House hunters shot at in HA

[missydog1]

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Originally posted by rawvegan

needless to say i did buy a lot.

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thanks for the story, wondering if you meant to say you did not buy one?

To Vancouver Islander, I am not really a stats person. I think a lot of story is lost when it is put into pure numbers.

I also think that a fair number of crimes here don't go into the stats pool, because they are classified as missing persons. Someone kills someone else over drugs, or some other crime, and they throw the body down a lava tube or off a cliff into the ocean, or into a shallow grave, and some are not found. The number of people who go missing here and are not found seems quite high to me.

During the boom there was a whole lot of theft, and while there is still theft, it seems to me there are more home invasions now. Before it was mostly stories of materials going away that weren't being watched over.

I'm not in some state of high alarm, but I do think the recession/depression has increased the desperation factor and has pushed more people off balance. I'm sure that is happening in other places and is not unique to Puna. Plus there is the ice factor. Hawai'i was the worst state in the nation for years, and is now 49th, last I read.