"Rosalie B." wrote in message
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> I don't think there's any reason to say:
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>>I thought the whole place was a prison or concentration camp.
>>Sort of says some thing like, Must be a high crime rate area.
>>Never again !
I never posted the above statement so please do not attribute it to me but
include the poster's name who actually did say it.
> I used to live in an apartment in a known drug area - I'd see the drug
> dealers sitting on the fence out front with their cell phones and
> their beepers. And sometimes I'd get strange messages on my beeper
> that I wore for work. If I had to leave for work really early in the
> morning, there would be police cars in the parking lot. The phone
> company took all the pay phones out. And if I heard gunfire I'd not
> look out the window. THAT is a high crime area. We didn't have
> barbed wire or anything though because it wasn't theft that was the
> problem.
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> What I'm saying is - theft is crime, but it isn't as serious a crime
> as murder.
I understand; I have been fortunate not to have had your experience of
living in a drug area.
But I have lived in Puerto Rico for three years and can relate my own
personal experiences...In fact, when we lived there in the 60's, there were
not as many bars on the windows as there are now...But then, this is more
common everywhere now days, sadly.
--Jean
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