Burglars rob Costco of jewelry today using guns

simpsca wrote:Well Costco jewelry looks like it is worth stealing but someone mentioned that the good stuff is is storage and this was just cubic zircona - I wouldn't know the difference.

gringal wrote:Stone the crows!

Naturally, when things get strange and dangerous, the thought of leaving the fray behind is in many minds. Then a combination of memory and judgment may take over. To wit: the most violent place I've ever lived was a (now gentrified) tiny town ...more of a wide space in the road...in CA.

Amidst the grapevines and apple orchards, the local bar had regular shootings/stabbings, the natives were trigger happy and my nearest neighbor held cockfights on Friday night that usually produced their own share of violence. These folks weren't immigrants from some other culture. They were genuine white folks for generations: rudely referred to as "Rednecks" on occasion. Everybody had a gun of some sort. On the surface, it looked like a haven for city folks, like me, who got a rude awakening. Was it ever!

Later, it become meth country as well, so figure how that helped the situation.

Point being: where in hell would we go for "safety" that wouldn't result in dying of boredom first?

Gringal:

Dawg wants you to know that your semi-eloquent discourse on living in Trailer Park California was not lost on all so, thank you for identifying the redneck enclave of Northern California and Dawg knows of which town you speak having abided there himself at one time in a former life. This reminds me of how excrutiatingly depressing it can be to read t read the supposed histories of those peering from self-imposed closets with no notion of the complexities of what they observe through the peephole. There is no happy ending to any life unless one cherishes death.