Galveston: bad night for robbery

[seamusTX]

Several apparently unrelated robberies were reported last weekend:

• Friday, 10:30 p.m., 1300 block of N 1/2, victim injured, robbers described as a black man and a white man, around 24 years old
• Friday, 10:30 p.m., 3700 block of Seawall Boulevard, two men from Houston arrested for robbery, victim injured
• Friday, 11:53 p.m., 2700 block of Avenue P, victim injured, robber described as a black man around 25 years old

http://galvestondailynews.com/story.las ... a3d4cc577f" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I try to be realistic about the crime rate here. It's not as bad as many people think, but this isn't the Garden of Eden either. The Seawall robbery, if the location is correct, was at or in front of Gaido's (one of the best-known tourist spots in town).

The 1300 block of N 1/2 is right off the Seawall in an area that is best avoided at night.

- Jim

[pcernuch]

the wife and i will be headed down there for memorial day weekend. the chili burgers at "the spot" are not to be missed. i sure hope my swim trunks can hold up my g27. :)

god bless.

[seamusTX]

The main thing is to keep your eyes open and avoid places that you don't know and have no reason to go. (Where is this not the case?) The neighborhoods just north of the Seawall and east of 45th Street are extremely variable. I live here, and I don't feel threatened. But you won't find me walking around at night with $100 bills pinned to my shirt.

Here's the Spot Cam: http://www.galveston.com/spotcam/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I can walk to The Spot from home in five minutes. Send me a PM if you want to visit.

- Jim

[JJVP]

I try to be realistic about the crime rate here. It's not as bad as many people think, but this isn't the Garden of Eden either. The Seawall robbery, if the location is correct, was at or in front of Gaido's (one of the best-known tourist spots in town).

The 1300 block of N 1/2 is right off the Seawall in an area that is best avoided at night.

- Jim

I was at Gaidos Friday. Then again, it was for lunch, not close to midnight.

[seamusTX]

Thousands of people eat or stay at Gaido's every week and don't get robbed.

I wish I had the time to go to the police station and get a copy of the report on this incident.

- Jim

[pcernuch]

i love it down there. in fact it is my favorite vacation spot on the globe. i am from a crappy part of north houston and used to go to galveston all the time. now we go for 1 week a summer and a few weekends throughout the year. i will let you know when we get down there, i will buy you a beer or 3.

god bless.

[seamusTX]

Thanks.

i don't make a nickel from tourism here, but I sure appreciate the people who keep returning and put up with some of the weird hassles.

- Jim

[pcernuch]

man i really just love it. it strangly makes me feel like a child again. although if you ask the wife i promise she will tell you i still am one!! we usually rent a house for a week in july and all of our weekend trips we stay at the galvez.

god bless.

[PUCKER]

I'm a huge fan of the San Luis...love their pool area...this won't deter me from coming down and brining the wife with me.

[SQLGeek]

We've been down there several times since moving here last year and we like the Galveston area. We usually drive home on FM3005 to 288 and really enjoy that drive along the coast. Being in the energy industry, it was neat to also check out the Ocean Star Drilling Rig.

This won't keep us from visiting but we'll be sure to be more aware of our surroundings...and I will be sure to carry once I get my CHL.

[seamusTX]

The San Luis has quite good security. It takes less than a minute for someone to ask if they can help you, if they think you don't belong there.

I love the way that some people make "May I help you?" mean "What are you doing here?"

- Jim

[pcernuch]

I'm a huge fan of the San Luis...love their pool area...this won't deter me from coming down and brining the wife with me.

the wife has mentioned staying there, but we are treated very well at the galvez, never in the 10yrs we have been staying there once had any problems. i like the fact it is old and full of history.

plus it may be haunted. http://www.galvestonghost.com/storiesgalvez.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

i have never witnessed anything like this unless i was stumbling in from the cab ride back from the strand.

god bless.

[seamusTX]

This won't keep us from visiting but we'll be sure to be more aware of our surroundings...

I'm glad to hear that. This kind of thing is news because it's so rare, and in all three cases the victims were injured. I'll bet 100 people a day get mugged in Houston or San Antonio. It's not news because it happens so often.

Every place that has a lot of tourists has people looking to take advantage of them, whether by robbery, purse-snatching, phony drug deals, or things that probably shouldn't be mentioned in polite company.

- Jim

[seamusTX]

Friday, [April 16, 2010] 10:30 p.m., 3700 block of Seawall Boulevard, two men from Houston arrested for robbery, victim injured

One of the suspects in this case was found not guilty by a jury after eight hours of deliberation.

The other defendant has not yet come to trial.

http://galvestondailynews.com/story/239494" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I don't know anything further about the case.

- Jim

[ELB]

... I'll bet 100 people a day get mugged in Houston or San Antonio. It's not news because it happens so often.

- Jim

When I took my very first CHL course, in San Antonio in 1998, the instructor had the "first chair" (I think that's what he called him) felony prosecutor of Bexar County lecture on deadly force laws. This was the guy who reviewed all violent crime incidents and decided who would be prosecuted. During his talk he played a security cam video of a stop'n'rob store clerk being shot by robbers, and mentioned that there were about 900 robberies in San Antonio each year, and IIRC, only about one-third of them got solved.

This was 1998, so the info is a decade+ out of date, but I'll bet it is not that much different.