outskirts: life and times in charlottesville

…small town life

If you voted in the village your personal information has been stolen. Please contact credit authorities as soon as you can.

As is always the case, they claim our SSN were not included in the stolen info, but do you really believe anything said by the authorities in the village?

The village is all atither (what word am I looking for?) about a shooting on the UVA corner this morning. C-(I used to be a)Villain has all the scoop. Looks like the shooter is still on the loose.

This goes hand in hand with the report about crime in the area that came out just two days ago. Crime down, murders up.

Same o, same o. Nothing new here. Keep moving.

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From a tipster I got this info:

Just started mapping crime in C-ville. Thought you would find it interesting. Incidentally, C’ville PD has refused to share data even though they are going to do their own map sometime soon. I did this without any taxpayer money in three hours.

Not sharing data. Hmm….why doesn’t that surprise me.

Map of crime in C-Ville
Map of crime at UVA (other than the football team in general)

Thanks for the maps!

Seems as if C-Ville is debating if they want a 4th sister city. Would you really want to be associated with a city that has been debating what to do about its water supply for decades, and has now decided to do nothing since we are bankrupt? We sure will be thirsty. I hope the other city accepts our refugees.

One of our other sisters is Bulgarian. Seems as if C-Ville wants to be a “democratic liberator” for that town. I can’t wait to see what happens when we teach them how to piss off all the locals by getting rid of their softball fields.

I could go on about how civilized this village is, but that would force me to ignore the fun things that happen such as stabbings in front of the basket supply store in our fancy mall, or multiple shootings at the U Heights (is that a new TV series?). I’d continue with the jump in moped thefts, the reduction in quarterbacks, and the confessions of the Sex-shuns (I think that was a band), but I’ve lost all my energy.

In an effort to make C-Ville a more pedestrian-friendly village 58 people were in court the other day that had been ticketed for trespassing on the railroad tracks behind the Corner.

A tipster reports that in 2007 the city police wrote 8 tickets to drivers for failing to yield to pedestrians and 12 so far in 2008.

I know I was sprinting as fast as I could the other night to get across the tracks to X-Lounge. Was I breaking the law just to get a drink? I recall a lot of cars hitting bicyclists over the past few years, and the drivers never get tickets. Why should pedestrians have to fight with the low quality drivers around here. A train seems like a vastly better risk.

I’m still peeved that the village won’t let people walk across the tracks under the Belmont bridge. When one is trying to catch a bus you have to walk through the musical marshmallow, and the crapshawvian rules force you to walk all the way around it during pointless performances. I was late for my bus the other day. If the city would just add a pedestrian walkway under the bridge life would be so much better. But I keep forgetting the goal of the village is to destroy the quality of existence.

No one gets hurt. Let pedestrians walk across tracks. How else could that Stephen King movie get made? Does the village want to stifle Hollywood?

In typical C-Ville fashion I have gotten this info from a reliable source:

… the woman who claimed she had been bitten by a stray pit bull has been charged with filing a false report. She was bitten by her own dog. She also claimed that she was getting rabies shots.

Hmm…I wonder if I should ever claim that the groundhog that lives in my back yard attacked me. Speaking of which, I startled it when I was coming home the other evening and it climbed up in to a tree. I’d never seen that before.

No, not the bar, just the sound of a few bullets on another evening in the village. Two men shot. White t-shirts.

Remember, never trust anyone in a white t-shirt.

Seems like one to two players get arrested every week. This was for stealing/drinking booze at Club 216.

Will good old boy Groh have enough players this year? At least the season is almost here.

Earlier in the week I’d predicted that due to the heat there would be at least one (and probably two) gang attacks. Looks like I was right. One person shot dead last night.

Whatever you do, never sit outside a restaurant after 8pm around here. Commonwealth drive seems to be the new hotbed of crime. A shooting last weekend, a gang attack last night. With the continued heat I am predicting at least one gang attack near the downtown mall this weekend, although I’d put my money on two.