In any case the woman left her kid in the house and was out by the car for about 8-10 minutes. The fight started almost as soon as he pulled up. I would not bet more than a $1.00- 2.98, but from what I saw, before the fight started, she leaned into the car and than appeared was wiping her nose when she stood back up? Than the battle started. Went on for a few minutes with voice up and down as she made her point(s). All of a sudden she gets into the car and it drove off around the corner.
About five minutes later one of Vienna's finest showed up. I don't know if she called or someone on the other street that could see what was going on? Guess I wonder why after all the times the boys in blue show, no one gets arrested? Gotta be tough on that kid with all the fighting that seems to go on there? I remember the verbal/ physical showdowns when I was young and cannot remember very many that were funny after I got old enough to realize the facts.
I saw the lists of the Vienna VFD folks on Friday. Was glad to see a couple of younger members in the years of service. Seems it was down to 27 and now up to 29. That is the secret of survival; bring in new blood. No entity public or private will survive in it stays the same. Will eventually eat itself. The new guys bring fresh eyes; maybe new ideas once established if allowed to speak and be at least be listened too. And of course allow for older members to go into the sunset and enjoy their retirement.
As an aside again, on our wandering minstrel Mr. Rapp. I lived for many years in a what was a small town in Washington State. It had 80K people in it which is actually what we have here now in Wood County. There as it is here was a very "livable" City it is probably much larger now. The point is that the Mayor and Council there almost never left town to wander all over the place. The local media came and attended City meetings and special events as here with the exception that there we knew the Truth. It was NOT Mayberry and we had bad people mixed in with the thousands of good ones. Just like here only there in the open. And when an event was held, it would be possible to not even see the Mayor or a Councilman as it was a City affair. NOT a public relation event for the Elected.
There was a lot to be said in NOT having one with their mug in the paper or on the TV. An Event should be just that; for the people and their enjoyment. The more I watch the almost crippling need by Mr. Rapp for all the media attention he can get; the more I am somewhere between contempt and sadness. Many go over the edge once they get the "taste" of fame and power.
I would like to point out here to those people from North Carolina, Mississippi, Arizona and other States that read my blog that this IS and WILL continue to be a City of thousands of really good people. It was an act of bad luck in how we got stuck with Mr. Rapp as the alleged Mayor of the people here. So when you are tooling around on a vacation and need to decide to stop here or maybe P'burg or Mariette; I would like you to think about here as a choice. People here by and large are wonderful, absolutely wonderful.
We are made up of short, tall, thin, fat, old and young. We are YOUR town, just poorly Governed.
Rick Uhl 1 hr · (Posted here 3:30 P.M. 05 28 2016)
Mr. Uhl is on a roll again.
"Wow! Now the City of Vienna owns the water that was given to them. A warehouse full, and because I'm on Parkersburg water, which I told, by the city worker, , was NOT allowed to have any water. What the heck do they think got us into this mess. Hopefully Parkersburg, which sits closer to DuPont, will be a lot forthcoming than Vienna, when their measurable levels of C-8 come up. The last time P'burg was sampled was Sept 2015, as stated in Parkersburg News. I have never seen a government ran like Vienna. It IS TIME to GET RID OF THEM ALL! WILL have a talk with Mr. Rapp. Do you think I'm drinking their water".
Told Mr. Uhl at 4:15 28 May 2016 that the water is just like our tax dollars; once in the hands of the City it is now City property to use as they please.
Was advised that a listing on crimes statistics for 2015 ended in May 2015. No crimes in the City after the Public Forum ended and some issues on response time/ activity reported caused problems maybe?
And then was advised that a long standing list on who was working for the Vienna PD has now been taken down. To hide where they live based on taking their cars home at night would make sense even if an attempt to hide wasted City tax dollars? But it seems that the City is becoming more and more secretive in the mode of the Mr. Nixon/ Mr. Obama and now Mr. Rapp hierarchy? If it is not legal than probably should not be getting done; don't you think? 'nuff said'
(Posted by the Candidate- Lawrence J. Wilson for Mayor of Vienna).