Jan,
That, to me (getting your camera returned) is the difference tween living in
a community verses a metropolitan mass.
I catch cashiers (kids) making errors all the time and they go 'geez mister,
your honest!' and I say, first of all, I have to live with myself, second of
all, the owner just jacks up the price of everything and it costs me a lot
more to buy stuff here next year, it's easier to be honest. How much do you
have to steal before it is worth having to look over your shoulder and not
trust anyone with your secrets all the time?
That opportunity does my community(s) good every time.
We've got some hard core druggies up here, but the majority of those that
aren't bedroom people are just good community and we try to educate the
bedroom people into what a nicer way it is to live (which is easier than
them teaching us to be paranoid city folks).
Of course, the old timers here remember what happens to chronic thieves, one
day you just don't see them anymore. The Santa Cruz mountains use to be
knows as Santa Clara County's graveyard.
I don't know how many folks up here have guns, lots I assume, but we don't
have a problem with much of anything other than those who have given their
will and their life over to the care of their hard core drugs.
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jan Steinman
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:33 PM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Personal Robbery Survey, was Re: Bags
> Subject: [OM] Re: Personal Robbery Survey, was Re: Bags
>
> That's why I usually tote a Glock under my shirt-tail. And I've got
> a permit, in case you're wondering, and it's good in 38 states.
That's why I moved to an obscure island that is not in any of the 50
states, where no one can get such a permit.
Not only have I not had a camera stolen, but I've forgotten one here
in a restaurant, and someone went to considerable trouble to track me
down to return it.
:::: If they can keep you from asking the right questions, they don't
have to worry about the answers. -- Thomas Pynchon ::::
:::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality: http://www.EcoReality.org/wiki/
User:Jan_Steinman ::::
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