Saturday, June 25, 2011

Just What I Needed To End Another Week In Paradise

So after pulling yet another day of overtime, I come home tired and ready for the weekend.  But when I come home, I find that there are cops all around our apartment building.  I joked with a couple of the officers as I pulled into the driveway, just thinking about getting in and relaxing, and not as much why there police there.

As I pulled into the parking lot, a lot of the neighbors were outside.  Some were grilling out, but most were standing around chatting.  As I went to get the stuff out of my car, one of the neighbors called out to me, asking me if I had heard "the news."

My first thought was Scott Walker's faux pas of the day, when it turned out he had been planning his traditional budget showboating at a private business which turned out to be owned by a convicted felon.

But that wasn't "the news" to which my neighbor referred.  It turned out to be the story of the man killed in Brookfield a couple of days ago.  It was rather shocking to find out that another one of our neighbors is accused of being a murderer to say the least.

As I absorbed and digested this new information, a couple three thoughts kept coming up.

One was "Holy #%#!! I live next door to a murderer!"

Another was how many lives these two affected with their unthinking, callous act of brutality.  Not only the victim and his family, but they also affected her husband, family and neighbors.  My neighbor not only shocked everyone in the building, but he has also effectively abandoned his elderly father who lived with him and depended on him.

The third thought was that even with something so alarming as finding out that the big burly guy who was your neighbor is an accused murderer, I still feel no desire or need to carry a gun.  After all, it would have been useless to me.  And if this recent admission to the Waukesha Bar Bell Hotel could kill a person so gruesomely, imagine what he would have done if killing had already been made so much easier by the ignoramuses in Madison, like Alberta Darling or Scott Walker.

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