How bad is Houston’s crime problem? Let me put it this way — I hope you like getting raped to death in a stolen car. Here’s how the Bayou City compares to New York:
Houston’s murder rate is nearly double New York’s. The rape rate is more than twice as high. Car theft and burglary rates are more than four times as high. Houston’s scumbags also out-stole and out-assaulted their Big Apple counterparts. Oh, by the way, those figures are from 2004. It’s worse now.
Chief Harold Hurtt’s solution to this danger is pretty simple — on the weekends, he skips off to Phoenix.
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gosh! will anyone take responibility?
to many government agencies for that.
The sound of outrage is deafening. You know damn well if this was happening under a Republican mayor and a white police chief there would be people in the streets protesting. But hey, we have nice stadiums.
And a wonderful toy train too!!!
#2 Totally agree with you.
I would hate to see a chart for current times, now that we have all these new citizens from New Orleans among us! Bet that would be OFF the charts.
Great! More fodder for Nodding Noggin’s “Houston Sucks” campaign.
Don’t forget those useful red-light cameras. I’m sure they can get a picture of the guy who just carjacked you and left you for dead on the side of the road. Then they can mail you a ticket!
Hey, it’s all about “safety” in this “world-class” town.
It would be interesting to see other cities compared as well, such as Los Angeles, Chicago and Las Vegas.
Why dont ya’ll get honest?
Blaming the police chief?
Too much blame not enough action from the locals.
Houston Does Suck IMHO!
Sorry folks..I watched my neighborhood turn ghetto in five years. My neighbors sat on their duffs doing nothing.
Just be thankful Hurtt has all those officers out there trapping the scourge of the earth, the evil non-seatbelt-wearers.
With all due respect Daniel, we’re still here. You “cut and run”
I did some poking around. Look at the “rape rate” for Chicago.
http://chicago.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm?c1=Chicago&s1=IL&c2=Houston&s2=TX
I have to doubt these stats now.
They’re the official stats for the U.S. — compiled by the FBI. Sometimes, there are holes in the data. It’s not claiming Chicago had no rapes; it’s just that data for that crime were unavailable for whatever reason.
#10
I cut and ran!
I speak my mind and the truth. I am called a racist and a bigot. Most wont out of fear. The gov tried to put in section 8 housing on the corner of hwy 6 and Addicks Satsuma. The wife and I put door hangers on every door in Bear Creek. 100 people showed. I went to the border and did the watch for ten days..My wife and I block walked for Dan Patrick.
Your answer is vote them out.
Sorry man. While “most” sit on their duffs I was about action.
If half the people did a fraction of that these problems would not exist.
Apathy is killing America. My grilling fajitas joke is sadly really not a joke.
Go wax you car, buy that big house and live in a gated community (or out in cypress)and grill those fajitas.
We have discussed activism before. Well get active.
You wanna talk about cut and run? I walk the walk.
Terror is being perptuated on our streets daily.
The proof is in the numbers.
Sorry HJ…My last post may have seemed like a direct slamming on you. I was just venting.
I’m heading out the door. See ya’ll later.
#13 - I was speaking tongue-in-cheek.
You speak your mind, but its not necessarily the truth, its your opinion.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but laws are passed by politicians we elect. If they pass laws we don’t like, our only recourse is to vote them out and vote people in that represent our interests.
Sorry, I don’t live in a compound. I live in a modest house in a nice neighborhood with a large immigrant population just north of downtown. Its safe enough for my 95 year old neighbor (and all her friends) to get out and walk every morning and evening. I am a member of, and active in, our civic club. The civic club is all volunteer. We’ve been instrumental in controlling and getting rid of most crime problems. You don’t have to dress up in cammo and camp out on the border to make a difference. Lay off the sermonizing please.
Oh, I haven’t waxed my truck in about four years, but I do love me some fajitas.
HJ, Did you not see this in my last post?
Sorry HJ…My last post may have seemed like a direct slamming on you. I was just venting.
Venting.. OK? I just cant stand the blame game. I love action based answers.
Hopefully I will see ya at the Brewhahahaha.
I have a pooch to save.
DJ, after I had posted 15.
You and I are supporting these freeks, we pay thier housing cost with our tax dollars (FEMA) they are usually on wellfare, and this is what we get in return for our hospitality. We took them in and now we are taken!
HOUSTON — A man was shot and killed in front of his wife after he refuses to give robbers money, officials told KPRC Local 2.
