I walk through "bad" neighborhoods all the time and I never run into any trouble. I think you guys watch too much tv. Nobody's gonna run up on you and start shooting.
Grow a pair.
I walk through "bad" neighborhoods all the time and I never run into any trouble. I think you guys watch too much tv. Nobody's gonna run up on you and start shooting.
Grow a pair.
If you don't look like much, no one will mess with you. But if you stop at a gas station at night in a 'bad' neighborhood and you're dressed nice and getting in a nice car and you're white, there's a much higher risk someone might try something with you than if you're none of those things I just said. Chances go up at night because more alcohol is drank at night and people make decisions they might not usually make when they've had some alcohol. 'Bad' neighborhoods usually have more foot traffic, so greater risk of passing by one of those people who is intoxicated.
Now if you're running, nothing's going to happen. A runner isn't worth messing with.
I was shot by a kid with a BB gun a few years ago in a bad neighborhood. There were 3 of them so I took off sprinting. I had some kids chase me on their bikes while I was running last year. In the same area around the same time, two kids killed a guy with a hammer and stole his bicycle. These things all happened on heavily travelled bike paths. I have been robbed twice at gas stations while travelling across the country.
I remember one time in Baltimore, teammates and me were running through a bad area to get to our track (called it the Danger Zone) couple of guys started hurling a bottle or two at my friend. Missed him by mere feet, but he was nonplussed about it even though it would've hurt like hell. I'd more worry about some idiocy like that then getting beat up or whatever while running. Walking I would steer clear of alleyways, had a friend get mugged and that's not exactly uncommon depending on where you are. No, people aren't likely to shoot you, but they'll steal your wallet, phone etc. at night.
Going to a concert in LA, ATL, DET, CHI, NYC, Houston, DC and get a flat tire? Say your prayers!
NYC? Uh, no you'd be totally fine with a couple of exceptions.
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Going to a concert in LA, ATL, DET, CHI, NYC, Houston, DC and get a flat tire? Say your prayers!
brad99 wrote:
I walk through "bad" neighborhoods all the time and I never run into any trouble. I think you guys watch too much tv. Nobody's gonna run up on you and start shooting.
Grow a pair.
What specific bad neighborhoods do you walk through?
There are certainly parts of North Philly that I wouldn’t walk through after dark. But you are certainly free to walk wherever you wish.
Anyway, what compelling reason exists for walking through bad neighborhoods? Truly rough neighborhoods aren’t going to have any kind of amenity that is worth taking even a little bit of risk for. Even if I wasn’t concerned at all about crime, I just can’t imagine why I’d make a point of walking through a neighborhood that contains nothing but dilapidated row homes and abandoned buildings with no opened businesses in sight.
brad99 wrote:
I walk through "bad" neighborhoods all the time and I never run into any trouble. I think you guys watch too much tv. Nobody's gonna run up on you and start shooting.
Grow a pair.
I've been held up at gunpoint, and so have a bunch of my friends. Maybe you don't know what a bad neighborhood is. What's the point of this thread?
brad99 wrote:
I walk through "bad" neighborhoods all the time and I never run into any trouble. I think you guys watch too much tv. Nobody's gonna run up on you and start shooting.
Grow a pair.
Nobody F's wid me, right Craig?
Bye, bye Felicia.
FBI crime statistics are very informative.
brad99 wrote:
I walk through "bad" neighborhoods all the time and I never run into any trouble. I think you guys watch too much tv. Nobody's gonna run up on you and start shooting.
Grow a pair.
You obviously didn’t live in a major urban city in the 80s during the crack epidemic. Get into your time machine and walk around the perimeter of the Mondawin mall in Baltimore circa 1987. Try Brownsville/Bedstuy 1983.
Today, you could try Lake city Florida, Camden, NJ
In the usa with the high crime rate it would be wise to be careful. In western europe i am fine going/running in any area there is
But Seman you are a man running in Western europe. Ask your female look-a-likes how it works for them.
brad99 wrote:
I walk through "bad" neighborhoods all the time and I never run into any trouble. I think you guys watch too much tv. Nobody's gonna run up on you and start shooting.
Grow a pair.
I agree with you. I have contempt for people who fear boogie men. I lived in a "bad" neighborhood for many years without even a single incident. I go to a "good" neighborhood and am attacked, not once, but twice by so called "respectable"-looking people. Wound up a bleeding mess after once of the attacks. I quickly learned not to trust people who hide behind their privilege.
A couple decades ago my wife and I were walking through a sketchy neighborhood near where we lived in Venice, CA and a lady walking by said, “Who left the refrigerator door open and let the milk bottles out?” We laughed.
got myself multiple pairs wrote:
I agree with you. I have contempt for people who fear boogie men. I lived in a "bad" neighborhood for many years without even a single incident. I go to a "good" neighborhood and am attacked, not once, but twice by so called "respectable"-looking people. Wound up a bleeding mess after once of the attacks. I quickly learned not to trust people who hide behind their privilege.
Yeah, and don't come back to the Hamptons, b**** or you'll get it twice as bad next time.
I run through neighborhoods considered bad, with higher crime, often. Usually, I am ignored. Sometimes people encourage me. The times there has been anything negative involving people saying or doing something, rather than dogs or cars endangering me, have been minuscule. Kids threw rocks at me once when I was running in Bamako, Mali in an area with dirt streets, once when I was walking to the train station in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and once in urban Florida last year, plus someone threw a baseball over my head in Berkeley near Oakland a long time ago. Almost all of the negative comments have come from white men, mostly young, in cars or trucks.
I go by facts, not guesses.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2780040?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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got myself multiple pairs wrote:
I agree with you. I have contempt for people who fear boogie men. I lived in a "bad" neighborhood for many years without even a single incident. I go to a "good" neighborhood and am attacked, not once, but twice by so called "respectable"-looking people. Wound up a bleeding mess after once of the attacks. I quickly learned not to trust people who hide behind their privilege.
Yeah, and don't come back to the Hamptons, b**** or you'll get it twice as bad next time.
Violence and hate are ubiquitous to all Y-bearing humans. Don't get haughty and self congratulatory. You're far more likely to lash out and harm me in a dark alley than I am you. You don't get a pass just because of your skin color. At least not from me.