LUEshi wrote:
All of this is great advice, especially about the house parties. When I was 15 I went to an unkown party and got into a fight. After I landed the first haymaker, I was jumped by 6 or so of the guys friends and thrown head first into a fire hydrant. The impact shattered 5 of my teeth, and I had to spend an ungodly amount of time in a dentists’ chair.
[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
Doug Adams wrote:
I’d describe how the slums are in my area, but “The Wire” does a better job than I ever could. Rent/Buy/Download episodes because they are very accurate.
Wow, I’ve seen every season of The Wire, and if that shit is real, that’s fucking scary.[/quote]
I’ve only seen one episode, but I’d say that that’s about half the ghetto. Once you get past Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr boulevard, it becomes less dangerous but more depressing.
Thanks guys, love the feedback.
I’m not actually planning on going, I’m far too much of a pussy to do that. That and I live in another country. I’ve seen most of the crapholes of Toronto. Not as bad as the states, but in some 10 years it probably will be. I’ve just always been kinda interested in the other side of life.
[quote]LUEshi wrote:
If you decide to do a tour,
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don’t bother with stop signs and stop lights. The cops will understand you’re just trying not to get carjacked.
[quote]threewhitelights wrote:
LUEshi wrote:
If you decide to do a tour,
don’t bother with stop signs and stop lights. The cops will understand you’re just trying not to get carjacked.[/quote]
My dad back in the 70s got off at the wrong highway exit in New York. So here there are 4 suburban white guys in a brand new red Chevy something or other. It was a fairly nice car. Anyways, they found themselves right in the middle of Harlem in the peak of it being a shithole. He said they never stopped, not once. He said at every corner guys would start to approach the car in groups of 5-6. They just floored it the whole way untill they were out.
Said it was a freaky experiance.
Where?
in boston theres 14 year olds with guns.
in lawrence, theres like 3 people who speak english. the front porches of all the houses are tagged up or the sides of the house too. every single car has rims even the taxis.
I thought I saw some bad ghettos around middle GA cities until I went to Atlanta.
There are some rough parts there. Thats the first place I ever saw real hookers walking the streets at night. No joke, they holler at you when you drive by, all nasty looking crackhead skanks. Anyways This dude I was with took me through the old industrial area at night and around there to get some weed.
I kid you not, there was a black guy on every street corner just standing there waiting to sell some crack. When I went to a gas station over there, about 5 black duded swarmed around my truck and started pulling out some crack rocks and tryin to sell them. A cop rolled by while this was going on and he didn’t even stop, even though it was obvious what was going on.
One time I lived pretty close to the hood in Milledgeville, GA and some crazy stuff happened there. I got my house broken into 2 times and got the shit beat out of me when I was walking home one time (I was drunk, and could have avoided the whole incindent by ignoring crackheads). Anyways I got beat up and robbed and got a tooth knocked out but I lived and I was lucky to not have gotten killed. I was also approached by some nasty hookers there too. There was a crack house right accross the street on top of this barber shop which was right next to the police station.
There are lots of homeless crackheads who try to beg every person they see. I got hit up for money at least every day and sometimes by the same people over and over. I learned not to give them anything. I learned never to associate with a crackhead EVER. I learned not to walk by myself through a rough part of town at night.
Around here in Warner Robins GA,the trailer parks are pretty bad too. Ive been at friends houses at night when we heard gunshots and its kinda scary. Theres more stuff but this post is already long enough.
Long story short, its real and the things you hear about happen there. Go see it if you want to.
I lived in South Central LA for 2 year while in college, in the heart of the ghetto. It wasn’t as bad as it was made out to be, but some shit definitely went down.
-A buddy of mine was jumped by the bloodz, and had his nose broken, and was fucked up pretty bad. Apparently, it was just a random act of violence/ gang initiation.
-While walking to a party one night I saw two Mexican gang bangers being initiated. There were 4 guys, 2 of them were the “referees” and the other two were meant to fight each other. It was a freaking BRAWL. These two guys were absolutely wailing on each other, and the dude who was getting his ass kicked eventually came back to slam the other guys head against the hood of a car and proceeded to pummel him. They were eventually broken up by the two refs. This was all going on while a procession of drunk college students were walking down the opposing sidewalk.
-There was a girl who was moving into her apartment when she fell asleep and left her door open. A bum eventually found his way into the apartment, held her at knife point and raped her.
-There were a couple of bum fights, and I’ve been mad-dogged by gang bangers, but nothing too threatening.
We used to received emails all the time from DPS (campus police) about muggings and robberies going on around the area.
I hardly experienced any of it, and I used to come back from the library late at night, and leave early in the morning to work out. I was on a bike though, and made sure I flew down the streets.
You should just avoid it. If you do go make sure its middle of the day, even then its not safe. There are some parts of LA I would not go anywhere near. Even the good places are full of 100’s of bums/drug addicts.
Though when you think about it, its nothing when you compare it to other parts of the world.
I too want to do what the OP wants to do.
But add to that, I want to be in some place with an impending huge hurricane coming. I want to experience that.
Most of you that are talking about what goes on in ghettos do not know what you are talking about, this is not the movies. I live in a rough part of LA the heart of a certain gang, with rival gangs all around but, the thing is if you mind your own fucking business nothing will happen. Someone might try to sell you drugs but, here is an idea say no.
Where I live you see helicopters everyday and here the cops and ambulances flying by but, it is usually gang on gang crime. There is always a few innocent people that are caught in the crossfire but, the chances of you being killed are slim.
Like I said if you mind your business nothing will happen, if you go looking for trouble acting hard then you will be checked. I have lived in the same neighborhood my whole life and have only once been tried to be robbed, I say try because it as one guy that tried to rob me and a friend with a small pocket knife, as soon as he pointed it at me my friend knocked his ass out.
I will say one thing if you are walking down a street and see a group of gangsters than keep your head down and walk that is the only time I am nervous in most bad neighborhoods and to HH keeping your cell phone charge will not do a damn thing, once you are being chased you are fucked.
I wouldn’t mind taking a car trip through compton, just speeding on through during the day. Maybe yelling out obscenities at large groups of youth hanging out at street corners.
[quote]msd0060 wrote:
I too want to do what the OP wants to do.
But add to that, I want to be in some place with an impending huge hurricane coming. I want to experience that.[/quote]
I’ve been in that situation. I was in Hurricane Andrew back in the day. I slept through the damn thing!
For the europeans on here. Are there places like this in the 1st world countries of europe? England, Germany ect…
Are they as bad as the American craptowns?
[quote]xXSeraphimXx wrote:
I will say one thing if you are walking down a street and see a group of gangsters than keep your head down and walk that is the only time I am nervous in most bad neighborhoods and to HH keeping your cell phone charge will not do a damn thing, once you are being chased you are fucked.[/quote]
Agreed. The bit about the phone was if your car breaks down. Rather wait with the car instead of going walking and hoping for help.
Its pretty sad if you ask me. I went to college in South Central Los Angeles, and it just sucks. During football practice, a teammate of mine was stuck by a stray bullet from a random shooting about 1/4 mile away. Imagine doing your stretches and BOOM, you get hit in the shoulder by a bullet. During the OJ trial, when it came time for the verdict, 1000 cops in riot gear on the campus ready for any madness. Its sad, you see people around you who are less fortunate.
Yes I have. But I hate your shirt…
There are dirt poor neighborhoods, and then there are ghettos. I’ve had experience with both, heh.
[quote]elano wrote:
I thought I saw some bad ghettos around middle GA cities until I went to Atlanta.
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Yep.