On Friday, September 20, 2019 at 4:55:28 AM UTC+1, jbeattie wrote:
On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 3:14:34 PM UTC-7, Andre Jute wrote:
On Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 1:58:44 PM UTC+1, AMuzi wrote:
https://wbbm780.radio.com/articles/s...oman-near-loop

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Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

From Andrew's link:
"If you recognize this man or see someone wearing similar clothing in your area, please call 911 or report anonymously on your phone"

About 10 years ago there was a poster on this forum who bought a bike for commuting to work. The bike was stolen. The thief told the police the owner gave it to him, and the police walked away. The owner went with some friends and took his bike back. When the cops take that attitude, one wonders how long before no one will cooperate with them.

I shoulda mentioned that he lived in Chicago.

Mind you, just down the road from Jay, in Eugene, OR, the cops tell the citizens they can't be bothered with property crimes because the citizens don't give them enough money... That sounds rather like the tulumbadschi (a sort of eastern mafia centred on the fire service) in Turkey who would start fires so that they could be called and demand a bribe before they put out the fire.

What about Eugene? https://www.eugene-or.gov/979/Property-Crimes Is there some Alt right urban myth circulating that hasn't come to my attention?

Yup, you missed out on the facts again, Jay, though I dunno about alt-right.. My information is from a cyclist who lives in Eugene and who says you can't take your eyes off your bike for a moment or the drug addicts will steal it and sell it for scrap metal -- I note the cops in their empty promise (according to my source) to which your link refers also mention scrap metal sales. But my chum is far too correct to belong to the fringes of any political movement (probably including the current Democrat Party's tail wagging a dead dog).

Eugene is a hell hole. https://www.lohrrealestate.com/wp-co...tte-eugene.png

My friend sent me a whole DVD full of beautiful photos of Eugene and the Willa-something valley, where the evil lurks under the beauty. But my doctor, a chum who rode with me until he died, was absolutely convinced that where we live, which I routinely describe as a low-crime area because I can leave my bike unattended and have never lost anything, is a hellhole of drug addiction which I pooh-poohed as a couple of kids smoking marijuana, which they grew in a pot on the windowsill of the classroom in which agriculture is taught...

Honestly, though, the federal court house is a ridiculous, bloated shrine to Wayne Morse. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ner_cro p.JPG

The outside of the building isn't quite as bad as some modern architecture, but that architect can't even follow the script: vide, as only one but gross instance, the rabbit ears on roof: what possible purpose could they serve? He's a traitor to the Bauhaus! Check out this piece of Brutalist Crap, supposedly a library (see any books?):
https://archpaper.com/wp-content/upl...ns-library.jpg

You stand in the court rooms and think ch-ching! Your tax dollars at work! https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/ae...5452c29f62.jpg

The interior is better on the eye, though I suspect the benches will be dangerous to the coccyx of a cyclist, and even of humans. I prefer my interiors plush:
https://www.adelaidereview.com.au/ar...l-in-adelaide/
I spent a lot of bum time in those seats when in my yoof I was the arts editor of Nation Review. And, it just occurred to me, on seeing photographs on the net of the exterior of the building, that one of my novels is set in it*:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fes...=2940046273502

-- Jay Beattie.

Andre Jute
*Mmm, at least remembering, if belatedly, that I wrote the book is better than the time someone mentioned the plot of a book on a forum and I said, "Who wrote it? Sounds like a plot I could well with." ...and it turned out I wrote it. The Magnequest Scum underachievers abused me mercilessly for that -- which I remembered and weighed heavily in the scales when a few years later I had made all the profit I could off their gauche behaviour and decided to put them down for good.