Posted on 10/28/2015 4:43:45 PM PDT by citizen
Much more efficient ways to cripple a nation.
Simon Malls are all “gun free” zones. Not sure about the new ownership/management.
Anybody is at risk anywhere they might go nowadays. Heck I even heard of an incident locally that didn’t get much attention from what I saw but a man fought off a crazed person with a knife that was threatening school children in the library. I don’t feel safe in my own country anymore. Too many unstable people.
I went to a high school that was across the road from a shopping mall. On occasion we might ditch last class to hang at the mall and spend our allowance at the Deb shop or Fashion Bug or play video games, goof off, then sit at the food court waiting for the last bell to ring and the rest of the crowd to come meandering over and catch up on the latest gossip. The demographics changed a great deal some 15 years after I graduated and then the mall failed and was eventually torn down. This has happened to many a town. It’s a shame.
The comedian Chris Rock has a routine that ends with..."every area has malls, one where white people shop and another where white people used to shop (those are closed)"
Ah, the arcades...the best reason to go to the mall. My town never had one (though a few were 20 minutes’ drive away), instead we now have a Wal-Mart that is just a magnet for criminals from neighboring Newark & Jersey City. I wouldn’t go there after 8 in the morning...
BTW, I believe the open borders policies are designed to keep these (and other) businesses open.
It’s all shock - ISIS or mussies are not sophisticated enough to do economic damage, all they can do is kill.
I haven’t worked in downtown Atlanta in decades but even back then the panhandlers were annoying, persistent and sometimes dangerous.
I walked to a building with a food court on the ground floor. This rough looking guy stops me, says he’s a trucker and needs help getting his truck fixed so he can get back on the road. Of course I knew he was lying but this was one of the better stories you’d hear from the bums so I gave him a buck and wished him luck and then went on to the food court.
On the way back out he hits me up again, same blank look, same story about his truck. He doesn’t remember me at all. I tell him we just talked a few minutes ago and I gave him a dollar. I ask if he got his truck fixed. He just stares at me for a few seconds then turns to look for somebody to ask for money. Sad. This guy wasn’t dangerous but sometimes they would get really agitated and insistent if you talked to them but didn’t give them a dollar.
I work in a suburban office park now. No panhandlers here so far. But as the density of the area increases, they migrate northward like some slow-spreading disease.
haven't played that in years...
I graduated college with a double major.
Euchre and frisbee.
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