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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (494980)	7/14/2009 12:50:30 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571808

After experiencing the bad times in LA, I was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. So, what kind of stress does one encounter in LA that causes PTSD? I mean, was there some kind of violence involved, or what? Just wondering... It started first with the riots. Mid day, the city was shut down because the rioters were coming up from South Central heading for Hollywood and Beverly Hills. About one PM, helicopters began circling the building where I officed telling people to leave the building and go home. The normal route I took home was blocked by burning buildings and rioters. So I decided to take another route.......everything got mess up and suddenly out of nowhere rioters surrounded my car and started to bounce it back and forth to overturn it. I hit the horn, jumped the curb and went down a sidewalk to get away. Normally my trip home during rush hour took 20-30 minutes. That day it took me 2 hours to get home. For two weeks the city was on lockdown. Roughly 300 buildings burnt to the ground. All you smelled day and nite was smoke. The military and cops were every where. For a year after the riots, the city was in a semi state of anarchy. The LAPD did little to stop violations of the law. Cops were transferring out of the city as quickly as they could find jobs. I went to bed every nite hearing guns getting fired all over the city. Twice on my way to home from work, I got caught in gun fights between cops and robbers where I had to duck down in my car [I had a convertible] and drive blind. Once I was inspecting a build under construction and someone pulled a knife on me in the building. A fourth time someone fired a gun at me only because I was walking near building where they were at. In the next two years after the riots, I had 12 car accidents, none of which were my fault. I had 7 break ins into my house. My uncle died.....he had been my mentor after my father died when I was a kid. My primary relationship broke up. I got stalked by a woman I didn't know. I got into a lawsuit because a partner tried to take a property that we owned. During the lawsuit, all my money was tied up. Then the earthquake hit. A building I supervised was under a multi million dollar rehab. It got hit badly by the earthquake and the front of the building was teetering over Hollywood Blvd and endangering the buildings on either side of it. I had 48 hours to bring the building down before it collapsed. I had a small apt building I owned seriously damaged that I had to get repaired quickly. The city was a disaster.....nothing worked for months. There's more but that's the worst of it.