I think this is about the 9th straight week where at least one person has been attacked on the downtown mall by a group consisting of more than one (last week a UVA doctor and his buddies were mugged).

Last night had the biggest group going after the smallest group. 10 took down 1. Wow. The story even says it was a group of boys AND girls. What is the lesson here? Never be outside after 9pm.

It also seems as if that bunch of kids may have taken part in two other attacks in the same evening. Three attacks by a gang in one night!

Conspiracy fans might think these attacks are to promote parking in the overpriced parking garages near the mall. Perhaps this is trying to promote placing $300,000 worth of cameras on the downtown mall (can I have the job where I watch every camera on a gigantic wall of video?). Maybe this is just to promote local news (such as the mugging of ‘John‘), since so many stations (only one showing HD…the others refuse until the day analog gets banned) are competing for very few viewers to keep advertisers?

I’ll just stick with the theory that this is the summer of the red hour. Soon Landru will once again absorb the troublemakers so that C-Ville will once again have no spirit, no spark. Stagnant. Everything will be perfect. All will be happy.

Charlottesville is a great place to live for all of our citizens. Landru, what should I do?

Belmont Bridge
Bridge where ‘John’ was mugged at 10pm by a gang.