Archive for the 'crime' Category

To Hell in a Hand Basket

Jan 23, 2010 Posted Under: Oklahoma City, Personal, crime

Those are the thoughts that come to mind after the events of last week.  This post is a week behind but since my wife seems to think that phrase is so funny, I thought I would go ahead and post.  Last Friday my wife and son were going down the street when they ran across [...]

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Gangland in Oklahoma City

Dec 19, 2009 Posted Under: Oklahoma City, crime, gangs

Gangland: Crazy Killers (Latino Gang In Oklahoma City, OK) [44 Minutes] You may remember a post back in January when I took many gang graffiti pictures around South Oklahoma City.  This post had become a hostile place for rivals to post their hatred toward one another.  It got so bad that I had to disable [...]

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I Am a Bad Person :)

Oct 18, 2009 Posted Under: Del City, Personal, crime, neighbor, opinion, pollution

Wow!  I just witnessed my beloved neighbors screaming obscenities at each other so loud that I could hear it over my television.  I am a bad person because I enjoyed every minute of it.  A while back my neighbor and I got into a shouting match over his spilling oil into the street in front [...]

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Urban Graffiti is a Crime

Sep 27, 2009 Posted Under: crime, opinion

I have been seeing a troublesome pattern among posters on OKCTalk defending graffiti as being art.  Not everyone was defending it but there was certainly more than one.  I can see it as an art if done tastefully in a legal way.  When I say legal I mean someone gives their permission to paint their [...]

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Del City’s Challenges and Opportunities

Jan 11, 2009 Posted Under: Del City, crime, opinion

As a resident of Del City it is easy to become excited and also distraught with some of the changes going on.  For those not familiar with Del City, it is a suburb of about 25,000 people completely surrounded by Oklahoma City, Midwest City, and Tinker AFB.  This city use to be about 30,000 before [...]

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Del City Shooting

Sep 13, 2008 Posted Under: Del City, Events, crime

My wife and I went to run some errands this afternoon and enjoy the wonderful rains of hurricane Ike when we stopped at a 7-11 store.  We saw many cars lined up on both sides of the road that to me indicated a funeral.  When we went into the store, there was a Del City [...]

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