--- Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nothing 'violent' for me, but certainly fun
> experiences: the winter
> childhood accident that tried to take my liver and
> gall bladder, four
> vehicle accidents (not the driver in three), forest
> fires (by choice),
> tornadoes, auto-rotate helicopter landing, planes
> stuck by lightning,
> hurricanes, helicopter flying through three
> tornadoes (well, not through
> them but they were right there), fireworks
> explosion, ship fire, factory
> fire, falling off a cliff while skiing into a safety
> net....
Yikes! Used up your nine lives and then some... `:}
Not counting military combat or law-enforcement
-related incidences:
family member: at an armed bank robbery (Baton Rouge,
LA)
family aquaintance: carjacked at gunpoint (downtown
Columbus, OH, IIRC; daylight hours)
college friend and another aquaintance: raped (Baton
Rouge, LA; date-rape drug prob. in 1 case)
classmate: knifed (Shreveport, LA) [circumstances
unk.]
aquaintance: raped (Denver, CO) (alcohol involved)
friend: knife brandished at her while jogging during
daylight hours (Denver, CO; he was just a punk
middle-schooler, but still...)
friend's niece: raped in her home (Denver, CO)
friends (1 man, 1 woman): victims of domestic violence
(beatings etc.) [locations withheld]
colleague: threatened multiple times with multiple
weapons (worked ER in downtown Detroit, MI)
friend: shot in neck, missing spine by < 1 inch (New
Orleans, LA; alcohol involved)
friend: threatened with knife (Portland, OR) [night]
That's with just a little thought; I'm not counting
instances where people only felt scared or potentially
threatened (New York subway, couple of National
Parks*, and - just to be fair - Milan, Italy), or were
pick-pocketed (New York, Barcelona) or had cars/houses
broken into (Dallas, Denver, Baton Rouge, San Diego,
couple of National Parks*). Of my rather unscientific
sample, 4 definitely (but could be 6, incl. the unk.
and night ones) of 13 violent encounters involved
drugs or alcohol.
Debbi
*Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Rocky Mountain NP
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