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as i am driving up 26th st thru the 'hood' on my way to band practice, traffic right in front of me all of a sudden stops and i look left and see a guy laying in the street with blood soaking through his white tshirt. people were rushing over to him and i rolled down my window and heard one woman say "a car just pulled up and the guns started shooting".

it had to have happened within seconds of me pulling up to that spot. i wasn't scared in the least...i just had an overwhelming feeling of sadness come over me. it is still there.

Messed up. i was having a pretty good day until then.

How sad Sean. People suck. Sure one person made another mad. So what? Nothing is really that offensive. One doesn't have to shoot the other person over it.

Pfft. I was having a good day til I read this. Not that you did it , Sean. Just got me thinking how evil some people are. Hell, I feel bad if I smash a bug.

Wow.

Today, there's countless people who don't have any respect at all for another person's life. To those, another man's (or woman's) life isn't worth anything. It's obviously an extremely sick fact in this world we live in.

he died.

http://wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3732479

Sad business, Sean. Most of us have little exposure to this type and level of casual violence in everyday life.

It makes one think and to also treasure every minute that we can enjoy in this world with our music and our loved ones.

Life is chaos and the more beauty we bring into it, the more we can order it in a way that brings us peace and good humor.

Enjoy every day.

I wasn't gonna mention this, but now here's a thread about it...You may have heard last week about Grammy Award-winning singer Mark Cohn being shot here in Denver during a carjacking attempt. Cohn had just finished a concert at the Botanic Gardens and was heading to his hotel. He and his manager were hit by the same bullet...superficial head wounds, and they're going to be okay.
Well, the same perp who didn't get their vehicle got someone else's and fled the downtown scene...to my neighborhood; specifically a block and a half away. He holed up in a vacant house; the cops found the vehicle and surrounded the place. We got home from a rehearsal and the police line was 500 ft. from our house. They kept the block locked down until 11:30; then they fired a tear gas grenade through the living room window, followed by a concussion grenade. They stormed the house and hit him with a rubber bullet. We got the computerized reverse 911 call from the Denver Police Chief about 15 minutes later telling us the 'incident' had been concluded. I could hear all the megaphone stuff through the whole deal, and the grenades sounded like they were next door...

Hey, Peter...what're the Canadian immigration laws like these days?

As I recall from what a friend of mine once said about a street he lived on in the City of Buffalo, he said something to the effect that what you hear on the local news of murders and stabbings and shootings isn't even a drop in the bucket of this kind of garbage that keeps happening every single day. At least 3 or 4 or 5 times a night, he has heard ambulances and police cars flying down his street, or the next street over. There was once a total of 5 seperate stabbings going on during the same 15 minute time frame, on his street alone!!! This world is quite strange, isn't it? Totally wierd.

Late last year in Lockport, just a lil ride away from Buffalo, someone down the street got their head blown off. I felt kind of bad about it, but it was expected.

Expected, he says...

Nattiep, who wouldn't hurt a bug, why was it expected?

Perhaps he means "expect the unexpected", Paul.

This thread is all so sad and depressing......

Loss of life tends to be that way, Aitch. And I don't want to get political, so I'll just look the other way now.

Sorta makes your report about your bingled Saab pale into insignificance........

Politics? Nah........ most times somebody has dipped their toe into that pool on this forum it's become a bit bitchy. I prefer "apolitical" or "Eh? Political?"......

From my work experience I may be a little hardened but it doesn't bother me much anymore seeing incidents like ones described above. I've seen my share of death or serious injury. I'm not saying that it is ever right (except in self defense or in helping protect others) to hurt someone but it is actually pretty rare to have a true victim.....at least where I work. It does happen that someone is in the wrong place at the wrong time but in my almost 10 years as a police officer I can count those times that I've run across it without taking off my shoes.

I'll agree that it does make you appreciate life all the more when you see someone else lose their's.....no matter what the reason.

I'm not trying to lessen the impact on those that have obviously been upset by what they may have seen/heard and I'm not trying to start any sort of debate. I'm just offering my perspective.

“Appreciate life” indeed.

After an 18 hour day yesterday (day job, and then band job), and another one today, I was not to enthusiastic about getting up at 5:00 AM today.

On my way to work, I drive thru a small town of Hatboro PA.

The fire department had 2 ladder trucks parked on either side of the main street, with the ladders fully erected, touching each other in the middle of the road. It formed an arch.

I could not imagine why they were doing this. Them I remembered that a fallen solder was to have his burial today. He was a fire fighter in the town. The funereal caravan was driving thru the town, later in the day, from the church to the cemetery.


So another 18 hour day does not look so bad now…..

the guy was in the wrong place at the wrong time. random drive by according to the news. as i rode by last night on my way to practice they had a nearby powerpole decorated with baloons and candles etc next to where he hit the ground.