This evening I left my friend's house around nine, beautiful night, and on the expressway entrance ramp, a 1/10 of a mile from her place, there were two cop cars arresting 3 people - 2 girls and a dude (all appeared to be late twenties). I immediately texted my friend, announcing the event, making a joke about a drug deal gone bad (re: an inside joke)

Anyway, right after I got to thinking about people who live in or grew up in a lower socioeconomic neighborhood or in an area with a lot of crime. Do you become blind to crime (or alleged crimes), events like seeing people being arrested, etc? Would you see someone on the streets put in the back of a cruiser, would you mention it to your friend? It also made me think about the Jeepin neighborhood watch situation. If he had grown up around that kind of thing, would his neighbor be on his radar even enough to mention to a message board?

6/5/2016 1:00:12 AM

No; no; no.

6/5/2016 1:41:26 AM

Unless you saw the incident and know the people did some dumb shit, why would you mention it? For all you know, those people were being arrested based on evidence obtained via illegal search.

6/5/2016 1:42:05 AM

^^ all of that

6/5/2016 1:42:13 AM

^^ that's why I added the "alleged crime" caveat, numbnuts.

I texted her because we had been quite literally talking about heroin arrests in her neighborhood about 30 min prior, and also in reference to a Darknet transaction "joke" that we've been having. It wasn't like I called her to have a conversation about it; if you saw people being arrested on your block as you're pulling in your driveway from work, it's not something you would casually mention to your wife after walking in and before asking what's for dinner? Or if you were in CVS with your dad and you saw an (assumed but obvious) drug deal go down, you wouldn't elbow him and be like "dude that guy just handed off a huge bag of coke"?


And your "no's" are contradictory.

6/5/2016 2:11:14 AM

They're not contradictory. And I third them.

6/5/2016 7:44:27 AM

I'm pretty upset that you appear to have been texting while driving. That shit is dangerous, yo...

6/5/2016 8:03:28 AM

Quote :

" and on the expressway entrance ramp, a 1/10 of a mile from her place, there were two cop cars arresting 3 people - 2 girls and a dude (all appeared to be late twenties). I immediately texted my friend,"

You shouldn't do that. You'll end up like the girl who was playing with snap chat.

6/5/2016 11:55:23 AM

When I lived off of S. Saunders street, it was a rare night when you didn't see flashing lights in front of at least one house on our street. On new years, we didn't seemed alarmed by all the celebratory gunfire until someone let off a burst from a fully automatic rifle. Our Mexican neighbors across the street had a dozen cop cars and a mobile command unit type wagon show up on two separate occasions, although I never thought they were doing anything suspicious.

I wouldn't say I became blind to what was going on, but I expected it. If these kind of activities took place where I live now, I'd be looking for somewhere else to go.

6/5/2016 2:59:25 PM

Where is JCE2011when you need him?

6/6/2016 12:57:28 AM