Your Dark Passenger

Hey dark passengers.  For tonight’s True Crime Thursday I thought I would highlight a crime that touches the highest level of government.  I believe you will be as appalled by this development as I am.  Regardless of what you may or may not know…

You don’t know this!

For any of y’all who’ve listened to the syndicated Kidd Kraddick morning radio show , you’ve no doubt heard of the Highland Park Police Report (a hilarious segment).  Seeing as the soon-to-be former president will be living in Highland Park shortly, I thought it was time for the world to know exactly what kind of neighborhood he’s selected to make his home.

• 12/22/08 - A briefcase ($350), a wallet ($200) and cash ($450) were stolen from a vehicle.  What kind of world do we live in when it’s no longer safe to keep $1,000 worth of possessions in your car?
• 12/25/08 - $400 nestled safely in a money clip were stolen from a vehicle.  Is not even Christmas safe any longer?
• 12/25/08 - While car thieves worked Highland Park, a Chevron station in neighboring University Park discovered an undisclosed amount of missing cigarettes?  Erm…Does that mean they stole them by the case, the pack or were they extra-devious, stealing a few cigs from each pack?

As if these disturbing and heinous crimes were not bad enough, one woman reports the tragedy that occurred in her home on Christmas day.  Her home!  What makes this the most haunting is that it was her children who paid the ultimate price.

Wow.  This is hard for me to discuss.  *clears throat*  I mean, I can handle gory slayings and disturbing torture crimes on television programs, but when it strikes children in parts of town my husband drives through as part of his daily commute it’s just so…real.

Okay.  I can do this.  This woman reports that on Christmas Day - Christmas! - her 4 children did not receive the Wii Fit, Juicy Couture, and iPhones they’d asked for.  There were no expensive sunglasses in the stockings; there were no expensive shoes under the tree wrapped in 24-carat gold paper.  Oh, sweet God, there wasn’t even the talking dog her little daughter so wanted!

Why!  Why is the world so cruel as to not allow parents the resources to provide their children with thousands of dollars of presents on a single day?  I’m ashamed to know this travesty of justice occurred on this sacred day we’ve set aside each year to remember our sacred Lord and Master: Visa.

As I try to calm down from this, I’ll just say this…Thank MasterCard that President and Mrs. Bush will have Secret Service looking out for them for the rest of their lives.  I mean, with crimes like these going on in their new neighborhood, they may as well have chosen to make Compton their home so they could at least be closer to the ocean.

Jen

“Let your dark passenger come out to play…Be your own nemesis!”

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