Tragic and scary

Man Slain In Attack on Couple in Georgetown: Three assailants who cut the throat of an aspiring politician from Britain killed him and tried to rape his female companion early yesterday in the driveway of a Georgetown mansion, police reported, after the couple had returned from a night at the movies. (WP)

What a terrible shame. This awful story reminds me of my #1 DC safety tip for new residents: counterintuitively, it is sometimes safer to stay away from upper income (read: mugging target) areas late at night. Or perhaps this tip should be rephrased as, "nowhere is really 100% safe. Don't count on standard visual cues like cleaner streets or fancier houses...take a cab and get inside quickly."