urban living

whenever i leave my door open, i usually wake up as the bars close down at 2, since there's always at least a couple of people that need to do some hollering --- but this morning it was just a big ol' mess on p'tree at 8th that warranted a rare 911 call from me --- a large number of [no doubt drunken] guys were fighting in the street and up and down the sidewalks --- noisy but no gunfire and they all ran before the cops could get there --- the wildly disparate groups of inebriated patrons (ga tech students, red necks from the suburbs, urban african americans, gay guys, e.g.) leaving the several bars at the same time almost guarantees an "incident"