OK, I'm writing this at the suggestion of my colleague, Angie Mason.
I was actually a bit reluctant to post it. As a downtown York resident, I find it annoying when I hear suburban residents talk as though they would be risking their lives to set foot in the city.
So let me say first of all that I love living in downtown York, which I'd done for ten years without once being threatened or accosted.
That changed last night, when I was attacked outside my home. And as you'll read in a moment, it wasn't exactly a brush with death.

