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> "John A. Weeks III" johnweeks.com> wrote in message
> news:john-2AFB02.18581617082008@comcast.dca.giganews.com...

>> 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.