Man shot in hotel downtown
A man was shot in a hotel room downtown near Atwater, early Wednesday. He’s in bad shape and there have been no arrests.
A reader of my Twitter feed has asked that I produce a feed without any shootings or stabbings, which would be technically quite tricky. First, the feed is simply these WordPress posts turned into truncated tweets, so it doesn’t contain hashtags, as requested by this reader. I’d have to use WP categories or tags and see that they converted to hashtags properly on the Twitter feed, and then I’d have to tag every post.
I briefly embarked on categorizing posts years ago but it was tedious and, after a short experiment, I didn’t find it was useful to my readers or myself. But does anyone else think they would benefit from having tags or categories or trigger warnings or anything else added to this blog on a regular basis?
Kevin 10:03 on 2019-12-04 Permalink
We live in the safest era in history.
That’s why the occasional non-lethal stabbing or shooting makes news: because it is such a rare act.
Mr.Chinaski 10:30 on 2019-12-04 Permalink
I like this graph : https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2018001/article/54980/c-g/c-g01-eng.gif because it show not only murders but attempts in Canada through the past fifty years
Patrick 13:16 on 2019-12-04 Permalink
@Mr. Chinaski, What accounts for the two peaks in the early 80s and 90s, do you know?
Myles 14:18 on 2019-12-04 Permalink
It’s interesting to see that homicides used to outnumber attempts and now the reverse is true, I assume because of better medical care.
Hervé 16:27 on 2019-12-04 Permalink
It’s not hard for readers to skip over posts that don’t interest them. If tagging is tedious I say don’t bother.
Juste mes deux cennes.