Baltimore riots: 'They even took the ATM' – Pakistani shop owner may have lost $100,000 to looters

[1StrongBlackMan]

195. I did say that; but, I'll tell you a story ...

in 1994, I bought a house in a really impoverished community ... my house was surrounded on 3 sides by public housing. The entire block had 6 habitable houses on it.

At the corner of the street was a "grocery store"/gas station, that sold very little gas (as they charged 40 cents a gallon more than most gas stations) and was stocked with over-priced goods, and just right priced cigarettes, wine and malt liquor.

Being a smoker, I would stop in there about 2 or 3 times a week. On one occasion, I happened into the store. I noticed there was young woman (probably 15 or 16 years old) holding some "Pampers". She was clearly upset.

I came to learn that she was less than a dollar short on the price of the over-priced diapers ... she had been pleading with the shop owner to give her credit for the difference, until that coming Friday ... when her mother got a check.

I came in just in time to hear the shop owner telling her that she could have the diapers for what she had, if she gave him a BJ.

Of course I was aghast ... I reached into my pocket and gave her the money for the diapers.

The shop owner got mad at me for giving her the money. He refused to accept the money from the young woman ... AND he refused to sell me the cigarettes; telling me that I should just mind my own business.

Tell me you would shed a tear for that shop keeper if his shop burned down.

One day, I