So after having soent many a phonecall and emails convincing my Mom how safe it is here in Albania I release the irony of this post as shes probably the only one who's gonna read it.
But... So I was walking home from FHE last Monday about fifty meters from the largest road in Tirana, about five minutes from my house, a place I walk by at least twice a day, and there were all these cops and news cameras. I walk over to this guy and asked what happened. He looked at me kinda incredulously and replied "can't you see the blood?" (I couldn't, but I could see the shell casings with the evidence markers next to them.) So I asked if somebody was shot, "yes but only wounded," he replied. Over some girl apparently. Both the shooter(s) and the wounded took off before the cops showed up (very belatedly I'm sure).
So funny thing is, my neighbourhood "friends", or the guys that have taken a shine to me and insist I come into there cafe and say hi to them every time I walk by and drink something with them, seemed pretty nonchalant about somebody getting shot 100 meters from where they hang out, explaining it away as "thats what some people do in Albania". Secondly, in the above picture I was trying to get the wide angle shot but I pretty much could walk up look at the shells and the blood as close as I wanted because the tape barely roped it all in. Frankly I'm surprised the had tape. And evidence markers... for that matter. Cops in Albania seem mostly interested in shaking people down from what I've seen.
Seemed rather run of the mill to most people... but whatever, interesting to me.
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