Posted on 11/11/2015 12:03:52 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Sarah Pitluck used to walk her dogs before dawn, among the early risers exercising on Capitol Hill. She now waits until first light, and for the streets to be busier.
It is just one way the young man who robbed her, ripping the smartphone from her hand and scratching her neck, has changed her daily routine — and her life.
Ever since the Oct. 13 robbery just two blocks from her home, the pharmaceutical executive goes to work later and comes home before it gets dark. Lost time at her office is made up at home, on the phone with her overseas staffers and answering e-mails. She drives more often and pairs with others on neighborhood excursions. Her poodle, Lenzi, and Chihuahua mix, Pedro, get walks only during daylight hours.
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Thugs are absolutely assured that their victims are unarmed.
Robberies, armed stickups, phone thefts, and muggings are up and occurring out on the streets, too.
He's a crossbreed, they call them Mastadors. The Sire of mine was a purebred American Field Lab and his Dam was a purebred English Mastiff. Daddy wouldn't let a fence keep him from true love, to my great fortune.
Before I got my Dane I spent a lot of time online trying to find a Daneador with no luck. Indeed, my Pitador was advertised as a Daneador and I only discovered what he really is after I’d adopted him and become totally attached to him. Congrats on your success in getting the large/giant breed mix you wanted. It can be tough.
She is just one of those people, far too common in my DC metro area, who have let their beliefs about communities and the goodness of man over-ride reality and awareness. She moved into a place with high crime rates and expects everyone around her to subscribe to her ideas of kindness and fair play.
People don’t deserve to get robbed, but she was low-hanging fruit for the felons she refused to recognize.
You're probably one out of a million. The rest are victims of herd mentality and passing fashions.
The few times a dog actually got a hold of me on a job, it’s been one of the toy breeds.
Last time I was bit, it was inside the lady’s house, just as I was leaving. I was lucky that the bite didn’t penetrate bad enough to draw blood.
Vicious little thing.
Thugs are masters at exploiting that very weakness. They depend on it, the same way that politicians depend on citizens being ill or mis-informed about what goes on in their government.
If she had been wearing some steel-toe Doc Martens, she might have got her phone back.
Ping!
But she's still for 'gun control', wouldn't even touch an 'icky gun' if you paid her to do it, and votes for demonicrats. Every single one of them.
Count on it.
I'm an obese American. I saw a huge Coca-Cola truck outside my local grocery this morning. I felt triggered!
Be aware.
Be prepared.
Do not hesitate.
Hell...even a taser ought to be legal in D.C.???
They illegal in the Capitol yet?
What about a club?
What about spray?!?!?
Seems to me a "smart" woman as this...could come up with something..to protect herself...and her dogs!!
Really, she looks more like “oooh, they want a photo of me, better dress up”.
I hope they all get jacked. They cause it in my neighborhood every single day, serves them right to come face to face with their policies.
Rescheduling Midnight Basketball to an earlier time might have prevented this.
Time for a new entitlement program to placate the cultural rot in DC. They have ObamaPhones, ObamaFlats, ObamaFood, ObamaNet, ObamaCable,...what’s next?
Thanks. The neighborhood is well aware of the uptick in crime but I’ve yet to hear a good explanation. One factor of course is that crime is rising in most cities, presumably due to the social agitation of recent years. The question on Capitol Hill is whether there are any local factors in play. The demographics on the Hill and in the immediately surrounding areas are dramatically better than they were ten and even five years ago. As we’ve discussed, neighborhoods like Trinidad, Rosedale, Carver-Langston, and Ivy City are flipping. It may be that gentrifiers are again fighting some frontier battles in new areas. Or it may be that some outsiders have started cruising the Hill. I note the story made reference to a driver in a getaway car. That doesn’t sound like local talent.
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