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I thought it was Rottie Girl I never noticed. To all, I appreciate your watching out for me. I REALLY do. Thanks. It was sweet and I feel as though my big brothers are out there some where making sure I do not get hurt. Thank you But maybe now that it is not an issue we can move past it, I don't want to fight. I am tired. Thanks for all of your ideas and advice. Even if they differ, I needed to hear all of it. Even the Doc Holiday things, as my deep inside person does want to be Doc Holiday.... Ya know?

Guys I posted this is Athens Georgia showing you what a town here is like, that is not where I live. Thanks for the concern. I have several reasons not to post my exact address, or town. One of which is an ex-husband who threatened to kill me and followed me around for years. My Dad called me in the corps or when I was WOW or something and told me to never come home at Christmas or around the ROA time as the ex-husband would park up the street and watch the house. This happened for years. Excathedra and others had to hide me out for a while. Although, I still had his last name I could not use that name and did some other things to "hide". Once, he came to the ROA looking for me, drinking beer and carrying a gun. God had me dissappear as I never ran into him. Rottie I do not recall your name being Rottie Grrrl, that's funny

I am not comfortable putting that up here. I may pm you

Rottie I am sick for your friend. Just sick. You know EXXON who ruined part of Alaska with an intoxicated ship captain? The dead wild life the whole mess? Do you know EXXON has Still not paid Alaska? They keep appealing.... Yet, in a drive with bad bad judgement your frind got 75 years? I do feel bad for the families, but 75 years? Sorry. Back on topic (PS How is your Rottie?)

The police actually told us to make sure a report was made for each incident, I asked them again our name and address would be on that -- they said they need it for probable cause. But I think I can call if I see a kid painting a sign, but then the police come out and can't search without probable cause, and they need ME (the eyewitness) to do that.... I guess I can call from the grocery store if I can drive out -- they still have pay phones. Once, I was in California, I hear a woman screaming for help and looked out the peep hole and couldn't SEE anything but heard voices. I called the police and told them I wanted to remain nameless. I kept my lights off so not to draw attention to me. She was screaming he has a hammer! I thought, do I go out there and both of us get hit? I did not have a gun then or I would have gone out. I looked around for a weapon. What to use? A high heel? By the time the police came the woman was gone (she fled - not died) and the guy was sitting outside near my apartment. Now, the police, I guess knew where "the call" was made. They knocked on my door and pushed the guys face into my area and said, "You are the one that called? Is this the guy?" I said, "Yes, I did not see him but continued to HEAR him." The guy was screaming he was not going back to jail... I called to complain to the police that “this officer” BROUGHT THE CRIMINAL to MY DOOR! The guy was screaming he was not GOING BACK to jail -- I asked why he went to jail before -- It was assault and battery. I said the only difference between THAT and murder would be the tolerance of the person being beaten. The guy DID beat a woman with a hammer that night and had thrown the hammer through a glass window in another apartment. I was furious that they brought him to my DOOR. Each day, I came home and opened my door looking for my little peke dog. I figured if she did not come then the guy was IN there. I hated living like that. I had to move.

Trust You may just want to feed them just good cat food. I know cats have delicate systems. They need a high protein diet more than dogs but they are delicate in many ways. http://www.petalia.com.au/templates/storyt...fm?story_no=257 Ex If they ever do eat that, you can give them a teaspoon of peroxide to make them vomit if it has been with in 20 minutes of them eating it. If they do not vomit do it again in 5 minutes until they vomit. When they vomit stop of course. That is for dogs -- I do not know about cats.

Mosh you are right all situations have to be weighed, You said That is horrible. Ya know, it sounds good to be brave and fight but it may not be wise. I'd hate to think we walked the neighborhood and lost people to bullets. It is not worth it. I am sure there are just as many situations where people took back the streets and nobody died. But I hate to think I had to go to a funeral when we just could have moved. Years ago, I went to the movies. These young punks were smoking in the row in front of us. I leaned over and told them to, "stop it, you can't smoke in a theater!" They pulled a knife on me. My husband and I left to find the manager. I went to the manager but he couldn't help. When we went back into the theater to point out the kids -- they had all moved and it was dark. Hubs and I sat down elsewhere, like idiots. The group, I dunno maybe 7 of them, went to the front of the theater and looked row by row for me. I took off my glasses and pulled my hair back so my silhouette would look different. It was a difficult situation. We left, got in the car and drove around rather than straight home incase they were following us. And yes Rocky, it feels premature, but houses will dive bomb in the market with gang writing and a bad reputation as well. There is so much to have to think about. I keep thinking maybe THEY will move out. I am going to pray like crazy. It is like 6 of one and half a dozen of the other... ya know...

