TheGoodBits Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Haven't been to a ton of sketchy places... -Worst was experience was probably Baltimore. I went to a Nats/O's game and it was rain delayed for about an hour and a half. The game didn't end until close to 1am. We parked a good bit away from the stadium, through a nice neighborhood, but once we got in the car and tried to make our way back to the highway we got a little turned around (damn one way streets). This was pre-smart phone and before GPS systems were popular. Ended up a few blocks back into downtown Bmore, finally got turned around, and hit a red light that felt like it lasted 5 minutes. It was probably only 30 seconds but there weren't any cars around and the people sitting on the bench on the sidewalk were staring at us. Ran the light after 30 seconds and got the hell out of there. -Jamaica was kind of crappy. We were insulated. DIdn't leave the resort we stayed at, but got to see the poverty on the drive there. It was depressing and I don't think we'll be going back. -And Madrid isn't sketchy at all but I got pickpocketed at 5am right outside my hotel waiting for a bus to take my group to the airport. Caught the **** in the act and made him give me my wallet back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbs Hog Heaven Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Hmmmmm Does being escorted into Vladikavkaz by two Russian MIGS either side of the plane then sat outside a bar surrounded by Russian troups watching missiles fly through the air a mere 20 miles away in Checnya count? The joys of travelling for live sport. Hail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinz4Life12 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 My wife is from Honduras and is going back home to Tegucigalpa for two weeks (her flight leaves tomorrow). I'm pretty worried for her and she hasn't been there since 2008. Luckily her Dad and lots of other family still live there Also, LOL at "Soufeast" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_Bleed_B&G Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Lived in Baltimore while going to school and one night my friend and I went out. Around 2am, we stopped at the food spot on Lombard street to get some cheesesteaks. Friend stayed in the car and I went in. When I came back out with our food, some dude tried to jack me for my cheesesteaks. I basically told him to F off and I wasn't giving up my food. Of course, I didn't see he had about 5 of his boys in the cut. The dude pushed me and I knocked him out and then his other boys all jumped me and some how I rolled out of it while my friend pulled up in his car and threw the passenger door open. I ran and jumped in and we took off but not before 1 of the guys jumped on the hood. We rolled driving down Lombard Street with a dude on the hood for about 5 blocks swerving all over the place to try to knock him off. You could hear his legs hitting the ground lool. He started crying and begging for us to stop. We stopped and he jump off and we took off. Never went back to that place again haha. Fun times. I've seen so much crap in Bmore when I lived there. Even found a dead guy on our porch once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93 Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share Posted August 1, 2014 .... **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC9 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Mogadishu. /close thread A little before my time. I would have to say it differ depending on what I was doing. But just straight up "I am not digging it here right now?" would be The Samara Jungle in Iraq and Orgun-E in Afghanistan. Your boy was pretty sure that was it more than once. In the states it was easily Atlanta. Lived in Baltimore while going to school and one night my friend and I went out. Around 2am, we stopped at the food spot on Lombard street to get some cheesesteaks. Friend stayed in the car and I went in. When I came back out with our food, some dude tried to jack me for my cheesesteaks. I basically told him to F off and I wasn't giving up my food. Of course, I didn't see he had about 5 of his boys in the cut. The dude pushed me and I knocked him out and then his other boys all jumped me and some how I rolled out of it while my friend pulled up in his car and threw the passenger door open. I ran and jumped in and we took off but not before 1 of the guys jumped on the hood. We rolled driving down Lombard Street with a dude on the hood for about 5 blocks swerving all over the place to try to knock him off. You could hear his legs hitting the ground lool. He started crying and begging for us to stop. We stopped and he jump off and we took off. Must've been that New York cheesecake spot in little Haiti by the Baltimore Arena? