Vicksburg - a dirty little town
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1/4/2010
My son was attacked by two teenage thugs when he stopped in Vicksburg to do some laundry, find something to eat and recharge batteries for his electronics. Jake, my son, is doing a loop of the entire eastern half of the United States in his kayak. He started on the Wisconsin River on December 6th. It wasn't until he got to Dixie that things started to "go south" (funny, now I see where that saying really came from)... In New Madrid someone decided to steal half of his kayaking gear. Bad, but not life threatening... When Jake got to Vicksburg he was attacked with pepper spray and the proprioters of a 7/11 store wouldn't let themselves be bothered to offer him any help! He had to be taken by ambulance to a local hospital to be treated after he blindly called 911 by himself!!!
I did some checking and I found that Vicksburg has a very very high crime rate. Vicksburg's crime rate in a city of 26,000 people is 3 times that of the entire Wausau, Wisconsin crime rate - a city and surrounding towns that abut Wausau that has a population of 90,000 or so... Something is terribly wrong with Vicksburg and it should be dealt with.
carolyn | Wausau, WI