It's been a bad week in Baltimore

[Mike in Louisiana]

Carl,

More bad news one man died in "OAKWOOD" TEXAS.


He ate a large "CHICKEN FRIED STEAK. The whole steak

[Barnyard]

Carl,

More bad news one man died in "OAKWOOD" TEXAS.


He ate a large "CHICKEN FRIED STEAK. The whole steak

I think he is the one buried under those rocks to the right of the door as you go in. More than likely he didn't come up for air. I'm glad Billy Ray warned me before we went in.

[Merlin]

A cool and supposedly true story out of small town Mo was made for TV about the town bully was shot dead in broad daylight and nobody was tried, was good show can't remember who was in it .........

Brian Dennehy

[phantom]

there was a killin' right out in my tractor shed last night! i gotta confess.....i am the one who set the trap and i am the one who disposed of the body.

r. i. p. ben

[Jack fowler]

My quote for saying St.Louis, Missouri and Detroit, Michigan listed as being # 1 and 2 for the U.S. city murder rate is wrong. For the people in the St.Louis and Detroit area(s); please except my apology for posting such erroneous information.
St.Louis and Detroit share # 1 and 2 for the Nation's Most Dangerous cities.(Sorry)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR2007111900134.html

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

My quote for saying St.Louis, Missouri and Detroit, Michigan listed as being # 1 and 2 for the U.S. city murder rate is wrong. For the people in the St.Louis and Detroit area(s); please except my apology for posting such erroneous information.
St.Louis and Detroit share # 1 and 2 for the Nation's Most Dangerous cities.(Sorry)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR2007111900134.html

that report has taken a lot of flack with the person publishing it being accused of distorting facts and misrepresenting them. Also of using statistics from cities in another state (St. Louis / East St. Louis). He has also admitted he is publishing for financial success, not as a public service so he makes it as sensational as possible and changes cities with almost every edition. One example was that Atlanta just happened to be picked out the same year it hosted the Olympics. Be sure to read the second page, even the FBI criticizes the report of being misleading.

[Lurker Carl]

The FBI simply compiles and publishes the data each city sends them, the accuracy of the numbers depends upon the aspirations of those submitting them and the aspirations of those reporting them. Numbers are manipulated and massaged for political and financial gain. Political campaigns, business expansion and tourist dollars ebb and flow with national news focusing on the perceived successes and failures of their region's social climate.

As Mark Twain once said, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." City leaders deliberately change their ways of reporting and classifying crimes to make crime statistics look better than they truly are.

[KETCHAM]

Carl,this is why I'm in Ohio I keep my little corner of the world and hide.kevin

[phildidit]

i heard on the radio last week that Forbe's magazine did a survey of the ten best cities to live in and the ten worst cities tol ive in in the USA and baltimore was the #1 WORST to live in. i am originally from B-More and i know when i live there it was bad. i went with my church to somewhere downtown to have a thanksgiving dinner for homeless people and on the way down there we got cussed out by a lady pushing a baby in a stroller. we were in the ghetto.

[2cubs2cases]

Just remember it is always better to be tried by 12 jury members than carried by 6 pall bearers. I would rather be arrested for defending myself and my family than hope the police can protect me and find out how wrong I was.