Houston police said Rolando Aguilar, 64, was killed at a car wash on Briar Forest Drive near Wilcrest Drive just before 6 a.m. Saturday.
Officials said Aguilar was washing the car when four black males approached him and demanded cash. Aguilar refused and an argument ensued, police said.
The gunmen shot Aguilar several times, police said. Aguilar died at the car wash.
Aguilar’s wife was inside the car and witnessed the killing, police said. She was not injured.
Police said the men are all black, in their 20s and have Jerri Curl hairstyles. Police said the men spoke with New Orleans accents.
Investigators said neighbors told them the car wash is a crime haven that is frequented by young Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
Maybe we can get the “Sports Authority” to build us a “state of the art” police department with all those tax dollars that have coming in. Or maybe we can get “Metro” to lay a rail line to get us out of predicament. After all, these two agencies are so wonderful at solving our most pressing problem, providing “world class” attractions, certainly they can solve a little crime problem.
I have been validated! No, not violated!
Houston sucks, period, end of story!™
Seriously, I went to Willowbrook International Mall last nite, and we had to leave after just a few minutes because we weren’t sure if we were wearing the right colors. I saw Asian, Mexican, black, etc. gang-like warriors all over the place.
And they were all spending money! We went into FootLocker and shoes for kids were like $60 and up, and there they were scooping them up like they were free! WTF!
New cell phones, clothes, tattoos, piercings, etc. - where does the money come from? I mean, are they all selling drugs?
This is not America. Houston is a foreign country and I can’t wait to get the frig out!
Can you imagine arranging a conference, vacation, meetings, in the city with the highest crime rates, highest hotel taxes, highest car rental taxes, for your comany or family? I think not
WORLD CLASS CITY MY HIND END
So Shakey, because they were Asian, Mexican, black, etc. and had money they are drug-selling gang members?
Heck,
that ain’t bad we got you beat here in Baton Rouge, murder, aggravated assault, burgalry, and larceny theft. You do have us on rapes, robbery and car theft though.
You did beat New Orleans in everything but Murders though.
I have two words for everyone:
Broken Windows.
#21 sees it as it is and #23 tries to make him out as a bigot.
If it looks like a thug, talks like a thug, and walks like a thug?
It is a thug. I think they are called Choloes.
Foreign country indeed.
#23 HamSpamwich
As DJ said, if it looks like one, talks like one, acts like one, and walks like one, it’s one.
The dumbing down of America is just about complete.
Vaya Con Dios!
Will someone explain to me what “forcible rape” is? Rape is rape, isn’t it? Is there such a thing as non-forcible rape?
I think that’s to distinguish it from statutory rape.
#28 Neo
I believe statutory rape would be an example. A consenting 16-year old with someone over 18.
LOL, interesting, Matt beat me to it (no pun intended).
Neocon,
I guess date rape isn’t forcible if it involves alcohol and some degree of consent. Forcible is using aggravated assault to make the victim comply. Does that make sense?
My neighbor is a cop. He says a lot of the crime in the Cypress,Hwy 6 Copperfield,Fairfield area is the pukes from Prairie View coming down 290 into town. When they catch them shoplifting at the Super Wal-Mart it seems thats where they are coming from.
If it looks like a bigot, talks like a bigot, and walks like a bigot…
#13 Daniel James,
Kindly don’t let the door hit you on the backside as you leave.
Real Texans have always prided themselves in overcoming adversity.
Sure crime is bad. It always has been. Get your CWP and go on with your life.
Simple
#33
Common sense is not so common.
Hammie, if you think I’m a bigot, whatever.
I’m good at spotting scumbags.
Juliani fo mayor!!!!
#34
I overcame adversity.
I moved to the country (that just happens to be in Texas).
My chances of survival are much better than yours.
It is about survival. I am a numbers man. They dont lie.
Shakey, my point, which was apparently lost completely on you and DJ, is that you can’t make such judgements based on what someone looks like. The “Thug look” is what a lot of kids of all races dress like. I don’t like it and my kids wouldn’t dress like that, but that doesn’t mean they’re all drug dealing gangsters.
Shaky, Please dont profile! Its not PC.
#39
I do understand what you are saying.
More on Broken Windows:
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2006/08/04
#39 Hammie
You’re just being a little beotch and trying to distract from an important subject.
