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Who TF was it maxie?

NORMA.....NOOOOOO!

Not to worry: Norma lives way out west in the Chenal 'hood.

May The Force be with this young woman and may her recovery be full. Have never met her, but am an acquaintance of her mother, a charming and delightful lady.

Prayers for a full and speedy recovery.

And may the wrath of all hell fall unto her attacker.

Gee....how horrible. I hope it's appears worse than it is. What a terrible thing to happen. I hope whoever did this is run over by a bus.

Horrible.

Remember, DBI, even the person who did this is innocent until proven guilty. At which point the court should sentence them to being run over by a bus. Maybe several buses.

Hope she makes a speedy recovery. I watch her show every morning on KATV. I hope whoever did this spends a long time in jail. Of course, since our county jails are so overcrowed, they'd be out in no time. This is sad.

Squirrel,

The person who did this is guilty at the point in time that they did the deed.

In a court of law they would be presumed innocent until proven guilty.

From the length of time that's elapsed apparently she's been stabilized and hopefully internal wounding is being repaired as we wait. If the assailant didn't stab her liver then she should survive. Damn, damn, damn! Pray to god, allah, and zeus that her lungs were not punctured causing her oxygen to dip so low that brain damage set in.

You guys can say what you wish but I'm glad my sweetie has her own two pistols and knows how to use them.
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Why am I wondering if her role as Ann Coulter had anything to do with this crime. I know it isn't likely, and there was evidence of a robbery, but I've seen some rwingers who are just as convinced as Al Qaeda that they speak for God and are on a mission ordained by God. Nothing surprises me anymore other than the continuing stupidity of our citizenry.

Hoping the best for her and her family. Hope the catch the dude and punish him, but more than that, hope she recovers fully.

Saw her at the Neurofibromatosis Fund Raiser. Was stunning enough to make me change channels for the news.

I have been fortunate enough to have worked with Anne Pressly on a couple of fund-raisers and to have bumped into her socially a few times. She is smart, kind and engaging person, and I know she is very well respected by her peers. More accomplishments and polish than your average 26-year-old.

STFU, eLwood: "From the length of time that's elapsed apparently ..."

Unless you're in the ER, WTF do you know?

5 a.m. until 12:15 PM. Just at 7:00 hours. So screw you Quapaw. My hunch says she's going to pull through. What the EMS teams and wound treatment teams can do today would have been considered miraculous 20 years ago.

I'm alive due to 20 yr old science.

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I got this from a neighbohood alert somewhere in the heights forwarded to me...pretty good information. I guess I'll have to go out and buy a gun, or hope my wife can still swing the skillet...
Anyways, prayers sent for Anne, her family, her KATV co-workers, friends, and the LRPD to catch this guy (or guys)!

Lessons to be learned:
NEVER open your door to anyone you don't know after dark!

Call the police FIRST to report ANY suspicious person on your property, and THEN go investigate.

Keep your doors and widows locked, even in the "safe" area of the heights.

Always charge/keep your cellphones in the bedroom.

Reinforce your doors with good locks and large, 160degree+ view-angle peepholes. (about $50-85)

IF someone wants to come in and use your phone (often a ruse to gain entry), HAND them a portable (not your cell) or better yet, offer to make the call for them.

If they don't leave, or try to force entry, ALWAYS have either:

1) the proper tools capable of neutralizing the attack, and the training necessary to operate that "tool" or;
2) the physical strength, stamina, and determination to stop violent attack until the police arrive.

Don't rely on dogs, mace, or other "feel good" measures to deter a determined, violent, attacker.
(Even though the "experts" recommend a dog for self-defense, in this case, cocker spaniels are poor substitutes)

If you can afford it, install a monitored alarm system and test it yearly.

Re-evaluate your exterior lighting and vegetation around the house to make your house unattractive to robbers/burglars.

Got this forwarded to me from a heights neighorhood watch....pretty good info. I guess I'll have to buy a firearm or hope the wife can still swing the skillet ! Anyways, prayers for Anne, her family and friends, and the LRPD whom I hope catches the perp....better yet, hope he "tries to escape".

Lessons to be learned:
NEVER open your door to anyone you don't know after dark!

Call the police FIRST to report ANY suspicious person on your property, and THEN go investigate.

Keep your doors and widows locked, even in the "safe" area of the heights.

Always charge/keep your cellphones in the bedroom.

Reinforce your doors with good locks and large, 160degree+ view-angle peepholes. (about $50-85)

IF someone wants to come in and use your phone (often a ruse to gain entry), HAND them a portable (not your cell) or better yet, offer to make the call for them.

