16 October 2018

Tuesday Tidbits...
And our journey into autumn continues...with our first freeze of the season.
That's sure to get the trees with the program and start changing color (don't be surprised if it's not AS spectacular as you remember...it's not been as gradual a change this year).
Our Hoosierland weather for today will bring us mostly sunny skies, although it will still be a bit on the breezy side.
Temps will be rising to around the "double nickel" range (55 degrees).
Now, let's get that hot cup of coffee, tea, or cocoa made, as we see what else has been transpiring...
*** First off of the frost covered foliage is our "What the hell happens today, Bob?" feature:
OCTOBER 16 -
---It's Department Store Day
(but the days of SEARS are numbered, sadly)
---It's National Boss's Day
(sure to be a hit with the working stiffs out there)
---It's National Dictionary Day
(look up some good words to call your boss...lol)
---It's National Feral Cat Day
(never hurts to care a little for one of God's creatures)
---It's National Liqueur Day
(make it a good one and lift your glass)
---It's National Pharmacy Technician's Day
(handing out free OXYCONTIN to the armed robbers out there)
*** Next, and since it IS a Tuesday, let's look at all the FWPD calls that went out last week that we didn't hear a thing about...and should have.
"Shots Fired - exterminate!"
OCT 8 - OCT 14
SHOTS FIRED ((113)) - ARMED ROBBERY((53)) 
((23,113 - vandalism by gunfire))
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18F120599 10/08/2018 05:42am 113 SHOTS FIRED 2300 OLIVER ST
18F120945 10/08/2018 10:25pm 113 SHOTS FIRED S CALHOUN ST & W CREIGHTON AV
18F121331 10/09/2018 08:32pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 800 BUCHANAN ST
18F121425 10/10/2018 02:19am 113 SHOTS FIRED 2300 SANTA ROSA DR
18F121502 10/10/2018 08:58am 113 SHOTS FIRED 11100 CLAREWOOD CT
18F121551 10/10/2018 11:54am 113 SHOTS FIRED 6200 DONNA DR
18F121635 10/10/2018 02:52pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 3700 S CLINTON ST
18F122253 10/11/2018 11:25pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 4500 OLIVER ST
18F122895 10/13/2018 05:00pm 113 SHOTS FIRED DECATUR RD & E TILLMAN RD
18F122903 10/13/2018 05:24pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 7900 SERENITY DR
18F122958 10/13/2018 08:16pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 2800 NORTHGATE BLVD
18F122977 10/13/2018 09:06pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 1400 GREENE ST
18F123004 10/13/2018 10:43pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 500 E MAPLE GROVE AV **
18F123005 10/13/2018 10:43pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 3000 FAIRFIELD AV
18F123032 10/13/2018 11:59pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 3000 OLIVER ST
18F123041 10/14/2018 12:16am 113 SHOTS FIRED 200 EDGEKNOLL LN
18F123071 10/14/2018 02:23am 113 SHOTS FIRED 800 BUCHANAN ST
18F123098 10/14/2018 04:41am 113 SHOTS FIRED 3000 OLIVER ST
18F123106 10/14/2018 05:51am 113 SHOTS FIRED REED ST & CAPITOL AV
18F123202 10/14/2018 03:06pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 10400 VERBENA LN
18F123259 10/14/2018 05:44pm 113 SHOTS FIRED 7300 BLUFFTON RD
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18F120724 10/08/2018 12:36pm 23,113 1600 SPY RUN AV
18F120917 10/08/2018 08:46pm 23,113 1300 FAYETTE DR
18F121349 10/09/2018 09:30pm 23,113 3500 PLAZA DR
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18F122137 10/11/2018 05:38pm 53 ARMED ROB 4000 BUELL DR
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18F120620 10/08/2018 07:54am 56 MOLESTING 2900 DREXEL AV
18F121104 10/09/2018 11:32am 56 MOLESTING 200 E RUDISILL BLVD
18F122359 10/12/2018 09:27am 56 MOLESTING 1300 MCCULLOCH ST
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18F122880 10/13/2018 04:01pm 58 SHOOTING 900 RIDGEWOOD DR 
18F122950 10/13/2018 07:58pm 58 SHOOTING 4800 OLIVER ST
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18F121297 10/09/2018 07:01pm 59 CUTTING/STAB 7900 DECATUR RD
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18F121937 10/11/2018 08:20am 61 RAPE 4100 WOODSTOCK DR
18F122153 10/11/2018 06:14pm 61 RAPE 00 E MAIN ST
18F122765 10/13/2018 09:32am 61 RAPE 7900 W JEFFERSON BLVD
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18F121772 10/10/2018 07:29pm 75 PURSUIT OLIVER ST & CAPITOL AV
18F122240 10/11/2018 10:51pm 75 PURSUIT EDGEKNOLL LN & S CALHOUN ST
18F122631 10/12/2018 09:20pm 75 PURSUIT SPATZ AVE & MCKINNIE AV
18F122646 10/12/2018 09:20pm 75 PURSUIT SPATZ AVE & MCKINNIE AV
18F122662 10/12/2018 11:23pm 75 PURSUIT 1500 W DUPONT RD
18F122944 10/13/2018 07:51pm 75 PURSUIT 4200 COLDWATER RD
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Plus 14 narcotics calls 
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Still a total dick move.
Fireworks calls: OCT 8 - OCT 14
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18F123110 10/14/2018 06:14am 44FW S ANTHONY BLVD & E RUDISILL BLVD
Ahh, there's our ONE asshole of the week.
*** Next up, once in a great while, there comes along a story that simply is beyond belief, and I think I might have found it for this year. Here's the link
http://www.journalgazette.net/features/home-garden/20181015/being-a-neighborly-neighbor
Being a "neighborly" neighbor...totally has me ROFLMAO!
I've ALWAYS been a good neighbor, and when you have OTHER good neighbors, you DO wind up with a good NEIGHBORHOOD.
Learned that early on back in Philly...stuck with me ever since. I followed my parents example there.
BUT...(uh, oh)...when you have those ignorant savages and arrogant morons move all around you, it DOES test one's resolve to remain a good neighbor.
I haven't succumbed to their level of stupidity, and never hope to.
(that's THEIR job...heh)
Still, for those of us who would like to see what it takes to BE a good neighbor (like you folks really need that), here are some tips:
--Share important information. 
(like where the local drug house is and which crib sells illegal guns)
--Keep up your curb appeal.
(so everyone ELSE can park in front of YOUR house - and make it a trash-magnet to boot)
--Be a responsible pet owner.
(which means don't bring you pit bull down to our house to crap, you idiot)
--Organize a service project.
(which house to report for loud music and assorted other violations)
--Invite your neighbors over.
(used to do that all the time...nowadays, not enough gold in Fort Knox to make me do that)
--Don't be the town gossip.
(but be the neighborhood dime-dropper, because the idiots will make your life a living hell anyway)
--Be a respectful party host.
(that means don't bring 20 cars to the smallest house in the area and trash everyone's property along the way)
--Abide by community rules.
(WE always have...everyone else? Not so much...as in hardly at all, and they keep getting away with that crap year after year)
--Handle conflict judiciously.
(yeah, keep the police and fire on SPEED-DIAL)
So there you are...oh, did I mention that these apply MAINLY to where WE live, and doesn't necessarily reflect the behavior of decent people in GOOD neighborhoods?
*** Next, time to stop laughing and instead stop by our "Kitten Corner"...
Did brother toss his cookies over there?
The kids have calmed down from the weekend, and spent much of the day either napping or watching what goes on outside (seeing a few birds stopping at the feeder, but still wary of the cats out there).
S'ok...Daddy's there to clean things up.
Gallifrey gobbles his food down SO fast, he sometimes chucks it back up. NO seconds there, but I can deal with that. Violet takes her time, sometimes long enough that he comes over to eat her food. That's a no-no, and I keep him away until she's finished.
*** Next up, let's take time to check in with "Midnight and Whiskers"...
Our furry twosome were there for ALL three meals...and treats time.
Yes, I know where the FOOD is at...
With colder weather, neither one wants to stray that far away...fine by us.
I've been feeding them later in the mornings (so I can see both of them) and earlier in the evening (before it gets dark out) so they get used to specific times.
And now...for the treats....
When we shift the clocks around, we'll have to revamp the process, but it should work out okay, considering they were both here through LAST fall. I hope they didn't forget the routine.
*** Last back to the comfy chair...there used to be a time when being a good neighbor was second-nature.
Pretty much everyone was, and those that were not were an anomaly.
I suppose in decent areas of any town or city, that STILL holds true, and yet, I can't help wondering what possesses people to NOT want to get along.
I think in our particular case, our skin color has something to do with it.
Yes, for once, I'm injecting race into this, because the majority of those around us are either black or Latino (or something else from some other land).
We have become the minority (so, where's my free cheese?)
I can relate to this person.
The blacks just do whatever they want, mostly all the time, and much of it not all that fun and typically noisy as hell.
The Latinos keep to themselves, but they also congregate in larger groups, and hardly a word of English issuing from any of them.
Now, I admit to having a bias to such people, because I've always been a person who gets along with most everyone...sometimes to the point of being taken advantage of.
That has since ceased as I've gotten older.
Takes a lot to pull the wool over MY eyes these days, and I'm grateful for such wisdom in being able to assess people when I encounter them.
To a person, I've yet to be wrong in how I size up people.
The world today is one of constant vigilance and awareness...much more so than in times past.
Trouble can come at you from ANY direction for absolutely NO reason whatsoever, and that does detract from being as "neighborly" as you used to be. But it does one thing quite well.,..it keeps you on guard against those who might want to commit evil against you and yours.
I can live with that.
Be well, make a difference to someone, and...
Stay SAFE out there, America.