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shiv Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I've lived in Chicago two years and is definitely nuts here. Two of my coworkers have been shot, I've had a whole bike and two wheels stolen, my apartment has been broken into with all electronics stolen and my car has been side swiped twice, the one time they got the license plate number on the car that hit mine it came back as stolen. I grew up in DC(southeast) went to college in the Bronx and lived in Seattle for several years and this is by far the scariest place I've lived, I dont trust anyone here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC9 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Hmmmmm Does being escorted into Vladikavkaz by two Russian MIGS either side of the plane then sat outside a bar surrounded by Russian troups watching missiles fly through the air a mere 20 miles away in Checnya count? The joys of travelling for live sport. Hail. I've tried about five times to type out a story to match this one. But I just can't do it. Hopefully you're out here in the fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky21 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Lived in some bad parts of Philly and Vegas. Now I live in the virgin islands and were ranked around 3 for highest murder rate per capita. I've seen or been around several shootings the last couple years. Have had a gun to me 4 times at least.I had never heard this before. Be careful and thanks for the tip. I guess I'm like the 17th person with this story but the skeerdest I ever was was walking the wrong streets of Baltimore in the late 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibbs Hog Heaven Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I've tried about five times to type out a story to match this one. But I just can't do it. Hopefully you're out here in the fall. Only 39 of us made that trip. On the players plane. The only plane that went uncannily enough lol. (And I have a boss story of what Fowler did to Ruddocks shoes on the flight home and what a pissed Ruddock did to Fowler mid air when he woke up. I'll save that for the family dinner table.). Seeing L'pool in a Checnyan war zone. You don't get that with the Redskins. Lol. The most surreal experience. That will be on my headstone. 'I was one of the Vladikavkaz 39!' Lol. Hail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinton "F'n" Portis Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Southside DC ain't that bad, but that's probably cause I used to be there all the time. Langston Lane, Third World, MLK, Barry Farm, Buena Vista, etc. But parts of DC have there bad spots KDY used to pop all the time, remember this one old head chasing around some young boy with a machete at a stop sign, straight hopped out the whip...gotta love Uptown. Trinidad gets down too. But Newark is poppin...my ex wife from up there off Elizabeth Ave right by the Bricks...sheesh, had me shook a few times lol. Compton was straight Blooded up in the neighborhoods I was in, went to a strip club when I was visiting my boy's dad out there and walked in let's just say I am glad I wore a gray shirt. Hell, down every alley at every light all you seen was red...it's a lifestyle out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_Bleed_B&G Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 /close thread A little before my time. I would have to say it differ depending on what I was doing. But just straight up "I am not digging it here right now?" would be The Samara Jungle in Iraq and Orgun-E in Afghanistan. Your boy was pretty sure that was it more than once. In the states it was easily Atlanta. Must've been that New York cheesecake spot in little Haiti by the Baltimore Arena? If I remember correctly the place was called "Upper Deck" on the corner of Lombard and Eutaw St. There was a parking lot right next to Upper Deck and that is where all the action happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chew Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 But parts of DC have there bad spots KDY used to pop all the time, remember this one old head chasing around some young boy with a machete at a stop sign, straight hopped out the whip...gotta love Uptown. that's so funny. i was a young dude living up top around Georgia Ave and New Hampshire near the Blackhole, it seemed semi-normal to me. But uptown to you was a mad house. To me, southside was a warzone LOL. Used to post up around 7th (Sevenf) & Kennedy all the time. We'd be at the Palace to see UCB every Wednesday. And don't even get me started on Trinidad. The girl I was dating at the time lived on Neal Street, about two blocks from Trinidad. This was late spring/early summer of 2000 when northeast was on FIRE and Trinidad was beefing with Hechinger Mall. Dawg, I kid you not....I went to pick her up for prom....the National Guard had the entire neighborhood blocked off. Humvees and Army soldiers were walking all over the place. Flood lights in the middle of Trinidad Ave, it was madness. So i had to park 3 blocks away and walk through the hood in my tuxedo. Picked up my girl, took pictures and all that. We walked 3 blocks back to the car, and the army soldiers with M-16s were walking past us like "you guys look cute" and stuff. God damn Trinidad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Parts of Alexandria and D.C. during the 70's early 80's. Same for South Miami in the mid 80's. Spent some time in a part of Norfolk Va. back in 75 that was scary too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulane Skins Fan Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 For me Baltimore. And