You think you're safe in the suburbs?

[sbmania]

I feel pretty safe with my 100 round clip, the thing that makes it a higher caliber pistol and a thing that goes up. I have stuff that will blow your lungs and your kidneys out and your head clean off.

And that's BEFORE you pull out the .45!!

[DonBiase]

I don't think I'm safer, but I do have a better field of fire!!!!

[Curmudgeon]

On my property we're in greater danger of large falling branches.
We are not safe.
We are safer.

But we also don't live in the region this thread is intended to cover.

[Story]

Check all the little white girls filming it. None of them gave videos to the cops, cops had to discover that evidence on social media.

Little white girls' parents must be SO proud of their spawn.

About those little white girls -

HAVERFORD, Pa. - Nearly two dozen kids and teens are facing charges after authorities in Delaware County say a 15-year-old was beaten up and robbed of his Yeezy slides while a crowd watched and filmed.

Police later found a group of teens and kids who matched the suspect's descriptions on the 600 block of Derby Road. One of the suspect, police said, was wearing the victim's Yeezy slides.

Police later charged three 13-year-old boys, a 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy, with crimes including Aggravated Assault, Robbery, Riot, and Terroristic Threats.

Authorities said the 16 other juveniles who watched or filmed the beating were charged with Disorderly Conduct and a Township Ordinance Violation

https://www.fox29.com/news/nearly-2-...nty-schoolyard

[bogey1]

On my property we're in greater danger of large falling branches.
We are not safe.
We are safer.

But we also don't live in the region this thread is intended to cover.

A friends mom died that way while doing yard work.

[Ilikebuckets]

A friends mom died that way while doing yard work.

Falling branches are known as widowmakers.

[Gman106]

A friends mom died that way while doing yard work.

Falling branches are known as widowmakers.

Random ways to die - being at the exact wrong place in space and time, if only a little to the left or right or a just few seconds sooner or later and it wouldn't have happened, always make me wonder about the idea that "it was simply his (or her) time to go." You know, like that person was programmed to shuffle off the mortal coil at that point in their life one way or another...owing to God's hand, the simulation or whatever or whoever controls shit!

[Curmudgeon]

A friends mom died that way while doing yard work.

One of my best friends died that way. I wasn't kidding. It rains firewood
around here. Unfortunately most of it is rotten to the core, only good for
the fire pit.
Although 2 separate branches were sturdy enough to to punch clear through
the roof, branches larger than my upper arm.

So in the summertime we get cooling shade, and during a breeze we get instant death.
So we got that going for us.
Which is nice.

[Ilikebuckets]

Random ways to die - being at the exact wrong place in space and time, if only a little to the left or right or a just few seconds sooner or later and it wouldn't have happened, always make me wonder about the idea that "it was simply his (or her) time to go." You know, like that person was programmed to shuffle off the mortal coil at that point in their life one way or another...owing to God's hand, the simulation or whatever or whoever controls shit!

I*ve been seconds away from having tree/large tree branches fall on me a couple of times. In the 90*s my wife and I were camping in a tent during a bad storm. All types of lightning, thunder, loud rain*. It was bad. Woke up in the morning with about a 10 foot heavy limb that had fallen from a tree laying on the ground about 10 feet from the tent. It would have been bad if it had hit the tent. About 15 years ago my wife was pushing our 2 year old on a swing that was connect to a 30/40 foot huge branch coming off a tree. The branch was as large as some trees. My buddy was talking to them. I was working on something at the time. They finished and were walking up the steps to the house when the entire branch collapsed off the tree. It probably would have killed them if they had still been there. I remember riding my motorcycle years ago on some back roads when a bad storm kicked in. Trash cans, branches etc were flying through the air. As I was riding down one road a tree fell across it right where I had been a few seconds before. I got out to route 1 where there was another tree laying across both lanes. It also started hailing on that ride home. It was the most nerve racking ride I had.

To your point, I often think about those events and what if* a couple of seconds difference, a couple of feet and I would not be typing this right now.

[Ilikebuckets]

One of my best friends died that way. I wasn't kidding. It rains firewood
around here. Unfortunately most of it is rotten to the core, only good for
the fire pit.

So in the summertime we get cooling shade, and during a breeze we get instant death.
So we got that going for us.
Which is nice.

I*m seeing that with ash trees around here that have been attacked by ash borers. We also have a lot of trees where vines have overtaken them. I*ve heard a lot of cracking over the years as the weight of the Vines bring down branches off of dead trees.