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Oct. 24th, 2008 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishI guess I was lucky I drove home yesterday. Apparently a new guy, who works in the other office in our building, was waiting for the bus one stop down from where I usually wait. A black Toyota Corolla pulled up, someone got out and hit him in the head with something; while he's lying there bleeding, they stole everything he had - computer, electronics, etc. He spent the night in the hospital, but should be getting out today.
This is was in broad daylight, 5 pm or so, in a fairly quiet suburban neighborhood. The street does get fairly busy during rush hour, but it's regularly patrolled by police from two cities (our building is in Los Alamitos, but it's Seal Beach directly across the street). I got this in a forwarded email from the other office; it also said there's been a rash of incidents - a carjacking at the Dairy Queen a mile down the road, someone stealing a dog from the neighborhood across the street, and a drunk driver killing a bicyclist a small distance in the other direction (there seems to be a high proportion of accidents along this road; it curves several times and people just drive too fast).
Who knows if the mugging was by someone local or just a random drive-by? But if I hadn't had to go somewhere yesterday evening, I would have been standing there too, well, maybe across the street. I believe I'll call for a ride home this evening. I don't want to stop taking the bus because of this, though.
This is was in broad daylight, 5 pm or so, in a fairly quiet suburban neighborhood. The street does get fairly busy during rush hour, but it's regularly patrolled by police from two cities (our building is in Los Alamitos, but it's Seal Beach directly across the street). I got this in a forwarded email from the other office; it also said there's been a rash of incidents - a carjacking at the Dairy Queen a mile down the road, someone stealing a dog from the neighborhood across the street, and a drunk driver killing a bicyclist a small distance in the other direction (there seems to be a high proportion of accidents along this road; it curves several times and people just drive too fast).
Who knows if the mugging was by someone local or just a random drive-by? But if I hadn't had to go somewhere yesterday evening, I would have been standing there too, well, maybe across the street. I believe I'll call for a ride home this evening. I don't want to stop taking the bus because of this, though.
