Saturday October 29 2011

the crowd celebrates

Today was Savannah State University homecoming parade. It was over a block away and started at 9 AM, but here they are at noon time, celebrating. Getting drunker and louder. The token white guy is over there, too. He shows up whenever there's a big party going on over there. There must be some kind of grapevine that these guys hear about these things. I didn't even know about the parade until yesterday when a girl up at Starbucks told me about it. Nothing in the Savannah Morning News about it...

I went to the neighborhood watch meeting for my 'hood. We were told a few stats- like 33,000+ people live in the 7.62 square miles that encompasses the area the Bull Street Precinct covers. But that doesn't include the transients, homeless and students. There has to be 20+ homeless hanging out at the Thomas Square next to the Bull Street Library in the mornings. And that is just one square.  One thing that was said, that a lot of the crimes around here occur during the day. Who woulda thunk?  And that a just this morning, at 7 AM, there was a robbery on E. 38th Street. Gotta get a gun...