I've been to to the Tenderloin in sanfranisco before, and seen syringes in the street and people openly smoking crack in broad daylight.
That's about all I've got though
That's about all I've got though
Escapists who live in lower income areas, what is the craziest thing you've witnessed?
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Trans hookers screaming and fighting each other at like 3 AM.
It's been some years, the hood's cleaned up some since. You don't see hookers anymore, anyway.
It's been some years, the hood's cleaned up some since. You don't see hookers anymore, anyway.
When I was at University in Leeds, I lived in the Chapeltown area for a year. I saw a girl get mugged by a gang of 5 or 6 guys who stole her handbag - it took no more than a second and they were off running down the street. I was also in a taxi stopped at a traffic light with the window rolled down on a warm night when someone reached in, grabbed the cashbox, ripped it out and ran off. That was even more surprising!
When I lived in Blackburn a drug deal gone wrong resulted in a shooting and a dead body thrown onto the street - which happened to be the street I lived on. I only witnessed the aftermath there though. Being escorted through police lines to my house by armed police whilst I was carrying bags of Tesco shopping, and watched by national media was the weirdest bit!
When I lived in Blackburn a drug deal gone wrong resulted in a shooting and a dead body thrown onto the street - which happened to be the street I lived on. I only witnessed the aftermath there though. Being escorted through police lines to my house by armed police whilst I was carrying bags of Tesco shopping, and watched by national media was the weirdest bit!
Why do you assume only lower class housing has these stories? Why, once during a box social at the country club, these two members of the help got into an argument over who had the better Ferrari. All I could do was chuckle at their peasant cars and wonder how anyone could live like that...
Living in New York for a few months got me kind of immune to weirdness. It would be weird if you didn't see something weird that day. People in costumes, the homeless with some crazy story about why they need money for....not drugs, and frankly, some pretty damn talented people doing their thing for money on the corner. On the plus side, I've never had to witness anything violent (well...with malicious intent at least; car accidents and whatnot I've seen but nothing I would describe at evil).
Living in New York for a few months got me kind of immune to weirdness. It would be weird if you didn't see something weird that day. People in costumes, the homeless with some crazy story about why they need money for....not drugs, and frankly, some pretty damn talented people doing their thing for money on the corner. On the plus side, I've never had to witness anything violent (well...with malicious intent at least; car accidents and whatnot I've seen but nothing I would describe at evil).
Mostly I've the worst I ever see drunk bums harassing people for cigarettes and money, occasionally they get in fights with each other. Nothing quite as pitiful as watching two old drunk bums try to fight each other, because mostly all they do is push each other down, and the rest is a slow motion inaccurate slap fight. Those guys are the reason I don't carry cash. I also see lots of hookers walking some streets, like mid-town east end of Fourth Street.
The craziest thing I ever had happen to me was being evacuated from my apartment first thing in the morning by police, having to go stand in a safe area before I could even get dressed. Which lead to me in fuzzy slippers, a satin night gown and robe, having to stand outside in the cold away from the building. What did 4 armed detectives and the SWAT team come for? A hostage situation? Jihadists? An armed drug gang? Nope, to arrest an unarmed couple who had been robbing the homes of people who were on vacation. The arrest went down without incident. At least one of the detectives was kind enough, that when he saw me shivering he lent me his rather expensive wool overcoat, that he never asked for back. Seriously I still have it, ran into him recently, offered the coat back, he said to keep it, because it'd been like 5 years.
The craziest thing I ever had happen to me was being evacuated from my apartment first thing in the morning by police, having to go stand in a safe area before I could even get dressed. Which lead to me in fuzzy slippers, a satin night gown and robe, having to stand outside in the cold away from the building. What did 4 armed detectives and the SWAT team come for? A hostage situation? Jihadists? An armed drug gang? Nope, to arrest an unarmed couple who had been robbing the homes of people who were on vacation. The arrest went down without incident. At least one of the detectives was kind enough, that when he saw me shivering he lent me his rather expensive wool overcoat, that he never asked for back. Seriously I still have it, ran into him recently, offered the coat back, he said to keep it, because it'd been like 5 years.
