Women And Children First
Things are heating up in Gellerupparken. First the stabbing. And last night a kindergarten was burnt to the ground. I’m getting a little tired of seeing my neighbourhood on the news.
While the stabbing was right around the corner, the kindergarten was a little further away. But it’s still scary. I mean the apartment next door to me is a kindergarten! I sure hope it’s not some lunatic who wants to burn down all kindergartens in the neighbourhood… The one that was burnt down was in a building of its own though, not just in an apartment. Police say they’re sure it was arson. What is wrong with people these days? Burning down kindergartens. How low can you get. At least it happened at night and no one got hurt.
The news on the stabbing is that the guy who did it was mentally unstable. He had previously attacked someone with a knife. Family and neighbours had repeatedly warned the police about him. He was getting medication I think, but it took a succesful murder for him to get picked up and taken off the streets. Hopefully they can keep him locked up. People interviewed were scared he’d be set loose and attack others again. So basically it seems that the stabbing was more about his mental instability than about a family feud. He might have attacked anyone. I was outside here around the time it happened, it could have been me. And the voices and scooter roaring I heard last night, those could have been the people who went and burned down the kindergarten. It is some crazy stuff.
It almost makes you scared to go outside. I braved it, though. Got my laundry done today. With no dizziness. And no lost socks. So that is all good. Tomorrow I really need to go see the goats. I didn’t go all last week because of the sickness. I can’t remember the last time I went so long without seeing them. So it’s long overdue. In the meantime Laura pointed my attention to Fleet Foxes – He Doesn’t Know Why. Perhaps the best music video ever made. Lookit all them goats! Awesome.
Be careful out there.
October 14th, 2008 at 14:00
Goatzies on a video. The white goatzie was trying to sing along with the band.
Our goatzies haven’t shown any kind of musical talent . . . yet!
Sorry to hear about all the trouble in your neighborhood. Hope things calm down some. You wonder what gets into people sometimes.
October 14th, 2008 at 22:10
Debster – I think I caught a big goat yawn too. Lovely video. Goats are rock’n’roll.
I hope things calm down too. This week is fall vacation in Denmark, though. Vacation means all the kids have too much free time. They should take up chess or something.