Damn nation. That's rough.
Yeah, they shoved 41 people into a cell made for 20+ people. Tight squeeze.
What place have you felt the most "unsafe" in?
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Damn nation. That's rough.
Yeah, they shoved 41 people into a cell made for 20+ people. Tight squeeze.
There was this one time me, a buddy who was a pornstar and another guy I kind of knew named Todd went to this big drug dealer's house. We were trying to score some cash by selling him some baking powder that we told him was cocaine.
As soon as we go in, this guy is effed out of his mind in his bathrobe and listening to "Sister Christian" while this Asian kid is in the corner throwing firecrackers inside the house. They do all of this while their big black bodyguard with a gun goes to weigh the dope. The drug dealer actually starts playing Russian Roulette after we turned down his offer to play baseball.
Our buddy Todd said he wanted $5k for it. We were so scared especially after Todd said he wanted to see the freaking vault. They all started shooting, two of them got smoked as I jumped in my camaro and got the hell out of there unscathed.
As soon as we go in, this guy is effed out of his mind in his bathrobe and listening to "Sister Christian" while this Asian kid is in the corner throwing firecrackers inside the house. They do all of this while their big black bodyguard with a gun goes to weigh the dope. The drug dealer actually starts playing Russian Roulette after we turned down his offer to play baseball.
Our buddy Todd said he wanted $5k for it. We were so scared especially after Todd said he wanted to see the freaking vault. They all started shooting, two of them got smoked as I jumped in my camaro and got the hell out of there unscathed.
+1. I visited once. Crazy stuff.
Mortaritaville (Balad AB) in early '06. Usually early morning and again just before dusk. Ramadi also received some crazy incoming back in those days.
Holy crap - this validates my buddy's story. He was a freshman at UK years ago and got arrested for assaulting a cop (funny story - not really assault, but that's what they charged him with). Anyway, he plead it down to resisting arrest but he had to spend a night in the slammer as punishment. Not the waiting room - but the real jail. Anyway, he got put in with general population, but whenever they all got loud the bailiff would walk in and threaten to send them "to the 6th floor", and that quieted them all down real fast.
New Orleans.
Yeah, the tourist attractions are fun and all. But outside of those, that whole place is a sh!thole.
Memphis is no fun either. Had my head on a swivel every minute I was in that hell hole.
Yeah, the tourist attractions are fun and all. But outside of those, that whole place is a sh!thole.
Memphis is no fun either. Had my head on a swivel every minute I was in that hell hole.
Went out clubbing in Amsterdam once... Gets crazy af... Got really messed up and literally had 0 recollection of anything
Assembly Hall December 2011.
Vile disgusting pieces of **** there.
Vile disgusting pieces of **** there.
In a raft on the upper Gauley about 20 years ago. Got pitched into class 4 or 5 rapids, felt like I was in a washing machine for a few seconds till I popped up and they retrieved me back into the raft. Swore I would NEVER do that again, and haven't.
(2nd place = a few years ago, had a blowout on I-65 in Birmingham in major construction area, where there were concrete walls on either side, just barely made it to a small area where we could pull over. Scared the living "ish" out of me. A couple of road crew guys pulled their pickup over near us, helped me unload the car and change the tire, those guys were great!!)
(2nd place = a few years ago, had a blowout on I-65 in Birmingham in major construction area, where there were concrete walls on either side, just barely made it to a small area where we could pull over. Scared the living "ish" out of me. A couple of road crew guys pulled their pickup over near us, helped me unload the car and change the tire, those guys were great!!)
Downtown Cincy. Not sure the street or area. Had been bar hoping. Was buzzing a little. Parked in a area that looked safe in daylight but wasnt at night. Started walking down a street. At the end it was lined up with 10-12 black guys. We made no eye contact and walked fast. They made some comments and started to follow us. A guy comes running says Ill help you get out. Scared to death we said yes. We get to our car and start to drive. We need to piss a bad so we stop at a house. Its like split up in apartments. Walk in and people lined up passed out in the hallway. Guy tells us piss in the floor. He comes back with a hooker and bag a blow. He tells us leave fast and we run to the car. Some guys were chasing us. We get in the car and get out on the street. My friend a little nervous and buzzing runs over some guy. The hooker and guy we picked up told us not to stop get the hell out of there. We drive around a couple more blocks. They tell us to pull over that us white boys to crazy for them. We leave find our way out.
Memphis in 94 maybe. Went down to watch the Cats play Ole Miss in the Pyramid. Stop to eat after the game. Turned the wrong way coming out of the restaurant parking lot. Got hopelessly lost in the wrong part of town. Finally saw a cop car at a gas station and got directions back to the hotel.
