Love the small town. Needville Texas a small town but a really good little league , the smallest town in the World Series.. Today knocked off the NW champions of Seattle Wa.. . This win sends them to the finals . They showed on television that the little town shut down today so everyone could watch the boys . One restaurant had donation BBQ .with donations going to Hawaii…Lots of drunk cowboys and cowgirls tonight in Needville.
I have never understood the height issue. You are what you are. You can't control it.
In the truest definition, I am not 6'. I am a pubic hair short of 6'. So if I have puffy hair, I get over 6' :) It is what it is.
My wife is 6', 1.5" tall. I had to work, and I really dislike typing that, her outlook. For the longest time, she felt like a freak for her height. She wanted to just fit in. Then, she married a guy who is 5' 9" and had issues with her height. He basically forbade her from wearing any heels. Then she meets me! I say, you are who you are. Why are you letting other people's problems become your problem? You are taller than me, and that means what? She explained that growing up she would get the, "How is the weather, or did you play basketball," comments. I told her did you look down at them and say, "Were you a jockey?" Once she learned that she could make comments back, it started to liberate her. Then when we went shopping, I would get away from the frumpy shoes and point out shoes that were sultry, sexy, etc. regardless of height. It took a little bit, but she fully accepted it.
When I was in college I was friends with Dwyane Schnitzius. He was 7'2" tall. Yes, he played for the Gators and then the Spurs. I got to see how people treated him because of his height, a thing he could not control. He just wanted to fit in.
So taller people have issues as well. What I have noticed though is that they are not as angry as those that feel that they are short. My mentor, on a good day was 5'5". He was ANGRY all the time because he felt people didn't like him because of his height. He was not the only person who was under the average that felt that way.
Personally, I wish these types of sites did not put in height as a filterable item. I have never met anyone that when we are out, pulls out a tape measure to see how tall you are. I do not see them pull out a scale to weigh you, nor do I hear them demand a photo governmental ID to verify age.
It’s just the way some people are, I don’t know, that Ro person must just be a very unhappy person. The height thing has never held me back from anything that I’ve wanted to do. I retired from the Army, was Infantry , then cross trained as a combat medic. Was a police officer up to just a few years ago. A very pretty women I met at Hedo 2 in Jamaica told me, after I mentioned that I was short told me that I was not short, and that her husband is short, at 5ft4. He runs one of the biggest groups that travels to Hedo. At 5ft7 I like my height.
@marion, as if height means anything. A 5'-2" BJJ black belt will fuck your life up if they want to and not much you can do about it. Talking from personal experience lol
I just recently met a few new police recruits , I was actually stunned at how small one of the guys was . Looked like a kid . Just about any adult could grab the guy with one arm and toss him across a room like a Barney Fife doll.
I hope his is assigned a partner . He won’t be manhandling any suspects by himself safely.
@Hedo
Glad you mentioned parts of California :)
There are some very dense areas and some very sparse areas. We spent time last weekend in Yosemite area. It is kind of amazing that for a park that gets about 4mm visitors a year that there are towns along the way that have 500 to 2500 people that you have to drive through to get there.
But back to crime . . .
Again, I am not sure where it comes from, but isn't the crime there also classified in the XX per 100,000 range per category?
Not jumping in on the topic, just have a question. @ Rio: what does HEDO's height got to do with LE? My chief is barely 5'6". The lady police at the other end of the county is like 5'2". Just looking for context.
@erotica, The State of Maine is 19. million acres. We have ocean, lots of islands, mountains, and a few cities. To police this, we have the State police, County Sheriffs Depts, and local police dept's in some towns. We are not congested like many California Countys. I don't know if it is harder, but I would not want to be a police officer In L.A. County or New Yorks City. Here in Maine people are bunched up in some areas, like Portland, or Lewiston. Compared to L.A. it is not congested. Lots of people own land and live on a few acres, or many acres. I own 5 acres with lots of forest and blue berry fields around us. We don't even have seven lanes on a roadway such as I saw in San Diego the last time, I was at seal beach taking a course for work. lol. In fact, we don't even have a traffic light in our town of around 7000 people. Our biggest crime here is drug related, and yes someone could be a hermit here if they wanted to. We have privately owned land, State Parks, Mational Parks, four Indian reservations, and lots of paper company owned land.
@Hedo
I thought LEO reported crimes and then the state/agencies, whomever, reported the crimes on a per 100,000 people. As an example, violent crime in ___ is 4.2 per 100,000. This was a method to give uniform values across the country. If you wanted to drill down you could get actual numbers. For example, if you live in a town of 10,000 and some lunatic goes off, kills his wife and their 4 kids, then himself. That is 5 murders, plus a suicide. If that was the only murder in the town for the year, that town would have a murder rate of 50 per 100,000. Conversely, if the town had 1mm in it and there were 50 murders in the town, the town would have a murder rate of 5 per 100,000. So what is safer? The 1mm city or the 10k city?
