In continuation of Thieves in Morningside / Atlanta...

My wife spotted two men this morning at about 5:45 A.M. on the corner of Monroe and Amsterdam.  One was a large black man wearing a heavy coat, the other ducked into a driveway before she got a good look at him. The man with the coat turned around and hid his face as my wife's car approached.  After she passed, they both headed down Amsterdam Ave., into the Highlands, and she lost site of them. 

She called me and I spent the next hour and a half frantically watching out my windows, hoping to catch them in my driveway so I could call the police.  No such luck.  Its so wrong that I feel that good luck is having a prowler invade my property. 

The police informed me that crime has gotten much worse since Katrina refugees arrived in Atlanta.  I would like to take a moment to point out that most Katrina refugees are good people who have suffered a terrible tragedy.  I met one, Gregory Young, the other day at the Atlanta C Sharp User group.  He is a brilliant, young software engineer / architect who is now living here, working in Atlanta.  He is contributing to our neighborhood and city both with his innovative work and philanthropic presentations.  He came out on Jan 2, a holiday this year, to give a talk about Aspect Oriented Progamming and expanded my knowledge on an incredibly useful and powerful software design methodology.  Its refreshing that the bad of the criminals is so well countered by the good of people like him.  My heart goes out to all refugees who are like him.

Now, I'd really love to catch this prowler and swing the scale back the other way.