what the heck was happening on 290 tonight?

[dexter1225]

Originally Posted by Drover

Your wife is statistically far more likely to be killed in a car accident on the Ike. Does that keep you up at nights, or are your fears conveniently selective?

So would you regularly drive through that neighborhood at 11pm? Answer my question.

I'm glad you have nothing better to do than bully people on a relocation forum.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by dexter1225

So would you regularly drive through that neighborhood at 11pm? Answer my question.

I've done it plenty of times before and I'll do it again.

Originally Posted by dexter1225

I'm glad you have nothing better to do than bully people on a relocation forum.

If you haven't noticed, you're a mutual participant in this exchange. You're perfectly free to disengage at any time.

[emathias]

Originally Posted by dexter1225

So would you regularly drive through that neighborhood at 11pm? Answer my question.

I'm glad you have nothing better to do than bully people on a relocation forum.

This isn't a relocation forum, despite people insisting on using it that way.

And I do drive through the West Side on a regular basis after dark. I even ride my bike through the West Side late at night dozens of time in a year. The fact that the West Side is upwards of ten times as more dangerous than, say, Lakeview, doesn't mean that the chances of an ordinary citizen driving through the area is actually appreciably more likely to be the victim of crime. If 99.999% of the people traveling through Lakeview do so without incident, and risk is even 100 times higher in the West Side, that still means that 99.9% of the trips through the West Side go down without a hitch. Since the West Side is really only about 20 times more dangerous, that's 99.98% go off without a hitch. Are you really losing sleep over the difference between 99.98 and 99.999? And to be honest, I would guess that the actual statistic for safety transiting through Lakeview is closer to 99.9999% safe, so traveling through the West Side for someone who has no interaction with the drug trade is probably closer to 99.998% safe.