On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:50:35 GMT, Carl Byrns
wrote:

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 05:51:12 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:46:46 GMT, Carl Byrns
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:19:37 GMT, Gunner
wrote:


Sounds like NY State is a dangerous place to live if the predators are
not allowed to be thinned out.

But it's not. Crime in NYC and Buffalo (the big stats makers) is down.

Down from what?

From The Bad Old Days when much of NYC (like Times Square) was a
hooker and drug dealer heaven. Buffalo was pretty violent for a while
there, too.
I live near Syracuse, a city of about 100,000 that has a higher murder
rate than NYC. That shouild change- a huge gang just went up the river
for a long time, and the police are leaning hard on the other gangs.

As of 2001, New York State is way down on the list of violent crime
states (D.C. has pole position). In fact, NY is parked between Arizona
and Oklahoma, at least according to one source:
http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/cgi-bin/healthfacts.cgi?action=compare&category=Health+Sta tus&subcategory=Violent+Crime&topic=Violent+Crime+ Offenses


-Carl

I guess in the bad old days I would try to avoid big cities or make
sure I had a full tank so I didn't have to stop. I've even gone way
out of the way so that I would never see NYC. I gas up before St.
Louis and El Paso for sure. There is no way around Chicago and one
time had to fill up with the gas nozzle in one hand and a rifle in the
other. Those 10+ people standing around in the gas station parking lot
at 2 am must have been sight see-ers. I've even been chased for
hundreds of miles , both times having a topped off tank. That will
make you start thinking about adding fuel storage. Nothing like
running on empty at 100 mph and about to give up when the pursuer has
to bail for gas. That one time I tried everything to get away from
them , even passing over sized oil rig equipment on huge tractor
trailers in the rain passing on the right. And thinking naw they can't
be that obsessed to follow through something almost suicidal and they
would pop out of the mist from the break down lane. I tried also the
get off the highway and get right back on , but it didn't work. BTW,
didn't have a gun that time or things would have gone a lot
differently. LA must be scary at night.