What used to be a promising and local shopping center has turned inside out thanks to a few bad apples in Fayetteville, and several from the neighboring towns. Crime has increased substantially, and since the race card has been ok to use in every situation in America nowadays, good luck if you're a race other than black. I really hate having to address that elephant in the room, as we should all be living in a united and cooperative society, but the issues have become overwhelming, and no it isn't simply based on racial division and entitlement.
Some months ago, I was harassed by a few teenagers in a car, I was simply getting dinner for my family and I. Well, up until they got close, I didn't know what their intentions were, or their ages. I'm not ashamed to say that I was fully prepared to defend myself, lethally if I had to. It's after dark, you're messing with a guy in a truck with a Veteran's plate, with pro-2A stickers and a Glock sticker on his rear window...seems like a good person to mess around with, right? Shows you how perceptive people are today. All those signs tell me it's a good idea to leave that guy alone...but not them, they're 'special'.
Yet, the local PD was useless, I gave them the year, make and model of the car, and the plate. Nothing was done, but, with the Fayette PD's track record, call me not surprised. Doesn't help that hating police officers has become the cool thing to do, so they're forced to walk on eggshells.
If you live in the local area, within the past few years, you've no doubt seen an increase of crime there, armed robbery, assaults, and more. Some get caught...not enough in my opinion. These aren't professionals, these are small time jerk wads that forget that ruining a community is also going to ruin their own, even if they drive 20-30 minutes to get there.
You got people that go their and disregard everyone else. Double parking, and not giving enough of a **** to fix it, people ding your vehicle on 'accident' even while in your view, but are too in love with the smell of their own odor to even so much as apologize. Many of the patrons that go there would just as soon spit on you as look you in the eye. It's gotten to the point where no one I know goes after dark. There's just no decency there for anyone. Really, just a bunch of entitled snowflakes with serious chips on their shoulders.
So about the place...well, it isn't maintained like it used to be, security is almost nowhere to be found like it used to be. Cops tend to hang out and kill time in some of the darker spots for some reason. Many big name stores are gone or are on the way out, Best Buy for one, Toys-R-Us is obvious, but anyone that's been there knows this store was falling apart long before the nationwide closing. Walmart, Target, and Home Depot is still well off, I mean, they're big enough to be ok...but Dicks will be gone before long, mostly due to stupid Corporate decisions in the past year, many smaller stores are popping up, but without effort, the Pavilion is going to become a bigger dump of a glorified strip mall. Forget the movie theater, too, even though it's better since the revamp, the staff freaking sucks. That review is available, too.
For best results, go early in the morning on the weekends, or early during the weekdays. Otherwise, McDonough or LoveJoy is 100% better even though they're a bit further away. read more
