Canada "Sketchy"

[RazorJAK]

Having spent quite a few debaucherous nights/weekends/weeks in Canuckistan, I LOL'ed!

[Tanukitsune]

Every time I hear how "sketchy" Atlanta can be, it makes me glad I chose to go to SDCC next year instead of Dragon Con. Jennie makes it look like you'll get mugged the moment you arrive! :jbangry:

[RazorJAK]

Pffft ... there's not much at Dragon*Con that forces you to leave the hotels except to cross the street from hotel to hotel.

Do that in groups.

Maybe I'm jaded. I haven't seen the "bad" side of Atlanta. Then again, I used to walk home from the club in Buffalo, through the "bad" part and was only mugged three times. Well, three attempts at mugging ... :-)

[Tanukitsune]

They say the town I like in is "bad", "Bronxtoles" they nickname it, but so far, I've never been mugged... for real... We do have people who insist for some spare change and won't let you leave, but I ignored them and they didn't to a thing to the all those times they insisted I gave them money...

And I'm a scrawny guy, I don't think I'd put much of a fight... :jbp:

But just because you can get blind drunk in Canada doesn't mean it's not safe, right?

I was actually born in Canada, but I only have vague memories of snow, squirrels and bears...

[kitty!]

I live mere miles away from Pioneer City. Or rather, they call it Maryland City now, but whatever, it's still a really poor area that the military aren't allowed to live in.

Because of the rampant drug problem, and high crime. Living/visiting there is means for an inquiry, because of all the problems there.

[greyloch]

They say the town I like in is "bad", "Bronxtoles" they nickname it, but so far, I've never been mugged... for real... We do have people who insist for some spare change and won't let you leave, but I ignored them and they didn't to a thing to the all those times they insisted I gave them money...

And I'm a scrawny guy, I don't think I'd put much of a fight... :jbp:

But just because you can get blind drunk in Canada doesn't mean it's not safe, right?

I was actually born in Canada, but I only have vague memories of snow, squirrels and bears...

You forgot the snowball fights and igloos. :D

[greyloch]

I live mere miles away from Pioneer City. Or rather, they call it Maryland City now, but whatever, it's still a really poor area that the military aren't allowed to live in.

Because of the rampant drug problem, and high crime. Living/visiting there is means for an inquiry, because of all the problems there.

There's always a "bad area" near military bases. Used to be quite a few bad areas near APG when I lived near there.

Haven't a clue as to why that is, but I've heard a lot of horror stories from my in-laws about bad areas near wherever they were stationed.

[RazorJAK]

I don't remember a base's "downrange" being anything but the bad part of town.

The jackasses who would rip on the koreans when we were stationed there used to hear my lecture ... after they regained consciousness ... about not judging a country by the people who reside in the "shantytowns" around army bases.

"Would you have other countries judge us by the people who live in Fayetteville?"

That usually shut up all but the most clueless of rednecks.

[Leffy]

yeah atlanta sketchy is kinda scary but its not as bad as say, detroit. stick to the main roads in a group you're fine. try to go through the atlanta side roads... and yeah don't even bother with stop lights. atleast not towards the evening.

[kitty!]

Pittsburgh sketchy. Also really scary. I had to walk through the streets to find the theatre section when I missed my bus to see 7 Wives for 7 brothers (or whatever) and I was running around looking rather nice (but in sneakers XD) and I kept on having to avoid homeless people and cat calling addicts in alleys.

I found the place though, and close to the beginning. And no god damn help from my counselors too! They said they couldn't wait for me because they don't seat anyone after the play starts.

The manager that night was really sweet too; after I walked in and explained that I was from the Carnegie Mellon summer program and had missed the bus, he helped me get my ticket and get me seated. I love being a girl at times like this.

But yea, pittsburgh sketchy is pretty bad.

