okay well i heard Dallas is pretty bad with the crime
well you know you last night i was listening to the uh ten o'clock news
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and for the first five to seven minutes of a news broadcast all they were talking about was the number of shootings the number of drug deals that were going on and crime and and it's so depressing just to even listen to the news anymore
um-hum the same way here in Dennison i mean uh back a couple weeks ago they found uh
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some people i don't remember at some fast food restaurant they had been i can't remember if they been shot or if they just been thrown in the freezer but i'm pretty sure they'd been shot and put the freezer at the fast food restaurant
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and i've worked in fast food restaurants they don't have that much money on hand they really don't
yeah yeah i did too i remember used i used to work at uh Kentucky Fried Chicken and uh and i just couldn't believe um you know that now i would hate to work at a fast food restaurant or even have my children work in one
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and uh because of the the crime that they would uh just kill people just for the few couple hundred dollars that they would have in there uh in their cash drawer
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right my husband worked at a gas station when he was a teenager
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and he well i don't know he decided not to work one night or something and one of the guys that
was working was shot and Kenny quit the next day he just he couldn't deal with it
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yeah yeah oh i understand what your talking about
so yeah i have uh uh you know a real problem uh even though i live further out in the suburbs the crime follows you anywhere it it doesn't matter if you live in a small town or if you live in a large city like this
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everywhere
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um so but i just think about all the different ways that we have to protect ourselves from
it just seems like a lot of people are attracted to the bigger cities though the worst part of it
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um i lived in Louisville Kentucky for a while i i lived on the outskirts too but Louisville was pretty bad especially during like the uh
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Kentucky Derby at this time of the year it's horrible to live in Louisville
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uh you know just as citizens to try and um uh protect ourselves i know i have um you know a home security system plus i have the uh the special lights uh on on the outside and i have this
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the ones that blink off and on for the self i mean
yeah that uh
yeah yeah by themselves uh if you if there's some kind of movement then they'll automatically come on um but i mean it's just that i constantly think about keeping us safe and protected verses um
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how many kids do you have
two two
oh a boy or
one of each um-hum yeah yeah
oh that's what i've got it is scary are your babies are they babies or
no no they're teenagers now
oh well good that they're a comfort to you i've still got babies i've got
yeah
i've got a four a four year old he'll be four and a three month old and it's scary sometimes
oh wow yes that's a problem yeah
i'm used to living in uh which we don't live in the city but we just
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it's still more crowded than what i'm used to i'm used to having you know eight or ten houses on one street and this one's got houses on either side and you know real close together and just
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yeah yeah
it's different yeah living down here now now the nice thing uh i feel a little bit more comfort since we're so close together like this um
uh i feel like that there's going to be uh less crime or your neighbors going to be watching out for you um because it's it's practically it's in their backyard too
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oh oh well we think our neighbors are stealing from us actually my husband
they uh
well the one of them's a teenager lives next door and her friends are pretty wild
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they've stolen gas out of our vehicles and well he went and got a locking gas cap for his they weren't stealing it out of mine so much because my car the gas thing is kind of weird where it's hard to siphon gas out
oh goodness
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so he went he went and got a locking gas cap and they cut tried to break that off he
oh my goodness
excuse me
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he went down to Uba and noticed that it was hanging off where they had tried to break it off and they stole our tailgate off his truck
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oh goodness
well we can't say they did but
someone did yeah
we're pretty yeah
it had to be somebody that you know could do it in the middle of the night and you know they'd seen it earlier
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and um so that's that's what i try and uh do
well the only things that we can do as citizens is you know like those uh watch groups that they'll have walking but they can be dangerous too and i've thought about it you know uh
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this isn't like walking around and looking for somebody you can get yourself into trouble
yeah yeah you know i was uh going home the other day and i saw um a guy who who looked like he was breaking into a window and i thought gee whiz you know i don't know if he's really doing that or not or if he's the he's the person who lives there
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uh you know and and i was thinking well i need to call the police when i get back home and because it was about oh about four or five blocks from where we live and uh and i thought no you know
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because i wouldn't know if that was really a robber or not because it was in broad daylight but anymore you know the crime happens in daylight as it does in at night
yeah well i watched it on TV oh i guess last year sometime they'll break in at the day in the daytime and
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i hear that you know it if if you lock yourself out of your house and you try to get in your house it'll you give that half the time it takes you to break in uh a professional could break in in in half that time
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in half that time wow and that's so scary so scary you you think you've got yourself all locked in and safe and and uh somebody could break in a nd uh well i have a dog that's the one thing that i like is
yeah it is
uh-huh i'm getting me uh i want a German Shepherd um i don't want any of those ones that will up the kids but i do want a German Shepherd
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because my husband'll leave every once in a while for he works on the railroad and i'm scared here by myself so
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oh yeah oh yeah so that's another uh we just a little dog now but he is just as vicious as if you know if you if somebody and loud
and loud
you know and i thought that uh you know we'd have to have a big dog but we don't need a big dog we got this little bitty dog that uh part Dachshunds and part uh Cocker Spaniel and he um he's very protective
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yeah Cocker Spaniels are loud well there
yeah very protective
now that's one of the best deterrents for a robber is a noisy neighbor even if the neighbor's got a noisy dog that's a deterrent because they know that that dog's going to bark
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that's right
but it's easy to fool a dog too you know throw them meat or
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it's a real intense burglar can just get another dog that's in heat
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from what i've hear you know saw on TV
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yeah it was
okay well
and uh maybe we'll meet up again alrighty bye-bye
okay bye-bye
