urbanSTL

^ don't most pickup trucks come standard with handguns and built-in minibars these days?

Another truck with an arsenal

^ the video of the suspect stumbling around in the street firing an assault rifle is just unreal. is there anywhere else in the US (in the developed world?) where this sh*t happens so regularly?

#2A baby!

KMOV - Woman dies days after crash in Midtown St. Louis

This was at the I-64/Compton/FPA clusterf*ck. BOTH drivers ran a red light, but as usual, the victim was the innocent bystander, or in this case, passenger...

urban_dilettante wrote: ↑

Sep 14, 2020

^ the video of the suspect stumbling around in the street firing an assault rifle is just unreal. is there anywhere else in the US (in the developed world?) where this sh*t happens so regularly?

I live in Soulard.  Not that long ago, within a couple weeks of each other, I had some gun action near me.  The first time was my friend and I standing on the corner of 12th & Russell waiting for the light to change.  This dude goes threw the light, gets through the intersection, yells something indistinguishable, then pulls out a gun and fires three shots in the air and peels off.  The second time I was in my apartment, and the sound was so loud I thought it was at my back door.  Turns out it was this dude in my alley, and he was talking s*** to these guys staying in the Airbnb in my building, and fired 10-12 AR shots in the air, and again drove off.  My dog found all the shells when I took her out the next day (by accident...she was just sniffing around).

EssTeeEll wrote: ↑

Sep 15, 2020

I live in Soulard.  Not that long ago, within a couple weeks of each other, I had some gun action near me.  The first time was my friend and I standing on the corner of 12th & Russell waiting for the light to change.  This dude goes threw the light, gets through the intersection, yells something indistinguishable, then pulls out a gun and fires three shots in the air and peels off.  The second time I was in my apartment, and the sound was so loud I thought it was at my back door.  Turns out it was this dude in my alley, and he was talking s*** to these guys staying in the Airbnb in my building, and fired 10-12 AR shots in the air, and again drove off.  My dog found all the shells when I took her out the next day (by accident...she was just sniffing around).

It's a strong and distinctive odor and dogs do like stinky things. I had a neighbor shoot off his pistol at some guy who was walking down the street popping car doors in the middle of the night. At one in the morning a couple of hundred feet away that crap sounds like a howitzer. I'm still pleasantly surprised the burglar didn't decide to start strafing back. Not absolutely certain which neighbor this was, but I do have my suspicions.

^ Yeesh.  It's hard out here in these streets.   Oh yeah, I almost forgot.  I thought I heard some shots over the weekend really close (again), and sure enough I'm taking my dog out to pee around 10pm and there are cops slowly circling the block one street over, and going down alleys with their spotlights on.  The bullets are raining down.

Eastbound Washington at Tucker is back open to vehicle traffic.  Some concrete barriers are still there, so I imagine the streets will be temporarily closed off again starting Friday and going to Sunday evening (or Monday morning) like how they are on the West side of Tucker..

KMOV- Man killed in South City hit-and-run

https://www.kmov.com/news/man-killed-in ... 9edb9.html

I don't know if it got posted on here but last week there was a hit and run in Centerville that resulted in the person being decapitated possibly by the cable that runs along the road. The head was about ten feet from the headless body. Apparently this caused great trauma for many people who were driving by on the slowdown after the accident. It was a 31 year old from South St. Louis.

There was also another fatal accident in North City last night. And the 195th homicide in South City. Another female victim.

sc4mayor wrote: ↑

Sep 15, 2020

Ever been to Florida?

i said the developed world.

KMOV- Woman killed, 4 injured in early morning North County crash [Update}

https://www.kmov.com/news/1-dead-in-nor ... 573d7.html

Not much of a crash (thankfully), but it's always fun to see an idiot lose control while showing-off in his 'Vette.  Great River Road, Grafton.

quincunx wrote: ↑

Oct 05, 2020

Stltoday - Woman killed at Starbucks was former teacher-of-year in University City

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/cri ... 86c1d.html

can't see the article. how in the hell did that happen? it's in a strip mall set way the hell back from olive...

^ all the more reason to ban SUVs and require people to retest for their drivers license every 5 or 10 years. we have people driving around in deadly weapons who aren't competent. and let's be real: one's foot doesn't "slip" off the brake and subsequently hold down the accelerator long enough to jump a curb and plow through a storefront. jesus... cars are a f*cking plague.