Tuesday Tidbits...

Well, here's hoping that today is less problematic than yesterday around the "Fortress". I hope yours was better.
Nothing like starting a week with a "Monday from Hell", is there? We'll get into that shortly.
We've some interesting things staring at us today from the abyss.
Our Hoosierland weather will consist of mostly cloudy skies, temps reaching to around 56 degrees and no real precipitation for the time being. Well, you can't have everything.
So, let's get that morning cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa made and parked close by, as we see what else is going on, shall we?
*** First out of the junk drawer is our "What the hell happens today, Bob?" feature:
MARCH 28 -
---It's National Black Forest Cake Day

(well, there's a positive note)
---It's National Something On A Stick Day

(do heads on pikes count?)
---It's National Weed Appreciation Day

(cripes, that's one of the LAST things I appreciate...and dread every year)
---It's National American Diabetes Association Alert Day 

(okay, that explains itself, doesn't it?)
*** Next up, and because it IS a Tuesday, let's see all the crime that took place last week that we SHOULD have been made aware of, but were not.

SHOTS FIRED ((113)) / ARMED ROBBERY((53)) CALLS - 03/20 - 03/26
((23,113 - vandalism by gunfire))
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MAR 20 - 
17F033116 03/20/2017 09:53am 113 SHOTS FIRED 1400 ANTHONY BLVD N
17F033283 03/20/2017 05:13pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 1200 SHERMAN BLVD
MAR 21 -
17F033818 03/21/2017 10:07pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 2700 SCHAPER DR
17F033503 03/21/2017 09:13am 23,113 3300 VANTAGE POINT DR
17F033438 03/21/2017 01:29am 53 ARMED ROB 2700 PAULDING RD E
MAR 22 -
17F033858 03/22/2017 12:05am 113 SHOTS FIRED 6200 ST JOE RD
17F033866 03/22/2017 12:30am 58 SHOOTING 2200 BEACON ST
MAR 23 -
17F034587 03/23/2017 05:50pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 800 DREXEL AVE
17F034349 03/23/2017 08:55am 23,113 500 WASHINGTON BLVD E
17F034492 03/23/2017 03:03pm 23,113 1100 KINSMOOR AV
MAR 24 -
17F034938 03/24/2017 01:46pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 4900 SOUTHWAYNE AV
17F034959 03/24/2017 02:04pm 23,113 2700 BROADWAY
17F034967 03/24/2017 02:57pm 53 ARMED ROB 2700 LILLIE ST
MAR 25 -
17F035386 03/25/2017 02:23am 113 SHOTS FIRED 1600 COLISEUM BLVD W
17F035589 03/25/2017 03:59pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 600 MAPLE GROVE AV E & HANNA ST S
17F035845 03/25/2017 11:29pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 4700 GAYWOOD DR
MAR 26 -
17F035876 03/26/2017 12:33am 113 SHOTS FIRED 6200 ROTHMAN RD & MAPLECREST RD
17F036045 03/26/2017 12:45pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 400 PACKARD AV W
17F036059 03/26/2017 01:11pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 2700 HOAGLAND AV
17F036088 03/26/2017 02:26pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 100 PETTIT AV E & CALHOUN ST S
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FIREWORKS CALLS 03/20 - 03/26 - NONE.
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Wow, I can hardly believe that.
*** Next, we have a double shooting - suicide that took place last evening. Here's the story:
http://wane.com/2017/03/27/shooting-leaves-one-person-dead-on-east-side/

Seems that 2 women were shot in an SUV around 2100 hrs in the 900 block of Kensington Ave. Police found one dead and the other died at hospital shortly after.
Police were led to a male suspect in a house on Pemberton (one block east) and after trying to contact the man, made entry and found him dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Look for this to be homicides number 5 and 6.
*** Next, a former perp (featured here, naturally) gets arrested once AGAIN. Here's the story:
http://www.wpta21.com/story/35003495/man-arrested-after-police-chase-ends-with-ramming-police-car

Whatta Loser.

