Thanks Jim, I really appreciate your comments. After I have had a little time to process this I am feeling some real paranoia right now. It's late and I am feeling too scared to go to bed. I am afraid they could come back and try to break in and rob us in the house at gun point. It was hard to give the police an identity. These young thugs aren't stupid. They don't make it easy to distinguish them from one another. They had black hooded sweatshirts on and the hood were cinched tight around their faces. And when you are laying on your stomachs face down in the dirt like my husband and neighbor were forced to do, it's even harder to identify them.
The thing that is bothering me most about this right now is that it wouldn't be unusual for my son and the kids next door to be in the back yard with my husband and neighbor. Thank God that wasn't the case tonight. So now we have looked at the security lax around the perimeter of our house. We decided to work with the next door neighbor and put up a 6 foot fence so that it will be harder to get between our houses. We will also add some motion detector lights. Those would have at least warned my husband and neighbor someone was coming and may have discouraged the thugs. Ironically, I was in the house talking on the phone to a friend from Ventura Village about planning a block club meeting for my block soon because we had new neighbors and the owners of the "corner house from hell" has rented to another group of thugs. We are concerned they are dealing and working in consort with the crappy corner store. Who knows, maybe it's all connected somehow. Barb Lickness Whittier ===== "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