The fact of the matter is that scumbags are taking over, period. Yes, I understand there are some scumbag-looking/dressing people who are good people, they’re just scumbag-wannabees.
As my daughter says, “I can’t deal!”™
Matt, HS and SOB
Thanks for the clarification.
#40 Too freakin’ funny! I’ve been accused of lots of things by many people, but one thing I’ve never been accused of is being politically correct! Oh man, I need to put you in contact with some of my friends. They could use a good laugh too. Too much.
#44
This is for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Breastfeeding_infant.jpg
The baby is the American people and the mother is the gov.
Rock the vote baby!
Another picture of Baby Smacktle?
Everybody is a bigot to some extent, even the Pope.
We live in The Woodlands and it’s predominately white. I have Indians on my left and Chinese on
my right and they are good people.
Last Christmas I put up a lighted train in my yard and it was gone in a few days. My neighbor down the street had his house broken into, luckily the alarm scared him away. I’m a gun owner now, never had guns before, except for the BB variety.
Things are getting worse in Houston and there is always a certain element that is worse than the rest and someone doesn’t have to be a bigot to notice who they are. I’m nervous when I go downtown to games now, when I wasn’t before.
Our kids are not getting better, they are getting worse. Parents aren’t raising future men and women, they are not raising at all.
I used to be a proud Houstonian, but now I thank God I’m not.
#46 Matt
I’m in a nursing mood, know anybody who might be available?
DJ, stop, you’re killing me! Now I’m a proponent of the nanny state???! Next you’ll be telling everyone I’m a Shrillary fan.
That car wash killing was frightening. I used to live in that area and I even used that car wash!
Once I saw that the apartments I lived in then were going ghetto, I got the hell out! Now I have a nice house in the far northwest woods…. Praise Jesus….
I honestly mean no offense to the good christian ghetto people - it’s not you! It’s your friends! They scare the hell out of me!
It’s simply a matter of survival…. I don’t want to get popped when I go to wash my damn car!
But according to some here, since his name was “Rolando Aguilar” it must have been a drug deal gone bad.
#33 Just cause you associate a person with dressing like a thug, walking like a thug and talking like a thug does not make a person a bigot. It is an observation and an opinion at the least. I guess we can use a better choice of words, they look like rappers. We’ll use 50-cent as the rapper example. He praises drug dealing, using women as objects, shootin’ up their ‘hood or the people that live it. Oh and all of this is “Thug Life”. Hrrmmm… I guess 50 cent is a bigot too if he equates this to be ing Thug Life. I forgot when we were told we have to accept all others. Allowing them to do want the want is their business, but I do not have to accept what they do. So add me to that bigot list. I am just a right-wing, racist, Christian honkey, whiote crackah who don’t know nuttin but playing my whiskey jug leaving with my extended family in a trailer dealing crystal meth…
#50 That car wash is just south of the Walnut Bend neighborhood. Property taxes were frozen this year due to the increase violence coming from the apartments across the street and down on Briar Forest. Mayor Dumb and Police Chief Dumber could give a rats ass. They should put those Katrina folks up in their neighborhood. While their at it, they should put the Wham-Bam tram west on Dallas, south on Kirby, west on San Felipe and north on Post Oak. They should tear that Williams Waterfall and put a station right there.
#52 damifino - The difference is 50 cent is a thug and lives his life as such. The point I’m making is that the asian/black/mexican kid (notice shakey left out white) walking through Willowbrook Mall may or may not be a thug. Shakey made the assumption that he is a thug based on his looks. My #33 was made to point out (obviously unsuccessfully) the absurdity of making such generalizations. I know Shakey’s not a bigot, just like I know that every asian/black/mexican is not a drug dealing gangster.
Maybe this will help: Two new Texas prisons to be proposed
#54 HamSpamwich
Sorry, I meant to say Asian, Black, Hispanic, White Trash and other loser scumbags!
#53
They did put Katrina folks their. Kirkwood and Briarforest. Maybe they can just turn Paul Revere middle school into a detention center. Its location is perfect. BTW…has anyone ever seen the city buses bus the PBF into Paul Revere?
Its a site to behold. Piggy back metros unload 100’s of PBF’s so we can have diversity.
The dumbing down is almost complete indeed since the good people still have their kids in public schools aka indoctrination camps.
Yipes…there!
