Today there was an article in the Houston Chronicle of a brutal crime that was so awful, it was reported in the paper even though the city where it happened is not even in Texas! What city is that you say? New York? Baltimore? Philadelphia?
No! The dangerous city in question is... Kalamazoo, MI!!!
Apparently a group of 40-50 teenagers beat a 50 year old man who was riding his bike to the ground. They hit him on the head with a bottle and then punched and kicked him as he lay in the street.
Nothing like this has ever happened in Houston, so seeing such news in our small town paper was quite shocking. Lisa and I are just glad we got out of K-zoo before things really got bad...
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There is notable good news from Kalamazoo too -- one of the 36 finalists on American Idol plays the dueling pianos at Mojo's downtown.
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2009/02/kalamazoo_musician_matt_giraud.html
Oops, I meant Monaco Bay. Mojo's is the equivalent in Grand Rapids.
I also was horrified by the brutal event in Kazoo and was totally amazed that it got barely a mention in our GR paper. Sometimes I think we are becoming totally anesthetized to such brutality.
About that American Idol contestant Jeremy, he was also a former member of Western Michigan University's Gold Company, a premier vocal jazz group.
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