lock you doors

anonymous · August 2005

September 5th, Labor day, will bring another parade down Eastern pkwy.
Not sure if many of you are aware of this, but it is not the safest day in out neighborhood. I can't remember a year WITHOUT a murder taking place,, so be careful and LOCK YOUR DOORS

daveb · August 2005

Gee, thanks. Your voice of reason has changed my life. I will now adopt a personal mission of "safety first" in everything I do, smell or look at funny. Dear God, you are like a saint, a beacon of light in these dark times. You're like the Smokey the Bear for Brooklyn. Who knew?

t-fal · August 2005

sorry troll, but my birds ate all the food. and most people usually find it advisable to lock their doors everyday.

daveb · August 2005

t-fal wrote: sorry troll, but my birds ate all the food. and most people usually find it advisable to lock their doors everyday.

Sometimes... I lock my doors and then unlock them, so I can lock them again. It's all about being safe.

WAIT!

Are you wearing a helmet?

You aren't, are you? Listen, you never know when your keyboard's gonna suddenly up and smack you. Seriously, it happens like every year in Prospect Heights, some poor non-helmet wearing person gets laid the fuck out for unsafe keyboarding. Don't be dope. Slap a helmet on that domepiece! :shock:

roux42 · August 2005

Subject: Re: lock you doors

Anonymous wrote: September 5th, Labor day, will bring another parade down Eastern pkwy.
Not sure if many of you are aware of this, but it is not the safest day in out neighborhood. I can't remember a year WITHOUT a murder taking place,, so be careful and LOCK YOUR DOORS

Oh please! Get over your fine yourself! Do you carry a little bottle of sanitary fluid everywhere you go? Have you ever bought food from a street vendor!???

I think you should stay home and watch re-runs of Law and Order. You will be alot happier and so much safer!

anonymous · August 2005

if you dont agree with me then go to eastern pkwy at 11:00 in the mourning. Have fun. Hope I dont read about you in the paper.

roux42 · August 2005

Subject: The Parade

I live around the corner and I have been going to the parade for years. Was that a typo or were you trying to be clever?

daveb · August 2005

Anonymous wrote: if you dont agree with me then go to eastern pkwy at 11:00 in the mourning. Have fun. Hope I dont read about you in the paper.

You see, the thing is, most everyone has lived here for multiple years and there are plenty of already existing threads concerning crime in this area, so you're preaching to the choir and your voice is way the hell off, chucky.

daveb · August 2005

Subject: Re: lock you doors

roux42 wrote: I think you should stay home and watch re-runs of Law and Order. You will be alot happier and so much safer!

Totally off topic... I'd love to stay home and watch reruns of L&O, or as I term it: LAW & FUCKING ORDER aka the greatest gift to mankind ever.

CHUNG CHUNG!!!

t-fal · August 2005

daveb wrote: [quote=t-fal]sorry troll, but my birds ate all the food. and most people usually find it advisable to lock their doors everyday.

Sometimes... I lock my doors and then unlock them, so I can lock them again. It's all about being safe.

WAIT!

Are you wearing a helmet?

You aren't, are you? Listen, you never know when your keyboard's gonna suddenly up and smack you. Seriously, it happens like every year in Prospect Heights, some poor non-helmet wearing person gets laid the fuck out for unsafe keyboarding. Don't be dope. Slap a helmet on that domepiece! :shock:

this isn't funny, because i have a tendency to forget to take off my bike helmet when i get home after a ride. :roll:

flute · August 2005

Anonymous wrote: go to eastern pkwy at 11:00 in the mourning

is there a funeral planned ... ?

:?

daveb · August 2005

FLUTE wrote: [quote=Anonymous]go to eastern pkwy at 11:00 in the mourning

is there a funeral planned ... ?

:?

TOTALLY!

Make sure you wear a helmet, though. Are you aware of how many people each year die from getting smacked upside the dome from caskets of people murdered during labor day?!?!

It's fucking REAL, people!!!! :evil:

quig · August 2005

Oh NO Oh No! WADDA IMA GONNA DO?

WADDA IMA GONNA DO? HELP!

If you're looking for me on Labor Day I'll be behind my door with a shotgun.

daveb · August 2005

quig wrote: Oh NO Oh No! WADDA IMA GONNA DO?

WADDA IMA GONNA DO? HELP!

If you're looking for me on Labor Day I'll be behind my door with a shotgun.

Calm down, buddy!

It's okay...

Seriously, take a breather there, soldier. We all fight our own battles and I know it's a hard road, what with Prospect Heighters getting MURDERED left and right by mad, satanic parading bastards. I feel you. I do.

But we as a community need to come together as a whole and confront this insidious marching evil. Show your strength. Slap a helmet on, grab the bull by the horns and ride that fucker straight in to the sunset, cowboy!

True ProHo grit!!!

Helmet power!!!

quig · August 2005

Whoo.... thanks, Dave.

I want to ask the guest what the safest days of the year are so I can venture out from my house.

daveb · August 2005

quig wrote: Whoo.... thanks, Dave.

I want to ask the guest what the safest days of year are so I can venture out from my house.

My bet is...NEVER!!! Unless you're wearing a helmet.

t-fal · August 2005

but even with your helmet on, your elbows are exposed!

NO ONE IS SAFE! your funny bone is in great danger.

daveb · August 2005

t-fal wrote: but even with your helmet on, your elbows are exposed!

NO ONE IS SAFE! your funny bone is in great danger.

