the way this nation used to operate.
Like I say, we used to be SO damn much better than this, but I see this devolving of society, and that will never bode well for anyone.

And it IS always about the RIGHT choice.

If people cannot be made to be held accountable, or refuse to accept responsibility, maybe they don't need to be living HERE, and enjoying the fruits of their labors.
Hell, if they could comprehend WHAT is meant by achievement, we probably wouldn't even be having this discussion.
We can ALWAYS do better, and we should, if not for others, then at least...for OURSELVES.

Be well, make a difference to someone, and...
Stay SAFE out there, America.