Yup, I live in da hood, yo!

Received some scary news today, from the mailman no less. I was out pulling weeds in the yard when he came to deliver mail and said "so you had some excitement in the neighborhood this morning, eh?" I responded with "oh? what happened?" He said that early this morning some guys broke into a house, not but a couple blocks away from my house, holding the occupants hostage while they robbed the place.

Holy shit!

So I do a bit of research, and the only news story I could find was this (kptv.com). Yikes! My only hope, given both the time of morning and the way it all went down was that the assholes who did this knew the house and/or occupants. It seems too nuts to be totally a random thing. I mean, the occupants could have been trigger-happy, NRA card holding, 2nd Amendment quoting militia members. Seems more likely that there was some connection between the perpetrators and the occupants of the house. At least, that’s what I’m telling myself to feel a little better. 🙂

Either way, I’m going to be triple-checking the locks on the doors and windows, and making sure the porch lights are on from now on, even if my electric bill goes up a few bucks. I also talked to all my neighbors, so we’re all aware of what happened and can keep eyes out for each other. Up until this there’s not been a single bad event in my nighborhood (aside from a house around the corner that throws loud parties pretty much every night). Let’s hope this is a one-time thing, and not completely random.