I was there from 92-94. One kid lost his life being blown off the flight deck by a jet starting up. Took us 2 hours to find him.
Me and my wife were in new orleans for a conference for about 3 days about 2 years ago. One of the nights we had dinner at this nice local restaurant, and then were going to take a stroll to and through the marigny district there, which is a really nice fun area. It was march and like 75 degrees so we figured we'd walk there as it was only about a mile. About 1/4 of the way in the walk I looked around and just see all these boarded houses and the most slum looking area I can ever remember. Me and my pretty blonde wife ended up in a dead sprint the last 3/4 of a mile with both our hearts racing. That city is a mess.
Women do not like cowardice. I'm sure she secretly holds it against you. Therefore you must return to the very spot you fled from, show her you are in control. Loudly challenge anyone within earshot to a fight just to reassure her you are not afraid.
[laughing] Feel free to add it to the list of things she probably holds against me over the years.
Stopped in a gas station off of 77 in WV coming back from South Carolina once. That place must have had about 10 people in it and when I walked in everybody stopped what they were doing and stared the entire time I was in there. Keep in mind at the time I was probably 15, 125 lbs., and i'm white. I felt like I was in the movie "Wrong Turn"
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Bridgeport, CT
Bronx, NY
Atlanta, west of Georgia Dome
My own house as a kid until 1976 when my parents got a divorce
Bronx, NY
Atlanta, west of Georgia Dome
My own house as a kid until 1976 when my parents got a divorce
Wal Mart on Black Friday. You don't know crazy until you see rednecks fighting over $1.00 bath towels. :boxing:
I once got caught between my mother-in-law and a buffet. Almost got trampled to death. Was in the hospital for a week.
Anyone every live near or even IN some of these areas? Lot different than driving your car through it for 15 minutes.
If you who went to college in a big city, probably lived near or even in one. I'd rather run through the worst areas for 10 minutes than live in modest ghetto for a few years, that's for sure. You end up becoming acclimated and start to feel safe most of the time, but when you walk out of your apartment a thousand times, law of numbers dictates you're going to have some trouble every so often.
Lived in Kingsbridge, Bronx for 3 years. Not terrible, but certainly not great. two break-ins, run-in with gang violence, and an actual shakedown. You generally stay on Broadway or the main streets and it's not bad. The good thing is you can go the same distance in the opposite direction to be surrounded by millionaires (Riverdale), so you try and spend time up that way and less time near the Harlem River.
I don't know how anyone could have lived off-campus at Fordham though. That's living IN some of the worst Neighborhoods in the U.S. Belmont and Norwood as a 19-year old with money? Not a good situation.
If you who went to college in a big city, probably lived near or even in one. I'd rather run through the worst areas for 10 minutes than live in modest ghetto for a few years, that's for sure. You end up becoming acclimated and start to feel safe most of the time, but when you walk out of your apartment a thousand times, law of numbers dictates you're going to have some trouble every so often.
Lived in Kingsbridge, Bronx for 3 years. Not terrible, but certainly not great. two break-ins, run-in with gang violence, and an actual shakedown. You generally stay on Broadway or the main streets and it's not bad. The good thing is you can go the same distance in the opposite direction to be surrounded by millionaires (Riverdale), so you try and spend time up that way and less time near the Harlem River.
I don't know how anyone could have lived off-campus at Fordham though. That's living IN some of the worst Neighborhoods in the U.S. Belmont and Norwood as a 19-year old with money? Not a good situation.
Actually, a guy did try to sell me some diamonds on the street in Lusaka
Spent two nights in a tree house in Zimbabwe above a waterhole that was open to the world. Leopard tracks about 100 yards down showed one passed in the night. Got stuck on the wrong side of Victoria Falls on Saturday night. The border had closed and the only place I could get had no ac and no running water.
Got propositioned by two hookers. We were supposed to have an armed guard in northern Zambia that didn't show up. One of the lumber companies over there wanted me to come back on my own and do some consulting and I politely declined. Told my company there was no way I was going back there
Philly, only 2-3 blocks from UPenn. It was amazing to me that the neighborhoods right next to a school like that could be so terrifying.
Weird how colleges always seem to be near the worst areas. I wonder if catholic or religious universities were originally near bad areas to help the poor and underprivileged? That's the best I can think of. Manhattan and Fordham are far from the only schools I know right in or near bad areas.
supposedly Yale is smack in the middle of an absolute sh*thole