Ok. I can admit that my last post may have been – no it has been misinterpreted.
I grew up playing ball in the street, meeting my neighbors for a chat half way across the street and just generally being a neighbor. This is not the sort of pedestrian fair of which I was trying to point out. I am addressing the people who defiantly saunter down the side of the street or even worse in the middle, as a rite of passage or complete disregard for anything or any one. “I can do whatever the %^#@ I want. So go *&^$# yourself.” Is not the comment made by some upstanding neighborhood citizen making sure you are noticed and acknowledged as an outsider. This is a piss poor attitude that is down right dangerous, and not the sort of behavior conducive to teaching our immigrants and children safe and respectful ways to act in public. The neighbors using the street to congregate on say Aldrich Ave. is one thing. By all means do so. But do have the consideration to step out of the way once the car approaching slows down. The idiots walking like this on Penn Ave, Broadway Ave., 2nd St,. 26th, etc. is on a busy street!! This is the kind of behavior that threatens my well being, because if this person decides to walk on the street and pops out in front of me before I can stop in time, even if obeying the posted speed limits, I am the one that gets arrested and charged because someone else thinks that their “rights” include doing whatever the heck they want when they want! Being a citizen in Minneapolis has RESPONSIBILITIES to it. And I would hope that the list would see that if someone in my neighborhood thinks it is ok to throw rocks at others or physically accost my neighbors as their right to do so, that I, as I hope everyone on this list would, stop them from doing this and explain to them that we just don’t do that here. No less dangerous is letting this behavior of doing what I want to go unchecked. Including walking in the middle of a busy street. I apologize if I have offended, but that’s the fact Jack! Valdis Rozentals SAW _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