How can you be certain that the hookers fighting were trans? Especially in the middle of the night like that?Johnny Novgorod said:
If nothing else, because they looked and sounded like men, but they had breast implants and were wearing women's clothing.KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:
And it's not that hard to see at night, because of street lights, and the fact this was all taking place under my window (1st floor).
And I already knew them from before, because they made their rounds around my block and one of them once made a pass at me.
A nasty consequence of such a long time being able to discriminate against trans folk in employment, housing, and medical care. Leads to people having to do particularly nasty things to make money just to get by on, along with having to go to particularly shady sources to transition.Johnny Novgorod said:
So yeah, sorry you had to put up with a situation like that, but it's still worse that society actively puts people in situations like that.
I suppose my area is considered low income since on average there's more poverty then prosperity (my street has a million dollar home right next to a crap shack, we don't have a uniform distribution of income levels in this rural Quebec town).
I was at the gas station at the corner of my street. Place is at the crossing between the road that stretches up and down my town and the road that connects two larger towns (as in "10,000 people" large compared to our "1,200 people"). The intersection is at the middle of a small curve of about 40 degrees in the connection road, so there's a sign warning you about the crossing (the nature is that the ones on the connection road have priority while those on the town road have stop signs). Young teenage me was there eating some ice-cream I'd bought since it was the middle of summer. Big ass tractor was crossing the town road since everything looked clear (from the driver's position you can only see about 300 meters up either side of the connection road due to the curve and houses blocking the view) so naturally he drove across. And of course that was the moment some idiot in his early 20s elected to drive down the connection road at 150kph (we have a problem out here of idiots driving really fast due to our long, straight roads). Saw the whole think from the screeching sounds of his brakes to the lights going on in his eyes about 10 seconds after that.
Being 13 was a crazy time.
I was at the gas station at the corner of my street. Place is at the crossing between the road that stretches up and down my town and the road that connects two larger towns (as in "10,000 people" large compared to our "1,200 people"). The intersection is at the middle of a small curve of about 40 degrees in the connection road, so there's a sign warning you about the crossing (the nature is that the ones on the connection road have priority while those on the town road have stop signs). Young teenage me was there eating some ice-cream I'd bought since it was the middle of summer. Big ass tractor was crossing the town road since everything looked clear (from the driver's position you can only see about 300 meters up either side of the connection road due to the curve and houses blocking the view) so naturally he drove across. And of course that was the moment some idiot in his early 20s elected to drive down the connection road at 150kph (we have a problem out here of idiots driving really fast due to our long, straight roads). Saw the whole think from the screeching sounds of his brakes to the lights going on in his eyes about 10 seconds after that.
Being 13 was a crazy time.
I saw a person straight up catch, kill and skin a cat for consumption in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
I think that counts. o.o
I think that counts. o.o
My brother is a regional manager for Toco Bell, while he was visiting a store (in my town of course), it got robbed at gunpoint. Thief got away with about a hundred dollars from the register and that's it (was caught later).
Someone also tried to rob the Bank of America while I was visiting another store in the same parking lot, I've never seen so many cops swarm in my life, I assume that person was also caught.
I don't even live in a particularly "bad" area.
Someone also tried to rob the Bank of America while I was visiting another store in the same parking lot, I've never seen so many cops swarm in my life, I assume that person was also caught.
I don't even live in a particularly "bad" area.
Christ and I thought slums in my area of the US were bad. Seriously skinning a cat? Around here we have bunches of food banks and places where the underprivileged can go to get a free hot meal. That's just disturbing that people get to that point in Canada, which is supposed to have a lot better welfare programs than the US. Because here, in most towns there is enough in food banks and help for those who are poor that that sort of thing doesn't need to happen.Redlin5 said:
I've lived in my share of bad neighborhoods during my childhood, and from what I can recall witnessing:
- Dogs mating in the middle of the street
- A prostitution deal
- A man sunbathing on his roof. Naked and erect (of course someone called the cops)
- A homeless man dumpster diving and walking away with some magazines when he finished
Thankfully I never exchanged words with any of those people.