Christopher L. Norris, once charged with a shooting back in 2011 and convicted ONLY of "aggravated battery" has been busted again...and hopefully the prosecutor can find this piece of crap a nice LONG stay in jail for a change,
Feel free to reference my archive post of 12 July 2011 for that story.
This time, after a police chase, where the perp (driving a 2007 maroon Mustang) backed INTO a patrol cruiser, police took Norris into custody (he has a history of resisting), and found a loaded and charged AK-style "pistol" on the seat of the car he was driving. He also has a history of carrying firearms without permits and being a felon in possession of firearms.
That's some serious firepower he was packing., Had a 100-round snail drum magazine and is a 7.65 mm cartridge.
*** Next up, the Bowser buildings get the heave-ho. Here's the story link:
http://wane.com/2017/03/27/owner-redeveloping-old-fwpd-hq-not-possible/

Yeah, amazing how old buildings on the SE side are unable to be "re-purposed", but you can take similar structures elsewhere in the city and redevelop THOSE. Must be all the CRIME that's a major deterrent, right?
(concerned residents like myself know the truth that rarely is forthcoming)
*** Next up, remember the loudass TRIKEY-BOY from last year?

Last year's model

Well, the old disrespectful jerkoff is BACK with his velocipede, complete with booster speakers to annoy the shit out of normal folks with volume that can be heard a BLOCK AWAY.

Looks like a new (loud) set of wheels.

He came by our house FOUR DAMN TIMES yesterday, and no amount of laser beams or spotlight illumination quelled the noise he was producing.
I'm trying to find someone I can contact in the city who can get him to turn that the hell down. I can't hear our TV inside our house, and he sure as hell can't hear any car coming up on him, even if he has rear-view mirrors on his trike.
He's a nuisance as long as that music can be heard in excess of 30 feet, and he runs the risk of getting hit by a speeding vehicle (with such assholes around here, I can only hope). Yeah, that's not nice to say, but a lesson has to be learned, and maybe he'll learn it the HARD way.
*** Next up, and if that wasn't enough to screw up an otherwise calm day, Wifey lost a contact lens in the damn bathroom right before bedtime.

I helped look for it, and we found in ONCE, but she promptly lost it again, when it popped off her finger. Where it went after that is anyone's guess. Didn't go down the drain (it had the plug in already), and we checked the vanity top, floor, anywhere it could have flown, jumped, or fallen. The cats came in, and if it stuck to their foot pads, it could have wound up anyplace by now.
Well, to that I say next time, have a SPARE pair...just in case (like I have with my glasses).
*** Next, and speaking of our cats, let's drop by "Kitten Corner"...

"I'm looking for birdies, daddy".

The kids were in fine form, and I mean that in a good way. They were good as gold most all day.

Waiting for "mommy" to come home.

As for their excursion into the bathroom later on, could not be avoided, and I don't blame them if they managed to carry that contact lens off to some other part of the house. I just hope no one swallowed it. That wouldn't be good at all.
*** Last back to the family room...I admit that I don't want any sort of "exciting life".

In fact, if things got boring, that (to me) would be a godsend.
I guess the old acronym K.I.S.S. works well here (Keep It Simple, Stupid...lol).

Today's "drama".

If there is one thing I'm sick and tired of, it's DRAMA, and that's odd for me to say, because I was a drama major in high school (totally different type of drama, however).
I'm one of those "home-bodies" that enjoys the comfort of being at home most of the time.
So, you can imagine how bothersome it is when I can't seem to ENJOY "Homestead Heights".
When total assholes have nothing to do but annoy the hell out of people like me, and for no damn reason, other than they CAN get away with it, I have a problem with that.

Trying my damnedest.

When the only comfort I can find is when I manage to fall asleep (with a gun close by) for a few hours, there's something wrong, and certainly not with me.
The people that I mention here, who cause problems in our part of the city are the ones to blame.
I'm just trying to live MY life, and not be set upon by the lives of others that are a constant intrusion.
So, if I go on a rant about these lowlife, son of a bitch scum-baggers now and then, know that it is with  a GOOD reason.
And, if people choose to ignore reason, they have already lost a big part of their lives.
I don't plan to follow suit.

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