Posted on 03/10/2025 4:43:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
My wife and I are members of a Baptist affiliated church in Macon, Georgia. Last week, a lady in my Bible study was attacked and mugged.
Here’s what happened. Sunday morning past, this lady goes to the 9:00 A.M. service. Afterward, she goes to Kroger for weekly groceries. Driving away, she realizes that she forgot to pick up some over-the-counter meds for her husband. (He caught the 24-hour bug and is sick at home.) So she pulls into the nearby Walgreens. As she approaches the store, she notices a “suspicious” youth standing around the entrance, wearing a hoodie, looking somewhat out of place. She looks at him and says, “Hello.” He looks away and cinches up his hoodie.
Inside, she browses and finds what she wants. She pays with cash and returns her wallet to her purse, slung over her right shoulder. The five minutes in the store, she forgets about the shady guy out front. She exits and walks toward her car. It’s 10:55 A.M.
Suddenly, she’s attacked from behind. The hoodie guy grabs her purse and runs, but she’s holding on — resisting, pulling against him. He runs. She runs with him, resisting, resisting, resisting the entire time. It’s natural to fight an aggressor, and that’s what she’s doing. He pulls her across the parking lot and, with a violent tug, yanks the purse from her. She falls straight backwards. Her head smacks the asphalt, knocking her dazed and confused. She looks up and sees the mugger running away across the side road, heading for the apartments 500 yards away. In extreme pain, head pounding, she gets up and staggers into Walgreens, yelling for help. “Please someone help me, I’m hurt. I’ve just been attacked.”
Bending over, she puts her head on the counter.
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Putting Section 8 Housing in the good neighborhoods makes it convenient for the predators.
Too bad it doesn’t always end up like this. More and more violence every day. A 14 year old shot and killed a police officer in N.J., and wounded another, 2 days ago.
Odd that the author would use that term (“city fathers”). His wife was attacked due primarily to the city’s actions.
Additionally, the victim did herself no favor here.
I don’t understand this couple. They both sound like true “victims.”
I believe that was meant as sarcasm for how the political class sees itself—having to make all the decisions for the idiot masses.
Disgusting.
As long as there’s no governance that takes the crimes of underage delinquents as seriously as the results of those crimes, we live in a society that approves of violence. The part about praying for the attacker was the height of stupidity. A repeat offender who causes pain to someone else needs legal repercussions, not sympathy. Do I believe the perp’s mother and auntie were REALLY upset with him? No. I believe as long as he gets to come home and behaves relatively normally in a family setting, he’s still a family pet to be protected and cherished. I saw this article as nothing but disgusting and a reason to never visit Macon Georgia.
It has always been advisable for women to carry a weapon on their person, never their purse. The purse is generally the objective of a mugger, so there goes the defense.
as I was reading this was waiting for the part where the perp wasn’t even arrested because, you know, col...oops, I meant age.
MtnClimber wrote: “Putting Section 8 Housing in the good neighborhoods makes it convenient for the predators.”
didn’t Trump issue an Executive Order rescending Biden/Obama policy forcing local jurisdictions to bring Section 8 into neighborhoods?
Liberals pushing this policy gave two reasons.
First, people would see the poverty and would be more sympathetic to helping.
Second, the residents of the Section 8 would see the affluence of the neighborhoods become incentivized to get jobs. (actually, the section 8’s would see the affluence and decide the best way to take it).
Juxtaposing how he references the perp’s lack of father, I don’t see it that way.
“Putting Section 8 Housing in the good neighborhoods makes it convenient for the predators.”
This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but it’s not just Section 8. The decline starts with putting large complexes of low cost apartments in middle class residential areas. I’ve seen it ruin two areas, including where I grew up.
“... a “suspicious” youth...
Gee whiz, who could that possibly be?
The author doesn’t emphasize the perps race as something to be aware of. You can’t fix a problem you can’t talk about.
Macon is not a great place to live.
Yep. If Obama “had had a son, he’d have looked like Trayvon”...or HoodieBoy.
Carry a sidearm, every single day. Be prepared to defend yourself against the detritus of society, brought to you and empowered by the Dimocrat party. Coming soon to your town if it isn’t there already.
Section 8 housing should be between the government buildings and the government building parking lots. And government workers should be just as disarmed walking from their car to their workplace as anyone else in the city or state is. (Which policies they are most welcome to change as they include the government workers who can do that.)
This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but it’s not just Section 8. The decline starts with putting large complexes of low cost apartments in middle class residential areas. I’ve seen it ruin two areas, including where I grew up.
That was the Obama-era plan to turn Dubuque, IA from a white Catholic city into a "multicultural" exurb of Chicago. With the tacit approval of an influential local priest, a hubristic city manager, congential local Marxist intelligentsia and an enclave of influential - and wealthy - LGBTQ support, the Roman Catholic hierarchy joined forces with Catholic Charities, Lutheran Social Services and Obama's HUD to spread the previously-localized criminal culture out to many middle-class neighborhoods via existing low-rent apartments (most of which became "="/Section 8) and new "equal opportunity" complexes. The tactic used was referred to by the old cops as "stomping on the anthill to spread the ants." Within a decade, only the gated communities and extremely expensive new developments on the fringes of the city remained unaffected.
What were once apartment complexes for retired people and white collar newlyweds became mostly the residences of single moms with shadowy ex-con boyfriends who stay there when they need to lay low. And when a Cook County or Milwaukee dope dealer moves into a house in your middle-class neighborhood? Lay back and enjoy it, comrade. When the town itself doesn't have enough housing, get the hayseeds, greedy landlords and convenience store owners in the county to sign an MOU with the city, which spreads the problem to the surrounding small towns. Dubuque was the pilot/test program, and it has been emulated elsewhere.
I’d say the ethnic mix percentages cited by the author validate your conclusion & confirm they haven’t seen the bottom yet.
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So the ANSWER IS: Live if fear and deal with it.
He said he was wearing a hoodie... is your trigger broken?
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