shooting on my block

Was outside my house yesterday when this happened on my block. Mind u i live 50 feet from where the shooting took place.
http://www.liherald.com/stories/Man-...type=&town_id=

So, with a little triangulation, I think I know exactly where you live. You better hope my kid sells enough school pop corn or I'm going to be at your front door. ;););)

Seriously, that really sucks! I hope this is a once in a lifetime event for your neighborhood.

Jim Smith

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Originally Posted by j_h_smith

So, with a little triangulation, I think I know exactly where you live. You better hope my kid sells enough school pop corn or I'm going to be at your front door. ;););)

Seriously, that really sucks! I hope this is a once in a lifetime event for your neighborhood.

Jim Smith

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hahah i seriously almost spit my drink out laughing from that. unfortunately this type of thing happens more and more every year. The neighborhood has done a complete 360 since i was a little toddler. Its a shame. You use to be able to walk around at night without a worry. Now you run the risk of being gunned down. We had a lady get shot 6 times for no reason in her drive way,home invasions, and just a few mins away from me there was another two shootins. One person dead and a few people injured. All within this past week.

Seems like a recurring scenerio around the US. Sad to think how things have changed in just a generation or two.

Jim Smith

Time to move

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Originally Posted by llovelace

Time to move

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Other than Southeast Montana, where do you move to get away from crime? It seems to be everywhere.

Jim Smith

Time to get a gun

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Originally Posted by chris4554

Time to get a gun

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;)

okay i think its fairly simple what to do....get about 6 burmese pythons a Chimpanzee a coon cat and a Starfish!


once you have those the supplies you will need is as follows!


1 Jar of Peanut butter
3 Tubs of Butter
5 Mouse Traps
1 Shot Gun
9 Strings of hair(RED HEAD ONLY!!!)


what you do next is when someone tries to break into your house.....shoot them with the shotgun then you can enjoy peanutbutter red hair mouse traps and tubs of butter with all of your animal friends!







(in all serious tho...thats messed! :weirdface)

http://www.news12.com/articleDetail....news_type=news

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Other than Southeast Montana, where do you move to get away from crime? It seems to be everywhere.

Jim Smith

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In my little part of the world here in Illinois. I have live here since 1976 and there have only been 2 murders.

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Other than Southeast Montana, where do you move to get away from crime? It seems to be everywhere.

Jim Smith

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What about remote parts of alaska or vermont where nobody lives

I swear that is just about what you have to do. Its crazy right now and crime seems to be on the rise everywhere including here. We live in a fairly affluent neighborhood and still have some crazy things going on here. Mostly it is stupid kid stuff.....or illegals...but we did have a murder/suicide about a mile away. My hubby fully believes in stocking the house with firearms in case anyone breaks in...:rolleyes:....(personally, I think its a military thing), as we have our alarm system and dogs as well.

Sadly ... though Im not proud of it ....shootings around where Im from are common ... I had a man shoot up a police vehicle from my front lawn at 3am one morning and the worse part was I heard about 8 shots woke up said"wow that sounded closer than usual" then went back to sleep. Crime is EVERYWHERE its just getting ridiculous now a days. My wife has witnessed 2 shootings, we have seen multiple drug busts. Its a shame, I moved out of the neighborhood a little over a year ago but I work there still and my family still lives there. In the past 3 years or so Phila Police officers have been brutally killed. I will tell you one thing it does make me second guess bringing a child into this screwed up world.

Your husband is a very smart man. Your alarm system can be disabled by simply cutting your phone line. Your dogs can be taken out of the picture with poisoned food. But nothing sends a chill up the spine of a perp like hearing a pump shotgun racked and hearing someone say, "Move an inch and you're dead."

The wife and I have a 2 prong approach to a home invasion. If at night, first we call 911, she stays in the bedroom on th phone with 911 operator along with a 12 guage pump shotgun. I go out into the hallway with a Sig P220R with a laser and an extra mag. I make my way towards the kids bedrooms. I take a position that will allow me to protect their bedrooms. We have a light switch that is close by that turns on the lights in the dining room (central room to the house), that goes on. At this time, it's party time. The perp gets no second chances. He (they) either leave, surrender or dies.

If during the day, we have a secret word we use when if we feel we are being violated. If either of us hear this word, it's no joking around. We know it's not a joke and we go to a defcon 1 conditioin. As an example, if I'm watching TV and she's in the kitchen or other part of the house and she sees a perp somewhere outside. She yells our secret word. The kids know where to go, the wife heads to a predetermined location with a cell phone. I head to one of my firearms and we are prepared for anything that could happen.

