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I thought y'all might like to see some of our handiwork and the MPD Real Time Crime Center so I've posted a video on youtube.
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>>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_vfmua4IIU >>>>>
>>>>>First, congrats on a job well done....
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>>>>>Second, the first guy should get at least five years in the slammer...and then sue the 2nd guy for being the dumbest lookout of all time.
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>>>>>My brother-in-law and I have been watching some of those Cops-style reality tv shows - is it me, or is today's garden-variety hoodlum getting more and more stupid, with each passing minute?
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>>>>Most crime is driven by drugs and people who use them. I cannot understand why people take the stuff, when they have walking examples of what it does to you. How do you ever get to the place where you look at a crack addict and say, "I want to be like that!" Even so, they do. As the saying goes, "why do you think they call it dope?"
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>>>I suspect it's the same as alcoholism. There is no rational reason to do it. It would be easy to quit if it were just a matter of thinking logically.
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>>And smoking
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>I think there's at least one difference between alcohol and tobacco. Alcohol use has been widespread for a long enough time to have had an evolutionary effect on a large percentage of the human population:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_tolerance#Alcohol_tolerance_in_different_ethnic_groups>
>For much of agricultural and urban human history, water quality has been poor. One of the few ways to reduce or avoid pathogens was to add alcohol to water, or drink the fermented/distilled products directly. Not that citizens did that on purpose, microbes were unknown then. There would be a real survival and evolutionary advantage to drinking alcoholic fluids as opposed to "pure" water.
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>I don't know of any similar effects for tobacco.
Of all the theories I have heard, this is the wackiest. Which doesn't mean it's not true.
I am pleased to say I am sober now. The dogs went nuts at some car that drove by and woke me up. She is fading but her bark would still wake the dead.
Her hearing is shot, along with about everything else. She is almost 15. That would be Sydne, the first dog of three now. We got her from the Evanston shelter and she has been the pal of Emily in particular. Emily is about to turn 17 and can barely remember a time before Sydne. (Inherited name). She has had about 10 operations, mostly for removal of cancerous growths near her tail, and we all agreed there would not be another. She has more now, a big ugly growth on the right side. It's really hard now that the time has arrived. Emily is up to her ears with school work and volleyball. Her older sister Allie is going through stuff of her own. When in doubt, procrastinate. But November it is.
