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Fed-Up Families Turn To Barbed Wire, Shotguns To Police Neighborhood (Sanford Florida)
Local6.com - Orlando FL ^ | 1 July 2008 | Local6.com

Posted on 07/01/2008 12:06:10 PM PDT by Jasper

Homeowners: 'Someone Is Going To Get Hurt'

SANFORD, Fla. -- Families in a crime-ridden Central Florida neighborhood are arming themselves with shotguns and talking about adding electric barbed wire to stop thieves targeting their homes.

"Somebody is going to end up getting hurt," resident Andrea Fine said. "The homeowners are tense. We are all on edge. For the first time in my life I'm really scared to live in my home."

(Excerpt) Read more at local6.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: bang; crime; florida; gangs; guns; propertyrights
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1 posted on 07/01/2008 12:06:10 PM PDT by Jasper
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To: Jasper

Smoking a few of the perps will be a good deterrent.


2 posted on 07/01/2008 12:08:16 PM PDT by Eurale
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To: Jasper
My bet is that their crime problem has everything to do with a Section 8 housing development.
3 posted on 07/01/2008 12:09:04 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Public policy should never become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. -- Ike Eisenhower)
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To: Eurale
Smoking a few of the perps will be a good deterrent.

Yup

It sounds like the residents are at wits end, and are ready to do just that. More power to 'em.

/jasper

4 posted on 07/01/2008 12:11:44 PM PDT by Jasper (Stand Fast, Craigellachie!!)
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To: Eurale

welcome to the ‘hood. NORMAL people that live in this area need pit bulls and pistols.


5 posted on 07/01/2008 12:11:50 PM PDT by spacejunkie
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To: All

I’m not familiar with that part of Florida - other than it’s near Orlando.

I’d have thought this area wouls be safe being that it’s far away from the crudy areas of Orlando.

Can anyone give me some details on this area?


6 posted on 07/01/2008 12:12:11 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve

it used to be ‘in the country’ and was mainly redneck, small time Florida. In other words, a great part of town. Now it’s got a burgeoning black community that doesn’t care about anything except drugs.


7 posted on 07/01/2008 12:13:36 PM PDT by spacejunkie
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The city's police chief said he is working on a solution.

Baffled, is he? I'd suggest a greater presence in the area, but that's just me.

He could help the civilians by organizing neighborhood watch groups led by LEOs.

He could open his gun range and allow citizens full access for practice. That way there'll be no long, drawn-out court procedings.

Free ammo for the neighbors would help.

8 posted on 07/01/2008 12:19:15 PM PDT by HoosierHawk (Hypocrisy does not apply to liberals.)
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To: Jasper
“Somebody is going to end up getting hurt,”

Hopefully, the right people get hurt.

These brazen criminals love passive crime measures. They insure that they can strike quickly and get away before the police get the 911 call.

Most criminals aren't afraid of being caught. The get out on bail, got to court and get a light or suspended sentence. My greatest fear is that trial lawyers are flocking like buzzards, waiting for the first body to drop.

9 posted on 07/01/2008 12:19:27 PM PDT by oyez (Justa' another high minded lowlife.)
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To: MplsSteve

My brother in law was a fire fighter at a Sanford station....... he said they were getting at least 30 calls a day!! It’s wild over there.


10 posted on 07/01/2008 12:22:15 PM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: Jasper

Paging Joe Horn and all like minded Americans!


11 posted on 07/01/2008 12:23:26 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: spacejunkie
There ya go! . .


12 posted on 07/01/2008 12:25:12 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: Jasper

We can spend money on all sorts of “worthwhile” governmental programs, as well as millions of people here illegally, but enough on public safety to protect our residents?

Nah.


13 posted on 07/01/2008 12:31:54 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: JZelle

just callin’ a spade a spade ;)


14 posted on 07/01/2008 12:32:46 PM PDT by spacejunkie
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To: MplsSteve

sanford like all areas has its good and bad sections. not sure which part they are talking about but in general central florida has gone down the drain. i live 40 miles from sanford in daytona and we have a large transient population. every morning when you turn on the news you hear of another murder in an area you wouldn’t have imagined.


15 posted on 07/01/2008 12:35:28 PM PDT by tatsinfla
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Central Florida is mostly an armpit. The only major metro not on the ocean or gulf (ie built in the middle of a swamp) that has been attracting human garbage for the past 25 years. There are still parts of Seminole and Lake counties that are OK, to say nothing of Winter Park in Orange.


16 posted on 07/01/2008 12:35:54 PM PDT by Clemenza (You Shoot Me in a Dream, You Better Wake Up and Apologize)
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To: tatsinfla; MplsSteve

Central Florida has become very popular with the underclass that has been gentrified out of New York City over the past 15 years as well.


17 posted on 07/01/2008 12:37:02 PM PDT by Clemenza (You Shoot Me in a Dream, You Better Wake Up and Apologize)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wow, that article on housing was great. Has it been posted as a stand-alone thread?


18 posted on 07/01/2008 12:41:34 PM PDT by fightinJAG (RUSH: McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up.)
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To: Clemenza

give us your tired your hungry your poor.....thats what it seems is on the sign at the state line. the state must be doing some heavy duty advertising around the country because they are coming in droves only to find it isn’t what it is all cracked up to be.


19 posted on 07/01/2008 12:45:05 PM PDT by tatsinfla
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To: Jasper

Good luck with the barbed wire. After my Washington, D.C. Capitol Hill house was burglarized for the third time, I tried to get barbed wire added to my backyard fence, only to be told that it is against the law in Washington, D.C. because “somebody might get hurt.” In other words, the criminals’ rights not to get hurt breaking into my property were more important than my right to be secure in my home. I moved to Virginia and have never looked back. Our Nation’s Capitol is designed for and run by criminals.


20 posted on 07/01/2008 12:46:14 PM PDT by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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