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packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:

>That's it. My entire history as a victim.

Hmmm.  I lived in DC from 1968 to 1988.  In that time:

-I was beaten up several times by black kids for being white.
-My family's apartment was burgularized three times.
-My father's business was burgularized once.
-The window on my father's new car was smashed with a rock.

I won't even mention all of the things that happened to people not in
my immediate family.  Like how my best friend's mother had her house
burgularized twice in a six month period; the second time the burgular
came into her bedroom with a knife while she was getting ready for bed.
Or how my mother's boyfriend was mugged a couple of years ago and so
badly beaten that a hole was torn in his cheek, and he has permanently
lost 20% of his vision.  Or a guy I know who, during a mugging, was stabbed
in the eye (fortunately the blade wedged in the corner of his eyesocket,
so he wasn't killed/maimed).  I could go on.

You have been extremely lucky.  Are you 6'8" and weigh 350lbs.?

Oh, I almost forgot.  My mother was mugged a month and a half ago.
You're right, the crime problem in DC is greatly exaggerated.

>I'm amused at people's fears. 

I'm not very fucking amused at all.

-Chris
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