Joe and Kamala fuckin’ with the weather machine again 😂 Jk.

The Chiefs won the Super Bowl…. I’m in Ozark and they are obnoxious as fuck. Let’s turn the sky red, too. 🙄 Fucking football.

I guess I didn’t realize they were on someone’s land, and not the city’s or the state’s.

The shelters around here don’t jive with their lives because they are mostly homeless by choice of drugs/alcohol they refuse to give up.

Your statement may be unpopular to some, but it’s the truth. I have plenty of grass a few homeless could camp on, but doesn’t mean they are welcome. I work waaaaaaaaaay too hard to have the meager shit I do have, to allow someone who does nothing with themself to have free access to it. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Isn’t it illegal now for them to just set up camps wherever they want to?

I lived on Elm Arcade. A meth head tried to abduct my toddler through a crack in our front door, the second night we lived in the duplex. I opened the door a crack and she was standing there. Asked a bunch of questions about my kid, then tried to get my kid to come to her. We had to purchase a shot gun and an aluminum baseball bat. After this incident, a couple days later, my wife was home with my daughter and had to go get the gun to get the meth head and her boyfriend away from our duplex. They wouldn’t quit trying to talk to her, and she just wanted to leave the house safely. They refused to back up off our porch, so she let them know. They finally moved out within that month. The crackheads behind us were in the process of being evicted (found this out from the owner, who stopped by one afternoon to ask about who had been in the house and stolen tools and broken the fence). They came at night and started big ass fires to sit by. They had the FD by there more than once to put the fire out. The old lady who lived 2 doors down from us was a heroin addict who moved dudes in and out of her place. We work in healthcare and she knew that. One of her boy toys OD on heroin. We gave CPR and narcan. Two weeks later, same dude does the same thing. We administer CPR and narcan. Drains weren’t draining, contacted the landlord. Landlord’s plumber says there were drugs and needles clogging the line that runs from all the duplexes. We assume they tried to dispose of the drugs after the second OD, thinking we would call the cops. But they refused 911, so we never called. Had some dude with a black covering over his head run up to me while I was smoking a cigarette on my porch and tell me he was running from the cops, could he have a cigarette. I told him no and to get the fuck off my porch. He took off running. Still don’t know if he was actually running from the cops. All of this happened from mid-December 2022 through mid-May 2022, when we finally had enough and moved to Ozark.
Stray cats and dogs. SNAKES. The neighborhood roads don’t seem to be taken care of as well as others in the city. Takes forever to get to a highway, or to anywhere, really, due to location. The neighbors we had that weren’t crackheads mostly stayed to themselves. They would wave rarely, but otherwise left everyone else alone. A neighbor at the end of the road stopped us while we were on a family walk one afternoon to talk, but she was really nice. You just gotta be choosy and be prepared to protect yourself, even on the Southside of Springfield, or anywhere. Make sure you keep your doors and windows locked when you’re not at home, and even when you are. We installed an extra lock on our door when we lived on Elm Arcade, after the whole attempting to steal my kid thing happened. Be aware of your surroundings. Make sure your porch light is on, always, and is a bright light. Get an anti theft system in your car and do routine checks. I know that sounds paranoid, but you’ll be grateful when you notice that someone backed into your car sometime overnight and left marks if you’re walking around your car often. Be prepared to get in your car when you walk out of your door - keys in hand, no distractions. It depends a lot on the location in West Central. Some streets are alright, but they get a little of the spillover when shit goes real bad on another close street. Some streets avoid like the plague. Some streets only be on during the day. My advice is to drive the area during the day, during the evening, and after midnight. Do it on weekdays and weekends. Observe. See if people are at home in bed, expecting to work tomorrow, or if there are a lot of lights on with people up at 3AM with nothing to do. See if vehicles are left running at 3AM, waiting for someone to go to work. See if people are out walking their pets, or are out with their kids. With the exception of Elm Arcade (due to circumstances) everywhere I have ever lived, I have scoped the area out for a few weeks before deciding if I want to live there. So far, I’ve been able to keep myself and my family safe doing that. But really, use common sense! :) and good luck finding something beautiful!! I hope it works out for you.