I fail to know the geography of Maine. I am not sure how they position police stations in an area that large. I also am not aware of how the spread of the population is. The county I am in is almost 4,000 sq miles. Heck, mine is probably harder for LEO than yours. I am not trying to be a one upsman thing. We have north county, which has about 1/4 of the population of the county. Then between that and south county we have a HUGE ass national forest. Then the rest of the population in South County, where I live, then we have the pacific ocean to get to four islands that are part of the county. Yup, OCEAN :) The land part of the county is about 3k sq miles, and then there is about 1k of water.
The reason I brought that up is because again, I do not know the geography of that county. Is it all citizen owned land? Does it have federal or state owned in it? Are people bunched up and then you have remote areas that someone, who wants to be a hermit, goes and lives?
Hedo ...at 5'5" you are not former law enforcement
@ea, "" IMO, if you want to clean up drugs, you need to clean up alcohol. If you can't clean up alcohol, you need to treat drugs the same.""... Couldn't agree more with that.
@erotic, Aroostook County Maine alone is over 6000 squire miles with a population was 67,105. So your figuring with 100,000 people, the population here anywhere in Maine is nothing like L.A. County California, it's like two different worlds. What works there where you live isn't going to work here in Maine, maybe in a small area like Portland Maine, but not anywhere around here. Also when it comes to any of the Sheriffs Dept's here in Maine, the number of Officers is less than any of the stations in L.A. County. That's a lot of miles to travel to the scene of a crime, so response time takes along time.
@Hedo
Since you are former LEO . . .
Aren't crimes reported on a crime per 100,000 residents to give a percentage of crime?
Now, of course, if you are talking pure numbers, yeah, I agree with you. LA County, which, btw, is FUCKING HUGE. LA county itself is more than 10% of the size of Maine. If you want to go to Southern California, that is about 2x the physical size of Maine. In that area, you have a little under 10% of the total population of the US. In that area that is roughly 2x the size of Maine, you have roughly 30x the population!
So if you have 3 murders in Maine, that will be less than the murders in SoCal or in LA County. But . . . from a per 100,000 it may be higher.
The drug problem, IMO, is a very complex problem. How do you legislate vices? Our country tried this shit with alcohol and what happened? In Maine, in 2020, they showed 3804 deaths from alcohol. They used a fraction system for indirect, so the actual number is really higher. According to Susan Collins in 2022, drug OD's were 716 in Maine. So are drugs really the problem or is it alcohol?
IMO, if you want to clean up drugs, you need to clean up alcohol. If you can't clean up alcohol, you need to treat drugs the same.
“Why did you come here? They have all told me because it's safe, I answer back safe from what! None of them can give me an answer. Anyways,…
So what is your point?
Sounds like it’s a false perception to me. They can’t answer specifically as to why they feel safer.
If they answered their car was broken into in February. My kid got jumped in April. My apartment was ransacked in May. I had to get out. Then I could comprehend them feeling safer.
To be honest. All sounds like a bullshit story anyway.
If you have more people, you have more crime. Here where I live in Maine we're having a migration of people moving here from all over the Country, many are from big city's, a lot from New York City, and as far away as Los Angeles. I've asked quite a few, Why did you come here? They have all told me because it's safe, I answer back safe from what! None of them can give me an answer. Anyways, because of all the people moving here, we now have a shortage of houses for sale, there living in hotels, camps, Rv's. they're buying property, some sight unseen, which is also driving the price up. The same thing happened back during the 70's during the back to earth movement. They last a few years then after going thru a few winters they move away. We have our share of crime, less of it because we have less people here. Our biggest problem is the drug issue, it's bad. I'm former law enforcement, people don't always see how bad the drug issue is. We all have our share of crime. Is it more publicized? Probably, but it is in a small town to.
@Hedo
Is it or has it just become more publicized?
Crime is getting worse in Large city's.
Why is crime rates higher in small towns than in bigger cities?
LOL
Wtf is that about
but you certainly seem to. In fact you and your like seem do to nothing but hang on the words of celebrities.
They need some headlines.. they have had none recently so they try anything !
BLM, Proud Boys, Etc. all garbage!
Black Lives Matter Leader Stands In Solidarity With J6 Political Prisoners And The Proud Boys At Federal Court House: ‘And I Have 100 More Men Who Stand With Me’
Headline of the day .
What’s going on here ?
Haha , when BLM were going crazy a couple years ago they tried to get a group together to tear down the Tribute To Courage Statue . This is the ninth tallest statue monument in the US The statue is of General Sam Houston .
That was sooooooooooooo funny . We showed up , had to park a mile away , you seen people walking with baseball bats clubs and signs all over NO GUNS . It seemed like thousands of people some had RVs and had camped our. Texas A&M had an alumni muster , all camped together . About 11:00 AM buses started pulling up and stopping on the interstate in front of the statue. . In all there were nine buses , it looked like a scene from Braveheart . They had DPS and undercover DPS all over the place . The people never got off the buses . They packed up and left.
I live in a small town . We had some white BLM punks show up at a Trump rally in 2020 , funny thing is the police stayed very close to them , probably to keep them safe , they didn’t stay long .