Or why not just say “loser scumbags”? Look, in my neighborhood 80% of the criminals are hispanic. They’re not criminals because they’re hispanic but because 80% of the population is hispanic. In the early 80s I lived in Spring, which was 95% white. Guess what? 95% of the criminals were white, including the ones that stole $8000 worth of my muscial equipment and burned my house down trying to cover their tracks. They didn’t look like thugs either.
#57 DJ
You and I think very much alike. I wish I could do what you did and move out of the area, but I can’t. It’s not just here though. I drove to Cape Cod, and all along the way there were people who didn’t speak English, even at the McDonald’s on 95 in Connecticut! WTF! I kept asking for a Mighty Kids Meal and she looks at me like I’m an Immigration Officer asking her to speak Swahili, and she keeps repeating “Happay Meal?”!!!
I can’t deal!™
#59 HamBeotch
Because 99% of the crowd hanging around acting like thugs was Asian/Black/Hispanic with a few White Trash wannabee scumbag losers thrown in the mix, that’s why!
Long Live Charles Bronson!
# 55 - I have a better idea - a tent city for dorms, feed em peanut butter and jelly three times a day - they can milk they cows they raise for milk. No AC, no TV, No clean beds, just a sleeping bag on the ground, no toilets, a latrine - military style (its good enough for our boys) NO running water, (hope there is a crrek near by)
We pay for the tent city guards and admin staff with the money from the crops and cattle the prisoners raise.
First time they $itch send em to iraq!
#60 - Sure you can Shakey! Just pack up and move. Its a free country. May have to adjust your lifestyle but if its that bad, like someone said earlier, don’t let the door hit you on the way out. All of our large cities in the South are in the shape they’re in because of you carpetbagging yankees trying to turn them into the cesspools you left up north anyways. If it wasn’t for you yankees we wouldn’t have “sanctuary” cities
#62 Blondie -
I like it, I like it!
Shakey roundup time!
I’m going to publish a paper explaining the hormones and neurotransmitters behind Shaking Head Syndrome. Then I’m gonna take the Nobel Prize money and we’re going to have one hell of a SmartHaHa™, with Shakey as the guest of honor.
#63
Did your rebel arse sign the petition?
http://www.protectourcitizens.com/
#4 Navymom
Omigod! I had to go back and see that that was from 2004. I figured that had the Katrina criminals factored in.
This town’s going to Hell!
Speaking of crime stats.
http://www.protectourcitizens.com/ORHPDNR.htm
#67
A large portion is illegals.
#66 - In the words of one Matt Bramanti, you’re damn skippy I did!
The only thing worse than a yankee is a canadian
or a floridian or anybody acting like they was born and raised here!
#63 HamPiss
So now I’m a carpetbagging, bigoted POS Yankee?
Thanks pal!
Or someone from Goose Creek via Cherry Hill, NJ!
#72 - HeadBagger, nah, just a carpetbagging POS yankee
#74 HamCrack
LOL are you coming this Friday so I can have my wife kick your hillbilly arse while I feed Smackie in his highchair?
#74
Where is this at again?
Gold Cup?
LOL
CarpetHeadBagger - Don’t feel bad, you’re in good company.
I’m going into exile. The news today just bums me out. I am not a happy SOB.
#67 My point exactly!!!
DanielJames
#76
Water Spew! LOL! - Ya owe me a keyboard!
I’ll just add this to the mix. Call me wrong if you want, but if ANYBODY (white, black, green, whatever) dresses like a thug (the classic ‘ghetto gangsta’ look) and otherwise acts the part, I am going to be wary of them. They may well be straight A student future leader of the country, but the numbers say they’re not.
Sure, the occasional “normal” person-turned-mass-murderer crops up, but not that often.
My daughter rented “Get Rich or Die Tryin’” the other day (starring Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) over my objections.
BIG Mistake
There is nothing about the music, the dress, the lifestyle, even the ‘wannabes’ that have any redeeming value in my mind. That was enough to even turn me off of “Christian” hip-hop music…
#54 We all know that everyone who dresses and acts like thugs may not necessarily be thug (walk the walk). Either way, I can choose to listen to my conscience which tells me to stay clear of those folks or we could listen to your conscience which says something like, \”those are just misundertsood kids emuluating role models like 50-Cent and Snoop Dogg\”. I rather be labeled a bigot for excercising caution than to be a fool be allowing my heart to bleed over. The other Saturday MTV aired a satire named \”Where My Dogs At?\” which had a cartoon figure that looked like Snoop Dog walking two black women on leashes into a pet store. At the end of the \”parody,\” they did a potty poo poo all over the floor. MTV\’s President, Christina Norman, allowed this to be aired at 12:30 pm - you know to compete with School House Rock and Cartoon Network. Go ahead label everyone a bigot because we rather be safe than sorry. Also a bigot is someone who stands fast to their beliefs even when these views are challenged or proven to be false. Explain to me how thug attire, attitude and actions are beneficial to society or to those who flaunt?
