Katrina victims blamed for Houston crime

Yahoo/AP ^ | 8/14/06 | Paul J. Weber, AP

[ansel12]

I finally found it at this site, you may enjoy this link a lot. http://www.astrosdaily.com/1965/1965.html




October 3:

St. Louis (79-81) at Houston (65-96)
The Astrodome

In all three seasons as the Colt .45s, they had ended the year with 96 losses. The Astros hope to avoid their 97th loss but Bob Gibson has other ideas. The Cardinal righthander notches his 20th win in a 5-2 decision. 26,893 attend to set a new attendance record of 2,151,470 for the year, second behind Los Angeles, after finishing last with 725,773 the year before. As a weekend promotion, fans watch demonstrations of a single-occupant jet pack that straps onto the back and lets the wearer blast off into the air and coast back to the ground.

[Vision]

May be better if they were illegal. Some of the illegals aliens work hard as hell and are honest.

[Vision]

As honest as being in the country...illegally, of course:D

[kjo]

I have the greatest respect for the Constitution of the United States of America. Maybe I'm getting old but I don't have much tolerance anymore for young kids who refuse to get an education and then rely on welfare and crime to make a living.

I guess I am prepared to support some kind of parasite law. If folks aren't working and contributing to society and they have engaged in crime they should lose their citizenship. No voting rights, no right to constituitonal protections. Prison.

[grapeape]

I lived in New Orleans for a while and before I moved I was briefed by a friend of mine about NO. He was a "liberal" and told me that (This is the part that would get me banned from FR). Anyway he was right. The rest of America has no idea what has really been going on down there for decades.

[Orange1998]

Talk radio today mentioned the problem. They said the "Hooters" cards were used to buy beer across the street from the Dome. Said crime in the area sky rocketed.

Thanks Mayor White sarc

[RikaStrom]

Our definition of "nice" is being defined down pretty rapidly, eh?

That's the truth. I am thinking about moving when my lease comes up. I've lived in that community for 8 years.

[RikaStrom]

Either that or quit paying city taxes and tell them we needed the money for guns.

What's worse is I live one block . . . one freaking block from the city limits and I didn't get to vote on that mayor!

I already increased my weapons, especially when I saw what was moving in.

[traditional1]

"If folks aren't working and contributing to society and they have engaged in crime they should lose their citizenship. No voting rights, no right to constituitonal protections. Prison."

I believe that's the right idea, but that the Lawyers who represent these criminals should be assigned as their "guardians", and be responsible for their actions when they get them off the hook. The ol' "if you touch it, you own it" axiom should be invoked for lawyers AND judges who fail their statutorial duty to protect the public.

[Vision]

You're not too old. Society has slipped so far that you feel powerless.

This type of problem can be changed, but not at the local level with all the corruption. Governors need to get involved.

[Xenalyte]

We're doing the same thing, as soon as we can find a blind person with a bad inner-ear infection. (That's the only person we could conceivably con into buying our sine-wave-foundationed place.)

[Xenalyte]

Oh, now, see, that would piss me off.

Maybe you should move out west with us and Bacon and Hap. We could start a little compound out there and arm ourselves to the teeth.

[dhouston]

Locked and Loaded.
My wife and 2 daughters attended the concealed weapon class and now their friends want join up.
I attended when the class was first offered with my dad, who just turned 84. I hate to admit this, but I do not think protecting yourself is deterring this scum to collect dishonest wages for a dishonest day of stealing. This mentality has been going on for generations. It was not uncommon to see 4 generations sitting outside the projects in N.O. at all times of the day. How can the mayors of N.O. ever accept that.
BTW- we dropped off about $100.00 worth of items when the Katrina evacuees arrived at the Dome, never expecting thanks and never got one.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

They're just walking on sunshine.

[Rte66]

And I remember Brewster McCloud flying around the Astrodome!

[Rte66]

I lived here then. Came down to a Cardinals game in the summer from our home in Green Country, Oklahoma, as others on the thread have noted as their current homeplaces.

A month or so later, we were back amongst the resident Houstonians. Have been one several more times and this is probably my last.

I can think of two Astrodome moments that stand out in memory ... no, wait, now thinking of too many to enumerate. One was seeing my name in lights on the scoreboard. Another was going to the movie premiere party down on the field, but just thinking of that because I just had reason to recall it on this thread. Not really memorable.

*This ain't my first rodeo.*

[Tahoe3002]

We are probably neighbors.

Two killings within a week, within 1.5 miles of my house. Plus the neighborhood welfare office has a standing line outside waiting to get to our tax dollars, AKA welfare check.

[ansel12]

" One was seeing my name in lights on the scoreboard. "








It must have been something seeing Rte66 on that giant light board.

[Rte66]

Oh, *that name*? Ha ha! I see that literally everywhere, *still*! Actually, if I count that, or a hybrid of that - both my names - it was up there for years and years!

My real one was a dedication from a radio station (KIKK) that I bought a lot of time on. They treated me to a SkyBox for Merle Haggard's appearance at the Fat Stock Show & Rodeo in 19mumblemumblesomethingsomething and dedicated a certain song to me, as I was evidently the only person from Oklahoma anyone had ever known firsthand, lol.

[ansel12]

That must have been one fine night.