[Uilleand]

Hey now! Canada does sketchy....really!! Umm..you know, you don't wanna be walking down a dark alley at night and run into ... umm ... a crazed loon. No, no...I mean, not a crazy *person*, per se....but a loon - small waterfowl, sounds quite nasty in the middle of the night and...umm...sharp beak, too. Really. Could take an eye out, if you're not careful!

[Crazeyal]

Welcome to the boards!!

*POUNCES THE NEWBIE*

[Uilleand]

Weee..thank you!!
Umm..but perhaps I should confess..I'm not *really* a newbie...I was here before, but the board seems to have forgotten me...*sniffle* (I even had my original registration email saved, but the board still denied me!)
That being said, I never *did* get pounced my first time around, so I welcome all newbie luvin'!!

[Crazeyal]

Oh.. people who were here from three or four board versions ago get the newbie treatment... It's just sometin' to do to annoy/entertain folks.

[Ecchi_Kitty]

Never had a problem with 'sketchy' neighborhoods.... then again, worst two I've ever been in, one sat out with my uncle on the porch and helped clean his shot guns; the other, had the cops called when went to pick my friend up because the neighbors thought I was sketchy looking....

[Mike Taylor]

Chicago being as big as it is, it has its rough spots and its really nice ones. There are places where you could walk around at 3 a.m. in the morning and not have a worry in the world and there are places where you should get the hell out of Dodge the moment the sun goes down.

Down here in Naples, most of the trouble areas are in the poorer Latino and Haitian neighborhoods.

[Sehson]

Hmmm... I walked all over seattle when I lived there... don't know where the sketchy part of town was, Same with detroit, When I did a photo shoot there. I think the sketchy part of town there was the one with the bars on all the windows.... for everything... Don't know they gang bangers didn't seem to interested in me otr the $5K of computer and camera equipment I was carrying...

Can't imagine why:dcool:

[Big Otis Landfish]

Canada sketchy? Nah, I live in downtown Calgary and it's all peace and quiet. There's beavers three block from here, geese on the high rises, bunnies and squirrels....


Except that carchase/shootout that wrecked 7 cars (dead guys don't drive so good) last week on my block... and those three stabbings out front of the apartment... oh, and the kid who got pushed under the train 2 block from here....



EDIT: OK, now that I've actually read the comic... the sketchiest hotel I ever stayed in was in Melita, Manitoba. I had a beetle stuck in my ear for a month after that. The live one in my shoe in the morning should have been a clue that the bug in my ear wasn't just a mosquito (pulled out leg fragments), but hey... who'd think that an inch long beetle could crawl in your ear and die without waking you up?

The 'Kozy Inn' in Bonnyville is pretty bad too... same exact cinderblock construction, slightly newer and shorter shag carpet on the floor. Creepier Norman-Batesesque night desk worker... no wait, Norman Bates didn't have a hunchback and lazy eye, did he?
http://www.cryptozoology.com/forum/images/igor_5212.jpg

[Leffy]

nah norman bates talked to his dead mother and watched you in the shower.

[meghasissues]

yey for atlanta! it's not really too terribly sketchy but that just might be cause i spend so much time there. one thing i've learned never to do is to go running around little five points in cosplay costumes. that's definitely something that i wish i could forget.

[Plunder Down-Under]

Am I the only one who found the shovel amusing?

[RazorJAK]

*chuckles*

So how much was the highest offer you received?
And how old was the creep?

[Little Crow]

I've never had a problem walking in "sketchier" neighborhoods. Especially if I'm not alone.

I don't look like I have money, I don't look like a victim, and I usually am dressed like a punk rocker or biker chick. With thick steel toed boots.
Nod and act like you belong. Or like you could force your way in.

[Wayne]

I worked on the north end of Flint, MI. There is no where in the world that is more sketchy. I even drove through the wrong part of Chicago at night. Most places don't scare me but I know when the white guy with red hair shouldn't be there.

[garfalk]

considering that when i walk through the bad part of town at night and past the gangs (the East side riviera's are big) i always look like a bomber guy, or am wearing thick clothes, no one bothers me.size also has to do with it.