Today I will post about something completely off-topic to coins.
At 9:45am my 89 year old grandmother was mugged of her purse while waiting at the bus stop (which contained her rent and avon money). To add insult to injury, when she told the bus driver that she had been robbed, he shrugged and ignored her. My grandmother, that has worked every day of her life and still works selling Avon, Stanley products and helping to cook for private parties (she was a head chef in Cuba prior to the revolution) was forced to ask strangers to loan her bus fare, with a promise that she would mail it to them as soon as she could. After quite some time, a nice lady gave her the bus fare and said that she did not want it returned.
I find it incredibly disturbing. Not only that someone would rob an elderly lady of 89, but that a bus driver would ignore her and that other people would be so callus as to not have the common decency to offer to call the police for a well dressed old lady that was clearly in shock. With the money she was given, she managed to make her way to my mothers home in New York where my father and I drove her back to New Jersey to file a police report and check her home. (The lowlife stole her keys as well)
What kills me is that if the lowlife gets caught, he will probably get probation and put on various social services when they should take a page from several Eastern countries and chop his hand off and leave him to pan handle in the street.
Anyway, this is one of those rare ocassions where I will post one of my “rants”. Tonight I will probably dream of packing up the apartment and moving to a place where people can still leave their front door unlocked.
Not only did she lose her property, but she lost her freedom. For the rest of her life my grandmother will never feel safe in the neighborhood she has live in for just shy of 50 years.
