I couldn't agree more. I'm going to put this very, very delicately. Living in Flint, we get a lot of the "overflow" from Detroit. People that have been in so much trouble in Detroit that the police know them by sight tend to come here to get away from that stigma, whether it's deserved or not. People that are trying to leave gangs and get their lives turned around, end up coming here. Flint probably has the atmosphere that is closest to that of Detroit, out of all the MI cities, with the exception of Detroit itself.
In some areas, in both cities, there are entire blocks of residential areas where there is just nothing left. The houses that were there were stripped of all valuables, right down to the pipes and the wiring in the walls, and then normally burned on purpose, demoed by the city, or accidentally set afire by someone that was homeless or on drugs. In both cities, the things that other people take for granted are things that residents can't imagine doing, like letting your car warm up in the driveway with the engine running, or letting their kids walk a block to the store by themselves.
It is literally a whole different world. Poor Detroiters, same as poor Flintstones, learn not to do the things that most people consider normal. You don't make eye contact with anyone you don't live with, as that's a challenge. You know that you put your life on the line every time you walk out the door, but here,it's just as easy to get shot in your living room, either by accident or because you asked your neighbor to keep their dog out of your yard. We accept it as normal that our kindergarten students are familiar with school lockdowns and know how to cover their heads and stay on the floor when they hear gunshots. This is not normal life, so a lot of the things that people think they understand, do not apply to either city, especially Detroit. The idea that a carjacking would happen in a residential neighborhood at 10 a.m. might make some people laugh at the absurdity of such an idea, but in Detroit, it's completely believable. That may be why LE has not come out and said that they don't believe the father, because anywhere else on the planet, this would be a fluke occurrence, if it were true. Not so much in this case. The absolutely terrifying thing about this case is that the story as it was reported is possible. Not the most plausible thing I have ever heard, simply because of where the car was found and how fast it was located, but still extremely possible.
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