Lol Bryant Properties.

So, $300 is like… low end for a good quality one? I have absolutely no idea about them whatsoever. I just know my child loves looking at the moon and the stars and I want to let her explore and take pictures. And I was thinking smartphone, iPhone, in fact. I didn’t realize an actual camera was better for that. That leads me to my next question, I guess. Do you recommend any specific brand of camera that pairs well with telescopes? Also, if $300 is cheap crap, what should I expect to spend on one I actually am going to enjoy with the kids? Learning curves aren’t an issue - we will learn the telescope until there isn’t anything left to learn about it! I appreciate your response! If you can help anymore, awesome.

I appreciate this!

Are there any crappy brands that aren’t recommended to buy? Where do I even purchase a good quality telescope? Not Amazon. I don’t shop Amazon.

Budget is a max of $300. It would be stored indoors, until being used. We plan to use it often, especially in the Spring/Summer months. We want something that takes pictures, too. Good quality pictures. Just looking for suggestions, as I know absolutely nothing about telescopes.

Meh. It’s what she gets paid the big bucks for.

Nobody can afford to miss work these days, but damn…. Work is really ALL y’all care about? Money isn’t the only thing worth chasing.

You’re from Montana, not Missouri. That, by itself, is the difference. I’m from Illinois and grew up with snow keeping us locked in the house because it was up to the bottom of the windows. I can drive in snow, in ice, in tornadoes, in blizzards, in rain. It’s shitty and it’s scary. Missourians can’t drive when it’s 100 degrees and sunny out. Kids would literally die if these bus drivers were expected to drive on sheet ice in 9 degrees.

I work in healthcare, too. My boss was cool with staying and working when her employees couldn’t make it in due to dangerous conditions.

Damn. Y’all hate your kids, don’t you? Any time I get to spend with my 2 are times I cherish. Can’t imagine bitching that you’re missing work and getting to hang with your littles for a whole week. If your landlord isn’t understanding, that sucks for y’all.

Lmfao nobody is mad except y’all butthurt that I commented on something. You Springfield people are DIFFFFFERENT. I have never met some butt hurt ass mf people til I moved to Missouri. 😂😂😂😂 soft ass people

AND? Are you the comment police? I can’t comment on something because I don’t care about what happens with the situation? Grow tf up.

They were posted on the KY3 article on Facebook. Lol

They were posted on the KY3 article on Facebook. Lol

I run my own small business. I’m aware of the costs. I was just pointing out something he said himself. Go defend him to him, not me. I have no stake in this and don’t eat at his establishment and don’t care to.

Yes. I can see that. I can understand the family and the public being a little irked that a business owner used the tragedy to profit. Especially in a community that appears to have given him their unconditional support before this.

I hope he makes it right with the family. If it were just money, it could be swept away. But the using their small child for gain… that’s a lot sick. That’s a tactic big corps we all despise use.

Really? Is that a fact? I’ve only seen Springfieldians jumping to his defense and crying over KY3’s article.

I don’t have any idea. Like I said, the whole thing smells like dirty rotten Chinese fish stand fish. I just don’t have any stake to care more than that. The family didn’t ask for the fundraiser anyways, so Im not really seeing the issue. $39, which dude claims, is all patrons of the restaurant donated.

He is doing like $1.8 million in sales, bro. His money problems went away when the issues for opening went away. Now he’s just got the health department non-priority dings to fix. 🤣

Why didn’t he just donate the $ to the GoFundMe, or take it to the attorney’s office? He said as soon as KY3 contacted him, he went to the family’s attorney’s office, rather than call or email more. I have no stake in this. But it feels fishy. It feels weird. Even in Patrick’s own admission, he said his restaurant was about to close due to hardships he was experiencing at the time this all occurred. Meh. I don’t eat there, won’t ever eat there, and don’t care one way or another. I just know he had options and chose not to use those options.