If they don't leave, or try to force entry, ALWAYS have either:
1) the proper tools capable of neutralizing the attack, and the training necessary to operate that "tool" or;
2) the physical strength, stamina, and determination to stop violent attack until the police arrive.

Don't rely on dogs, mace, or other "feel good" measures to deter a determined, violent, attacker.
(Even though the "experts" recommend a dog for self-defense, in this case, cocker spaniels are poor substitutes)

If you can afford it, install a monitored alarm system and test it yearly.

Re-evaluate your exterior lighting and vegetation around the house to make your house unattractive to robbers/burglars.

Thanks, boomer, that's excellent advice. However, I'd amend the first one (about not opening doors) by striking through the two words "after dark." NEVER open your door to strangers, period.

It is ridiculous that advice like that has to be circulated. What kind of city do we live in that requires residents to live in fear. We laughed at pictures in the same neighborhood of an expensive SUV on blocks but don't consider nonviolent crime a problem.

Mayor Stodola lauds his administrations drop in violent crime but fails to mention the surge in nonviolent crime.

It doesn't take long for the criminals to become worse and progress from petty crime to violent crime.

And then we are forced to live in fear as captives in our own houses.

It's time for a change in leadership in Pulaski County.

eLwood has a point in that the "golden hour" after trauma is critical and often surving that is a good marker for survival. Obviously 6 hours is better than one.

Unfortunately, the severity of the injury cannot always be based on that and clearly this is a terrible life threatening injury.

I hate it very mush. Maybe she'll wake up and identify her attackers.
And for sure young women you have no business living alone. YOU will become a bulls eye.
You never know if a gun or any weapon would have helped because she may have been attacked before she could think about defending herself.

A woman who once lived here move to LR after her husband died and a black man went in her house in the daytime and raped her more than once and if she hadn't taken the chance and ran outside she probably wouldn't be alive today.. When she ran out of her house naked where she ran into the former governor Frank White who tried to catch the rapist but was not able to catch him.

All of you are right, "Chasv is an idiot"!

STFU chasv!

That is the most convoluted, brainless line of reasoning I have ever heard in my life, but no surprise coming from a misogynist like chasv.

When you make such a profoundly wreckless statement such as:

"And for sure young women you have no business living alone..."

Then you really have no business thinking that anything you say in relation to anything, period, has even a trace of significance or adherence to the real world where the rest of us reside.

I truly hope that Anne pulls through.

This is terrible...just terrible...

Hearing horrible things coming out of the stupid rumor mill...

Rosso, I agree. Rumor mill sucks. This is why the family has requested no information be released at this time.

Oh cici what a sad little world you live in!!! When every time someone is attacked it must some how be tied in to political ideology? I feel sorry for you for having to live in your world....sorry for those who might have to speak to you ...and especially sorry for us who have to read your mindless barely coherent brain dribble.
I guess along your way of thinking I might have to wonder if you are the perp because you thought she was Coulter?
geez....get a grip.

Rumors of this type often circulate because of a factual vacuum. Maybe releasing factual updates would combat this. But, of course, this should be the family's last concern at a time like this.

MAK, take a breath. CiCi properly qualified her remarks and noted that her postulation was unlikely to be legitimate. She is no more off base than anyone else who is postulating based on pure conjecture. She drew no conclusions and certainly said nothing to warrant your hostility (or at least your extreme defensiveness).

There should be no comments on this thread other than prayers and support for Anne and her family. This is a terrible thing. Stop using this as an opportunity to exchange jabs at each other. That is ridiculous.

My prayers are with you Anne.

You should take a breath too Victor. While I appreciate and agree with your sentiment, that's what this blog does...it lets people comment about anything and everything until their heart is content. You don't have to like it (and are free to refrain from reading if you don't) but you also shouldn't expect it to change. Sadly, it is what it is.

hummmm you people are as crazy as your comments.
I didn't tell you all that I prayed for her because it is none your business although I don't mind telling you now I did.
I am in agreement with many of your comments.

It is a fact Little Rock is a terrible place to live and raise children.

You bleeding heart liberals suck.

Sometimes chasv acts as though there's a real human being inside all that idiocy. Today, not so much.

Yeah, chasv needs to take a breath too. Breathe people, breathe.

This wasn't random crime, and this sort of thing can happen anywhere. You aren't an iota safer chasv, wherever you live.

A beautiful young woman in the public eye like Anne Presley who is single and lives alone is a target. This kind of thing never happens in the Heights or similar neighborhoods. There is a reason it happened to who it happened to, there has to be.

I have a strong feeling we'll find out this is someone who knew her, or at least had approached her and behaved suspiciously before. I hope when they find him, he gets the worst the law has to offer.

This wasn't random crime, and this sort of thing can happen anywhere. You aren't an iota safer chasv, wherever you live.

