Mailbox Pirates - A CoVid Pandemic Phenomenon

Last Tuesday, thieves rifled our mailbox and stole Sheila's meds from our mailbox. I found the box empty with the door hanging open. They got two over-the-counter meds from Amazon and one prescription medication (a controlled med) from our pharmacist. Apparently, robbing mailboxes has become a new thing for the tweakers drifting down from Seattle to pillage seniors mail, given that so many are getting their meds by mail in these good old pandemic days.

We've had a lot of trouble with that in our neighborhood lately. People cruising the neighborhood engaging in porch piracy. It's about time we get ourselves organized in this neighborhood. Seniors are fleeing Seattle in droves. The overpriced housing authority senior apartment complexes are emptying out. The drug-addled homeless population can't get arrested anymore since the mayor went "woke" and defunded the police, the police chief quit and a whole bunch of cops retired after the CHAZ/CHOP debacle.

Looks like we're on our own in any case, what with Seattle leaking criminal drug addicts like the Johnstown Pennsylvania Dam. Their top 100 arrests in Seattle last year were every one a homeless drug addict. Probably gonna sit in a folding chair in the bushes for a few days with my high-power 22 caliber pellet air gun in case I need to light somebody up if they go after her meds again. My pellet gun is a wicked Chinese made thing that will blow a hole through a tin can full of water. It's got a scope and it'll leave a memorable subsonic impression on your backside. 

My great grandpa would've used a shotgun loaded with rock salt. I haven't owned a gun since I was 12 so I'm not tempted to react in such an impulsive way. My Irish-tempered family doesn't need a temptation to shoot ourselves or each other lying about the house. The pellet gun is for varmints. It takes about as long to load as a vintage muzzle loader, so it's not likely to be used impulsively. If someone tries to shoot someone else, he'll have to find the pellets, load it, and pump it up. By then, the rest of us will have time to sit on him.

It would, however, be entertaining to send one zinging past the ear of one of these slow-learners. I probably won't, but until Biden comes after my pellet gun it's an interesting thing to contemplate. Back in my old neighborhood here in Puyallup, we had a lot of soldiers, some of them Delta Force and a redneck from Texas who was good with a thirty-aught-six and liked to watch unfamiliar people wandering around the neighborhood through his scope.

How about we do a better job of watching our neighborhood, especially when we have a large number of seniors living here. Living as close as we do to Seattle, we need to remind ourselves occasionally that the former "Emerald City" has become something of a third world country under decades and decades of Democrat management? They've never had a Republican mayor. One of the city council members is a socialist. After the CHAZ and CHOP debacle, the resignation of their police chief and quitting of most of their best police officers, and the accumulating piles of human waste from the ever-growing drug addicted homeless population, Seattle seems to have sprung a leak; a stream of toxic humanity flowing out even out beyond the Seattle suburbs.

I find myself comparison shopping firearms these days, despite my history of working with the mentally ill and delinquents. I have always had this firm opposition to violence. Nowadays, however, as my family, my neighbors and my community are ever more under threat by the forces of evil, I do spend more and more time practicing shooting the eyes out of Pepsi cans full of water. I can drill a hole in and out of one from 100 yards.

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