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Intersection is closed. Don't know details yet, just drove past/rerouted.

my old hood.  curious about this since it isn't exactly a high crime area

My current hood.  Apparently a car chase/crash followed by exchange of gunfire.

KXAN made it sound like this was called in at 7:38 AM, which I found odd, because I drove through there ~ 8:15.  I guess it happened later?

Well...right by the casa. That’s nice. Wasn’t anything there when I drove through at 7:25 or so. Hope they clear it up before this evening.

My office is right there. I have to go the long way around if I want to go to Bert's for lunch. THANKS APD!

Couldn't get to my yoga studio because the street was blocked off.  Fuck you shooter/shootee.  In the meantime the Houston doc shooter offed himself pretty much across the street from my parents' house, police/media is set up in my parents' front yard so I've gotten a play-by-play of all that from my mom.  Hell of a morning.

Edited by M12BH

2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

KXAN made it sound like this was called in at 7:38 AM, which I found odd, because I drove through there ~ 8:15.  I guess it happened later?

nvm

Edited by clapclapclap
I forgot it is just August.

2 hours ago, The University said:

Dang. That all happened right by a day care. Can you imagine how much the parents of those kids at day care are freaking out? Police ram a car and spin it out, and then gunfire on the street, all within 100 yards of where your kids are? I bet there are a bunch of freaked out parents blowing up the day care right now. 

First thought was that bank on the corner had been robbed again.  Crazy for that neighborhood.

I could use a Delaware Italian sub about now. Hopefully the bullets from the shootout broke up the stupid speed bumps on Mesa.

Between this and those Yogurt murders, West Anderson Ln is becoming a cesspool of crime.

1 hour ago, hornian said:

Dang. That all happened right by a day care. Can you imagine how much the parents of those kids at day care are freaking out? 

I made the mistake of thinking it would all be over at 12:45 when I was heading back to my office.  Nope.  Entire intersection and half the Randall's parking lot taped off, banged up cop SUV still in the middle of the street, a half dozen or more cop cars scattered about, everybody looking self-important, and a shit ton of parents on the sidewalk between Mesa and Torchy's looking pretty worried.

It can't possibly take that long to clear a crime scene.

29 minutes ago, Orange^White said:

Between this and those Yogurt murders, West Anderson Ln is becoming a cesspool of crime.

Probably MS-13.

This better not interfere with my Friday Oreo Wallybanger. 


For the win - big fan of Wallys
49 minutes ago, I Got Worms said:

This better not interfere with my Friday Oreo Wallybanger. 

Fuck that sounds good.

1 hour ago, I Got Worms said:

This better not interfere with my Friday Oreo Wallybanger. 

I do the same thing but on Sundays along with a six piece chicken strip and extra gravy.  

2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

I made the mistake of thinking it would all be over at 12:45 when I was heading back to my office.  Nope.  Entire intersection and half the Randall's parking lot taped off, banged up cop SUV still in the middle of the street, a half dozen or more cop cars scattered about, everybody looking self-important, and a shit ton of parents on the sidewalk between Mesa and Torchy's looking pretty worried.

It can't possibly take that long to clear a crime scene.

It was still shut down when I left my office at 5:15.

9 hours ago, M12BH said:

Couldn't get to my yoga studio because the street was blocked off.  Fuck you shooter/shootee.  In the meantime the Houston doc shooter offed himself pretty much across the street from my parents' house, police/media is set up in my parents' front yard so I've gotten a play-by-play of all that from my mom.  Hell of a morning.

Sorry to hear about your yoga class.

 

 

 

 

 

 

No, not really.

3 hours ago, hornian said:

It was still shut down when I left my office at 5:15.

o-v-e-r-t-i-m-e

6 hours ago, Orange^White said:

Between this and those Yogurt murders, West Anderson Ln is becoming a cesspool of crime.

Fuck, what Yogurt murders? Don't screw up my business motherfuckers.

23 minutes ago, Bevo said:

Fuck, what Yogurt murders? Don't screw up my business motherfuckers.

It was in 1991

8 minutes ago, Orange^White said:

It was in 1991

Froyos? I'm always around Jersey Mikes/Cabo Bobs/Torchy's/Enchiladas y Mas/Casita Guanajuato

15 minutes ago, Bevo said:

Froyos? I'm always around Jersey Mikes/Cabo Bobs/Torchy's/Enchiladas y Mas/Casita Guanajuato

I think it was called “The Country’s Best Yogurt”. It was near where Jack Allen’s is now.

27 minutes ago, Orange^White said:

I think it was called “The Country’s Best Yogurt”. It was near where Jack Allen’s is now.

Good that I don't know it and I only go to Einstein's every blue moon.

o-v-e-r-t-i-m-e
Exactly what I was thinking.
I think it was called “The Country’s Best Yogurt”. It was near where Jack Allen’s is now.

