Kinda weird trip home. Drove by a local BK - dead guy face down in the parking lot - apparently shot in the head a couple minutes before I came by. Pretty sure he wasn't thinking today would be his last day on the planet. Nothing more to add, just left me feeling a little out of sorts. I see cancer patients pass pretty often. This was different out on the cold pavement and no one around him.
It's not like the TV portrays it is it?
Don't dwell on it though, you will get nowhere thinking about what happened there.
Every day could be your last. The tricky part is not thinking about that.
Yeah, it makes you think that you should be living life the way you want, not the way others want. I live life trying to check the boxes off that I want to check off.
I saw that on the news tonight. Odd.
EastCoastMojo wrote: Every day could be your last. The tricky part is not thinking about that.
No, the tricky part is finding a way to think about it every day.
Random gunman started shootin in Downtown Tulsa yesterday................given the facts, it almost seems like he was trying to killed by the law.
The shooters brother did something similar a few years and was killed by the law...........an interesting nature vs nurture question.
Which BK?
Waukegan on 120. North side close to El Famous
First dead body I saw was similar. In the parking lot of a Kroger grocery store. Guy rode up on a motocycle, shot the guys chest out with a sawed-off and rode away. I still remember the smell of the gun powder and the blood on the ground.
you never forget your first dead body... mine was when I was living in PA and working in Reading. Pull up to my uncle's apartment building and there is a body on the sidewalk, cops had not even been called yet.
The bar down the street was a well known drug dealing place, the guy had gotten stabbed there and stumbled down the street before falling down and dying.
I don;t miss reading
All the BK's around here are like that. You know, dead guys in the parking lot and all. I think they need to improve their image.
hmmm.. guess I should add that my uncle apartment builder was next door to a BK?
NEWS-SUN staff report March 8, 2012 8:42PM WAUKEGAN — A 29-year-old man was shot and killed Thursday evening at the Burger King restaurant, 3140 Belvidere Road.
Waukegan police were on the scene at 6 p.m. and were looking for a green, full-sized van, possibly a Chevrolet, with a stripe and graphics on the side.
Officers were canvassing businesses in the area for videotapes that could be linked to the crime.
The van was last seen heading southbound on Staben Street possibly heading toward Buckingham Place Apartments in Park City, or toward 8th Street in Park City, going in the direction of Green Bay Road.
There were temporary Illinois license plates on the van.
Police said there was an altercation in the restaurant parking lot and the victim was shot in the parking lot.
I work in a high crime area. I've mentioned that a time or two. We haven't had any homicides on the perimeter yet, but the year is new. Just starting to get warm and crime rates rise in the summer here. We see shootings, stabbings, accidents, pissed off girlfriend chasing boyfriend in a car. I've seen FA AK47 shootings, all the way down to small arms. Vehicles flip fleeing from police and a thousands other ways.
Don't dwell on it. Its the world we live in.
The funny thing about "live everday like your last" is that we feel as though because we've got a normal job, a normal life, stay out trouble, and dont do anything stupid, that it allows us to live "every decade like your last".
I wonder if that why rough urban neighborhoods have the highest level of debt. A kid growing up with crime, poverty, and dead dudes on the street corner is much more likely to think himself a dead man within a few years, so he's more likely to live it up while he can. Buy a Benz on credit, bang a few birds, be famous while he can, because yesterday might be his last.
As much as I'd love to quit my job, sell all my stuff, and move to some island nation...my chances of ending up dead may actually be higher by living today like it was my last.
I've seen plenty in my time - some way more mangled up than this guy - not sure why this one seems to have made more of an impression.
Ronald Macdonald was driving the van. Do not get between him and a super size onion ring or he will cap yo azz too.
N Sperlo wrote: ...I've seen FA AK47 shootings, all the way down to small arms...
(no offense; i get the point of your message, BUT!) an AK47 is typically categorized as a "small arms" type of weapon.
In a follow up story, it looks like the burger king had an argument with the victim. The dairy queen has also been taken into custody for questioning.
"Don't you see I'm tryin to put dis bandaid on my finga?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B1-naHt1aA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Autolex wrote:N Sperlo wrote: ...I've seen FA AK47 shootings, all the way down to small arms...(no offense; i get the point of your message, BUT!) an AK47 is typically categorized as a "small arms" type of weapon.
Autolex wrote:N Sperlo wrote: ...I've seen FA AK47 shootings, all the way down to small arms...(no offense; i get the point of your message, BUT!) an AK47 is typically categorized as a "small arms" type of weapon.
None taken. I should have said smaller. I Hadn't seen any mortar fire lately. 
N Sperlo wrote:Autolex wrote:None taken. I should have said smaller. I Hadn't seen any mortar fire lately.N Sperlo wrote: ...I've seen FA AK47 shootings, all the way down to small arms...(no offense; i get the point of your message, BUT!) an AK47 is typically categorized as a "small arms" type of weapon.
don't give them any ideas
In reply to mad_machine:
Still convincing my client to let me put a mini-gun on the roof of my guard shack.
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