Late last night when everyone was in bed sleeping, an unknown person or persons came by the trailer park and threw Molotov cocktails at several trailers. One landed underneath a trailer, the other under a car and the third broke a window but bounced off. This individual or individuals also went to a car dealership and set a car afire using a fourth Molotov cocktail.
The scariest part of this is that I was totally unaware of this until I went to work this morning and was questioned by coworkers. On logging into the news I found that it was indeed my trailer park that they were talking about. I was also not the only resident who did not hear or see anything.
This is pretty disturbing. To make up a set of Molotov cocktails and fling them into a crowded trailer park late at night when you know everyone is sleeping, this is not a teenage prank. This is serious business. This is--there is no other way to describe it--attempted murder. Who ever did this did not give a damn that there are senior citizens with limited mobility, infants, and children living there. It only takes SIX SECONDS to engulf a trailer and the trailers are quite close to each other, only about a car length apart. We were all very, very lucky last night.
My gut feeling is that this is not random, that this was intended as an act of retaliation against certain individuals living there. How the car dealership fits into this is not yet clear. But I wonder: a drug deal gone bad, money owed, gang rivalries? Are some of my neighbors engaging in activities that are putting the rest of us at risk?
There's been a lot of talk about guns lately. Several of my neighbors are armed, some probably illegally, and yet all the guns in the trailer park could not and did not prevent this act of violence. How can you defend yourself against a bomb?
Bombs are easy to make, easy to hide, they can be set on timers or flung from a fast-moving car. Google the Bath Michigan School Massacre of 1927. No armed teacher could have possibly prevented that. For sheer killing power and terror nothing beats a bomb. Timothy McVeigh knew that. So did the 9-11 conspirators, who used jets as bombs.
I hope that when they catch whoever did this that they don't just slap their hands. At the very least they should spend time in a burn unit, especially one filled with little kids. And yes, I think they should be charged with attempted murder. What else can you call it? Sixty trailers could have gone up last night.
Maybe I should move into my cubicle at work--I'd be a whole lot safer behind that fence!
The scariest part of this is that I was totally unaware of this until I went to work this morning and was questioned by coworkers. On logging into the news I found that it was indeed my trailer park that they were talking about. I was also not the only resident who did not hear or see anything.
This is pretty disturbing. To make up a set of Molotov cocktails and fling them into a crowded trailer park late at night when you know everyone is sleeping, this is not a teenage prank. This is serious business. This is--there is no other way to describe it--attempted murder. Who ever did this did not give a damn that there are senior citizens with limited mobility, infants, and children living there. It only takes SIX SECONDS to engulf a trailer and the trailers are quite close to each other, only about a car length apart. We were all very, very lucky last night.
My gut feeling is that this is not random, that this was intended as an act of retaliation against certain individuals living there. How the car dealership fits into this is not yet clear. But I wonder: a drug deal gone bad, money owed, gang rivalries? Are some of my neighbors engaging in activities that are putting the rest of us at risk?
There's been a lot of talk about guns lately. Several of my neighbors are armed, some probably illegally, and yet all the guns in the trailer park could not and did not prevent this act of violence. How can you defend yourself against a bomb?
Bombs are easy to make, easy to hide, they can be set on timers or flung from a fast-moving car. Google the Bath Michigan School Massacre of 1927. No armed teacher could have possibly prevented that. For sheer killing power and terror nothing beats a bomb. Timothy McVeigh knew that. So did the 9-11 conspirators, who used jets as bombs.
I hope that when they catch whoever did this that they don't just slap their hands. At the very least they should spend time in a burn unit, especially one filled with little kids. And yes, I think they should be charged with attempted murder. What else can you call it? Sixty trailers could have gone up last night.
Maybe I should move into my cubicle at work--I'd be a whole lot safer behind that fence!
