Tales from the 'hood

Oct 5 04:45 UTC 2000

Earlier tonight the radio traffic in this district of CPD had a number
of items about 'such and so' unit being 'hold me down' on a seminar on
the new anti-gang law that replaced the one that was struck down.  You
gotta admire the sense of humor of the dispatchers as before long the
calls were 'such and so unit is in a gang and loitering'...(probably an
excellent time for mopes to do their bad thing but what the hey, they
rob radio shack not shop there...)

Anyways, later that night headed out to the local arab bodega for some
cigs, beer, and milk for the baby and boy I tell yah, the boys in blue
(well tactical units in street clothes) didn't waste any time applying
the new rules of the game.  Had some badboys spread out over the hood of
the unmarked blocking the entire lane of traffic while they looked them
over and had apparently come upon a scam I hadn't heard of.  There were
ripped open bags of Doritos 3-d on the roof with little baggies of
granular whitish substance...seems one of the local 'merchants' has hit
on the idea of buying bag sealers from Sam's Club and resealing Doritos
bags with merchandise not intended by Frito-Lay inside.  I gathered from
talking to the clerk (who had an 1867 VE-II Italian 10c coin he'd wanted
me to put a value on- a woping 75 cents to a dollar- far more than I'd
originally thought when he showed it to me a couple days ago) that even
he had no idea that was the scam, he just figured they were 'bangers
hanging near the theater (where the new Denzel flick was playing).  They
were buying Doritos from him and as far as he knew simply hawking them
on the street to patrons going to the cinema which so long as they don't
block the entrance he didn't mind.  He commented he'd wish they take
that business further uptown..."sell it to the yuppies, they ain't got
no souls ".  Its an odd store, run by an arab who hangs with and employs
the homies, has a Bush/Cheney tag plus various socialist posters in the
doorway - the falastinian owner is pissed because he says up to half way
through the tuesday debates he says whenever Gore was speaking he got
full screen, but frequently when Bush was speaking it was split screen
with a shakey camera on Bush and Gore making faces.  I hadn't noticed
until he mentioned it having dismissed it as merely shitty camera work. 
He says its just an example of how the media portrays the little guy
just trying to make a living is the bad guy and how its all part of the
plot to make everybody work for the state.  (He only recently has been
allowed to stay open past 1AM on weekends to 2AM (despite the local bars
closing at 4am) by the city (a DNC stronghold))

Anyways, I am happy to see the rapid deployment of the new tool to get
the 'bangers off my streets.

response 2 of 21:

Oct 5 23:04 UTC 2000

i forget bd, what does mope stand for?

re:1 shove yo mla up yo stank hole, yo.

response 4 of 21:

Oct 6 00:14 UTC 2000

  I probably just have a bad case of sentence-length envy..  They say it's
  now how long they are, but how you use them, but I've never fully believed
  that..

response 6 of 21:

Oct 6 08:14 UTC 2000

A kid was attacked by a pit bull and a neighbor rescued the kid by
shooting the dog with a pistol. Isn't it nice to see that even after
over a quarter century of 'gun control' here in chicagoland there are
still common ordinary citizens who understand the difference between
'legal' and 'right'.

From what I understand the conversation went something like "Gun?  What
gun? That there dog died of lead poisoning".

response 8 of 21:

Oct 6 14:34 UTC 2000

his body was no longer properly conditioned to contain his blood

response 10 of 21:

Oct 7 03:46 UTC 2000

Re#9: Do you happen to know what breed the dog was in _Little Rascals_?
And why not pass a law outlawing criminals?  I'm sure that would work
equally as well.  As for lawsuits, there has to be money involved to
interest lawyers. Its more likely the kids momma will shoot the dog
owner or the dog owner shoot the shooter.  This here's chicagoland,
where guns are outlawed.

response 12 of 21:

Oct 7 06:22 UTC 2000

Yeah, they go into politics.

response 14 of 21:

Oct 12 00:17 UTC 2000

I didn't mean to imply that they were all vicious.  I think they should outlaw
vicious chihuahuas, too.

response 16 of 21:

Oct 12 13:37 UTC 2000

        There's clearly a difference in the violent potential of a pit bull,
a chihuahua, and a British bull mastiff, so there's porbably some truth to
that.

response 18 of 21:

Oct 22 21:26 UTC 2000

Certain breeds of dogs are more prone to biting than other dogs. Also, 
certain breeds of dogs do more damage when they bite than other dogs. A 
pit bull who attacks someone will do more damage than a pug for 
instance.  Some dog breeds are prone to fear biting which usually is not 
an all out attack. Other breeds of dogs are prone to attacking. This 
doesnt mean that every dog of a particular breed will be vicious or not 
vicious as the case may be. I have seen nice pit bulls and mean pugs and 
yet, I dont freak out when I see someone walking in the park with a pug 
off leash. 

response 20 of 21:

Oct 23 20:59 UTC 2000

I think I dont need to say that Barry isnt a pug.