A beautiful young woman in the public eye like Anne Presley who is single and lives alone is a target. This kind of thing never happens in the Heights or similar neighborhoods. There is a reason it happened to who it happened to, there has to be.

I have a strong feeling we'll find out this is someone who knew her, or at least had approached her and behaved suspiciously before. I hope when they find him, he gets the worst the law has to offer.

You people are showing your true mettle...trying to show how cute you are by arguing pointless issues about rumors, etc.

This is about the terrible attack against Ann Pressley.

My prayers are with Ann, and you knuckle heads who have no decency!

You people are showing your true mettle...trying to show how cute you are by arguing pointless issues about rumors, etc.

This is about the terrible attack against Ann Pressley.

My prayers are with Ann, and you knuckle heads who have no sense of decency!

Catfish, these are the same doofi who went on ad nauseum when Mr. Glasgow went missing. Glad to see someone else point out that life is not a Columbo episode, there are real people with real feelings and the rest of us should just stay quiet and pray.

Catfish, these are the same doofi who went on ad nauseum when Mr. Glasgow went missing. Glad to see someone else point out that life is not a Columbo episode, there are real people with real feelings and the rest of us should just stay quiet and pray.

Max, please! It's obvious that Catfish, chas, and sanford are actually the same person. It's John McCain!!!! LOL.

Sorry, Max, I forgot that McCain doe not know how to use a computer.

And, I obviously forgot what this thread was really about...I hope this young woman is going to fully recover and that the monster who almost killed her is going to be arrested.

"A woman who once lived here move to LR after her husband died and a black man went in her house in the daytime and raped her more than once and if she hadn't taken the chance and ran outside she probably wouldn't be alive today.. When she ran out of her house naked where she ran into the former governor Frank White who tried to catch the rapist but was not able to catch him"

chasv-
I will interested in your 'commentary' when the full story comes out and the perp turns out to be a jaded lover/stalker who most likely and statistically would be from her 'own background'. But of course you'll be "conveniently" too busy to enlighten us at such a time....

but I've seen some rwingers who are just as convinced as Al Qaeda that they speak for God and are on a mission ordained by God. - Posted by: Ci.Ci

CiCi properly qualified her remarks and noted that her postulation was unlikely to be legitimate. -Posted by: ArkRoyD
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A little self-control in this tragic situation would be helpful. CC's comment reads like just another cheap shot too good to resist. Politicians (and their supporters) do this all the time when they want to make baseless allegations against their opponent. "I'm sure this isn't true but yada yada yada . . ."
Tsk, Tsk.

Ok, well to all those who have problems with CiCi's inference that this *could* have something to do with her role in the W movie (something even police investigate because it is part of the facts of her life and therefore has to be considered before being ruled out), you can now direct your anger over such an inference to Drudge who has it listed on the home page, including reference to the W movie.

This is a horrible thing to happen to anybody, regardless of what part of town they live in, their social strata, etc. My prayers are with Ms. Pressley and her family. This sort of violent crime is all too common in our society today and we have all grown somewhat jaded to it. However, no police force can offer absolute protection to it's citizens. Modern law enforcement's role is to investigate the crime, find the perpetrator and make an arrest. As far as personal protection goes, you are pretty much on your own.

I am not one to go spreading around rumors but I overheard a credible co-worker tell another co-worker this morning that "something something Attorney General something she died at 3:00 p.m. yesterday and they don't want it out in public." in regards to Anne Pressly.

Please tell me there isn't a conspiracy issue going on....

My prayers go out to Anne as she fights to recover from this attack. What a shame she didn't have a gun like the men who shot their attackers in last weeks home invasion. Sam Colt made us all equals.

I am disturbed that the LR television news media are being secretive about the location of the attack because it happened to one of theirs in an upscale neighborhood. If this would have occured in O-ninerville in Southwest Little Rock they would have told us the nearest intersection. It would appear that they don't want to alert the folks in the Heights near the Country Club that crime exists in their backyard, too.

A few years ago I was on my way home from work and came upon a police roadblock on Kavanaugh. The officer said that they were looking for a teenager with a gun who had taken a couple of shots at someone. Again, if this would have happened on Baseline Road it would have been breathlessly reported by the media. It happened in the Heights and you never heard a word about it. Sure looks like a double standard.

Ovation - What are you talking about? The address has been published a number of times on a number of media outlets. And no doubt had the person involved been any other very public person, black, white, tall, short, male, female ... there would be just as much interest. Look hard enough and you can find a slight in every single thing that happens on Earth.

Shhhh! It is a secret.

Drive down Club road, look closely for the big satellite truck and the yellow tape around the yard.

But I agree the media is acting respectfully and responsibly in this case which is a huge double standard.