- Dogs mating in the middle of the street
- A prostitution deal
- A man sunbathing on his roof. Naked and erect (of course someone called the cops)
- A homeless man dumpster diving and walking away with some magazines when he finished
Thankfully I never exchanged words with any of those people.
Alright, since it was in Vancouver I just have to know: was the person Asian? I know it's stereotyping but it's Vancouver we're talking about, it has the largest and oldest Chinese community in the country, and when you say something like that the first thing that comes to mind in, well, stereotypes, since it's Vancouver, the city where hippie and businessmen stereotypes are true.Redlin5 said:
Keep in mind this happened in Vancouver. Despite their being the homeland of hippies in Canada they have a massive homelessness problem due to things like high property and rent rates (that's what happens when you build a city in a place that has literally no room to expand outward) so the homelessness situation, as with many others, has Vancouver be in a state where it's not really Canadian, it just happens to be part of the country.KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:
I work retail in the poor part of town in Montreal. A lady walked into our backstore pulled down her pants and took a dump on the floor . Management didn't even kick her out. She just continued shopping.
I also saw a guy get beat up on downtown montreal in an allwy, because he owed a guy money.
I also saw a guy get beat up on downtown montreal in an allwy, because he owed a guy money.
Still Seattle and San Francisco are in much the same situation, as is NYC and several other US cities as far as expansion goes, including the mega metro area that is LA. I know people who have been homeless all across the USA and none of them have had to hunt cats to survive. I know people who were homeless in San Francisco and had full time jobs, but couldn't afford rents anywhere in the area. They still didn't have to hunt cats to get food, even the ones without jobs. This sounds like a huge failure in a welfare state that such things are happening anywhere in Canada.Zontar said:
Dunno about crazy, but one of the worst "Really? That's what your doing?" moments was at a particular squat rave venue that had been going on for months and was just a general weekend drug den/hive of scum and villainy. One morning there were a couple of prostitutes walking round calling out "cocks for rocks", in of itself nothing particularly unusual, but this pair had decided to bring their kids along, so there was a short trail of terrified children following them. I was way too off my face at the time, but later I felt sad for those kids.
I'm feeling discriminated against here, I live in a mostly high income area, but we still have crazy stories too damnit, I demand equal representation for the financially secure.
Seriously though, we had a judge nearby busted for keeping underage illegal immigrants in his house as live-in maids/ sex slaves. We have a large house occupied by about 13 people that I am almost positive are in a cult, all dressing similarly and keeping locked gates and barred windows, very creepy and secretive. I also saw a mountain lion attack and rip apart a deer on my front lawn once. We also had a burglar in the area who got caught because he tried to pawn off his goods at a store owned by the neighbor he had robbed.
One thing I also saw about 4 years ago was an old man chasing his wife down the street firing a handgun into the air. Turns out he had mixed alcohol and painkillers, then decided to go off on his wife about something. Obviously they are divorced now, but because he could afford a good lawyer, he's still living in that house, he might even be off probation at this point.
Seriously though, we had a judge nearby busted for keeping underage illegal immigrants in his house as live-in maids/ sex slaves. We have a large house occupied by about 13 people that I am almost positive are in a cult, all dressing similarly and keeping locked gates and barred windows, very creepy and secretive. I also saw a mountain lion attack and rip apart a deer on my front lawn once. We also had a burglar in the area who got caught because he tried to pawn off his goods at a store owned by the neighbor he had robbed.
One thing I also saw about 4 years ago was an old man chasing his wife down the street firing a handgun into the air. Turns out he had mixed alcohol and painkillers, then decided to go off on his wife about something. Obviously they are divorced now, but because he could afford a good lawyer, he's still living in that house, he might even be off probation at this point.