Do you spend more time on the internet than you do watching TV?

@cherokeepatti You sound like you live in my house. That is exactly what I do. I change the stations with the remote,but my attention is on the PC screen.

@MaryJanine Since I’ve retired if I am home I leave it on one tv station. Their news/weather team has a helicopter and they will use it to track police chases, some of those are kind of exciting and we seem to have a lot of them here. Also other breaking news.

@cherokeepatti My TV is company when no one is here. I listen to the news, too. They have a lot of those things you describe on our local station, especially the "breaking news". Like last night..this guy who robbed the bank in a nearby suburb got chased into the city and left the car and ran into a music store. He shot the clerk in the arm, then ran into a Jewel/Osco store with the pursing cop right behind him. They found him dead on the loading dock of the Osco store.

@MaryJanine A couple of day ago there was a naked man setting fires at an apartment complex, the helicopter pilot was reporting on the fires. The arsonist started shooting at the police, they caught him, he was saying a lot of things that didn’t make sense, apparently a mental patient.

@cherokeepatti We had a man who was a retired contractor who lived in the new condos built in the next block where we used to have a mental hospital. He was behind in his rent and they were trying to get him out. As the story goes, he was having trouble with his neighbors and he took a shotgun, went upstairs, and killed a family of four just as they were settling down to dinner. Then he went up the fire escape and shot a witness to the attack and went to the roof. By now, the cops were called, and they arrested him. He refused to say WHY he did it.

@MaryJanine Who knows. When I worked as a greeter at Walmart, I’d see this young guy maybe 20 years old come in...he was always smiling. He shot & killed his upstairs neighbor later on. The young guy was playing music loud for hours and the upstairs neighbor had young children that needed to sleep, he went downstairs & asked the neighbor to turn down the music. The guy got a gun and shot him, his excuse was that he thought the man was aggressive & a threat. I guess the man should have called the police instead, there is a noise ordinance here & they would have come out & taken care of it. That young guy didn’t look like anyone who would kill someone.

@cherokeepatti We HAVE a noise ordinance. It's in our lease (has been for two years) but I got tired of hollering up, "Turn IT DOWN!" at 11:30 - midnight and sent an EMail to the landlord's office. Since I did that, there is no more BOM-BOOM-BIM all night long. It was right over my bedroom ceiling and I couldn't sleep. (I go to bed at 10:30, and that was when they started.)

@MaryJanine If the police can hear music or other noises while in their car from the street then it’s a violation after certain hours. They can drive by and issue citations or if someone calls them in...It was really bad here for a long time, citizens were going to the city council and telling they couldn’t sleep and had children that needed to get up for school plus they had to go to work too. They finally passed the ordinance and also one against party houses...houses where parties were going on constantly.