Crime

I usually don't think of Colorado Springs as a high-crime city, but a few recent events have changed my mind:

My brother and few of his friends went to a steakhouse with their dates for homecoming, and as they ate dinner an unusual event occurred at the nearby Best Buy: a man entered the store, picked out a laptop, and tried to pay for it with a fake check. The cashier knew it was a fake immediately and called the police. The guy bolted out the door with the laptop . . . the story gets fuzzy here, but he basically shot and wounded two police officers, and after a brief car chase, a police officer shot and killed him. I know that computers are pretty cool, but was all of that really necessary? I don't care if it had an AMD 64 processor!

A few days ago, my parents went to a bank to work out some details on a loan (or something like that), and less than one hour after they left, a group of men armed with automatic weapons entered the lobby and (just like any movie with a bank robbery scene) they told everyone to get down on the floor, etc. etc. and made off with a few thousand dollars.

Ah, what dangerous times these are.