Galveston: Today's mopes and dopes

[OldCurlyWolf]

Nothing suprises me anymore in Galveston. We definately have a abundant supply of hoodlums.

It has been that way since I first went there in 74. It just changes slightly from year to year.

[seamusTX]

So, what's your favorite crime-free paradise?

- Jim

[kyreb]

This thread is only 5 pages long and 5 years old.......seems to me Galveston is not the little Chicago everyone wants so badly to make it out to be.

Why no hood rat threads on Texas City or maybe even Houston? I am betting they might hit 5 pages a little sooner. Just sayin'

[seamusTX]

I live in Galveston, so I get more information about what happens here.

I just find some of these incidents amusing or instructive. I don't post every domestic incident or idiotic bar fight. BTW, the thread is not quite a year old. You must be looking at the date I joined.

Any square mile of Houston probably has more murders, robberies, rapes and residential burglaries in a month than Galveston has in a year.

- Jim

[LongHairedRedneck]

So, what's your favorite crime-free paradise?

- Jim

Tuff, TX

Old deer lease owner founded a town so he did not have to drive to Medina to recieve mail.

[kyreb]

I live in Galveston, so I get more information about what happens here.

I just find some of these incidents amusing or instructive. I don't post every domestic incident or idiotic bar fight. BTW, the thread is not quite a year old. You must be looking at the date I joined.

Any square mile of Houston probably has more murders, robberies, rapes and residential burglaries in a month than Galveston has in a year.

- Jim

I guess reading is fundamental after all. I see so much hatred for Galveston on the various boards that I really do not understand. Sorry for the knee jerk reaction.

We have lived in Houston for six years now and love Galveston. We have had a weekend cottage down there for five years now. The cottage was our place of refuge for the first two years when the Katrina zombies were let loose on our neighborhood by Bill White. I can walk my neighborhood in Galveston but hesitate to do so in Houston unless well armed.

Rick

[seamusTX]

I see so much hatred for Galveston on the various boards that I really do not understand.

I chalk it up to envy from people who live in dusty backwaters with nothing to do.



- Jim

[seamusTX]

At Walmart in Galveston Tuesday a 20-year-old man who allegedly had been ingesting "bath salts" attacked an 11-month-old baby in a shopping cart.

He was subsequently zapped, cuffed, and stuffed and is in the slammer pending $13,000 bond. His mother must be proud.

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/245462" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

These "bath salts" actually are psychoactive drugs that are legal (though they're working on that) and sold over the counter at convenience stores.

What exactly are people from Angleton and Pasadena doing at Walmart in Galveston? It's not like there aren't closer places for them to buy cheap junk.

- Jim

[pcernuch]

no faster way to meet your maker than to put your hands on my child. is this the wal-mart right on seawall?

god bless.

[SQLGeek]

Sometimes when we're visiting Galveston, we'll stop in at Wal-Mart for some things. I have pondered the scenario of what my reaction would be if somebody attacked my family in public like this. Crazy world we live in.

[seamusTX]

no faster way to meet your maker than to put your hands on my child. is this the wal-mart right on seawall?

Yes, the Walmart in Galveston is on the Seawall at about 63rd Street.

If I had to resort to weapons that are not readily identified as weapons (as we did in Chicago), anyone who attacked me would be on his hands and knees looking for his eyeballs. A key ring or three stiffened fingers can do fearsome damage to eyeballs.

- Jim

[seamusTX]

A 19-year-old man alleged broke into an apartment in the 7800 block of Seawall Boulevard around 6:50 a.m. Saturday and assaulted the woman resident. The victim fled and sought refuge with neighbors.

The suspect, described as "a white male with multiple tattoos, wearing only boxer shorts," was arrested and charged with burglary. He claimed to be a vampire.

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/250614" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The moon was full that night.

- Jim

[pcernuch]

we will be down there this weekend. i cannot wait. got a beach house down around isla del sol.

god bless.

[seamusTX]

Things are pretty quiet that far west, and Isla del Sol is practically a gated community.

- Jim

[LongHairedRedneck]

I nearly spit out my soda when I read about the "vampire" in the paper