Here is the thing, unless I am stuck here -- due to finances -- I do not want to invest all my time into fighting the giants. I do not mind joining with the police to fight back, but the police kinda turned and walked away. Somethings are worth fighting for, somethings are not. I hate to leave here. I hate to sacrifice 4 or 5 big guys to walk the neighborhood and get shot. Ya know, I did not even think of praying them out, I am going to start praying like crazy. I will ask God to direct me with all the good suggestions. And if he wants me to leave -- then he will have to provide. While I am praying, I wam going to see how to fight for more police.... Anyone else have these problems? This is Athens Georgia http://www.athensecolatino.com/v1n10/pandillas.html This was good, but they seem to think the police will help http://people.howstuffworks.com/street-gang3.htm http://www.athensecolatino.com/v1n10/pandillas.html http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/gangs/awareness.html

As Ex said understanding how they got there can make it easier. For instance, my father BEAT us all the time, he was awful like that. Once, I drove my sister to the police to try and get a restraining order. Well, my father was so severely beaten by his mother it was unreal. She threw him through plate glass, she would pull the kids out of bed by the hair then drag them, banging on the steps, to the kitchen and make them rewash the dishes if she did not think they were clean enough. In understanding how my father GOT there, it makes me give him a lot more rope. I guess the cool thing about getting saved is, it does not matter how far away you were from doing things right, God does the broom thing, SOCKS metioned, and kind of sweeps all of us collectively to salvation. Whether we murdered someone or gambled away the morgage, or the worst thing we ever did was foget to make Susie lunch one day. It seems salvation brings us all to an equal playing field. However, some of the things we have done will still bring on consequences, like you may still loose the house because you gambled away the morgage, or you may still go to the "chair" if you committed murder. So, even though spiritually we are all at the starting gate when we are saved, many of us still have things we have to pay for. Even though God HAS forgiven us for our sins. Cman Very poetic.

Ex Jesus is watching you. Be nice

Joe You may want to put a note in Friend tracker, and if someone knows where he is they can respond to you Here you go http://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/index.php?showforum=17 I think I looked for you years ago on that area! You can also check out this area for old friends http://www.greasespotcafe.com/ipb/index.php?showtopic=5044

Boy was that cute I was worried about the dogs eys

I believed

Socks Your post has left me wanting more. It is mind boggling This line here has me really plugged in: I have always felt this way, there were some degrees of sin as well as punishment but had been taught sin is sin. I just did not believe it, I also believe sin is an issue of heart more than action -- What I mean, if I have a starving brother and I steal an orange to give him something to eat -- the action maybe sin but the heart may not be But if I iron a shirt for you and scrub the floor to "manipulate" you into letting me drive your new car -- then my actions are not "sinful" but my heart is.

Thank you all!

Well Free, once upon a time, I was looking for Jesus and found a great group of believers. Their leader was a great guy living and doing the Bible. I gave them money, a large portion of my life and my "stand". Then, I found out most of it was a lie. Since then, I have tried to collect facts. Sometimes I have failed. Once, I dated a guy who was nuts for me. It turned out I looked EXACTLY like the girl who dumped him, except she had bangs. His friends warned me, but it was hard to believe. So, I fashined my hair like I had bangs and took my picture. I left it sit out. When he came in, he nearly fainted when he saw it. He then confessed that when he kissed me he pretended I was her. Our whole dating experience was HIM pretending I was HER. We had been dating nearly a year. Like you, I was sick about it.

Apples and carrots are in some holistic dog foods -- use them as a snack and like you my dogs are okay.

I am thankful for all your considerate posts and advice, thanks I was told by another with this problem, the best is to keep cleaning off the signs etc. that makes "them" go away. But the street fights? I duuno And I forgot to say a woman who said it was their first house, saw a guy dragging a woman by her hair down the street. The woman was screaming. I am not sure if it was a gang member. I thought she said she thought it was, but then someone else who was at the meeting doesn't know if this is related. The neighborhood is going down hill, I guess it is time to leave if I can.

Thanks Ex10 and Alfa Thanks Mark and Dove All of the kindnesses has been my best gift, thanks

Thanks to all of you!

If it were 1860 I may consider the Doc Holiday style but it does not work today. We have an in-ground pool. Even though it is fenced in and we have no trespassing signs it is considered an enticing nuisance. So, if a fence climber, without our permission, goes swimming and drowns, we are responsible in the eyes of the law. Not that I feel any responsibility, but because we have a pool on our own fenced in property, we have a legal responsibility to the "criminal" trespasser. I am not sure who invents these laws but there they are. I have a license to carry a concealed weapon, but I have a responsibility as to WHEN I use it. Nobody wants to shoot a kid. But if the kid is a criminal and planning to shoot me, pointing a gun or otherwise obviously going to injure me, I would be compelled to shoot. I would try to aim at a shoulder or something, but geez, why is this coming down to this in a sweet neighborhood? I fault the parents. I do not want to be in this position, yet here I am. It is very sad and weighs on my mind greatly.

I really can't stop crying. I know there are many bigger things to cry about, but... For some reason I cannot turn my eyes off.

Thanks to all the posts. I cannot tell you how dirty I feel when I drive into my somewhat country neighborhood, and see black paint on everything. I feel sick and so discouraged. My neighbor Donna is dear to me, she has fought a lot of obstacles as a single mother. And she looked at me with tears in her eyes and just said how it violates all she has tried to build for she and her son. This woman works like a horse to keep her house in stellar condition, I could feel her heart sinking but all we could do was hear the police wiggle out of responsibility Other people were speaking of what it did to them -- just stops your heart for a beat. I am sick I am so sick at heart Crying does not help but it is all I can do today. Maybe tomorrow I can muster up some more fight in my soul. But tonight all I can do is cry

Free That was a very painful story for you and his wife. What a big butt he is. I am very sorry. I have felt pain like that before so I know how shocked you must be. Makes you wonder about everything. ((((FREE)))))

Thanks Kids I have to work Saturday, but afterward maybe a nice lunch or something. Thank you so much.