Posted: Jul 11, 2008, 1:32 AM CST
Reading some of your replies, I envy you.
My last home in SD, I always left the door unlocked. sheds unlocked and items left out in the yard.
Here in MO. I keep my door locked always. drugs are just crazy here and the drug freaks.
Is safe enough in the daytime to go for a walk, but don't dare at night unless I have my friends with me (either colt or Smith and Wesson)
Can't even leave a garden hose out because someone will steal it.
someone actually stole my remodeling lumber off of my front porch.
But come to find out it was kids and I got it back.. badly damaged.
Have 3 drug dealers in this block alone, had a shooting and a stabbing just across the street, a guy that makes porn right next door (police will do nothing because they say it is not illegal), have one guy next doors that sometimes kneels on the sidewalk and talks to God, and 2 houses down that is 3 Black men with white women and hate any white guys that come anywhere near their house as if protecting their goods, always yelling nasty things at white guys when they walk on the sidewalk in front of their place.
Had a fight down there a few days ago and we had 4 cop cars ( 8 cops) out here to break it up.
I am still walking with a cane, makes me an easy target,, so usually I am carrying.