it happened a few blocks away from where I work - I was looking outside the windows and could see all the roadblocks down Collins St and a helicopter circling the Rialto looking for him
but to think, if I'd seen the same thing as the lawyer and the backpacker, I probably would've intervened some way, somehow.
Such a small world, apart from the girl who went to McKinnon, sarahlouise on my friends list used to work with the solicitor who was killed. (And as an aside, she might be coming to our next book club.)
I had no idea it happened right outside your work.
It does always happen in America. Dreadful, but yes. I've had two neighbors, in two different apartment buildings, shot in their apartments (one died, one didn't). I've witnessed a stabbing, too, in broad daylight.
Our local news is full of violence, and I absolutely hate it. News coverage follows the dictum "if it bleeds it leads", meaning that people only want to hear about murder, rape and conflict. Which may be true, considering most people aren't particularly sophisticated or concerned with others' welfare, but there's so much going on! Kittens are starting to be born, since it's late spring, but I don't see any stories about that!
Still, in large American cities (or in mine, which is only about 75,000), there's a degree of acceptance of danger a person takes on when he steps out the door--geez, even sometimes when you're just watching television. It's an aggressive culture here, unfortunately. Aggressively shallow, aggressively stupid, aggressively selfish, aggressively lazy...sigh.
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but to think, if I'd seen the same thing as the lawyer and the backpacker, I probably would've intervened some way, somehow.
the scumbag will be caught eventually.
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I had no idea it happened right outside your work.
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Our local news is full of violence, and I absolutely hate it. News coverage follows the dictum "if it bleeds it leads", meaning that people only want to hear about murder, rape and conflict. Which may be true, considering most people aren't particularly sophisticated or concerned with others' welfare, but there's so much going on! Kittens are starting to be born, since it's late spring, but I don't see any stories about that!
Still, in large American cities (or in mine, which is only about 75,000), there's a degree of acceptance of danger a person takes on when he steps out the door--geez, even sometimes when you're just watching television. It's an aggressive culture here, unfortunately. Aggressively shallow, aggressively stupid, aggressively selfish, aggressively lazy...sigh.
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