Oh fucking BURST MY BUBBLE, why don't you?!?!

Now I gotta tinfoil everything. THANKS! :shock:

dailyheights · August 2005

Now that you've all had your fun... I don't know the history of the parade, but violence and murder have been associated with the parade. Certainly not every year, as anonymous guest claims, but there was a murder associated with the parade as recently as 2003. From Brooklyn Papers/Associated Press:

"...Toward the end of the festivities, a man wearing a mask and standing
on a parade float shot another man in the head as he tried to get on
the float, said Det. Kevin Czartoryski, a police spokesman. The victim,
Anthony Bartholomew, a Brooklyn College student, was taken to Kings
County Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Authorities were
searching for the shooter."

Interestingly, the parade was in memory of Fort Greene councilman James Davis, who himself was shot dead earlier that year, in front of City Hall downtown if I remember correctly.

carnivore · August 2005

People just don't realize how much violence actually occurs at the parade every year. There were both shootings and stabbings last year. Although it's not a murder unless the victim dies, it still qualifies as violence in my book. And most of it never makes the papers.

I agree that it doesn't call for hysterics though. I've been going to the parade for years. I used to have to take the subway down from the Bronx- now I'm right here so it will be that much easier. My wife and I will be at the parade again this year.

t-fal · August 2005

i'm looking forward to the parade

i really like the steel drum bands and i LOVE the costumes. hopefully i'll be able to find a spot like last year, in the shade and near a rocksteady cd vendor as opposed to a dancehall cd vendor.

outeraccelerator · August 2005

i'm im PLG and the parade kind of ends/ lets out down here... last year there were three shootings which resulted in death, two that i know of were in PLG , one victim was a 15 year old kid, who i think was just an innocent bystander.

and i've been told the NYPD call it the 'murder day parade.'

its a shame that this shit happens at ANY parade/celebratory event.

anonymous · August 2005

Guess Im not totally wrong "Murder day parade" 3 shot last year alone. Call me a pussy if you want, but I dont like the odds.

carnivore · August 2005

guest wrote: Guess Im not totally wrong "Murder day parade" 3 shot last year alone. Call me a pussy if you want, but I dont like the odds.

Your odds are still pretty good. Over 2 million people go to that parade. That's bigger than most cities in the U.S.

So 3 shootings isn't that surprising. In years past, it averaged worse than that citywide on a normal day. :evil:

anonymous · August 2005

Carnivore wrote: [quote=guest]Guess Im not totally wrong "Murder day parade" 3 shot last year alone. Call me a pussy if you want, but I dont like the odds.

Your odds are still pretty good. Over 2 million people go to that parade. That's bigger than most cities in the U.S.
So 3 shootings isn't that surprising. In years past, it averaged worse than that citywide on a normal day. :evil:

Beat me to it. With that number of people there, it's statistically understandable there would be incidents.

jack · August 2005

Hey, that 'guest' above is me! Something is tossing my cookies!

daveb · August 2005

Jack wrote: Something is tossing my cookies!

WHOA there... Way too much info! I'm scarred!

jack · August 2005

daveb wrote: WHOA there... Way too much info! I'm scarred!

Juggle your fruit?

Toss your knives?

Pet your dog?

Change your lightbulb?

Euphemisms are ruining it for everyone.

anonymous · September 2005

Subject: Anthony Bartholomew...

The cause was never fully known, but some people said that it was over a bump in the crowd or laughing at someone's gang colors. I never heard any consistent story about him climbing onto a float and being shot by a masked man though. Perhaps it is a synthesis of a few different reports.

The Daily News didn't help matters by printing a picture of the poor guy with a hole in his head leaking blood as he died in the middle of the parade.

munchkin · September 2005

Subject: Is this a joke?

The Parade isn't that awful. I mean, most of the Jamaican community has been displaced in the last 10 years. I know some of you have been here all your lives and know better than me, but my first Jamaican Day Parade was in 1982 and it was wonderful. Admittedly, it has devolved since then. But racial assumptions add to the fear. To illustrate this, one of my old friends who was a sergent in the NYPD here had detail for the parade several years ago and thought a roasting goat was a roasting german shepard. The Parade has gotten more about loud music and tourists than a celebration of Jamaican culture. If you don't lock your doors in the first place, hey, this is NYC not Mayberry. And the last two years have been pretty tame. Go out and enjoy. It's not any worse or better than Halloween in the Village.

outeraccelerator · September 2005

the daily news is a horrible paper, as is the post/newsday etc. im not suprised they'd do something so grotesque as to print a photo of a dead person on the street like that.

as for the parade, one year i was seriously on a bus for an hour to go not very far (stupid on my part to get on that b41...) but i didnt know what was going on. another time my street was pretty quiet but i was only in an out for a little bit and didn't realise what was going on. i feel like something in the route changed... because this year i read that my block is totally off limits to anyone but emergency vehichles, and the parade seperates from the crowd and comes down my street to end... but i'm right smack near the park so i'm assuming the celebrations and crazyness will be had around these parts throughout the night and early morning hours. rather than be held up in my apartment i'm heading out of town to somewhere a bit more quiet.

regardless of all that, i hate hate hate big crowds, so im leaving the night before and comming back the next morning, plus its the last weekend i'll probably get of nice weather and swimming, before september flies by in the blink of an eye....

a friend of mine had a good view of it last year, from someone's roof up at grand army plaza. its nice cuz you wouldnt have to be in a crazy crowd but can still enjoy it.

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