"You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

[lumy12]

I debated posting this, as it's not about me directly, and A. is a bit paranoid about online journaling, but meh - come on, now, who reads my journal? The FBI? The mafia? What would they want with him if they did? And it's not like Deep Dark Sekrits being revealed or anything.

A. was out of town over the weekend, for work. On the night he was driving home there was a Scary Incident at his mom's/sister's. His mom was in her special recliner in the living room, where she spends 99% of her homelife these past 6 months since she took a turn for the worse. His sister was out with her boyfriend, leaving boyfriend's 17-year-old sister (I'll dub her "X") at home to watch out for Mom. There was a knock on the door, late at night. X goes to the door and asks who it is; she hears a little girl's voice on the other side. Can't quite make out what she's saying. Now, A's sister and X's brother are quite social and do often have people stopping by at all hours of the day and night, so X wasn't particularly alarmed. She opened the door - and in waltzed 3 guys with guns. <.< There was a "little girl" but she was the girlfriend of one of the guys.

One guy stood by Mom pointing his gun at her. Another guy took X into a bedroom. Yeah. !!! The third guy started stealing shit. At this point Mom starts calmly pleading with her guy. "Look, I'm dying of cancer. If you shoot me now, oh well, it's you or the cancer. But don't hurt X. She's just a little girl. Do what you want to me, I don't care." For whatever reason, they didn't do anything to X, thank God. A. thinks it's because the guy's girlfriend was there. Whatever. They took the house phones (to delay the 911 call, surely) and cell phones, XBox, TV, other electronic stuff... not the computer though which is a really expensive model, so that was kinda dumb on their part. A.'s sister called him when she got home and warned him before he finished his drive... he said if he'd been there he wouldn't have made a good hostage. I bet! He would have been shot, possibly, for trying to do something heroic out of anger.

Thank God everyone's okay, just obviously pretty shaken up. And this was NOT a bad neighborhood, mind you. This is the house I stayed at last time I went up there (December) - it's nice, it's in a richer section of town. The cops believe it was a random hit. I swear this family has bad luck following them wherever they go. A.'s had his car stolen and/or broken into numerous times, his mom's place BURNED DOWN a couple years ago thanks to crackhead neighbors... and of course, the cancer is the worst offering of said black cloud. Of course, Las Vegas is a prime place to attract scum, no matter how nice the neighborhood is.

So, kids, lock your doors and don't open them for anyone you don't know!!! Question them, ask them who they know in the house, etc. It might not stop them from busting in but if they're just looking for an easy hit they could very well move along to a better victim. This is such common sense stuff, really, but I'm guilty of flinging my door open to anyone. (Hee - like the guy on Saturday who was trying to sell me stuff, I turned him down repeatedly, then he continued shamelessly flirting and asking me if I was on MySpace and stuff. He could have been a psycho killer and I just stood there and talked to him for 10 minutes) I'm too trusting in humanity.

And, randomly, aren't Anakin's eyes supposed to be blue? Why all of a sudden does it seem that they're green? Are they perhaps blue-green, kinda like my own? Does this mean we're soulmates? Hmmmmmmm.

Comments

[elledwen.livejournal.com]

Jesus H. Christ! I'm glad no one was hurt! It's insane that you can't even open your door these days for fear of getting killed. I think I've got to the point in my life where I'm all "What has the world come to.". This is part of the reason I'm glad you can't get guns in England. Someone could come at you with a knife, of course, but they'd have to get pretty close and I'd hope I'd be able to hit them with something hard in the head before they had a chance to get that close. But jeez, with guns. That's terrible.

Also, Anakin's eyes are green now because he knows I like green eyes and has decided to appease me. *nods sagely*

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

You can't get guns in England? I didn't even realize that.

*icon droolage*

We talked about green eyes last night, then I read a fic this morning wherein his eyes were also green. Strange. He must have decided to change them just for you!

[kevthejedi.livejournal.com]

You can get guns for things like sports, but you have to have a licence to own the gun and be able to prove it's kept in a lock box etc. But it's not like over there where you can just go in a gun shop and buy a gun!

[sanestlunatic.livejournal.com]

Eeek, that sounds really scary. I live out in the middle of the country (when I'm at home), and thankfully, nothing ever really happens out there. But, yeah, I'm glad everybody was all right.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Nothing ever really happens... until one of your stalkers shows up and drags you out for your birthday! Bwahahahahaha!

[sanestlunatic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but then I'd just pin her down till she agreed to take on more characters. >D

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Ha!

But I'm not even doing my second character justice - not to mention the character in my other game. Now that we don't get house points for playing I'm less motivated to play him :( I suck.

[sanestlunatic.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, but it's not your fault that Becca's gone. That's why you need a Jedi character - both your characters' love interests are kinda...not there right now.

(Obi: *cackles evilly*)

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

Well, Palpy has other characters to interact with - it's harder with Padme since she's IC and not whory and really wouldn't be running around getting friendly with everyone. At least her story's getting deliciously dragged out forever since Becca's been gone - I just loooove dragging stuff out!

Palpy and Dooku haven't hung out in a while. But I guess Dooku's been a bit "busy" at home *cough*

[sanestlunatic.livejournal.com]

True...it's mostly just Kit, though. *pats Palpy gingerly* I should have OOC!Padme seduce Palpy while Ani's gone, but that would require, like, effort and things.

And, yeah, sorry. Dooku's the only character I have where I have to be in a certain mood to play him.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

If she had "seduced" him when he was mourning Sabe, she could have messed him up some. Now he's back to normal...ish.

I think Palpy/Sly is interesting, since she despises him and all. Maybe Palpy will get his hate sex and leave your little Obi alone. Hehehe!

[karinablack.livejournal.com]

oh wow that's scary!! :(

[kevthejedi.livejournal.com]

That sounds awful, I'm glad they're ok.

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

Good grief, you have more drama in your life than all the people I know put together.

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

It's not my life, though, it's Aaron's life! The little drama queen. You know what I found out yesterday? He sends/receives a total of 10,000 text messages a month.

...

Is he a teen girl or what?

Wooooo my checks are loaded in the system now, I can quit slacking. (had to WHINE at someone though)

[gizzi1213.livejournal.com]

10,000 text messages a month???? I don't think I could send that many in a lifetime.

I believe I'm now caught up with everything you replied to this morning!

[lumy12.livejournal.com]

He kept doing it while we were at lunch. Kept apologizing too. To me it's not as rude as taking a phone call would be, but still, you're not focusing on your present company when you text so it was mildly irritating. Could those messages not have waited a half hour or so? Sheesh! I actually can't remember the last time I spent more than like 15 minutes with him that he didn't get a text. Obviously, he has unlimited texting, so it's not a problem. The most I've had is around 30 in one month. 10,000 is mind-boggling!

Yay for being caught up! I'm caught up to YOU now! But it won't stay that way. Won't have a lot of time to play tonight :(