in the ghetto in Landover, MD. In Landover, the wife booked a hotel in the wrong part of town back in 2002. Our car broke down while in a McDonald's drive thru at 11pm, it was very sketchy. We had to sit in our car with our Redskins tickets, all our money, etc. until 2am when the tow truck got there. The staff told us good luck when they closed at midnight. There happened to be a Toyota dealership down the road from the hotel she booked, we went there and ended up buying a car the next morning (her axle sheared and it would cost more to replace it than buy a new one, old car). Guy selling us the car asked what happened, we told him the story and he was like y'all are lucky you didn't get robbed or stabbed. Then he said that he was black and won't come near there after 6pm when it got dark. It was not a very comforting conversation to say the least. Followed GPS back to the DC area from Mercy Hospital deposition one time... holy moley. Wow. It took me through something absolutely terrifying. Called my wife to tell her I might get car jacked any moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Never went back to that place again haha. Fun times. I've seen so much crap in Bmore when I lived there. Even found a dead guy on our porch once. Uhhh that part is probably the weirdest part of the whole story. Was he shot? Or just like a dead passed out homeless guy? I've been to Africa twice, so I supposed Nairobi, Kenya or Dakar, Senegal would have to be the answer. But honestly I never felt in danger in either place. I've also been to St. Lucia and remember walking through a shanty town with these two rastas. The most threatened I ever felt was at Jordan Down Projects in Watts so I guess that would be my answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRuSS0iiFyo Pretty sure this is the worst place in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93 Posted August 1, 2014 Author Share Posted August 1, 2014 Stories like these is why my mom never let me go to DC (she is super overprotective lol)My part of PG county is pretty chill but everybody thinks PG as a whole is super ghetto. It's really not lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I_Bleed_B&G Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Uhhh that part is probably the weirdest part of the whole story. Was he shot? Or just like a dead passed out homeless guy? I believe he was crackhead. Opened the door one morning to go grab breakfast and dude was sprawled out. Thought he had passed out until I saw his eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clinton "F'n" Portis Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 that's so funny. i was a young dude living up top around Georgia Ave and New Hampshire near the Blackhole, it seemed semi-normal to me. But uptown to you was a mad house. To me, southside was a warzone LOL. Used to post up around 7th (Sevenf) & Kennedy all the time. We'd be at the Palace to see UCB every Wednesday. Yeah, Uptop ain't what it used to be, definitely calmed down...used to beef hard with the Southside but that's not even like that even more...used to be up on KDY all the time...played ball not too far from there at the Dolph (Rudolph Elementary)...was all over Uptown. ..2nd n G (Gallitan), Kansas, Ingraham....police definitely had UPT on lock...making us pay rent and **** lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Springfield Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 You can't have a talk about ghettos without invoking this ICONIC Dave Chappelle bit. NSFW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRAVEONTHEWARPATH93 Posted August 2, 2014 Author Share Posted August 2, 2014 ^^^^ Classic "Hey baby!! Stop selling weed!! You got ya whole life ahead of you!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 West Baltimore. I was at Johns Hopkins when my father was a patient there. It was like 6 pm, the sun was starting to go down. I mentioned to my brother that i was out of gas and needed to stop on my way out of town. The doctor turned to me and, in the voice that says "Im a ****ing doctor, do as i say" he turned to me and said "you need to leave right now. when you get to the gas station, get out, lock the doors, pump the gas, get back in and drive away. . . . go now." Holy ****. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balki1867 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 I blame leaded gas. I'm not sure if you're being funny or serious but there is a pretty large school of thought that lead in your body has serious implications on your frontal cortex (the part of your brain that keeps you from acting too impulsively), and some people believe that the reduction of crime over the past 25 years is actually tied to the moment we realized (much earlier) how dangerous lead is and removed it from paint/gasoline. There was a really good article about it a few years ago written as a rebuttal to the "Roe vs Wade" theory that they printed in Freakonomics: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubble Screen Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Charlotte's Hidden Valley area. /close thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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