drug busts and dumb crimes Central PA

[sunsetcliff]

Originally Posted by R.J. MacReady

Pretty crazy about the fire at the Edison but the guy had a prior arson charge I think. Is the Edison bar closed up? I had a high school friend in from Montana and we went there as it seems to be one of the better relaxed bars in the area but it was closed on a Wednesday night at 7:30. It was probably about a week before the fire situation occurred. I always liked going there with old high school friends are in town and watching sports on their big tv.

When I drove by- there is no visable sign of fire. It is for sale for 1,000,000.00. It is a dive.

[sunsetcliff]

Originally Posted by Dawne

I know the Hotel Edison is for sale, so maybe some things have changed. Chuck's Sports Bar in Selinsgrove is for sale too, including the liquor license. So there you go, R.J. Buy it and turn it into what you like, atmosphere-wise, and make a ton of money and retire rich and happy.

Nocturnal, I think Sunsetcliff is noticing it more because he moved "across the river" from sleepy Selinsgrove to sultry Sunbury.

Selinsgrove did get loud when they moved the fire station to 522. I lived in back of Coles -522.

Hey Dawn, I am looking for a trained dog.

I have proceeded on my porch enclosure.

BTW- I got my gas bill- $105. That is down from $200 in April. SO the insulation is working.
:-)

I did not know we had locals here. Who wants to help me decorate?

[SteelCityRising]

It's all relative. People in Sunbury hear of a drug bust or arson, and they wet their pants and think the sky is falling. People here in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area have become so desensitived to this sort of activity (as seen on WNEP every night), that we just shrug our shoulders and don't let it faze us as we shuffle on along mindlessly with our iPods and text messaging habits. People in The Bronx would probably move to a place like Selinsgrove and laugh at anyone who complained of "high crime." Trust me, I felt like I was walking through freakin' Mayberry when I was in Selinsgrove and Bedford Falls when I was in Lewiburg. Everyone smiled, returned my "good morning" greeting, and just seemed so wholesome. Around here I say "Good morning" to passers-by and people just grunt or pretend they didn't hear me because of the population density. I do believe that I'll be leaving Scranton to retire to a small town in Maine someday where, as they say on Cheers, "everybody knows your name."

[R.J. MacReady]

Originally Posted by ScrantonWilkesBarre

It's all relative. People in Sunbury hear of a drug bust or arson, and they wet their pants and think the sky is falling. People here in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area have become so desensitived to this sort of activity (as seen on WNEP every night), that we just shrug our shoulders and don't let it faze us as we shuffle on along mindlessly with our iPods and text messaging habits. People in The Bronx would probably move to a place like Selinsgrove and laugh at anyone who complained of "high crime." Trust me, I felt like I was walking through freakin' Mayberry when I was in Selinsgrove and Bedford Falls when I was in Lewiburg. Everyone smiled, returned my "good morning" greeting, and just seemed so wholesome. Around here I say "Good morning" to passers-by and people just grunt or pretend they didn't hear me because of the population density. I do believe that I'll be leaving Scranton to retire to a small town in Maine someday where, as they say on Cheers, "everybody knows your name."

I don't know about the over friendlyness. There's many times I say hello to neighbors or passer-bys and they look the other way and don't say hello back. I'm often amazed at the lack of manners of some people in this area. It's not all bad but I'm the type of person who always says "good morning" or "hello" when coming into contact with people and find often they don't return the nice gesture. It's one thing that has bothered me living in this area. I've also found at work that people don't respond all that positive to nice getures which can be frustrating but that's happening everywhere not just this area.

[susquehannock]

Originally Posted by R.J. MacReady

I don't know about the over friendlyness. There's many times I say hello to neighbors or passer-bys and they look the other way and don't say hello back. I'm often amazed at the lack of manners of some people in this area. It's not all bad but I'm the type of person who always says "good morning" or "hello" when coming into contact with people and find often they don't return the nice gesture. It's one thing that has bothered me living in this area. I've also found at work that people don't respond all that positive to nice getures which can be frustrating but that's happening everywhere not just this area.

It's always been that way in the area. I've lived in this area for over 20 years and I hardly know anyone. People are very unfriendly. The friendliest folks are the ones who move here from another area. For the most part, the locals are very unfriendly. It very 'clannish.'

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by R.J. MacReady

I don't know about the over friendlyness. There's many times I say hello to neighbors or passer-bys and they look the other way and don't say hello back. I'm often amazed at the lack of manners of some people in this area. It's not all bad but I'm the type of person who always says "good morning" or "hello" when coming into contact with people and find often they don't return the nice gesture. It's one thing that has bothered me living in this area. I've also found at work that people don't respond all that positive to nice getures which can be frustrating but that's happening everywhere not just this area.

Originally Posted by susquehannock

It's always been that way in the area. I've lived in this area for over 20 years and I hardly know anyone. People are very unfriendly. The friendliest folks are the ones who move here from another area. For the most part, the locals are very unfriendly. It very 'clannish.'

I'm so surprised I had such a different experience when I was in each town. As I said in my Lewisburg Photo Tour, one elderly gentleman near the Bucknell campus even chit-chatted with me for a while. I've found people in my area to be much less friendly than they are in these wholesome small Central PA towns I've been doing my photo tours in. As I said about Williamsport, I even had people bending over backwards to help me get my bearings around town when they found out I was doing a project to boost the city's image on the Internet. The only downside I see to Central PA is that your fellow folks have a HORRIFIC staring problem unlike any I've ever seen. Am I just sexy, or what? Seriously, I wanted to just strip naked and give some of these folks a show. LOL!