Even McDonalds isn't safe on the Peoria.com Forums - Page 3

Try this link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article

Thanks JnJ, for helping me to educate.

-The One Stop HOME Shop

I don't believe for a second that you made it up. There is ALWAYS some sort of statistic somewhere, that explains why criminal minded @$$holes act the way they do. Society, upbringing, no father figure, peer pressure, mommy didn't breast feed, product of bad environment, ect.ect.ect.
ANY damn thing but taking responsibility for their own actions. So, now the reason those poor pitiful mis-understood gang-bangers car jacked that family on vacation was because they ate paint chips. Hmmmm? Maybe it WILL hold up in court.

Colorful reply SC I didn't intend to be confrontational there, I wasn't agreeing or disagreeing. I was only acknowledging your quote of my post and stating my belief that it was not safe to eat at McDonald's anyway and that's not just because of psycho's with guns. I've always been of the belief that the garbage they serve is dangerous and it as well as the onslaught of all those other American trashfood restaurants is one of the main reasons that (for the first time ever) our children are not expected to outlive us. However, if you want me to remain on topic with your post/reply ok... I can manage that.. "Can't rightly remember when the last "sniper" came through the hood. Lots of parking lot shootings though" When was this SC? I don't know of a lot of instances of "parking lot shootings" in this little town either. You worried about collateral damage SC? This coming from the guy who refuses to wear a helmet on his motorcycle? Because the way I see it, the bullet in the form of a big mack is more likely to kill you long before any stray bullet in this town. However, the statistics of dying while not wearing a helmet on your motorcycle may be a bit higher than the cheeseburger... ummm, errrr.. ok, maybe not. That cheeseburger is very likely to kill you first. "We all tempt fate by getting out of bed in the morning. More accidents happen in the home than anywhere else." So live life, fear nothing... be free! Eat at Mickey D's, die fat and happy!

Well...there was a shooting at the Morton Burger King last year I worked there for several years, but luckily I quit a few years ago

Guilty. I ride without a helmet. Yup, sure do. Occasionally I eat McDonalds, too. As for the rest, feel free to do the homework yourself. Keep in mind the paper doesn't report all the "shots fired" that don't result in injury.(which in that neighborhood, are quite frequent) As for collateral damage, I shoot back. No worry there.

The topic isn`t about how cool your life is StrayCat. This is a serious subject, and all you can add is your Joe Cool lifestyle tidbits. I am very adament about PEORIA becoming a great mid-size city again.

I think there is enough evidence to reasonably conclude that high rates of lead poisining impact the crime stats negatively. It is by no means the only factor, but it is definately a contributing factor.

I don't live my life to impress anyone. Least of all you. You don't like how I live, I won't lose sleep, believe me.
Build your city however you like. Just remember it's MY city too. Be as serious as you choose to be. I'll be how I choose to be.

Oh Shoot SC! (figuratively, not literally...lol) I have no doubt you'd shoot back! Did I play the helmet card? I humbly apologize.

I checked the statistics ... long before I moved back home and honestly, I was left scratching my head on that one. Sure, you're always going to hear about the idiot who shot his dog while attempting to use a phone book (with very bad aim) for target practice but honestly, I've not heard a lot of actual shootings in parking lots. As far as the newspaper reporting it? Oh yeah they will... they just don't get all their facts straight and when they do the public will magnify the story. That's why when a couple people get injured in a shooting it makes the news around here. There are areas where you've got to die if you want your name in the paper.

Peoria's just not that bad. If enough people stick it out this town will be ok.

StrayCat, have you ever shot back at anyone? I seriously doubt it. Ever spent any real time in the ghetto? I doubt it.I know you think I am causing trouble with you, but I really think you are misunderstanding me. Sometimes things just rub some people the wrong way, and that can make people react accordingly.

Peoria's NOT that bad. No matter where i've lived while working, i've always come back here. The first two houses I owned were not far from that McDonalds. More toward downtown. I lived there off and on for twelve years. Then it was the Bradley area. Always older parts of town. No-one ever ran me out no matter how badly the neighborhood got. I support Peoria completely. BUT, I also support concealed carry and make no excuses for it. Like it, or don't.

So how many times have you had to shoot back at someone?

Hey! That happened to me a couple months ago. I went to a party a friend of mine was having down there and when I left it was late and I was spitting cotton balls I was so thirsty. I pulled into that exact same Hardees (my fault, should have gone to McDonalds ) and this guy just walks up and crawled into my car. I probably should have knocked him in the head and kicked him out but I vaguely recognized him from BG's next door and felt sorry for him because there was a rowdy guy bearing down on us looking as though he was ready to beat the poor guy to a pulp. Besides he was trashed, looked a little puny and I was pretty sure I could take him if need be so I gave him a lift out of the parking lot and around the corner to his house before I did kick him out. The hysterical thing is when I got him there and rolled him out of the car his wife showed up furious with him for coming home with a strange blond and before I could inform her I was carjacked by a unique form of hitchhiker SHE was beating the pulp out of him. From the looks of her I think he should have taken his chance on the guy back at Hardees. *wince* I just drove off cracking up and drinking my diet coke. He's going to have one hell of a time trying to explain that one to her and it teaches him a lesson for just crawling into my car like that.

OK fess up. Which PDC member was it?