I know this sounds crazy and paranoid, but IF something were to happen, we would be prepared. I'm also the kind of guy that hold fire drills in my home. Any time of the day or night, the family could be awakened to with a smoke alarm alerting the family to a fire.

I know, I know. It sounds weird and for most people it probably is. But I'm a real alpha person and I want to know that my family is prepared for almost any condition that could cause them bodily harm.

My kids are into preparation as I am, my 2 oldest son's have completed a course on Krav Maga. That's an Israeli close combat martial art. They did it on their own. Daddy was never so proud.;)

I'll stop now. I wish everyone would prepare themselves and their families for unconventional situations. As stated in this thread, crime is everywhere. I want my family to be survivors instead of victims.

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Jim Smith

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Sadly ... though Im not proud of it ....shootings around where Im from are common ... I had a man shoot up a police vehicle from my front lawn at 3am one morning and the worse part was I heard about 8 shots woke up said"wow that sounded closer than usual" then went back to sleep. Crime is EVERYWHERE its just getting ridiculous now a days. My wife has witnessed 2 shootings, we have seen multiple drug busts. Its a shame, I moved out of the neighborhood a little over a year ago but I work there still and my family still lives there. In the past 3 years or so Phila Police officers have been brutally killed. I will tell you one thing it does make me second guess bringing a child into this screwed up world.

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But that's the only way this world will be brought back into balance. If there's no one but bad guys around, who wins. You've got to keep fighting for what is right. If not, they win.

Jim Smith

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What about remote parts of alaska or vermont where nobody lives

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Raccoon rape is running rampant in those areas.

Not a pretty sight. :D;):rolleye2:
Jim Smith

It's sad, but it is everywhere. Where I live, we hear about a shooting almost nightly on the news. There was a stabbing in the neighborhood right beside my old elementary school a few years ago. It is a scary world, but that shouldn't stop anyone from having children.

My sister in law refuses to have kids because she "doesn't want to bring up a child in a world like this." The way I see it. If you can't pass down your values to your children, the bad guys win.

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Other than Southeast Montana, where do you move to get away from crime? It seems to be everywhere.

Jim Smith

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You don't have to move to Montana, just move somewhere either affluent or where your nearest neighbor's property is a few football fields away.

You'd be surprised how close such places can be to a metropolis.

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You don't have to move to Montana, just move somewhere either affluent or where your nearest neighbor's property is a few football fields away.

You'd be surprised how close such places can be to a metropolis.

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Not true any longer. Look at the Amish school shooting in Lancaster County PA. The affluent neighborhood isn't spared criminal activity either. Look at Montgomery County, Maryland. Ranked as one of the highest salaried counties in the US, and crime is rampant. The only commuity I know that has no crime is Gibson Island in Maryland. It is a gated community on an island. Drive over a bridege, then your greeted by the gate. Can't get in other than by boat. Now they do have some petty theft and every now and then a boat theft, some of which are worth more than my house.

Crime is everywhere. If there are people, there are crimes. How serious of a crime, that's up for debate, but there is crime everywhere.

Jim Smith

Went out to the bar with a bunch of people I grew up with last nite for a friends birthday and while someone getting shot is never a good thing they did have a few good jokes about what happened. They are deff not reptile people so they think me owning 34 ball pythons is a little weird so they rolled in the joke after joke about me selling fake banana vipers to people,selling a snake that is 2 feet when they were supposed to get a 3 foot one etc... It turned a crappy situation into one you could laugh about.

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Other than Southeast Montana, where do you move to get away from crime? It seems to be everywhere.

Jim Smith

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"Everywhere" in the US. You didn't have to worry about a thing in Japan or just about every country BG has been in lately. It was great to be able to leave my hotel room open with a few pennies worth of camera equipment and not have to worry about a thing.

when i was living in calgary, alberta, canada a couple summers ago, there was a big gang war over the death of a prominent triad in the area. 3 incidents with 5 people dead within a 1km walk from my house(one was behind me, 3 doors down), all in a 4 day period. it was absolutely insane, i moved twice in the four months i was there

yeah the druggies are everywere and with everything else going on it going to get worst.

I have seen it first hand being in the fire company over the last few years and we don't have the bandaid bus.

I have 2 knives, a muzzle loader and a a friendly neighborhood warning that i have venomous snakes.. so far everywere but my place been broke into, I also caught one person breaking into the shed and those pressure points will hold a person for a long time.( also helps that I stuffed them inot the shed.afterward until the cops got there.