I never believed St. Louis was that bad and had never seen the rankings until today. I was robbed myself at what the robber said was gunpoint downtown St. Louis one night before going out a year ago. I am so used to going into the city regularly, cause when you live in an Illinois burb there is not much to do. I just think that you need to be careful no matter where you are. Crime related to drugs or personal vendettas is different that random crime.

Even though, Chicago or where I live now isn't rated, my suburb is full of Frank Lloyd Wright mansions and nice cars, but borders a rough part of Chicago. But Chicago, is like that - crime-ridden areas border multimillion dollar condos. Its pretty much block by block in some parts where its safe and then not safe.

No real surprize that the Denver area is pretty safe -- all things considered. I guess there's no big city that is utopia.

I'm sorry if this offends anyone...

Last night at the Lambda Chi Alpha house in Flint a bunch of cars were broken into.

A girlfriend who was staying the night there had her laptop stolen. Whoever stole it hooked it up and signed on with her AOL Instant Messanger and proceeded to IM all the brothers on her list about all the stuff that they had stolen. They said that they should be able to steal from Lambda Chi Alpha because their parents pay for everything and because his relatives had to pick cotton for free.

Away message from one the brothers:

Going Christmas Shopping in Flint? Here is how to do it
1.)Find a Parking Lot
2.)Break into any car you can
3.)Steal anything, this includes my pair of jumper cables, my Pioneer Head Unit and $4000 worth of stuff from other cars
4.)Go home and buy a 40, then preach about how rough it is to be black in Flint.