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Old 09-03-2014, 03:04 PM
 
Location: Westbury
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the lesson here is to avoid walking by head shops if you can help it.
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Old 09-03-2014, 03:05 PM
 
Location: southern california
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My old neighborhood
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Old 09-03-2014, 03:06 PM
 
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Mine too. Have a house very close to where this happened.
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My old neighborhood
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Old 09-03-2014, 03:17 PM
 
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Kind of what I was thinking...But I cannot find any information on exactly where she was walking.
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the lesson here is to avoid walking by head shops if you can help it.
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Old 09-03-2014, 03:20 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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A head shop was robbed, not a huge surprise. But chasing the perps is the cause of the shooting. Drugs result in stupid behavior.
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Old 09-03-2014, 03:21 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX (Bellaire)
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Luckily the bullet just grazed her leg.
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Old 09-03-2014, 03:29 PM
 
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Certain suburbs are relatively crime free, ignoring extremely petty crime, but I'd agree that crime can happen anywhere, and especially when one is residing within a large city.
They aren't crime free, they just don't publish their crimes the way Houston does.

That being said, the Heights has some issues with muggings which are rare in the burbs and other parts of Houston.

Home invasion, home burglaries, and being held up in the driveway happen in every burb and area of Houston. Even murders, although rare. I've had two students attend schools in Katy that had one parent murder the other, and they were middle class people.

I've been in shops when a bank was held up in Old Town Katy. Didn't hear a peep about that one on the news.
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Old 09-03-2014, 06:28 PM
 
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I have a better chance of being killed or seriously injured while driving to the Heights than while walking around there, any time of the day or night.
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Old 09-03-2014, 11:55 PM
 
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I have a better chance of being killed or seriously injured while driving to the Heights than while walking around there, any time of the day or night.
I think about this a lot. There are a lot of people who want to live in the suburbs to avoid violent crime which makes sense since there is less violent crime there. But then they drive 20-50 miles each way on a major metropolitan thoroughfare every day. Statistically, they are much more likely to die on the road than even someone living in the third ward is likely to die of a violent crime. I guess it's just something about the horror of violent crime, vs the mundane danger of a traffic fatality.
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Old 09-04-2014, 03:45 AM
 
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I used to trick or treat on Halloween in the Heights when I was a kid back in the 1940's. It was nice back in those days. I moved to a small town in the mountains of Arkansas to "get away" from the city. In the last 7 years there's been two murders and multiple break-ins within 2 blocks of our house. Yes, it can happen anywhere.
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