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Criminals are not very smart

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  • LuFins DadL Offline
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    To me, the interesting story is how DC is celebrating that there has only been one carjacking per day…

    https://wtop.com/dc/2024/07/carjackings-fall-46-percent-in-dc/

    The Brad

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      My sister was leaving work very late one night in DC and barely avoided a carjacking. Several yoots surrounded her at a traffic light. Fortunately a cop was in sight, he turned on his flashing lights and they scattered like the cockroaches they were.

      It freaked her TF out. She was alone and it was after midnight.

      Only non-witches get due process.

      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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      • MikM Offline
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        I’ve told my daughter that if you are ever surrounded like that you hit the gas and worry about the consequences later.

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        • MikM Mik

          I’ve told my daughter that if you are ever surrounded like that you hit the gas and worry about the consequences later.

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          @Mik said in Criminals are not very smart:

          I’ve told my daughter that if you are ever surrounded like that you hit the gas and worry about the consequences later.

          Yep.

          “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

          Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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            😳 I may have a quick trip to Washington DC next week. But, I won't have a car, so that is probably a good thing.

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              Then carry your pistol.

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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              • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                😳 I may have a quick trip to Washington DC next week. But, I won't have a car, so that is probably a good thing.

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                @taiwan_girl said in Criminals are not very smart:

                I may have a quick trip to Washington DC next week.

                Just finishing up a quick trip to Washington DC. Not a lot of extra time, but did have a chance to do some sight-seeing. I have to say that I quite like the city. I stayed in the Georgetown area, and I realize that between there and the main government buildings and other areas where I mainly was, it may not be the "real" city, but I had not any problems. A couple of pictures.

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                The first picture is the gun that shot President Lincoln, and the second is from the Ford's Theater where he was shot while sitting in the Presidential box. Interesting how times change. He was shot, and they just carried him across the street to the closest random house to care for him.

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                US Capitol Building

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                Reflecting Mall by Lincoln Memorial

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                Georgetown neighborhood

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                • George KG Offline
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                  As cool as DC is, I was not all that impressed. It struck me as a "museum city." So many places to visit, so much history...but beyond that, not much.

                  It's a place that everyone should visit - once.

                  I've been there twice, and have no desire to return.

                  Regardless, I absolutely love your pictures - thank you for posting them.

                  ETA: D4 and I had a wonderful dinner at Filomena's in Georgetown.

                  Also, being a HUGE George Washington fan, it's worth a trip to see his home...

                  "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                  The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                  • George KG George K

                    As cool as DC is, I was not all that impressed. It struck me as a "museum city." So many places to visit, so much history...but beyond that, not much.

                    It's a place that everyone should visit - once.

                    I've been there twice, and have no desire to return.

                    Regardless, I absolutely love your pictures - thank you for posting them.

                    ETA: D4 and I had a wonderful dinner at Filomena's in Georgetown.

                    Also, being a HUGE George Washington fan, it's worth a trip to see his home...

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                    @George-K said in Criminals are not very smart:

                    It's a place that everyone should visit

                    Next trip, I hope to have more time to visit places. Did visit the Holocaust Museum. Very very interesting and well done, but also a very very difficult place to visit. Words cannot really describe the horror that was done. So sad. 😢

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                      Yes, the Holocaust Museum is a tough one. But so many great museums and monuments.

                      “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                        I spent a weekend in DC back in the mid 1990s.

                        Another 3 days in 2015.

                        What would be an appropriate time to spend, assuming you want to see the "highlights?"

                        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                          I think it would be easy to spend 5 days there if you wanted to see everything, but not be too rushed. I think that the Smithson museum(s) could be easily a day by itself. I did not get a chance to go to any of them but would have liked to.

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                            The Smithsonian is more than one day.

                            “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                            Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                              Mt. Vernon is a nice morning.

                              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                I enjoyed my trip there, but of course, I was not buying any property. But it is funny - housing costs are given as a major reason why people don't like the city. Why are housing costs so high? Because people want to live there! LOL. If no-one wanted to live there, prices would drop I would think.

                                https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-study-ranks-us-city-least-desirable-live-second-year-running

                                A new study found that for the second year in a row, Washington, D.C., is the least desirable place to live in the U.S., with 33% of the participants who took part in the survey ranking it among the top five worst cities in America.

                                The company behind the poll, Clever, surveyed 1,000 people in June then looked at migration data from the most recent U.S. Census to understand why the nation’s capital has become America’s least desirable city to live in.

                                This year, 33% of Americans said the District of Columbia is one of the top five worst cities to live in, which is up from 2023, when 20% of Americans held the same opinion.

                                Clever said politics aside, D.C. is one of the most expensive cities in the country, and 65% of Americans say the excessive cost of living makes a place undesirable.

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                                  I’ve never been to the Holocaust museum there. But I’ve been to Yad Vishem and toured Auschwitz and Birkenau.

                                  The latter was particularly impactful. Unlike Auschwitz, it’s not really a museum with exhibits. It’s just an empty camp. When I saw it, it was late in the day after all the tourist buses had left. Virtually all visitors come via bus from Krakow. I was with my Polish girlfriend at the time and we drove there.

                                  It was just us, no one else, walking through that camp. It was silent and eerie, and unchanged. It could have been the summer of 1945.

                                  Only non-witches get due process.

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