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neosapien

neosapien

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manfredo said:
I got lost in a really bad DC neighborhood just blocks from the capitol in my early 20's....Got chased out of there and I was scared shitless...We were trying to do some sight seeing. I remember we saw a sign for I-95 and we said lets get the fuck outta here! Never been back!
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The buddy I visited in VT was doing an internship in St Thomas after graduation. So another buddy and I went and visited him and his future wife down there. He was working and she picked us up from the airport. She immediately drove us to the Caribbean ghetto to get weed straight from the airport. We were driving in the shanty town and then all of a sudden were stopped because a bicycle was in the middle of the road. And I was like fuck this is a setup this is how we get robbed and possibly murdered. Fuck we just got here. And then some dude ran out and moved the bike and everything was fine but it was sketchy as fuck lol.
 
FirstCavApache64

FirstCavApache64

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There were housing projects in DC in the 80s where the ambulance or fire truck wouldn't go without police escort. I worked down the street from 2 of the worst of them with Dominos Pizza. I had 2 employees murdered in a year period. We were robbed twice in the store. It has its bad areas for sure but also lot's of great places to visit. You just need to know where you're going so you don't end up in the wrong spot.
 
MICHI-CAN

MICHI-CAN

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FirstCavApache64 said:
There were housing projects in DC in the 80s where the ambulance or fire truck wouldn't go without police escort. I worked down the street from 2 of the worst of them with Dominos Pizza. I had 2 employees murdered in a year period. We were robbed twice in the store. It has its bad areas for sure but also lot's of great places to visit. You just need to know where you're going so you don't end up in the wrong spot.
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Sounds like "Benton Harlem" on MI's East side. An EMT friend took a job there for higher than average wages of the time. He and his fellow ambulance driver would flip a coin to see who was driving. And who was diving out the back door to do a mobile extraction. Emergency personnel came under regular fire.
 
FirstCavApache64

FirstCavApache64

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We had bulletproof windows like a bank and a bullet proof take out box that we'd put the pizzas in and then the customers would open the door on their side to get the pizza. Our drivers earned double what other Domino's guys got because it was the only way we could get them to work in that area. I went from there to Baltimore in a really dangerous neighborhood and then to Atlanta as I had become a sort of specialist in high crime area store supervision. They paid great but it was 7 days a week and long hours as a supervisor.
 
tyler.durden

tyler.durden

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neosapien said:
The buddy I visited in VT was doing an internship in St Thomas after graduation. So another buddy and I went and visited him and his future wife down there. He was working and she picked us up from the airport. She immediately drove us to the Caribbean ghetto to get weed straight from the airport. We were driving in the shanty town and then all of a sudden were stopped because a bicycle was in the middle of the road. And I was like fuck this is a setup this is how we get robbed and possibly murdered. Fuck we just got here. And then some dude ran out and moved the bike and everything was fine but it was sketchy as fuck lol.
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I was honeymooning with the second wife in Negril, but we went across to Montego Bay for a day. We ran out of money (they had the best weed and KILLER coke out there), so her mom wired us more. I have never seen anything like that town, it was our first time off of the resorts. Even the cab driver looked nervous. He said he would wait right there, which was like 15 ft from the Western Union door, and that we should go directly in, and very quickly straight back to the cab. We wouldn't have lasted an hour if anything happened to that cabbie...
 
shnkrmn

shnkrmn

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My beds are still covered in snow. I plan to turn 9 raised beds into 6 this season as part of a multi season redesign so I have to shift a few yards of medium before I can put anything in. Most years we wait almost until June to plant because soil temps stunt everything until then anyway.
 
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