It's quite the week for nastiness, apparently.

One of my fellow massage practitioners, getting off work at night, was assaulted by a drunken couple. He made the mistake of trying to aid them, as they were stumbling in the street, knocking into moving cars... The man hit him in the jaw, and as he tried to call 911 on his cell phone, they beat on him, the woman yelling drunkenly that he had taken her phone. The police didn't even respond 'til four hours later.

Makes one think twice about being a good samaritan.

Earlier this week, the crazy ol' lady who lives across the street, the one with the surveillance cameras and reflective windows, assaulted her next door neighbor, a perfectly nice woman, for no reason at all, hitting her full in the face with both hands. Again, the police didn't show up 'til 4 hours later.

There was also a shooting on the street where I work, I wasn't there, but it seemed to be some sort of gunfight between two suv's. A passerby got a bullet in the shoulder.

Nuthin' like working in the city.