Lexington shootings - becoming a common occurrence
- Thread starter Bill - Shy Cat
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Another one Feb 13th, shots fired into yet another home with a child inside. This is six days in a row. I thought maybe the rain would at least slow this down for a few days.
https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Another-home-damaged-by-gunfire-in-Lexington-567830601.html
https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Another-home-damaged-by-gunfire-in-Lexington-567830601.html
Actually you say Anchorage but Alaska is actually a pretty violent state from what I’ve heard. It’s just that the population is tiny.
-his post clearly says per 100k. Take a knee.
It's a bunch of teenagers that think they are gangbangers.
An armed robbery in a city of 350,000 people. Knock me down with a feather. I would never have guessed.
IMO discussing increasing gun violence doesnt have to be an agenda driven thing. Just a sad state of affairs where society doesnt value human life like it once did . If that truth offends you , then ok . Be offended .
Tskware, it's not like this is an isolated incident. Since Saturday, there have been at least ten incidents of gun violence. That includes a homicide on Nancy Hanks Road and about half a dozen homes targeted by gunfire. I haven't paid much attention to this **** for the last year, but it seemed at though every week, there was several shootings. A child's home was shot into early this morning. My guess is that this will increase as the weather warms up.
I saw where you were friends with the Mayor. This is not her fault as she inherited this mess.
Bill-Shy Cat, just curious, where do you live? Lexington? Or somewhere else?
Linda and I are not close friends, but just happen to know her and her husband.
Linda and I are not close friends, but just happen to know her and her husband.
I live outside of Lexington. However due to the profession I'm in, I work in Fayette County about 40% of the year. I've got several employees and friends living in Lexington. I know the police can't be everywhere at once. As someone else mentioned, the cross section of the interstate highways is probably the main cause of the problem.
Lexington, for a city priding itself in Keeneland, horses and UK—sure has a lot of ****** areas. I used to pick up clients at the airport and take them to the office via Irishtown. Nothing says gritty-city life like driving past a three-eyed shotgun house dweller taking a massive **** in the street.
Have to agree, but what are you gonna do? Just as one example, but my daughter went to Michigan, and Ann Arbor is college town USA, "Go Blue" everywhere, and there is a ton of money in that place. But GD, they had more homeless people and panhandlers, per capita, than any place I ever saw. It was amazing how many people just lived on the streets up there, or so it seemed to me.
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You're talking about the neighborhood off Manchester, correct? I passed through that area in fall 2017 and again summer 2018 while visiting Ethereal Brewing. During my first visit, I walked from downtown and back. Great exercise, by the way. I rode my bicycle during a second trip the following summer. After 37 years, it appeared to me as if Irishtown had not changed too much from what I could recall. More vegetation, but houses seemed just as crappy looking as back in the old days.
I walked all over downtown Lex fall of 2017. Honestly, I found folks, black and white, were much friendlier these days than 37 years before, and they seem friendlier than those here in ATX.
Maybe, but those people can't afford bullets.
It does have bad traffic, have to agree on that. And it has gotten worse over the past 20 years, urban service area has not really expanded since 1995, and yet they estimate Lexington will have 375,000 residents by 2030, just ten years from now.
The traffic issue is a weird one. The city does things to make traffic better like the Harrodsburg Road interchange and Leestown Road widening, but it only helps for a very short time. Some of that can be chalked up to development, but some foresight would be nice.
Another example is coming across Leestown on Citation. It's better, but where they could have made a turn lane into that neighborhood, they instead merge two busy lanes into one about 50 feet from the neighborhood's entrance. Just not a lot of thought into things like that makes Lexington a mess at certain times in a day.
Another example is coming across Leestown on Citation. It's better, but where they could have made a turn lane into that neighborhood, they instead merge two busy lanes into one about 50 feet from the neighborhood's entrance. Just not a lot of thought into things like that makes Lexington a mess at certain times in a day.
-i just think people like to ***** about stuff. people: "lex is boring!" "Housing is expensive!"...then we get stuff to do and more development/people and its "traffic is terrible!" . In short people are whiny and soft.
The 'housing is expensive' people should try to move anywhere else in the country that doesn't rhyme with "mess-a-men bounty".
Housing is expensive because people want to live here because it's better than Butthole County or whatever rural outpost folks want to flee from. If you want a cheap house, head to Edmonson County.
I didn't know what Edmunson was, or Butthole Co for that matter, but it appears to be beautiful land situated right next to mammoth cave and nolin lake. Real estate seems on par with central ky. Low crime rates. Horrible effort, ucl. I'll google Butthole Co now...
1. Lexington traffic is NOT bad. If you think traffic here is bad, you need to expand your horizons and get out of central KY sometime.
2. Housing here is NOT expensive. It's a very affordable place to live.
3. Like every city, there are dangerous spots in Lexington. I've personally never heard a gunshot in 20+ years of living here. Avoid trouble and it usually won't find you.
2. Housing here is NOT expensive. It's a very affordable place to live.
3. Like every city, there are dangerous spots in Lexington. I've personally never heard a gunshot in 20+ years of living here. Avoid trouble and it usually won't find you.
A lot of cities around the country are having problems. We have enabled drug use and lessened the punishment on just about everything because our jails are too full.
I believe he does it with his mind, he seems rather omstupitent. It's a new word.
Try France, Panama, Saudi Arabia for some traffic. Those places will make you appreciate it here. Oh yeah, forgot DC.
Dude, parts of Europe and Asia are free for alls. I lived in Manila for 2 years and left there thinking there were no traffic rules except for "feel free to pile 9 people on your Yamaha YZ150."