Tonight I hear about 4 bars being robbed early Thursday AM. 4 in the same night! Not to mention a fatal stabbing in Piedmont Park (male-hustling related or not…we’ve all been there.) City council-lady robbed for the 3rd time in 9 months. A woman attacked during a home invasion. After being burgled, I have been somewhat, but not really, surprised to hear that most people have an equal or worse story about Atlanta crime that happened to them. And the best part, the city of Atlanta is claiming that crime is down! Puhleez. The Mayor AND the Chief of Police need to fall. They have failed the taxpayers. That is all.
As you might know from the Facebooks, I got burgled last week on Easter. Burgled. Ransacked. Pillaged. Crunked. All I can do is try and recreate it in my mind the way you imagine someone else’s story. Completely insufficient details. Vague and blurry images of quick footed individuals (kids? trolls? terminators? baby Jesus?) kicking in a door, confronting the stillness of an unprotected house, adrenaline, real-time assessment of valuables, the thrill of the job culminating in the absurdist gang-banger defacing of a sofa with lemonade and coke…possibly urine? Back door and refrigerator left open, an inexplicable pile of items resting by the fence in the backyard: guitar, korg, two pairs of jeans, two cans of frozen apple juice concentrate. The aftermath is like my own personal natural disaster.
The very next night I was confronted by a hooded man as I rode my bike up to a friends gathering, on the other side of Grant Park. I ignored the sketchy dude who minutes later pulled a gun and grabbed two girls purses.
Today I was pulled over for running a stop sign outside my fucking house. Simply on the way to buy a new front door, to better secure myself against the wildlife that the Atlanta police obviously cannot control. The police officer didn’t see the irony in my situation for reasons that probably made her a police officer. Atlanta has a serious crime problem, one that is obvious and undeniable to anyone living in the city limits. It is far worse than it was a year ago, or two years ago. It is quickly spiraling out of control. I don’t know what the wisest course of action is. Seems that Atlantans Together Against Crime is a start, and will at least draw media attention. Whispered words from an officer put both the mayor and the police chief to blame, for what it’s worth.
Dude, if you haven’t checked out the latest Mastodon masterpiece, Crack the Skye, then you needs to get a checkin’…this shit is EPIC. If you don’t like metal than beat it, pussy. (Apologies for the MTV embed with 15 sec commercial, couldn’t find it without.)
One would think that shiny interwebs technology would have created a revolution in event calendaring technology to some degree. But even with sites like upcoming.org, so many clubs (most!) fail to offer their show listings as some sort of subscribable feed, even something as simple as an RSS feed on their website. 529, the latest greatest addition to the EATL club scene has a website with just what you need: a google calendar feed of events. Why all clubs don’t do this is beyond me. It’s called facilitating business. Help me get to your club to see music and drink drinks. Help me help you make money!
I’m so nostalgic for the carefree days of silly suburban vandalism. Thinking of a new Wes Anderson take on Clockwork Orange…suburban droogs who battle ennui with “grinching.”
Four teenagers were arrested by Marietta police for “grinching” — allegedly using a machete to destroy some of the inflatables.
I am all for “little brother” when it comes to nabbing clowns like these. Several videos of them on youtube. Idiots. Still, impressively quick work.
This email is from a Grant Park resident who lives on Broyles at Orleans:’
To let everyone know and to pass the word around, our house was broken into this morning and our tv, laptop, and digital camera were stolen. We have video of it and have uploaded it to youtube in the hopes that its dissemination may help. Please forward to anyone you think may help. We are ok and our dog is fine, but to let everyone know, neither the dog nor our alarm system were a deterrent. The whole thing happened in less than 4 minutes, with the time in and out of our actual house less than 30 seconds.
The vehicle they were driving is a Nissan Pathfinder, year range 1996-2004, light in color, maybe beige, light green or silver, with a roof rack.
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