The last time someone who wasn’t a cop shot at me was at the train station across the street from the police station.
In Lancaster. A red city hours north of LA, literally the end of the line for the regional trains. There was this guy who’d apparently been on the street screaming about how all the gays were gonna go to hell for weeks and we need to help put them there. Nobody did shit because everyone there agrees, despite at least three people having been worried about the guy doing some shit and his rhetoric escalating. I was just there to buy drugs. Some places you just shouldn’t go to.
The only time in recent memory it wasn’t cops, yeah. You get way better deals on illicit shit in red cities/towns,
and shit happens there. I’m kind of a bargains-slut and I have an adventurous heart. Also the food is mostly garbage, and there’s a chance you get shot trying to buy it, though that time in Lancaster is the only time I’ve been shot at somewhere food was being sold. For an idea how red that part of town was: it was a farmers market roughly bounded on two sides by a mural of a b2 flying over generic idyllic farmland and a portrait mural of chuck Jaeger in front of a jet of some kind. On two other sides by a sheriff station and some other cop thing.
Cops just do that. Kinda what they’re for.
Edit: I think either ice or USMC fired off some shots last year, but I couldn’t tell where and it might’ve just been in the air-which is still dangerous as hell but wasn’t ‘at me’ I don’t think. Might have been around the corner.
The last time someone who wasn’t a cop shot at me was at the train station across the street from the police station.
In Lancaster. A red city hours north of LA, literally the end of the line for the regional trains. There was this guy who’d apparently been on the street screaming about how all the gays were gonna go to hell for weeks and we need to help put them there. Nobody did shit because everyone there agrees, despite at least three people having been worried about the guy doing some shit and his rhetoric escalating. I was just there to buy drugs. Some places you just shouldn’t go to.
Wait. Not only you’ve been shot at, but it happened more than once?
The only time in recent memory it wasn’t cops, yeah. You get way better deals on illicit shit in red cities/towns,
and shit happens there. I’m kind of a bargains-slut and I have an adventurous heart. Also the food is mostly garbage, and there’s a chance you get shot trying to buy it, though that time in Lancaster is the only time I’ve been shot at somewhere food was being sold. For an idea how red that part of town was: it was a farmers market roughly bounded on two sides by a mural of a b2 flying over generic idyllic farmland and a portrait mural of chuck Jaeger in front of a jet of some kind. On two other sides by a sheriff station and some other cop thing.
Cops just do that. Kinda what they’re for.
Edit: I think either ice or USMC fired off some shots last year, but I couldn’t tell where and it might’ve just been in the air-which is still dangerous as hell but wasn’t ‘at me’ I don’t think. Might have been around the corner.