I had a buddy who worked at Pizza Hut in a rural town most of his life. Did a great job and when he went to college in Minneapolis, Pizza Hut offered him his ow

I had a buddy who worked at Pizza Hut in a rural town most of his life. Did a great job and when he went to college in Minneapolis, Pizza Hut offered him his own shop, in the middle of what would be considered "the ghetto". First night he's managing, a group of kids come in and rob the store of a large bank of small vending machines. You know the kind. They have stickers and gumballs and such. It was like six of them, all bolted together. He freaks out, calls the cops and you know what their response was? "Uh yeah, our officers have far more important things to do then petty theft. We'll send an officer out when he has a chance." It took two weeks before he saw a cop who took the report and he never heard back after that. Sure he was pissed, but I had to explain that in bigger cities, there's always something more important than what happened to you. Got mugged? Yeah, well someone just got murdered. Your car got stolen? Yeah, well a gang member just shot up a McDonald's because his fires were cold and shot three people. So for all the people who complain that "Isn't there something more important you could be doing?" Well, yeah, but don't get pissed then if they blow off whatever petty incident you were involved in to go catch a real criminal.