05-23-2011, 04:43 AM
(05-23-2011, 01:56 AM)--Pete Wrote: If you need one, then indeed it is sad. But if you don't, then I envy you, to live someplace where crime is a abstract concept.
Totally off-topic, but this reminds me of something that happened when I was very young.
I lived in a small farming town. Population 1,200. My dad was the branch manager of the only bank in town. He knew everyone because everyone had a bank account there, and his office was right out in front.
I loved being a kid in that town. Everyone knew everyone else. I spent most of my waking hours outside climbing trees, playing in the local park, and just generally doing "kid stuff". My parents never worried about me. There was no local police force in a town that small, and no one ever locked doors.
Well, good things like that never last. One day a crazy guy with a loaded shotgun came knocking on our front door. He was really, really angry at my dad. This guy defaulted on a lot of mortgage payment for his farm and the bank foreclosed. My dad had nothing to do with it, but since everyone in town knew my dad was the branch manager, this guy thought my dad was the person directly responsible.
My parents scooted myself and my brother (I think we were ages 5 and 7 at the time) out of our back door and to our neighbour's house really quickly. I was really young so I don't remember the exact details of the whole thing, but I do recall that we lived in a hotel for a week after that.