I was shocked when I heard the news of the BART shooting last night on the 11 o'clock news. It was the first I had heard of the shooting... and it had happened on January 1. If you haven't heard about this stories, below is the news story:
I guess the reason I was shocked was because I used to ride through the Fruitvale Station daily while I was working at UC Berkeley. It didn't surprise me that the BART police had to pull people off the train because I had seen that so many times. But the video of the BART police officer shooting the guy while he was already on the ground was a shock!
As I get older, I find it funny how places and things that I used to live and do now scare me. For example, my high school was a scary place at the time with shootings and stabbings, but I was never scared then. Now, every time I go back to that school (once a year during travel season for recruiting), I'm kind of scared. I saw some crazy things on BART, but it never really scared me back then, but I think if I were riding BART now, things would bother me a little more. Is it me getting older, or is it because I have become so used to my current locations where nothing crazy happens?
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I used to worry about you riding the BART! I would hear "Oh, mom I'll be fine." or "Oh, mom it's fine."
I think people value their life more as they grow older. They realize there are things they want to do in their life and they have not yet done them.
Also you have not had to use that sort of public transportation in a long time. Things are more conservative in SoCal compared to NoCal.
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