#82 - damifino: Once again, I didn’t label anyone a bigot, I typed “if it looks like a bigot…” to demonstrate how absurd it was to say such a thing, just like its absurd to say that all black/mexican/asian kids are gangsters.
#83 HamBackPeddler
Obviously I was exaggerating. Now look at the can of worms you’ve opened! Open mouth, insert Johnson!
Geez!
I am ready for the fight club!
#81 - Jimb, I understand what you’re saying but I’d bet there are many here among us who’s elders were not happy with our dress, haircut, choice of music, etc. and thought it was leading us down the road to ruin, and yet we turned out ok. Case in point, take a look at this thug. His parents just knew he was a long-haired, dope-smoking, hippie-type punk that would never amount to anything. I have it on good authority he turned out alright!
#86 Hammie
You can’t compare today to when we grew up. There are so many more thugs/punks/degenerates/losers/scumbags/etc. who have no respect for anything, especially themselves.
They have been brainwashed by television and music to think that everything they do is “cool”. It’s cool to be disrespectful, it’s cool to have sex at 13, it’s cool to do drugs and drink, it’s cool to dress like an idiot, it’s cool to talk like an illiterate, it’s cool to pierce things God never meant to be pierced, it’s cool to plaster body art all over yourself. It’s even cool to kill for a lot of them. They’re immune to morality and conscience.
I could go on and on. Most of these people will never ever amount to anything. Their lives are one big party, and when they wake up it’ll be too late for most of them.
What in Gods name is that?
http://hamous.org/images/studentid.jpg
Do you remember when you got in a fight then were friends afterwards?
Those were the days. Thats how I made so many friends.
#86 I would rather encounter a group of pot smokers than gangbanger wanna-be’s…
#87 - Sure you can. My parents generation said the same thing about my generation and their parents said the same thing about them. Shakey, there may be a lot of kids the way you describe, and probably more than I’d like to think, but its not most of them. You’re over-generalizing. I know too many good kids to believe the way you believe. Hell, if that’s how you think go live in a damn cave, you buzzkiller.
#90 - probably not the ones I used to know
#91 Hammie
The majority of drugs are bought and sold at upper middle class schools. Hard to believe, isn’t it?
Not really, because those kids have the jing to buy and use from the dealers wearing the bling and nice shoes.
#91 When I was growing up, my pseudo celebrity musician role models did not tell me to treat my girl like a ho and beat down my fellow man because he wore certain clothes or had his neighborhood tatted all over his body. Back in the day, thugs stayed in their area of town, and you were the suscipious one if you entered. Now, kids emulatate them, and you do not know which ones are a serious threat as each one wants to one up the other guy.
Hammy, bet you rolled a few tight ones in your day huh! BTW, whats that stuff on top of your head?
Hamous - The only thing I can say about #86 is this. When I was a kid and I looked like a long-haired, dope-smoking hippie-type punk, it is because I was. My mom was exactly right. I was on the road to hell. The only reason I didn’t wind up there early was by the grace of God, I think.
And nowadays, these ‘gangstas’ are way more dangerous than anything I ever got into, and they don’t just live in the ‘hood’. They’re in Copperfield and Stone Gate and Coles Crossing. They come in all colors.
People who go out of their way to look the part of a gangsta is who I am worried about, not just ‘people of color’ in general…
#93 - Donnie Darko, you can crawl into a cave and whimper but in the real world things are better than you paint them:
#94 - damifino, don’t get me wrong, I’m not sticking up for gangstas. Its a disgusting lifestyle. MTV is v-chipped out of my house and gangsta rap music is banned.
#95 - Tbone, I ain’t gonna lie to ya. I was not a good kid for a few years there. Mostly self-destructive, but I got better. The hair? It’s still there but its just “little hair”.
Hammie,
You’re arguing a different subject. I didn’t say anything about overall teen drug use.
