Galveston: Today's mopes and dopes

[UpTheIrons]

This weird practice spread around the county. A lot of towns have ½ streets. I think I even ran across ¼ in Santa Fe.

- Jim

I used to live on 38 1/2 Street in Austin, so it even happens there! Seguin - not so much.

[seamusTX]

Friday morning at 4:10 a.m. a man was mugged in the 2300 block of 29th street after leaving a bar.

The attackers were described as black men in their 20s around 5'9" and 170#. (That should narrow down the search.)

The story was reported in the September 4 print edition of the Galveston County Daily News. It is not available online at this time.

Do not go to this area. There is nothing there for tourists except nasty nookie for sale, drug dealing, and muggings. Leave it to those of us who know how to deal with it.

- Jim

[WildBill]

Friday morning at 4:10 a.m. a man was mugged in the 2300 block of 29th street after leaving a bar.

How much money do muggers expect to get from a guy leaving a 29th street bar at 4:00AM?

[seamusTX]

If you remember Mr. Rogers, can you say opportunistic?

The guy might have money or he might not. He might have been flashing a roll. He might have been running his mouth or wearing a Rolex or some cheap bling. Even "grills" have been stolen.

He probably would have credit or debit cards that the robbers could at least use to get a tank of gas or carton of cigarettes. He might have the keys to a nice car.

They could drag him home and clean out his house or apartment, though that did not happen here. The article says he's a "Michigan man," but it's never clear whether that means he is a tourist or temporary resident.

There are no hotels in that area that you would want to stay at.

- Jim

[ELB]

This weird practice spread around the county. A lot of towns have ½ streets. I think I even ran across ¼ in Santa Fe.

- Jim

I used to live on 38 1/2 Street in Austin, so it even happens there! Seguin - not so much.

Ah, but in Seguin, 3rd and 4th Streets run E/W, while 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Streets run N/S and cross the former. Don't know what happened to 1st and 2nd Streets. And in the same area, Avenue A runs E/W, and going north is paralleled by Newton Avenue, Avenue C, and Avenue B. In that order (or maybe disorder). Ave A is only one tiny block long; Ave C is discontinous. Avenue G is well north of the letter Avenues, with several streets (more than can account for the missing Avenues D and F) and a highway in between. Avenue E runs north south, but only connects the miniscule Avenue A with Newton Avenue.

And that whole area of the city is only about 1/4 mile square, surrounded by the rest of the city, which is basically street names in no discernable order.

[seamusTX]

Minneapolis is like that.

City planners: Use some imagination, for crying out loud.

In Chicago they tried to name the streets after presidents in order, but the system broke down after Polk.

- Jim

[Yankee Girl]

Phoenix AZ has a squirrel-y system, too - all the N-S streets are numbered ... from from downtown east, they're streets, and from downtown west, they're avenues. So 44th Street, near the airport, is all the way across town from 45th Avenue. And the E-W streets are named after presidents for a while, then they gave up, and no rhyme or reason to the rest.

[seamusTX]

The dopes just never quit.

Police were called to the scene of a burglary in the 3800 block of Broadway in Galveston at 1:30 a.m. Thursday. (This is one of the least wonderful areas of Galveston.) The responding police officer reportedly left his cruiser running and unlocked. The alleged burglary suspect jumped into it and took off.

The cruiser was recovered. The suspect was arrested and charged with multiple felonies.

The proceeds of the burglary were four packs of Kool cigarettes and a bottle of Gatorade.

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I tell ya, smoking is bad for your health. No word on whether alcohol was invoved.

- Jim

[Excaliber]

The dopes just never quit.

Police were called to the scene of a burglary in the 3800 block of Broadway in Galveston at 1:30 a.m. Thursday. (This is one of the least wonderful areas of Galveston.) The responding police officer reportedly left his cruiser running and unlocked. The alleged burglary suspect jumped into it and took off.

The cruiser was recovered. The suspect was arrested and charged with multiple felonies.

The proceeds of the burglary were four packs of Kool cigarettes and a bottle of Gatorade.

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I tell ya, smoking is bad for your health. No word on whether alcohol was invoved.

- Jim

Oops!

Glad it all turned out well with no burglar driven police car involved wreck to complicate things.

[jimlongley]

Makes you wonder where Pierre L'Enfant got his ideas.

Oh well 8th and I is still a pleasant place to visit, as long as you are at the right one of the three.

[seamusTX]

Glad it all turned out well with no burglar driven police car involved wreck to complicate things.

Yeah, quite often this kind of incident ends in a spectacular wreck.

In this case, the suspect drove just a few blocks and abandoned the car. Probably two of his remaining brain cells fired and he realized that he had just gotten himself down a creek without a paddle.

- Jim

[Lefty Writer]

This weird practice spread around the county. A lot of towns have ½ streets. I think I even ran across ¼ in Santa Fe. - Jim

Thanks for the education. Maybe they should have gone metric with Q.5 Avenue and O.25 Avenue. Actually, if you know the alphabet and how to count, it makes getting around in Galveston easier than some other cities.

Grand Junction, CO has something very similar, except instead of "street" it's "road." So, one can live on "28 Road," or "31 Road." Now, add in the 1/2 to it and you'll have "28 1/2 Road."

But wait folks, it gets better.....

Now, instead of living at 123 28 Road, why not try living at "123 1/2 29 1/2 Road."

[seamusTX]

Makes you wonder where Pierre L'Enfant got his ideas.

The street layout in Washington, D.C., looks an awful lot like Paris. They were built or rebuilt (in the case of Paris) at about the same time.

I don't know where the hub-and-spoke idea originated, but it made sense in the days of animal-powered transportation and shanks' mare.

Oh well 8th and I is still a pleasant place to visit, as long as you are at the right one of the three.

Which city are you referring to?

- Jim

[jimlongley]

Makes you wonder where Pierre L'Enfant got his ideas.

The street layout in Washington, D.C., looks an awful lot like Paris. They were built or rebuilt (in the case of Paris) at about the same time.

I don't know where the hub-and-spoke idea originated, but it made sense in the days of animal-powered transportation and shanks' mare.

Oh well 8th and I is still a pleasant place to visit, as long as you are at the right one of the three.

Which city are you referring to?

- Jim

DC

BTW, I had the honor to teach a class in Byrdstown, TN, a few years back, where they have FOUR Main St.s

[seamusTX]

The City of Houston also has numerous streets with the same name that have nothing to do with one another. It's the result of absorbing what used to be independent towns.

- Jim