I went to Rotterdam Square Mall about 6:30 tonight to pick up some storage bins at KMart. A guy approaches me, on my way out to the parking lot, and asks me what the storage bins were for. I kept walking and said "storage". He then said that he was shopping at WALMART, I (hope) he meant KMart, and when he came out his bike was stolen. (?)
He is still following me out to my car, and he said he had to get to Country Farms on Guilderland Ave. and asked me where I was going. I told him AMSTERDAM, the other direction. Which of course I wasn't. Then he asked me if I was married! I said "yes" and kept walking. He slowed his pace, so I started to put my stuff in my car. He started walking slowly to a SUV parked across from mine where there were 3 or 4 other guys in it, who he was talking to.
I very quickly got in my car, locked the doors, put the car in reverse and started to back out. He was standing in back of my car at that point. I thought to myself, "I'll run you over you son of a b**ch if you don't move." But he did. I drove away and called the cops and told them my story. Then I got the hell out of there and went home.
There were more details that I gave to the cops, but it would take too long to post.
I was approached twice at Walmart. Similar story. Guy had to get to Lake George his car was broken down. Wanted money. I turned around and invited him to come with me back in to Walmart where they would give him emergency money. Same guy turned around weeks later slightly different story but same end. Later in the Fall SAME guy walked into the Chapel at St. Rose where I was preparing for an event and gave me the SAME story. Car broken and trying to get to his in-laws in Lake George. I sent him packing for the third time. First of all--what a stupid story WHO WOULD TRY TO GET TO THEIR IN-LAWS?????????????? Not me.
If approached by a stranger outside a Mall, go back into the Mall and get escorted to your car by Mall security.
Going it alone is dangerous.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
My pepper spray will no longer be found at the bottom of my pocketbook. It will be in my hand with my thumb on the trigger. It's sad to think that we're even having this discussion about our hometown. Either these things have always been going on and I just didn't know, or times are changing.
When someone asks me for money I just move in their direction and threaten to bash their brains in usually, and they just walk away or even run, as fast as they can. Works like a charm. I throw as many expletives in too, since they are used to people getting scared and offering cash. One time I had a section of pipe I had just bought in the home depot parking lot and that was better than a 44 magnum. You should of seen the look in the criminal's eyes when I drew that back. Of course, in Delmar I would be arrested for that, I am pretty sure.
If everyone stood up to these maggots the problem would disappear. I will not be held hostage. That is generally why liberals hate me and I enjoy it.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
I just find it sad, that in my hometown, I don't feel safe anymore. I stopped shopping at WalMarts, especially in the evening, a long time ago. I won't shop at Rotterdam Square Mall anymore. (Maybe Macy's in the morning hours ) Not to mention all of the break-in's lately. I don't want to have to carry a "pipe" or make sure my thumb is on the pepper spray trigger. I want to be able to move about and feel safe. I want to feel safe when I leave my home unattended without fear of someone breaking in. And I don't want to have to alarm my home to feel safer. Times are changing. It's sad.
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) Not to mention all of the break-in's lately. I don't want to have to carry a "pipe" or make sure my thumb is on the pepper spray trigger. I want to be able to move about and feel safe. I want to feel safe when I leave my home unattended without fear of someone breaking in. And I don't want to have to alarm my home to feel safer.