Nice diversionary tactic. Typical neo-conservative!!!
Jimb, I just think that, like you and me, there is still redemption for those kids. Isn’t that what its all about? Just because they’re dancing on the sidewalk alongside the road to hell doesn’t mean they’re going down it. Had the adults in my life given up on me back then I would probably be dead now…which would make it pretty freaky for you guys reading my posts
#98 - Uh, you brought up drug use in #93, Boneshaker.
#100 HamSpamwich
Yeah, but the issue was who is buying the drugs, not overall teen drug use.
Geez!
#101 - What part of less drugs are being bought and used by kids don’t you get? Typical paleo-liberal tactic - when you’re losing an argument, redefine it. Story. End of Period
Sheesh!
Hammie, what part of that WASN’T THE TOPIC don’t you get?
Stop using my stuff also!!!
#50….dern RIGHT it’s frightenning! Jesus Henry Milton Keerist that’s our old stomping grounds from High School daze! (and they wonder why I carry this Glock .40 religiously?)……..no way of knowing if I could save my own life OR cash but I bet I could make the taking of same a wee bit spendier!
You’re not the boss of me!
*watches for Bern & Ernie to pop up any second*
#105 Hammie
LMAO, that’s something I expect Baby Smack to say!
Now Orlando has tied a record for murders going all the way back to 1982…. Those New Orleans people are wreaking havoc all over the nation. How could any city ever again be stupid enough to let them in?
Remember watching the news the night all the buses came into town and they were all backed up at the Astrodome? We should have sent them on their way to Mexico…
They’ve brung death and misery to each city that took them in….
Not trying to win a story contest, just whining.
Break-ins and theft has always been a problem around Scott and Leeland. Every two or three years a burglery. Last Easter of 05, before Katrina, the invasion began. The winos and bums broke the front door down and the alarm system failed. For two days the local crackheads wandered in and took what they could carry and sold it to people filling up at the gas station.
The only thing they did not take was a computer monitor. Too much space in the grocery cart for the value of goods to be sold I guess.
Five more break-ins over the next two weeks followed. We changed alarm companies, added wire on the fences, and spent several nights in the building. Even bought a cop shotgun which I did not want. Hated to spend that kind of money on a gun I cannot use for hunting. But never picked the right night.
We are not far from the guy who plugged a thug near Minute Maid Park. Glad I did not. The deceased will be somebody’s dearly departed and some sympathetic lawyer will help seek compensation. One of the neighbors had a burgler in is sights and decided the grand jury and other hassles were not worth it. Shouted at him to go away. Three weeks ago somebody backed a Lincoln Navigator through his gate, took three tries to break it down, and stole a trailer. Has it on tape from a security camera.
Every business on this block had their air conditioning compressor units dissassembled for the aluminum. That did not stop until the thieves stole from the HISD schools. HPD found a way to stop that.
I live in Sugarland where the fajitas are cheap and I get a discount on wax for my car. The daily commute is bad enough. But going back to town to open the gate for the cops at 2:AM, having only quit drinking Rolling Rock two hours prior, got to be a drain.
And the cops. What a moody lot they are. One berated me for allowing this to happen and support crackheads’ habits. That caught me way off guard, had no reply. Just stared and wished my dog would bite him. But they have a lousy job. There is only one cop per car. HPD keeps the number of patrols up by making these guys and gals drive solo. I don’t care how many guns and radios some orginization equiped me with. No way I would go where they do when they do. Having seen this, I may bitch about the speeding ticket but respect the individual officers a lot. HPD and its’ use by CoH is another story.
The source of our troubles were winos and bums living in cardboard camps under the Scott and Cullen street overpasses. I wanted to doze their village into the street except for the chance one of the bums would be in is hut. And squished. These bums ain’t worth much on the hoof but will break you dead. The State of Texas eventually forced these guys to move on.
We discovered internet cameras where we could watch the office from the home computers. I told my son I would pay him $100 if he saw somebody break in. One night while he was doing homework after I had retired (RR); DAD! DAD! somebody broke in! Sure enough there was sombody on the camera. Called the cops,my brother for a change went to open the gate, and my wife, son, and myself watched the show.
