I forgot...i do know someone who was murdered.  I worked with him one summer.  He was
abducted and shot in the head by a stranger...whom they caught and who was executed
in Texas about 4 years later.  this was in 1990.

"Horace K. Sawyer" wrote:

> Get ready everybody --
>
> >These crimes happen.  Sure, they're statistically low, but they do happen, and
> >with sufficient frequency and devastating results to warrant some common sense
> >precautions.
>
>         Well, that's true.  Who among us wants to volunteer to be that statistic?
> Maybe even the "gun grabbers" will learn by default one day there is
> something to the old adage:
>
>                         " I'd rather be TRIED by twelve than CARRIED by six."
>
> >
> >BTW I once camped at an undeveloped campsite where i thought we might be
> >attacked and planned exactly how we would escape and what i would do and
> palced
> >my weapons at ready reach.
>
>         Yes, I believe you.  Thugs abound.  Got to protect yourself.  But HOW in
> this day and age?  "Oh mercy mercy, that awful Vanagon driver shot the poor
> robber with a butcher knife dead!  He should be punished!  He should only
> have detained him briefly until the lawful policemen arrived to do their
> duty!"
> Then it's off to find a defense lawyer.  For self-defense no less.  What is
> this world coming to?  Oh, but this could never happen to you or me.  Who
> says we just have to sit back and take whatever comes our way?
>
>         Okay, its not life threatening (that I know of) but here's what happened
> to me just a few days ago:  In the Houston airport last Thursday, my cell
> phone and sunglasses case were picked from pocket!  Call me a dummy I
> guess.  Thief was good at it, for sure.  Must have thought my black
> sunglasses case was a wallet.  At least he(she) didn't get that.  Man, I
> miss that phone.  Did echo a bit though . . .  Bell South will love the
> bill they send me too from whomever is using the heck out of it.  Took 4
> days to reach cus. svc. to get it turned off!
>         Just venting a bit here.  Give me a bit of space and I will be allright.
>
>         Anyone seen a Nokia 2160?
>
> : )
>
> H K Sawyer
> --For the Defense
>
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