OT - My crazy neighborhood

Um... EEEEK!

My friends had a similar horrifying experience, only it was the house a
couple doors down from them. TERRIFYING.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay

Jalynne wrote:
Ok...two years ago it was a teenager building a bomb in the apartment complex last
year, and tonight, the cops find a body in a house that's on the street behind us.
What's next? As soon as we can, we'll be starting to look for a house to buy again.
I'm getting kinda nervous living here now. For those of you who get the local
Seattle news...it was the murder in Parkland that is getting live coverage tonight.

Wow.

I have to say, no way in hell would I move into a place where the
previous owners were murdered. It's beyond my good-juju abnilities!

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


Karen_AZ wrote:
LOL My Mom OWNS a house where the previous owners were murdered. Long weird
story, even made the national news at the time (about 20 years ago). This
older couple loaned their gardener's son some money for a business venture
or something similar. The business went bust after a time and the lender
sued in small claims court for his money back (legal agreements had been
signed for the loan, etc.) The gardener went to the house to plead on his
son's behalf, argued with the husband/homeowner, lost his temper and hit the
guy, who was in his 70's and not exactly rough & tough. Killed him
accidentally (or so he testified later). The wife came out to see what was
going on, and the gardener forced her to get out her checkbook and sign
several blank checks. He then strangled her, and dragged them both to a
space down in the basement...it was built as a bomb shelter, under the
garage, with a dirt floor. (The chalk outlines were still there when my
folks moved in.)

Apparently the gardener then drove home in one of the homeowner's cars, told
his wife what had happened and they made a cross-country run for it. They
were caught when a check finally bounced in Arizona or New Mexico a week or
so later. Major man-hunt, etc.

Sadly the homeowner's had no children of their own, but had 11 nieces &
nephews who inherited their sizeable estate, including the house. Because
they were squabbling among themselves to get top dollar, and because the
house was known to be somewhat, um, creepy, it took quite a while to sell.
My Mom fell in love with it instantly (it was like pulling teeth to get my
Dad to move from their old place). They got it for about 15% below appraised
value and it's gone way up since then. Mom's a serious fixer-upper....put in
a gorgeous kitchen and a finished 2nd floor with a private whirlpool bath
and other goodies.

The year after they moved in (I was living in NYC at the time) I came home
and helped them have a Halloween party. They even lit up the entrance to the
bomb shelter and got some kind of glow-in-the-dark powder to sprinkle over
the chalk outlines! boggle Mom said she figured a good party would
"exorcise the place for good." LOL And yanno, she's really turned it into a
very cozy, comfy home.

KarenK

I read it as saying that people are good or bad regardless of financial
status.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


LC aka Fiddy wrote:
The reason the jails are full of
minorities and poor folk isn't because wealthier people are somehow better
and more moral people.



I hope you're not assuming that everyone who reads these boards is struggling
financially. I hate it when any group of people is painted with a broad brush.
I know as many moral, fine, hardworking, good people with money as I do those
without. I also know creeps who have lots and creeps who have little.

At least that's how this whole little lecture sounded to me. If it's not, then
I do apologize.

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized
LC in Sunny So Cal
Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

Me too. The more affluent people tend to get lighter sentances or get off
completely. Im guessing at this, but the type of crimes commited by poor vs
rich may be different. The ratio of good people to bad remains fairly
consistent across economic status.. (plural of status?).
Diana

--
Vote this November (U.S.A.)
"Kalera Stratton" wrote in message
...
I read it as saying that people are good or bad regardless of financial
status.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


LC aka Fiddy wrote:
The reason the jails are full of
minorities and poor folk isn't because wealthier people are somehow
better
and more moral people.



I hope you're not assuming that everyone who reads these boards is
struggling
financially. I hate it when any group of people is painted with a broad
brush.
I know as many moral, fine, hardworking, good people with money as I do
those
without. I also know creeps who have lots and creeps who have little.

At least that's how this whole little lecture sounded to me. If it's
not, then
I do apologize.

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized
LC in Sunny So Cal
Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

I read it as saying that people are good or bad regardless of financial
status.

Ok, I must have been reading through a cranky day filter...mea culpa..and
apologies if I messed it up!

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized
LC in Sunny So Cal
Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

In article , Kalera Stratton
writes:

My friends had a similar horrifying experience, only it was the house a
couple doors down from them. TERRIFYING.

One of my aunts rented the house that Sharon Tate was killed in (found out it
was "the place" about 6 months after moving in).... She lived there for about 3
years.
Kaytee
"Simplexities" on
www.eclecticbeadery.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/simplexities/

I have no problem with people just dying of their own natural accord,
it's the idea of people being violently parted from their lives that I
have a problem with.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


Kathy N-V wrote:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 2:49:07 -0400, Kalera Stratton wrote
(in message ):


Wow.

I have to say, no way in hell would I move into a place where the
previous owners were murdered. It's beyond my good-juju abnilities!


There's another different strokes kind of thing. It wouldn't bother
me in the least, as long as the actual bodies and such weren't there.
That would be just a little more than I could handle.

If it were the scene of some horrible mass murder or something, I
think that knocking the place down would be the wisest course,
though; as they've done in several high profile kinds of cases.
Keeps the weirdos from visiting the house as some kind of ghoulish
museum site.

Assorted family members have died in most of the rooms of my home,
although they all died peacefully, not victims of crime or anything.
I find it kind of comforting - lots of friendly spirits and memories
that all speak Italian and watch out for our family.

Kathy N-V

I have no problem with people just dying of their own natural accord,
it's the idea of people being violently parted from their lives that I
have a problem with.

Yes. Because they are so Not Ready that they often don't believe it or realize
it, and they tend to stick around.
~~
Sooz
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton
Pearce

I have to back up, though, and explain that I come from a family that
has a long and deeply ingrained cultural tradition of getting rid of
everything... I mean *everything*... and moving when a family member dies.

-Kalera
http://www.beadwife.com
http://www.snipurl.com/kebay


Kathy N-V wrote:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 2:49:07 -0400, Kalera Stratton wrote
(in message ):


Wow.

I have to say, no way in hell would I move into a place where the
previous owners were murdered. It's beyond my good-juju abnilities!


There's another different strokes kind of thing. It wouldn't bother
me in the least, as long as the actual bodies and such weren't there.
That would be just a little more than I could handle.

If it were the scene of some horrible mass murder or something, I
think that knocking the place down would be the wisest course,
though; as they've done in several high profile kinds of cases.
Keeps the weirdos from visiting the house as some kind of ghoulish
museum site.

Assorted family members have died in most of the rooms of my home,
although they all died peacefully, not victims of crime or anything.
I find it kind of comforting - lots of friendly spirits and memories
that all speak Italian and watch out for our family.

Kathy N-V

I have no problem with people just dying of their own natural accord,

Me either. The house we're in was my great aunt and uncle's. She died in the
same room in which I concieved my daughter, which I perhaps strangely hold as
somewhat of an honor to her life.

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized
LC in Sunny So Cal
Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)