Violence

[cool chic]

I am getting so tired of violence. The small grocery store I have been working at for the last five or so years was broken into last week. This makes me so mad. All the staff has to go and get fingerprinted. Illimination prints...so they know that the finger print they have is the right one and not one of ours. Errrg. A co-worker and myself went yesterday and got illiminated! Even though I don't own the store I feel so violated. The store is little old general store built in 1911. It is a small community in the country, and most of our customers are the old time residents. Not much was taken, but a couple of the doors, which were original to the store, were completely smashed.

This isn't my first bit of exposure to crime. I have been held up in 2 armed robberies. Once when I was working in a donut shop in town - I was 18, and working graveyard. I immediatly quit after that. Then a couple years ago (at about 7 in the evening) I was held up at the above mentioned grocery store. Both pretty tramatic and life threatning. I am now working ONLY day shifts at the store, but ever since this break in, all the nightmares are flooding back every time I close my eyes. I don't even go out at night alone anymore...eeeeeeeeek...I am soooo mad right now...And very tired...and beginning to think I am a magnet to sensless crime!!!

[jamesglewisf]

Yikes! Fortunately, I have not been victim to violent crime yet. What a blessing! I can understand why you are frustrated.

[blinc]

Oh Cool Chic, boy do I know where you're coming from. Lost a best friend who was murdered. My husband and I were jumped by 5 guys when we came home late one night in Norfolk, Va. Both ended up with concussions, etc. but guess we were lucky not to have been killed. We've had stuff stolen from our home and vehicles.(also in Nofolk) It makes you angry at the world sometimes, but then you meet a nice person who restores your faith in humanity. Hang in there, it can eat you up if you let it.

[In_His_Shadow]

My nephew was at his girlfriends how one night visiting while her mom was at work. It was his girlfriend, her little sister and him. A man broke into the house and tied all of them up. He proceeded to have each one of them undress and retied them. Prior to raping each girl he stuck a gun to my nephews head and told him what he was going to do to the girls and if he made a sound he would blow his head off. He actually made him watch as he raped his girlfriend. When he was in another room with the little sister my nephew was able to get loose and ran naked out into the street and was able to get a neighbor to call her uncle who was a fireman and the police. The uncle showed up first and upon entering the house the intruder shot him point blank and killed him. The police eventually arrived and they arrested the man hiding in the neighborhood. It was a big deal down here since the uncle was a fireman. Turns out the intruder was a man they had been hunting for for awhile. He was charged with several murders in our area over a period of about 2 years.

My nephew had to testify against the man. It was tramatic for him and the girls. The man is on death row here in Texas and with our laws being the way they are he will one day be put to death.

The tragedy to all of this is less than one year later my nephew was at work surveying land when his pole touch an overhead wire and he was electrocuted to death. He never was able to get to a point prior to his death were he was able to get over this event it haunted him all the time.

I thank God for my faith in him, because if I had to believe that this was all there was to life I would just give up. But, it is a fallen world and until my Lord returns the innocent will also suffer.

CJ

[blinc]

Gosh CJ that is a horrendous story. What heartache he must have suffered... the whole family must have went through a horrible ordeal. My heart goes out to you and yours, that story is just heartwrenching.

[jamesglewisf]

That is an awful story.

[Dude111]

Very sad story!!

The garbage video games out today ARE ONE THING PROVOKING SO MUCH VIOLENCE IN TODAYS YOUTH!

What do they think it does to thier minds playing this garbage day in and day out?? (They get a mental image of it being OK to kill,hurt,etc)

http://culturalpolicy.uchicago.edu/conf2001/papers/walsh.html

I cant stand the garbage thats out today and have NO DESIRE to play any of it!!

My favourite games are: Ms. pacman,donkey kong,etc (80s games)

1000000000000% better than the stuff out now!