The cops showed up one by one and surrounded the block. Caugt somebody with a car not belonging to them, or about to not to belong them in the process. They waited for the K-9 officer to arrive. In went in old Rin Tin Tin and the cops followed. They brought the perp out a few minutes later. One of the officers filling out a report wanted to talk to me, my brother handed him his cell phone. “Where are you?” “Look at the box on the pole over your left shoulder…”
Thanks for an outlet to vent. And yes, I paid gameboy the reward.
#97
Where ya get those numbers? From your beloved gov that always tells the truth?
Drug use is at an all time high! Divorce…all time high….babies out of wed lock…teen violence…prisons full…You still smoking refer?
gtotracker
Nice vent - sorry for all the crime. Might I suggest moving your business?
So there is truth to the rumor that hamous had hair at one time.
#110 DJ
I refer smoke out of my chimney sometimes.
It’s our government DJ, unless you really are an anarchist.
Yeah, its a vast Bush conspiracy to hide the real drug use in America!
Back it up with facts, bubba. Just saying it don’t make it so.
Among other things, I told you that they will clamor for higher taxes in order to hire more cops.
Do you remember a while back where a bunch of misinformed residents voted to build 3 new sports stadiums for the price of over a BILLION $$$$ ?
remember they said it’s not costing the taxpayers any money? OH YEAH!!! a tax is a tax and all this stadium money could have been used to hire more cops! The biggest farce in all this is the claim that they wanted to build a World Class City, say what? This stupid little train falls in the ridiculous category too. Why don’t we ever hear “Welfare for the rich”? when we talk about the Sports team owners and the few of the rich, well connected people who run this city into the ground?
Mr Johnson
I agree with DanielJames. I don’t think DJ is an anachrist. Drug use IS at at an all time high (pardon the pun). The drugs imported from Mexico goes somewhere and me thinks into the US to feed US drug needs. If there were no US drug needs, the drug trade would trickle down to nothing.
Show me facts Neo. What are you basing that statement on? I provided facts from the Office of National Drug Control Policy and the best anyone has come up to refute it is “Your government is lying to you”. If I’m wrong, prove it to me. That’s all I’m asking.
Neocon
Check the Houston Business Journal. Fingers is leaving a 14 acre ware house facility for Sugarland.
Perry Homes is solving our problem by building over the vacant lots. Remaking old warehouses into loft apartments.
Three of our major vendors are here where the guys can pick up material on their way out. As bad as things are here, they ain’t much better else where.
Mr. Johnson
I just said that drugs were increasing. This can be seen through several sources. I’m not going on an all night research project. If you want to claim victory, great! I never said the government was lying to you. You came up with that on your own. Do you not understand that drug trafficking is increasing? I’m not laying the blame at anyone’s feet (hispanic, since you are so sensitive to them). But it is happening.
Neo, wrong. Look at DJ’s #110. He said the government report I presented as evidence was a lie. I’m not trying to claim victory in anything. You can’t just throw out a statement like “drug use is increasing” as fact and not back it up, particularly when there is documented evidence to the contrary.
WTF does that mean? I don’t recall singling out hispanics in this discussion.
HamSpanic, LOL you should know by now not to attack WobbleHead! The Curse of The NogginNodder is upon you!
headsnoggler moonbat ranter:
It’s the Hispanics stealing all the concrete. Period. End of story. The double standards are
two standards against each other. If we don’t vote soon everybody will be doing drugs and
crime will lay at your doorstep. Ha!
#121 FatDrunkStupidBoyinaHighChair
Yo dawg, I think we should all be showin’ up Friday in full gangsta gear, ya know! Make sure you wear da bling bling and bring the jing jing, know what I mean dawg?
Ok, I’ll come clean. My parents were illegal immigrants from Mexico and I’m an anchor baby (and catholic to boot!) I really have no right to be here. The gubmint bought my house for me. Its really quite nice. Six bedrooms, four baths. But only a two car garage which holds my dropped Hummer with 20 inch rims that light up and a BMW. The rest of my broken down cars (none of which have insurance) are in the yard or on the street. I live here with my second wife and 10 children (the first wife is still back in Guadalajara with my first 10 kids; I send them my welfare checks), Sancha, 15 Aunts and Uncles, and 45 cousins. We sit out on our front porch drinking beer and whistling (in spanish of course) at all the purty white women walking down the street. We are usurping your tax dollars and there’s nothing you can do about it. ’scuse me, got a drug deal to attend to wit my homeys.
¡Orale Vatos! ¡Vamos cruisin!
Hamous Pachuco Johnson