Comments on: Yup, Another Shooting

By: ElevenIrving

ElevenIrving — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:01:11 +0000

I said people being killed from stray bullets is rare, not the existence of stray bullets. Stray bullets are quite common. I guess you didn’t understand what I was saying.

By: neener

neener — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:29:50 +0000

ElevenIrving: apologize.

“Sure, you know four cases of children somewhere who were killed from stray bullets. This is still an extremely unlikely occurance.”

“extremely unlikely” and my terminology “rare” are synonyms. If you don’t recognize that you are lying to save face then give it up.

By: Anon5

Anon5 — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:12:57 +0000

I was actually considering buying a home in CH/Petworth, but changed my mind after reading about all of the crime there. I actually looked at more than 20 different homes before I decided that I don’t want to be messing with the kind of crap that goes on in D.C.

This is nothing new. It has been going on for decades. It sucks, big time.

By: MIke

MIke — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:13:12 +0000

Well darn it -then I guess I am not connected. I guess I get to live

By: ElevenIrving

ElevenIrving — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:07:51 +0000

MIke, do you have business or personal interactions with people who settle differences violently? If not, then you aren’t connected.

By: MIke

MIke — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:02:57 +0000

@ elevenIrving: You still have not addressed your “connected” comment. You are more concerned about probabilities than you are about explaining why “connected” is your operative word. And how shootings does NOT make an neighborhood unsafe…

@neener – I hear you. Move out of Petworth/DC and I gaurantee you will sleep better at night

By: ElevenIrving

ElevenIrving — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:44:20 +0000

If you want to be afraid you can always find justification. Earth destroying asteroids almost hit us every now and then.

Neener, you know very well that I did not say stray bullets are rare. Any bullet that misses its intended target (and even some that hit it) become stray.

By: Neener

Neener — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:55:57 +0000

ElevinIrving,

My house was hit by stray bullets 3 times in the last 10 years. To say that stray bullets are a rare occurrence betrays crippling naivete. Stray bullets getting in the news is rare, but I have a window air conditioner with two bullet holes confirmed by the police. I have a chipped brick that appeared after a gun incident. my neighbors lost car windows and leather upholstery and a convertible top. There was a tree that the police believe was hit by a bullet one time- chip from the tree is about 16-20 ft high. Not one of those stories made it into the papers or local blogs.

I don’t care if a bullet actually hitting my person is rare, I have heard the bullets smash into my air conditioner with a sound that could wake the dead! I am not the same and will never be the same after that. I know who was responsible and the police know who was responsible and no one even got arrested!

By: Neener

Neener — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:39:08 +0000

Anonymous, I agree. Where I live we have one single lone stand-out family who is causing 100% of the problems on our block. They’re friends with the one single guy causing problems on our cross street to the west and the one single family causing problems one cross street to the east and their son has a kid by the daughter in the one single family causing problems two blocks over and his best friend brings drugs in on weekends while visiting his mother who lives in a basement apartment in the block to the North and about 30 families are part of an online group who track where these guys are and report suspicious activity, which sometimes happens 8-10 times on a weekend (fistfights, stolen bikes, drinking in public, etc). And the worse these local guys get then people start mushmouth meandering in from apartment buildings until the families on our block are staring at a group of 15 guys who don’t live on our block drinking on the stoops or the sidewalks. There is a really small group of people still causing these problems, but they cause problems 24/7.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:14:18 +0000

The amount of crime in this area seems just amazing to me. On 4th last weekend (Halloween) there was also gunfire reported. It seems so odd, as pretty much all of my neighbors seem to be young professionals or retirees. What’s going on out here?