This stuff goes on all the time in North Mpls. Just 6 weeks ago the same situation was happening and the car being pursued plowed into my office building on the corner of 26th and Girard N. at about 60 mph.
The whole car was sitting in my office after taking out my stairway and outside attached storage garage. The guy being chased hid in my office as the pursuers reloaded and shot off another round through the side of my office building. Total damages will run around $75,000 and will come out of my pocket as I self insure, just as the City does. Turns out the guy being pursued (victim) would not snitch on his pursuers, so the attempted murder case was closed. It also turns out the the victim also had no insurance, but he has not even been charged for the damage done to my property or at least for driving without insurance. The City just sent me notice to repair the damage, or I could be charged criminally. Is that ironic or what?? Steve Meldahl Jordan (work) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Weir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 11:15 AM Subject: [Mpls] Sunday morning in the 'hood > On this rainy Sunday morning, I had the edifying experience of > witnessing something straight out of Al Capone's Chicago. Two cars -- > one a white or light gray two-door, the other a Monte Carlo --raced up > 12th Avenue South past Andersen School and Stewart Park at perhaps > seventy miles an hour shooting at one another. The people in the chase > car, the gray one, were firing small calibre pistols, probably .25's or > .32's, while the guys in the Monte Carlo returned fire with what > sounded like a 9 millimeter. Parents driving the opposite way with a > van full of kids on the 2800 block of 12th Ave pulled over to the curb > and watched these morons scream by. No one was hit -- at least that I'm > aware of. I'm told that this is referred to as "cool shooting" and is > becoming quite common these days. In any event, it represents a fairly > dramatic escalation of gun-related violence in our section of the > 'hood after almost a decade of relative peace. > > Paul Weir > Phillips > > 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 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
