Thanks Jabs! (I think links were fine when I first checked, but they’re also fine now)
Also good job piecing together an ensemble of sorts LL (p.s. long hair…solidarity, brutha! cuz I have long hair too lol)
It used to be kids could go trick or treating all over without any worries,but now we got more and more
perverts around putting poison and razor blades into candy so it’s become more and more dangerous.As
a result towns have to have safe places for the kids to have fun trick or treating.
Yeah it sounds scary when you listen to the news. I hope it’s just the combined effect of the usual culprits of 1: the media likes to sensationalize bad/scary things anyway, and 2: with our global network of news, we literally hear about almost every single instance of crazy $#@* when it happens anywhere in the wide world out there.
(Did anyone hear about some parent finding baggies of cocaine in their kids’ candy bags? WTH? I mean, it’s terrible, wrong, thank goodness kids didn’t get on that “sugar” rush, etc. but…it just raises sooo many questions, doesn’t it?)
I think this is largely the case with most crimes. The media sensationalizes those newsworthy crimes until, for example, someone who snaps under the pressure of a lot of emotional/financial stress shoots and INJURES a few people becomes a heartless monster who committed a hate crime because he happened to shoot a member of a minority group. And we are much more dialed in to current events in this day and age of social media than people were years ago. Much of what’s going on now isn’t really much different than what was going on a few decades ago. The crime rate naturally ebbs & flows.
