How safe is your street?

[Idlemessiah]

Last night I had a brick thrown through the window of my living room, along with 3 other houses down my street. It wasn't for burglary or targeted aggression, it was just drunks on a saturday night lobbing rocks about the place for kicks. But it could have been worse.

Which brings the question: How safe do you think it is where you live? Have you had any similar experiences? And if so, has that changed your opinion on how safe it is?

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Pretty safe, mostly old people and couples with young children round here, we do occasionally get drunks passing through but they never do anything worse than litter and yell at night.

 

[Idlemessiah]

Very safe.
I live in the suburbs.

Lucky you. I live in the middle of a city on a street thats the main highway between all the student halls at uni and all the clubs. So we get a lot of drunks wander down our road.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I'm surrounded by the elderly.

Unless they start to go all Grey Dawn, I think I'm pretty safe.

 

[blue heartless]

So far there have been seven sexual assaults, two homicides (one deemed manslaughter), twelve traffic accidents, and countless fights, shootings and muggings, and a partridge in a pear tree.

All in front of my building. I wouldn't DREAM of moving away.

 

[El Poncho]

Well my street is safe I guess, until the local neds come round looking for fights, but most of the time they are at the other end of where I live. Although I still don't like going out at night, I prefer during the day.

 

[Plank of Wood]

I live in the country. Very safe.

However I know someone who used to live in a mixed catholic-protestant street in Belfast. Which is significantly less so.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Quite safe I would say. In fact the entire suburb is relatively safe compared to other parts of London.

 

[Jharry5]

My street is safe, as there are mainly older couples or those with younger children; its the estate nearby that can be dangerous. Due to how near it is, we have had a few incidents similar to this:

Last night I had a brick thrown through the window of my living room, along with 3 other houses down my street. It wasn't for burglary or targeted aggression, it was just drunks on a saturday night lobbing rocks about the place for kicks. But it could have been worse.

Which brings the question: How safe do you think it is where you live? Have you had any similar experiences? And if so, has that changed your opinion on how safe it is?

One night near Halloween, we had a firework thrown at our front window when me and my mum were watching TV in the living room. Luckily the glass held, otherwise I hate to think what would've happened.
That's easily the worst thing to have happened, usually its just keying cars and (occassionally) pouring paint stripper on cars instead.

 

[LeonLethality]

I live by 118th ave and anybody from Edmonton knows how horrible of a place that is... I live in between the homeless section of it and the crime ridden part.

There also used to be a drug house on my block that got condemned but people kept going in after the watch on it died down, so they demolished it, I WAS ON TV (news, my siblings and the rest of the children on the block were pretty much all on it) when a petition to have it removed was a big thing but that was years ago.

 

[Liberaliter]

Pretty safe. The only incident was a one off stabbing.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I live in a council house estate in a small country village.
The only way it could get more safe is if it were surrounded by robot military personel.

 

[Jiggabyte]

Alright. I've been shouted at by random kids before for no reason, and drunks pass by a lot, both of whom leave rubbish on our wall occasionally. When we parked around the corner someone smashed the wing mirror but we fixed it in a few minutes. Nothing interesting.
I'm surprised, actually, I live near a really rough area, on a main road into town. I should have been mugged or offered drugs by now.
As for bricks through windows, I once sat next to a window at a school concert thing when someone lobbed one through. Amazingly, nobody was harmed, and I think the pane got replaced in about a week.

 

[ottenni]

Very safe. Only the threat of kangaroos, snakes, spiders, rampaging wombats, people driving to fast round blind corners and the odd fire. Such is life in rural Australia. Oh and drop bears. yes.

 

[zauxz]

For me? Very safe. But that's just because I live there.

The locals leave me alone (wich is kind of weird, considering my gothic appereance).

 

[RanD00M]

It's safe.There are no burglary's,murders or even fights.

As you can see.The road it self is not all that wide.And past the edge is a fall down.So when there is ice on the road it get kinda dangerous.But most people are good enough drivers to not hurt themselves.There is only one incident of a person driving off the road.

 

[BonsaiK]

Last night I had a brick thrown through the window of my living room, along with 3 other houses down my street. It wasn't for burglary or targeted aggression, it was just drunks on a saturday night lobbing rocks about the place for kicks. But it could have been worse.

Which brings the question: How safe do you think it is where you live? Have you had any similar experiences? And if so, has that changed your opinion on how safe it is?

There is a pub up the road so there are drunks wandering around occasionally doing dumb stuff like vandalising things etc. There's also a lot of rental accomodation full of junkies in my neighbourhood and they do strange things sometimes like break into cars looking for change. Oh, and a few months ago someone emptied a full clip from a 7.62 caliber rifle into a block of flats in my street. Nobody was hit, and the person the shooter was after didn't even live there anymore. I slept through the incident. Apart from that it's pretty safe.

In a previous place I lived, the shopping block that I used to do my laundry at was burned down in an arson attack. Another place I lived at, I had a rock-through-window situation in my bedroom, no doubt just stupid kids but it sprayed my entire bed with shards of glass. Fortunately I was staying over at a girlfriend's house that night. I also lived in a student residence where a girl was murdered just before I moved in.

I guess where I live is safer than some places and not as safe as others. I don't really worry about any of this stuff much though, because I know how to handle myself and avoid a bad situation if I have to. Nowhere I've ever lived has been anywhere near as scary as my old high school which was an absolute hell, where stabbings, gang-rapes and random violence were all commonplace. I was just happy to survive that part of my education and emerge relatively unscathed.

 

[RN7]

I live in a suburb, the worst to happen was the "wild dog" that got out. I kicked it when it got to close and the owner has the nerve to threaten me with charges.