It’s not cool to be the calm one. Or at the least, we don’t make headlines.

Damn fucking straight.

It was for the best, honestly. I didn’t even read “Fight Club” until a few months ago.

Exactly. Some crimes, you can come back from. Even if the immediate harm was extreme. (I don’t have the Victim here to agree or disagree with me on that, their opinion may vary, and understandably so )

Good!

Thanks, Was a different time. Now people get arrested for letting their kids play at the park across the street.

Yep, as long as they aren’t directly inciting to violence, and we haven’t reached the Road Warrior stage of urban development.

Top ‘O the Hill on Glisan comes to mind first for violence in that area. Then the Mystic near 205.

Don’t have to look it up, Was there. :)

Californian thing,

Feeling is generally mutual, even though we both know it’s our worst elements poisoning the waterhole for the more reasonable ones among us.

Yep, everyone should have constant situational awareness, combined with some basic martial art... Boxing, Fencing, Anything that teaches footwork, keeping a safe range, and breaks that initial impulse to freeze, even if you have no interest in anything other than the exercise.

Raised in the Hollywood district, Just off NE Brazee and 45th. since ‘76. In St. Johns now. St. Johns today is safer than Hollywood used to be in the ‘80s. Now more likely to get mugged here. Thieves know we don’t have shit worth stealing in St Johns, and go elsewhere for their targets. They come home to St.…

In their defense, I was a very punchable, almost 6 foot, very nerdy 10 year old, in the age of the “revenge of the Nerds” movies. You’d think I was just a very strange adult to look at me with my Pac-Man lunchbox and all.

Get a Newfoundland.

Ahh, the good ‘ol 42nd ave Max platform.

Almost to the detriment of everything else.

Yeah, hearing and reading about it just isn’t the same as watching people politely step around some poor passed-out Suit who’s just happy to not be a karoshi statistic. (one of the few words I know! )

I fucking hate bullies.

That wouldn’t surprise me, were a lot of drunk walkers and people in suits sleeping on stairs when I was in Osaka last year.