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Location: East of Seattle since 1992, 615' Elevation, Zone 8b - originally from SF Bay Area
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I was a victim a long time ago, it was in 1974 a week before my wedding. I was in graduate school and working at a liquor store evenings and weekends, when robbed at gunpoint. This was in a fairly rough part of the SF Bay Area in those days, Union City, CA. No injuries, just a bit shaken up. I had to do an artists sketch at the police station, and several "drive by" identification trips with them, but they never caught the guy. I quit a couple of months later and got an office job.
My buddy and I, both age 12, were robbed at knifepoint by teenagers.
At age 15, I was mugged by five guys. I happened to wander into the wrong neighborhood. Ended up with a hairline cheek fracture and lost tooth. Required a dental crown.
These were in Baltimore in the 1950s.
At 16, a Christian brother at the Catholic high school I attended hauled off and socked me in the jaw. His sharp, bony knuckle actually ripped thru to the inside of my mouth even though the punch had no real force behind it. Oh, a year earlier, same high school, another brother merely slapped me as I was sitting. But he was a real moose with heavy hands and the damn chair I was in almost flipped over sideways.
In elementary school, the nuns used to beat the hell out of all of us. :-)
My parked car was the victim of a DUI. Also, some minor vandalism like mailbox being blown up.
My buddy and I, both age 12, were robbed at knifepoint by teenagers.
At age 15, I was mugged by five guys. I happened to wander into the wrong neighborhood. Ended up with a hairline cheek fracture and lost tooth. Required a dental crown.
These were in Baltimore in the 1950s.
At 16, a Christian brother at the Catholic high school I attended hauled off and socked me in the jaw. His sharp, bony knuckle actually ripped thru to the inside of my mouth even though the punch had no real force behind it. Oh, a year earlier, same high school, another brother merely slapped me as I was sitting. But he was a real moose with heavy hands and the damn chair I was in almost flipped over sideways.
In elementary school, the nuns used to beat the hell out of all of us. :-)
My parked car was the victim of a DUI. Also, some minor vandalism like mailbox being blown up.
I also was a victim of a sister at a catholic school for a full year in 4th grade. Horrible physical abuse and humiliation in front of a class room. I was singled out that is what was so bad about this. Affects me to this day. If this happened today with one of my children in any school sparks would be flying!
Both. Neither. Either/or.
Take your speculative pick.
Also. Define "crime".. are we talking anything illegal like jaywalking and stealing juice from a store, or only more violent offenses? Inquiring minds need to know..
I have been the victim of B&E twice. Once they stole guns and some money and the other time it was tools. Each time I was pretty sure I knew who did it (neighborhood teens) but couldn't prove it. There was a well-known fence who owned a pawn shop in a neighboring town and one of the guns showed up there. The first time I had a car in the garage being worked on and the little sh!tz went out of their way to walk through the puddle of oil and track it on the carpet. Then they raided the fridge and left the door open.
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