2 comments:

CWMartin said...

Department Store day the day after Sears belly-ups, what irony!


Best I could do for Boss's Day: Nobody bitched about him today...

PharnTech Day: Could they have found more of a goon for the pic than that guy? lol!

Excellent "modification" of the rules for your neighborhood. Sad that we need them, though.


There's one in every species- Gal, Scrappy, Scooter... and the sparrow who sat on his feeder perch despite having stuff falling out of his mouth...



Bob G. said...

Chris:
---I can't blame the company here as much as I can blame the fickle "tastes" of (we) the shoppers.
Sears always had a good rep (hell I even worked for them right out of high school).
These days, people seem to gravitate to the "fads" that come down the pike. Sooner or later, people will once again WANT a place like Sears.
Glenbrook has already lost a LOT of other stores that we don't hear about (and they're all part of nationwide chains).
But that's just what I'm seeing.
---I'd call that a WIN in your column!
---Hey, I just borrow them...I don't claim to be the photographer.
---The modifications make it easier to pray for the vermin...loving them is a bit harder to do.
(depending on the relative definition of "love".)
---Our former cats had their barfing moments. Might have to invest in some hairball gel...the previous cats loved that stuff, and it worked.
Still have to sort out the GLUTONY gig, though.
Even pets are susceptible to the 7 deadly sins, I guess.

Thanks much for taking time to drop by and comment.

Stay safe (and puke-free) up there, brother.