 

I’m 99% sure it was I Cant Believe It’s Not Yogurt, not TCBY. It was on the other side of Anderson from Jack Allen’s. Same center as Gatti’s, Jimmy Johns, etc. There’s a small memorial on one of the traffic islands with a little white picket fence around it.

22 hours ago, Chet Steadman said:

I do the same thing but on Sundays along with a six piece chicken strip and extra gravy.  

Just ate 3 pounds of Whataburger and this still makes me hungry.

 
I’m 99% sure it was I Cant Believe It’s Not Yogurt, not TCBY. It was on the other side of Anderson from Jack Allen’s. Same center as Gatti’s, Jimmy Johns, etc. There’s a small memorial on one of the traffic islands with a little white picket fence around it.
This is correct. TCBY was on Far West.

It was Dallas-based I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt. They had it first, so they sued This Can’t Be Yogurt over the name. The latter became The Country’’s Best Yogurt, or TCBY. I wrote the insurance for TCBY when they were still headquartered in Little Rock. They eventually grew to over 1,700 locations, but now they have a fraction of that number. I’m not sure if I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt even exists now. 

There was a I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt location off The Drag, not far from GM Steakhouse, circa 1981.  My now wife made a weekly pilgrimage back then. 

Edited by ImissWallyPryor

On 8/3/2018 at 12:13 PM, M12BH said:

Couldn't get to my yoga studio because the street was blocked off.  Fuck you shooter/shootee.  In the meantime the Houston doc shooter offed himself pretty much across the street from my parents' house, police/media is set up in my parents' front yard so I've gotten a play-by-play of all that from my mom.  Hell of a morning.

The horror

I can confidently state that the crime scene was cleared 27 hours later.  Whew.  

On 8/3/2018 at 10:02 PM, Orange^White said:

It was in 1991

They can solve the golden state killer murders from the 70s and 80s and many others as well now with ancestral dna but for some reason can’t seem to solve this one. 

Hmm....

They caught the guy. Craig Carter, 27. His Facebook would make Alex Jones blush. Accuses the govt of using synthetic telepathy and voice to skull tech to steal thoughts and torture US citizens 

Missed all the excitement last week due to vacation, but we got the emails saying the kids daycare was on lock down.

This kind of shit would never have happened if the city council had just said no to the PUD.

11 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

They can solve the golden state killer murders from the 70s and 80s and many others as well now with ancestral dna but for some reason can’t seem to solve this one. 

Hmm....

Yeah, no shit.  My little sister was at UT at the time of the murders and worked two jobs - at Jazzercize and across the street at that ICBY shop.  She was scheduled to work that Friday night, but asked for the night off to attend a K98 promotional dance team tryout.  APD had failed to interview her in the weeks that followed, and I called them to ask them WTF kind of an investigation they were running if they were not interviewing people that worked there at the time.  Months passed before APD called me back.  When they finally did, they wanted to interview me.  I agreed.  

After an hour of being grilled by homocide detectives with questions like "we know it was you, but we want to know who was with you", I was in tears, and snapped.  I stood up from my chair and started screaming at them how fucked they were accusing citizens trying to help solve the crime, that they clearly had no fucking clue, and were never going to solve the murders, and ordered them to fuck off and arrest me or let me leave.  The APD psychologist in the room stood up and finally said she believed me and I could leave, but they were going to call my girlfriend, who lived with her parents, and check my alibi.  I honestly had no idea where I was that night, but I was sure I was with her on any given Friday night.  Her Mormon mother answered the phone when APD called, and she told them she keeps a detailed journal, and I was with her daughter at a church dance with 100 witneses at the time of the murders.

It scarred me and my family.  I've told that story to more than one judge over the years when asked for trial duty voire dire if I had any reason to not trust APD.  I would later learn that APD conducted hundreds of such interviews with many that included torturing subjects with pepper spray, pointing pistols at their head, etc.  In fairness, APD was under extreme pressure to solve the murders and were left with very little evidence after the fire and water damage to the crime scene.  But that does not excuse the fucked up investigation they conducted and how it shaped my fucked up view of LEO.  

I'm old now with teens of my own working in the immediate area and my thoughts go back to the families of the murdered girls and the justice denied to them 27 years and counting.  Fucking tragic not cool story, bro.

So you cried, and dated a Mormon?  Yep, tragic indeed. 

I never dated a Mormon.  How do you get past the magic underwear?

You have to know the password to get the underwear off.

18 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

They can solve the golden state killer murders from the 70s and 80s and many others as well now with ancestral dna but for some reason can’t seem to solve this one. 

Hmm....

The fire department sprayed thousands of gallons of water onto the crime scene before realizing it was a crime scene, and APD had tunnel vision when it came to who they suspected, and put their best, false-confession-forcing detective on the case. No surprise it was never solved. 

1 hour ago, Hanrahan said:

You have to know the password to get the underwear off.

Or the secret Mormon handshake.

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