20 emergency response personnel showed up this morning with cop cars, fire truck, and ambulances. I’m unsure what caused the trigger, but the man was furious telling cops to “f*** off” while being escorted to the cop car in handcuffs.
This is probably a little bit of dark foreshadowing of what may come. The Great Awakening will definitely break some people, mentally. We already know that mental issues plague our society, and anything that contradicts people’s reality will put even greater stress on the mind. Their realities are bending, splintering, and starting to crack.
You all live in tame neighborhoods. I've seen domestic violence, including a guy who had his hair parted with a 12 gauge at about 4 feet, drug busts, gang chases with cops leaping over fences, wives running around escaping their violent husbands, immigrant roundups, car chases that spilled off the freeway onto my street, ice cream trucks that turned out to be peddling weed, flattened bullets in the street--yet these are just one or two bad apples among very normal people. Once a few go to jail it settles down again. Incidence rises with rentals, I think.
"Incidence rises with rentals, I think."
It's been noted recently that big corporations are buying up private property for outrageous sums, supposedly for the purpose of taking property out of the hands of the private citizen to turn them into rental properties. Perhaps this is why -- it's a way to instigate more in-fighting among people in order to further lower the population.
This is what is happening in Utah. There's apartment buildings springing up overnight. They have bought out rural land all around us, and building apartments after apartments. In just a few short years Utah doesn't even feel the same. I live in an area where my road was a few houses that sat with fields and farm animals. Now there is multiple apartments and I can't even sit outside without person after person walking by. This happened in just a few short years, and it kind of breaks my heart to be honest. People from CA are moving here and buying houses well over asking price as well, and it makes it very hard for locals to dream of owning their own homes now. Rent is also outrageous now. Had to vent about the sad state of things.
You bring this up and I recall, over 20 years ago, renting an apartment from some "untouchable" company somewhere in commiefornia called Warren Properties. Some years later, an apartment complex in another city, hundreds of miles away, made the news with some regular issue like a gas leak or infestation, and the story reported that they had repeatedly tried to reach out to, yep, Warren Properties for some resolution and they never replied.
Not boasting or anything like that. Just pointing out an irregularity in a normally quiet neighborhood and the sense of community that resulted. Just struck me as kinda funny how it wasn't surprising at all in this day and age...
You are right about the community. After the crisis the good neighbors notice each other more and keep an eye on the troublemakers. Over the years things have improved.