Thanks for pics Otto. We have one place in our small town called the jungle, you know, place where transients or hard luck people hang. Armstrong seems to have a few tree'd areas that look hard luck friendly. I kinda know most of the jungle peoples, my 19yr son would not., but i have lived here 20 years, i know hard luck i will never judge, but i truly have eyes in the back of my head. The kids and young adults here are used to being safe. Some things you have to experiance, kids here are beautiful- not hard, which is usually a good thing. But that said, usually they travel not alone, or i'd or someone else would give them a ride, its dark(street lites are not everywhere) - we have bears - they are our boogy man.
But halloween is a differnt nite, so many kids, people, cars cruising around, should be the safest nite. And since people are heading to the community event, it is probably the one nite, people will feel ok to walk alone.
The cops, well we get alot of young ones, (i think) we are kinda training place, like most small towns, it wont further their career to stay, so the cops don't really know the people.
Also if i call 911, i get routed to Vancouver, and they have no idea where i am, not a good thing in an emergency, 1/2 an hour, twice this happened, once someone drove and snapped a hydro pole, second was a rolling DV lots of people phoned in, i only live 5 min from the cop shop, and because they don't know the area, the cops get lost, i don't know if Armstrong is the same.
Also peoples from the outer areas will come to town for the festivities. So thou it may seem more simple to deal with this cause its a small town, its not.
