Google maps has never been so depressing...

I was checking out Minneapolis's own dying newspaper's web-site (which is, ironically enough, why the newspaper is dying) for what was turned out to be a feast of tragedy and disappointment in mankind. A man in Bloomington was arrested in a hit-and-run of a 66 year old woman who was in front of a Sam's Club. He had a blood alcohol of .41, which I believe means he was functionally brain dead at the time. It boggles the mind to think that someone could be that drunk and still manage to get the goddamn keys in the ignition, let alone get the fucking truck over to Sam's Club.

*Sigh*

Then I read about a long-standing Minneapolis school teacher who was recently arrested for child porn after his wife turned him in. Dark and lurid subject matter for the Holiday Season indeed.

But then, in the side bar of the page that was informing about the pedophile teacher, I saw the cherry on top of the desolation sundae: a Homicide Map for the state of Minnesota. Utilizing the power of Google Maps, you can conveniently track the grisliest of human nature with options of seeing it in the Map, Satellite and Hybrid View. I guess Street View would have been in bad taste to include.

Happy weekend everyone, and take solace in knowing that if you get stabbed in the throat on your moped for what appeared to be a robbery gone bad, at least your family can get directions to your blood stain.