you are having way to much fun on my account.... just stop that or I will have to just hold my breath and make politically incorrect comments sure to offend tree huggers or conservitive hack, of which I am neither...... did I ever get a chance to show you my.....

"Let me show you my gun collection"

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"Let me show you my gun collection"

Sona, I’ll show you mine if you show me yours …. Gun collection, that is.
HummerGirl, gang violence is rampant in the areas closer the city. I live in “Cop land” (Simi Valley), 5 of the 18 houses on my street are current or retired police. I think more public safety professionals live here per capita than anyplace in California. It’s the city that closed down the freeway during the Rodney Riots. No. 1 safest city in the US according the FBI's Annual Crime Statistics.
DON'T SPRAY PAINT HUMMERS HERE!!!
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m998, Does that mean you guys have the most number of donut shops per capita? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]
Hummergirl, I read yesterday San Jose is the safest city of size according to FBI Crime stats, and we rival San Francisco in population. So all is not bad in California. However, we do have an overabundance of Starbucks.. which is a crime in itself.

The safest large city in the USA (over 500,000) was San Jose, but I don't know if it still stands? They get a lower than national average rating and that's impressive for a metropolitan setting.

San Jose is larger than San Fran in terms of population and area and it ranks #11 in terms of largest cities in the U.S.

Then we have Oakland, which throws all of the respectable Northern Cal stats out of whack! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gif[/img]

Oaktown gets a bad rap. It is so much better than it used to be just 10 years ago, no one would have dreamed of hanging out at Jack London Square at night back then.

Here's the article on SJ:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...5/lo_kpix/5209

Hummergirl, in repsonse to your inquiry about the violence.....it's really just in the bad parts of downtown and in 'bad areas'. You can find trouble just about anywhere you go....I've managed to steer clear from it with no problems.

Phew that's good!

Now, tell me about those earthquakes...

When the spaceshutte comes home in Florida, we sometimes feel the sonic boom as she makes her decent. Scares the crap outta me each time it happens. Our house and ground shook. I live in Georgia and this just amazes me.

The first time I heard it I thought the gas station up the road blew up.

~amy
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