Shooting at 20th & Poplar?

**Big Irish** · 06-02-2012, 06:55 AM

listen people... there are still drug/ turf issues in this area. so long as you aren't galavanting around at 3:30am, East of Corinthian Ave, you should be okay.

Fixed that for you.

**Strandherd** · 06-02-2012, 03:34 PM

Originally Posted by Big Irish

Fixed that for you.

Classy. A person can be a victim of crime anywhere.

**Big Irish** · 06-02-2012, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by Strandherd

Classy. A person can be a victim of crime anywhere.

Ron said "listen people... there are still drug/ turf issues in this area" ... those issues are East of Corinthinian. Crime does happen in Fairmount, but it's not drug turf wars, and there are very, very few shootings and even fewer murders. Sorry if the truth offends you.

**eldondre** · 06-04-2012, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by torts

you people are so self righteous. just because you moved into the neighborhood doesn't mean they have to stop shooting and killing people. they've been there way longer than you

they? please provide the addresses of the perps and how long they've lived there. most long time francisville residents I've met don't strike me as murderous thugs. seems more likely that the dealers change pretty frequently.

**Hospitalitygirl** · 06-04-2012, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by eldondre

they? please provide the addresses of the perps and how long they've lived there. most long time francisville residents I've met don't strike me as murderous thugs. seems more likely that the dealers change pretty frequently.

It helps to read the thread. It was torts' form of satire.

**eldondre** · 06-04-2012, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by Hospitalitygirl

It helps to read the thread. It was torts' form of satire.

no it doesn't, if you read the thread, it doesn't come off as satire, or whatever you want to call it.

**Hospitalitygirl** · 06-04-2012, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by eldondre

no it doesn't, if you read the thread, it doesn't come off as satire, or whatever you want to call it.

It's his snark and he does it in most of these threads where there's been a shooting.

And while most residents of Francisville don't seem like murderous thugs, and indeed are not, there is the "no snitching" culture that permeates every act perpetrated there and in similar areas.

**Kukla65th** · 06-25-2012, 09:37 PM

We're all so tolerant, accepting, cultured, but we still clamor to find homes west of Corinthian because "they" live over "there". And then people argue vehemently that race/culture had nothing to do with why 25th and Parrish was preferable to 19th and Parrish when someone suggests the previous sentence.

People have been shooting each other east of Corinthian for decades, while life hummed along in working/middle class, white, Fairmount for decades. Did they all move out when a shot was heard somewhere "over there"? No. They just participated in legendary fights (the subject of many urban studies projects) with kids from "over there" for decades, and vice versa. There was "turf". This story played out continually across the city and sometimes still does in pockets.

Gentrifiers don't fight with people, they try to talk and reason. The fights of old were mean and racist; the talking and reasoning about littering, violence, etc. works much better. They're not racist, they're not afraid to live around "others". It's only a coincidence they wouldn't consider listings east of Corinthian.