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Originally Posted by BILLW
Oakland is known as a place to move "from" not go to. However I ventured there twice in my life. One time in 1975 I gave a fellow Marine a ride home. As soon as we got to his house we both realized the problem. I was OK riding with him (all Marines are green) but when he got out I had to make it out of town alone. He described the quickest way to the freeway on-ramp and told me just to slow down at red lights and not to stop until I was on the freeway. Wow!
In 2001 I returned to see The Ravens beat The Raiders at a stadium that looked like a jail, complete with costumed prisoners. Again, I made it out alive. Barely.
As for conditions in 2009, can't say I know what the story is.
Bill  |
quite an anecdote there, Bill!...whew...what i was referring to was an article i read where several police were killed and apparently the crowd was taunting them for some reason (instead of mourning and in shock and grief)...sometime earlier there had been an event where an officer apparently accidentally pulled a gun instead of a taser and killed an already handcuffed citizen (black man, i believe)
they details were brief, i thought someone here might be closer to the real story/mood