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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moved to the District in early 90s.  The lawless free for all vibe is starting to creep back in, and I haven’t felt that way in _decades_.  That creepy dread where you don’t quite feel safe even in statistically safe-ish areas.  The sense that trends are going in the wrong direction.  The ^#&$ helicopters with spotlights, again

(And before you say it, fake-woke troll, I’m no pearl clutcher. I was living here in Barry town when you were either a fetus or peeing in your cartoon Pull-Ups in a safe Main Line suburb)

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Tell it. [/quote]

Indeed.  Me too.  Been here 40 years.  [/quote]

+1. I was at the game tonight. I moved here in the 80’s. In the 80’s & early 90’s, I was robbed in Union Station, and I had three different houses in Cleveland Park and Woodley Park burgled. I moved away a couple of years ago and am back visiting. Between the aggressive homeless people, tents everywhere, shuttered stores and the shooting outside the game tonight, this feels worse. At least as bad. I think if you’ve lived here all along, it’s happened so slowly, that you don’t see how bad it’s gotten. It’s very sad to me. We came back to show our DC his “hometown” and now his memory is running for his life and hiding in a restaurant bathroom.

I don’t know what the Nats announcers knew and when they knew it. But the situation tonight was chaotic.  We heard gun fire and the players just disappeared from the field. I saw saw people on the other side of the stadium running, so sitting exposed in the middle of an open stadium didn’t seem like a good idea. We walked up to the concourse and the gate keepers waved us outside. As went down the steps, I heard more gunfire and the gate keepers said “run!” So we did and hid in a restaurant across the street w/ a bunch of other people.  We had already been in the restaurant a while when the stadium announcer asked everyone to stay put. If you see the video, when they made that announcement, the stadium was mostly empty. In my workplace, we practice responding to “evacuate” vs. “shelter in place” announcements, and I guess I’m surprised they weren’t more prepared to quickly tell people what to do.  I think the MLB is going to need to review some procedures. I am impressed that everyone I saw stayed very calm. People moved quickly, and were understandably nervous, but no one was hysterical. [/quote]

Glad you and your DC were ok.[/quote]

Thank you. I think Georgetown and George Washington are off the list now.  :( [/quote]

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