> In article
comcast.com>,
> "catpandaddy" cat.pan.net> wrote:
>>>>> The attacks happened at Elliot Park in downtown Minneapolis along 8th
>>>> Street.
>
>>> While you never like to see something like that happen, one has
>>> to ask what these white people, women in particular, were doing
>>> in Elliot Park? One knows that you don't go there alone or un-
>>> armed, and typically would only go if you were looking to score
>>> some drugs.
>>
>> Living closer to the MN/Wisconsin border than anywhere near Minneapolis,
>> how
>> does one know this?
>
> How do you know the safety of any given neighborhood? If you don't
> know, you should stay where you know it is safe, and don't go into
> an unknown neighborhood until after you have checked it out.
So basically you work off the rule that unless you have personal experience
of some location it's to be avoided until you get personal experience of it
The problem is that if you are avoiding said location for lack of knowledge,
how do you acquire the knoledge ?
Not by avoiding the place.
> You can
> learn a lot by reading the newspaper, asking other people, and looking
> at crime statistics.
Maybe you do
But frankly the rest of us may have more important things to do than doing
extensive research of any neighborhood, that we might have to cross
> If you enter the neighborhood, and there are a
> lot of people who don't look like you do, folks standing around doing
> nothing, people sleeping on benches, or people wearing gang colors,
> then you should at least be on high alert. These broad categorizations
> are not fool-proof, however. A random attach is just that--it can
> happen anywhere or anytime. The bottom line is that everything you
> do in life has some risk, so you just have to deal with it. If you
> want to eliminate the risk, then stay home and lock your doors, and
> never come out to talk with anyone. Even then, you can get hit by
> a tornado, fire, carbon monoxide, or have an aneurism. Its all one
> big crap shoot.
>
So does your speech
Sound like a lot of shot crap, that is.
