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There was a burglary today on Wise... 3 males were using a stolen car and broke into a house, stealing a number of items. The police showed up as they were exiting, and 2 of the 3 were caught after they failed to get away... They are thought to have been frequenting the area... just an update for you Dogtown folks...

Thanks for the update.

FloPoErich wrote:There was a burglary today on Wise... 3 males were using a stolen car and broke into a house, stealing a number of items. The police showed up as they were exiting, and 2 of the 3 were caught after they failed to get away... They are thought to have been frequenting the area... just an update for you Dogtown folks...

TGE-ATW wrote:From the PD comments section this morning about the gangsta shooting over in Clinton Peabody last night. In response to the standard city bashing, I found this little gem. I enjoyed it immensely.



"That is the old Clinton Peabody housing project site, which is like a little section 8 ghetto sandwiched between Lafayette Square and Soulard. Generally not too much of a problem. If some of you are too scared to come down to Lafayette Square and Soulard, or conceive of the whole city as being ghetto or pre-ghetto, I invite you to limit your meanderings to the nearest Walmart-- that is if you can even get your giant butt off the couch anymore and out into the faceless vinyl-sided maze you misunderstand as a community. While thugs shoot thugs in the city, little suburban piggies drive their Hummers to Applebees and wallow in the morass of mozzarella sticks, shopping malls and howling ignorance that they call their lives."

I was wondering where Central Scrutinizer had gone. Here's your answer.

JuiceInDogtown wrote:Good ol' Post Dispatch. The prominent article in the right hand column is;

"Man shot after stopping to help stranded motorist"



Then directly under the title; "Police say a teen wearing all black clothing shot him in the leg with a pellet gun."



A pellet gun. Really? Top story. Wow.

The victim then got back into his car and drove to a nearby gas station for help. He was in stable condition at a local hospital.

Stable condition. Thank God he's going to survive. Most people don't survive pellet shots to the leg - except for ya know, 10 year old boys who have pellet gun wars.

Well said.

Last night, I walked down Washington as the bars were shutting down and saw a grouping of flashing police lights at the SW corner of Washington and Tucker, right near the Lure nightclub. Crossing to it, I saw 3 police cars (2 squad & 1 detective) roping an area off with yellow crime scene tape, demarcating part of the scene by wrapping the tape around their cars.



Asking some people what’s going on, they lead my eyes to a fire hydrant at the corner, where underneath a giant pool of blood made its place on the sidewalk. Apparently, an “altercation” took place between partiers, culminating in some guys from an Escalade limo shoving some other guy, who fell down and cracked his head into the hydrant. The Escalade drove off with its passengers, and the other guy stayed on the ground, bleeding. A lot. It looked to be at least two full pints of blood on the sidewalk.



Meanwhile, the club was letting out, with party people eating hot dogs, acting “fabulous”, and trying to hail cabs as the police were cordoning off the crime scene. There were about 4-6 uniformed officers around additional to the squad cars, counter-balancing douche bags wearing Ed Hardy t-shirts 2 sizes too small and some girl who really wants to be Paris Hilton, or at least look like her.



Nothing on StLToday.com, and I’m really curious to know if that guy made it or not. I’m assuming minimally a massive concussion, skull fracture, and heavy blood loss.

^ Don't get too down Dogtown. FWIW - crimes like this have been occurring for a long, long time. Crimes will never be eradicated, but it's not destined to get worse and worse. In fact, the number of murders in the city is down substantially this year. That doesn't make this killing any less tragic, but you shouldn't get carried away either. The fact remains that if you're not involved in illegal activity and not on the street in the early hours of the morning you are very, very, very, very unlikely to be the victim of a violent crime. You should be more concerned with safety while driving.

gopher wrote:GC... that's the "sexy and bloody" night. It's a new venue with a $100.00 prize for the "Best Douchebag" that the $30,000 millionaires compete for.



That happened early Sat. morning (Friday night)... is this the same? Because I was awakened late Friday, early Saturday and saw a bunch of cop cars down there...

Safe city map:

Reported As Serious Assault

DateTime 2009/10/03 00:01:00

Address 1200 block of WASHINGTON AVE

Area Downtown West

District 4

Different assaults, same corner, two nights apart. Idiots. If only liquor patrol would do surprise checks for handguns & cocaine the same way they do for underage drinkers, Lure would be shut down immediately.

DOGTOWNB&R wrote:Grover wrote:

^ Don't get too down Dogtown. FWIW - crimes like this have been occurring for a long, long time. Crimes will never be eradicated, but it's not destined to get worse and worse. In fact, the number of murders in the city is down substantially this year. That doesn't make this killing any less tragic, but you shouldn't get carried away either. The fact remains that if you're not involved in illegal activity and not on the street in the early hours of the morning you are very, very, very, very unlikely to be the victim of a violent crime. You should be more concerned with safety while driving.

I guess it is human nature to think the sky is falling when the murder victim happens to be my neighbor, with two young kids nonetheless. Just depressing and makes you very angry. :hell:

Fair enough.

You're absolutely right. The only point is that there's no reason to fear or the safety of our streets in 2050.