From THUNDER Alley to Cry Baby Hill

[heironymouspasparagus]

Something I've noticed during the past month. Thunder Alley was the area outside the Chesapeake (Cheese a Peek?) Arena with a huge screen for the community to gather beneath the stars to enjoy in their NBA teams phenomena. It resembled a gathering of magical memories. That is until several blocks away, unrelated to the sport, a gunman (more gun nuts) unloaded a few rounds in a parking garage. Now inside the arena, you might look around and take notice of the lack of diversity (I won't bother you with those comments), but outside is where the melting pot can assemble. No more. Despite the public paying for the areas and the arena, the magic has been removed. And more security has been added.

Off in the weeds again, are we??  Well, that is just something you do from time to time.... 

You did acknowledge this shooting was unrelated to the sport (of basketball), but then completely missed, either intentionally or by severely misguided lack of knowledge about what "gun nuts" are... the whole point that this was an act committed by a slime-ball punk criminal who somehow managed to get and use a gun in the commission of a crime - several felonies on behalf of himself and whomever supplied him that gun.  And shot into a crowd - really doesn't matter what they are in; parking garage or flower garden - wounding 8. 

Completely unrelated to ANY activity engaged in by anyone generally accepted and considered by society to be a "gun nut" - people whose activities with guns are so SELDOM criminal, that they don't even show up in FBI statistics - the category "slipping in the bathtub and dying" is more dangerous.

You got bath salts in that clown makeup??

[heironymouspasparagus]

We'd leave campus for lunch and drive down the shoulder at 80 to 90 mph to get to Bueno, grab food, and haul back to campus in time to eat just before class started.  That might have something to do with it.

Went to Nathan Hale.  Friend and mine girl friends at East Central.  All got out at 3:30pm.  Their bus picked them up at 3:37 pm, so if we wanted to give them a ride home, we had to make that in 6:50 seconds.  From classroom, to parking lot, out 21st, up to 11th, east to school.  We did so regularly, being the motivated 16 year old idiots most 16 year olds are.

[Hoss]

Went to Nathan Hale.  Friend and mine girl friends at East Central.  All got out at 3:30pm.  Their bus picked them up at 3:37 pm, so if we wanted to give them a ride home, we had to make that in 6:50 seconds.  From classroom, to parking lot, out 21st, up to 11th, east to school.  We did so regularly, being the motivated 16 year old idiots most 16 year olds are.

Not as many lights on that trip back then as there are now though.

[Teatownclown]

Off in the weeds again, are we??  Well, that is just something you do from time to time.... 

You did acknowledge this shooting was unrelated to the sport (of basketball), but then completely missed, either intentionally or by severely misguided lack of knowledge about what "gun nuts" are... the whole point that this was an act committed by a slime-ball punk criminal who somehow managed to get and use a gun in the commission of a crime - several felonies on behalf of himself and whomever supplied him that gun.  And shot into a crowd - really doesn't matter what they are in; parking garage or flower garden - wounding 8. 

Completely unrelated to ANY activity engaged in by anyone generally accepted and considered by society to be a "gun nut" - people whose activities with guns are so SELDOM criminal, that they don't even show up in FBI statistics - the category "slipping in the bathtub and dying" is more dangerous.

You got bath salts in that clown makeup??

The shooting was not outside the arena in the Thunder Alley area. It could have been 10 miles away in another parking area with just as many victims. The problem, Heir, is not me but society in general that seems to be acquiring a whole new sense of what civility may be defined as now that it's acceptable behavior to insult the President to his face.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Not as many lights on that trip back then as there are now though.

21st & Mem
15th & mem
11th & mem
11th & Mingo
11th & Garnett

I think there is one right at the expressway crossing 11th that is "new".

Any more?  I can't remember right now.

[Hoss]

21st & Mem
15th & mem
11th & mem
11th & Mingo
11th & Garnett

I think there is one right at the expressway crossing 11th that is "new".

Any more?  I can't remember right now.

There are three more now.

One at 101st East and 11th.
One on either side of the highway.

I wouldn't have taken that route..for me it would have been faster straight up 21st to Garnett.  Back in my HS days, that would have been six lights.  It's now nine.  Plus, you avoid blowing right past UDE on your trip.  

[heironymouspasparagus]

There are three more now.

One at 101st East and 11th.
One on either side of the highway.

I wouldn't have taken that route..for me it would have been faster straight up 21st to Garnett.  Back in my HS days, that would have been six lights.  It's now nine.  Plus, you avoid blowing right past UDE on your trip.  

Did 21st once in a while, but always seemed to be smoother going 11th. 


UDE?  Unix Desktop Environment??

Oh...the cop shop!!  It wasn't there at that time.  Didn't show up for a LONG time after. 

[Hoss]

Did 21st once in a while, but always seemed to be smoother going 11th. 


UDE?  Unix Desktop Environment??

Oh...the cop shop!!  It wasn't there at that time.  Didn't show up for a LONG time after. 

Was always there for me.  Well, at least during my HS years.  It was Guaranty Nat'l Bank for a long while before that.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Was always there for me.  Well, at least during my HS years.  It was Guaranty Nat'l Bank for a long while before that.

You are a kid.  I'm old.  That's what time will do to ya...

Good thing we got time though.... it's what keeps one dam thing after another from being all dam things all at once!