by Brummie 12 Replies latest social current
2 policemen shot, it looks like an attempt to assasinate the New York Mayor. Apparently he is safe.
I would have loved to live in New York a few years ago. It looks like its the most dangerous place to live right now, not because of the current attempt to shoot the Mayor but because it is the centre of Worl attention and any nut case wanting world attention simply has to do some act of terrrorism there.
Would you live there?
Brummie
I live in Washington, DC now. Yes I would live there. I like big cities. There are dangers anywhere one goes even in the rural areas. Personally, I prefer the set of pros and cons a big city gives me over the set of pros and cons a rural area gives me. I have lived in both settings.
Assasinate the mayor? Balls on a hatrack! I'm glad I'm getting away from that great city to the north, soon.
Personally, even though I live just under an hour from the City, I would never live there. I don't even like visiting it. Not my cup of tea. It's like taking Jersey, and smashing into into 20 square miles, and expecting everyone to get along. It's a jungle, absolutely nuts.
ash
Maxwell, I hear what your saying. There are dangers everywhere, it just seems to me that NY is probably best avoided. The Mayor is the 2nd most likely person to get assisinated next to the President, yet someone can walk into one of his meetings in the gaurded City hall and open fire. What kind of safety is likely for its own residents if the Mayor cant even be protected?.
Ash, it does look like a jungle in there. I wanted to go back there soon and take a look at what I missed last time, I think I'll go to Arizona desert instead.
Brummie
ash
Wednesday, July 23, 2003 Posted: 2:56 PM EDT (1856 GMT)
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A gunman opened fire from a balcony in the City Council chamber at New York's City Hall Wednesday, shooting a man multiple times before being shot himself, witnesses told CNN.
Two people were carried out on stretchers.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was inside his office in the City Hall building when the shooting occurred, and is unharmed, said his press secretary, Edward Skyler.
The building was sealed, Skyler said.
Councilman Michael McMahon of Staten Island said he was in the City Council chamber waiting for a session to begin when someone in a balcony above shot someone four or five times. "That person went down into an aisle of the balcony," and the shooter shot him again a couple of times.
Then the shooter appeared to be shot, and he fell down, he said.
"All pandemonium broke out," he said
Sorry for the cops, glad they didn't get Bloomberg, wish Gulliani were back in there.
I had visited Brookyln NY back in the early 1990s while doing the Bethal Demostration from the ex-JW Convention...there was a bank robbery that was VERY recent on our way to eat a local outdoor cafe.
There was glass everywhere on the sidewalk and there was a cop cart (they drive those while ticketing parking violators or whatever) parked out in front, apparently left it there to chase the robber(s). My partner heard a boom from a distance and told me about it when we came upon the mess on the sidewalk.
We later learned that the boom was an explosion from an hand grenade. A robber tossed it at the window and it exploded, blowing out the window as they escaped through. It caused the cop who was first at the scene to take cover which was what the robber wanted him to so they can run like hell and hope to lose the cop. The chase ended in a alley surrounded by cops, the robbers surrendered.
Yiz
I find this very unfortunate, but there are crazies everywhere.
My family and I spent last week in Manhattan on a family holiday. We did the usual tourist things, Broadway shows, Central park, NBC, Radio City Music Hall, museums and art galleries, shopping. We were cautious, after all, in every city you have to use common sense, but I didn't feel threatened. As a matter of fact, I have never seen so many police or so many security people.
We had a fantastic time, and I would love to visit New York again. I wouldn't like to live there. I'm not rich enough.
I'm glad the mayor is okay, and ditto Yeru re Giuliani.
Personally I absolutely love New York City - I find New Yorkers to be some of the nicest, most helpful, friendliest people I have ever met. I just wish our Canadian dollar would increase in value relative to the US one, I'd visit New York again in a heartbeat.
Of course, my favourite things to do on vacation are: opera, symphony, ballet, museums, theatre. So it's a no-brainer as to why I love New York so much. Plus Zabar's of course. And the Bronx Zoo.
Sh&t, this is making me homesick for the Big Apple.
Actually, reading your posts about the big apple still gives me the desire to want to go back. I get an adrenalin rush just thinking about it.
Brummie
