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On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:05:57 -0700, Joerg <invalid@invalid.invalid>
wrote:

>John Larkin wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:36:47 -0700, Joerg <invalid@invalid.invalid>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>> But a lot of the time we look out the kitchen window and see a wall of
>>>> fog.
>>>>
>>> Or a shoot-out ...
>> 
>> Glen Park is a quiet, bucoloc village on the rim of an actual canyon
>> with an actual stream. Seven restaurants, one sports bar, one dry
>> cleaner, fresh-baked bread and pastries, one book store, one public
>> library. We hear the distant, muffled gunshots from Visitacion Valley
>> and the gentle roar of Interstate 280; we pretend it's a waterfall.
>> 
>
>Luckily we don't hear shootings, except the occasional rifle shots into 
>the air out of trucks when the drivers had too much booze on Friday 
>nights. They don't seem to realize that what goes up also comes down.
>
>
>>> Well, not in your neighborhood but we had first-time visitors from 
>>> Germany a few years ago, our former neighbors. After two week of west 
>>> coast sightseeing they stayed in a ritzy S.F. hotel to see the town 
>>> before heading out to us. Shooting right in the lobby there, IIRC a 
>>> fatal one. They were quite shaken when they got here.
>> 
>> Well, didn't they buy a ticket to The Wild West? They can get a lot of
>> mileage out of the story back at home.
>> 
>
>They didn't think it would be this wild. But it can. When I did EMC runs 
>at CKC near Mariposa a saloon fight broke out. A real one, guys flying 
>across tables, glass crashing, beer everywhere. All the tourists ran as 
>fast as they could. And the music kept playing.
>
>
>> I've never been that close to a human shooting. My sister did shoot
>> her husband, but he deserved it.
>> 
>
>Wow!

Really. The local cops showed up and said "don't worry lady, we'll
take care of it." And they did. 

John