(Morning! Happy December! White rabbits!)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 1 December 2006 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 09:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― g0000blar (g00blar), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link
But yeh, I do need to take the pressure of myself - I really do feel that I HAVE to at least have an opinion of someone after a few hours, otherwise what's the point? Although maybe this is where I'm going wrong . . .
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link
"Get away from my family," 4-year-old Stevie Long shouted, punctuating his screams with swipes of his plastic sword and hearty "yah, yahs."
The robber and his accomplice, who was waiting outside the apartment Friday night, fled with credit cards, jewelry, cash and other items that Stevie's mother, Jennifer Long, dumped from her purse.
"I scared the bad guys away," Stevie said Tuesday evening at the apartment at 901 Chalk Level Road in north Durham.
Two men had approached Jennifer Long's boyfriend and his son Friday night as they stood outside the apartments she helps manage, according to a police report. The strangers asked for pot, and then a cigarette, and as the son went to get one, both men pulled guns, police said.
One stayed with the boyfriend as the other forced the son back into the apartment, police said. Inside were Jennifer Long, a cousin, Stevie, Mary and two other children, police said.
They were forced on the floor. The robber pointed the gun at Mary and a 1-year-old girl named Sierra, said Stevie's uncle, Bernie Evans, 33, who lives above the Longs.
Enter Stevie.
"During the robbery, a ... boy snuck into his bedroom, dressed himself in a Power Ranger costume and armed himself with a plastic sword," police said. "The child then exited his room and approached the armed suspect, in an attempt to protect his family."
Relatives said the robber abandoned plans to take Stevie's mother to an ATM to withdraw cash when he saw Stevie.
"It tripped him out, and that's when they moved on," said Evans, who did not witness the incident. Jennifer Long declined to comment, saying her employers at the apartment complex would not allow it.
Stevie likes to think he cuts an intimidating figure in his red-and-black mask and foam suit that replicates the rippling muscles of the kiddie adventure show heroes. But Evans said the robber was more startled that Stevie was able to retreat to his bedroom and morph.
Fantasy, reality
Though the robbers wore no masks, victims could only give vague descriptions of them. Police have no suspects in this or the other 10 armed robberies reported in Durham in the past six days, said Kammie Michael, a spokeswoman.
Evans said family members are struggling to help their children understand their ordeal. A counselor said Stevie needs to improve his distinction between fantasy and reality, said Heather Evans, Stevie's aunt.
"He fully believed he morphed," she said.
Mary grasps her danger better. She stayed home from school Monday and Tuesday.
"My doctor said I get a day off," she said.
"My mommy said I was crying in my sleep because I had bad dreams."
― pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link
but if there are, then it's CASH IN.
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link
They obviously explained to the kid that he under no circumstances was to accurately describe any of the bad guys to the police, right?
― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link
That's great, Ken! We are the defending champs, so we ought to have a folk enchance, BUT....I like it.
― Dr.C (Dr.C), Friday, 1 December 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― teh_kit (g-kit), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Or not like that at all?
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link
ihttp://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/robin-hood-1.jpg
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Johnney B has zeros off the line (stigoftdumpilx), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:56 (seventeen years ago) link
I think
― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:57 (seventeen years ago) link
eheh no not really! i left it at the shimura sisters' house the other night bc it got a puncture which i fixed but then when i tried to leave it had another one and it was 1am and i couldn't be arsed, just wanted to get moving, plus they had to go to sleep. i am bloody sick of it taking twice as long to get everywhere. and i had to miss the end of the monade gig last night to get the last train. and monade were ACE.
― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 1 December 2006 11:59 (seventeen years ago) link
God, I was tired and emotional yesterday. I'm back on top of the world today, and everything is wonderful. Hurrah! It's Friday, let the flirting commence. Except, bah, I'm on Month End today, boo hiss, etc.
― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― g0000blar (g00blar), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link
"A drunken kiss and a drunken nightHungover morning and a sobering cry"
...with multitudes of girly harmonies and magnificent violins going everywhere. I wonder if I can get Frances to do some violining for us - she said she was perfectly happy to record with us.
also, I'm at the LAST CHAPTER of Julie Burchill. She actually made me LAUGH OUT LOUD SO HARD that people moved away from me on the train this morning. Like, crying, I was laughing so hard. She is wicked and evil and terrible, but she is just SO VERY FUNNY. I'd forgive her anything.
Also, Gooblar, what was that you quoted up there? Is that Portnoy's Complaint? Who's it by? I'm going book shopping this weekend, maybe I should get it.
I'm not going to get out of work until 10 or so, but if you're still drinking, I'm there, Ed.
― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link
(perhaps we can have a live satellite link up)
― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk ), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― tissp! (tissp!), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:07 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b364/LennonWoreChucks/Picture%20Stash/sm1.jpg
― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
I do so need hands to drink! How else am I going to hold the booze? And I refuse to drink booze through a straw. (Especially magic straws like Suzy tried the other night.)
But no. Hott boys shall never lead me into the Chasm of the Delayed Aftereffects again.
― masonic boom (kate), Friday, 1 December 2006 13:11 (seventeen years ago) link