How tough is your neighborhood.

Here is a sign from my old neighborhood that are located around in the various canyons. Ya, we did not have any crime problems, we had bomb problems.




[Edited on Feb 07, 2004 by Mullen]

[Edited on Feb 07, 2004 by Mullen]

My neighborhood isn't very tough... but we're not without our problems.


-mk

A couple of years back someone found a severed head in a dustbin round the corner from my house. It hasn't been identified yet. Does that count as tough?

Damn, that's pretty fucking rough! When I lived in Cleveland, all I had to worry about finding in my yard was dead bodies.

The neighborhood I live in now is pretty tame, although the people who live here want to think it's tough.

I was born in Mt Clemens, MI. (which isn't as bad as people make it out to be) but I was basically raised in Chesterfield, which up till about 10 years ago, was mostly field and borderline rural areas. A major expressway runs through it, cutting it right in half. Thats the only way I can account for why people from surrounding areas and Detroit chose to dump their fucking bodies in our quiet little fields. No, I don't think we've ever had a murder take place there. We just found everyone's left-overs all the damned time.

It's been built up, mostly industrial now. Plus I don't live their anymore...but there are still a few good areas to hide bodies if anyone needs it

DO NOT TOUCH IT!!

My neighborhoods not tough, but it is the hippie capitol of Ohio. Although that's not saying much.

My neighborhood is so tough, babies are born gun in hand.

my neighborhood is so tough, it'll get your neighborhood in a choke hold and break it's elbow, Grace style.

seriously though. some parts of Hollywood are controlled-anarchy experiments. my neighborhood being one.

I think the gang members across the street moved out. Or, at least, the graffiti stopped.

A neighbourhood isn't tough unless it contains at least one of the following things:

* A closed down, boarded-up gas station
* A check-cashing place
* Billboards for malt liqour products or cheap liqour

Other indications that you might be living in a bad area:

* Pizza places won't deliver to you
* There's no trash pickup service
* You get woken up occasionally by a car with a "La Cucaracha" horn
* The cops don't patrol the area
* Every shadowy doorway contains either a sleeping hobo, or a prostitute watching for potential customers
* Rich white guys driving through in big, new cars, which they stop in front of the worst buildings or houses to buy drugs or sex

I learned most of this by living in the seedier parts of New Jersey for a couple years. A good time was had by all, I assure you.

My neighborhood is so tough that the old people cruise around all day in big packs on their electric scooters holding up people trying to buy illegal vitamins.


no really, I live in the most tame place on the planet

some guy smashed a bottle over my co-worker's head last night as we tried to wrestle him down for stealing (liquor store)

also a friend of mine was mugged and sack-beaten (yes, sack-beaten)
that was three weeks ago, and three days ago, my friend's roommate and girlfriend were barged in on, tied up at gunpoint, and robbed
Savannah's fun!!!

fortunately my street is fairly quiet except for drug dealers and the occasional bum scream

[Edited on Feb 07, 2004 by MrSmead]

Do you live in my neighborhood? ehehhehehe..... Same shit here, the cops are always outside. Every once in awhile you hear gun shots from across the street.

Ha, you call yourself tough? An old lady might try to "mug" you for a teabag on a Sunday afternoon in the mean streets I live on...

I grew up in Brownsville Brooklyn NY. I kid you not,I remember Mike Tyson standing on the train platform when we were kids robbing people. Riddick Bowe lived 6 blocks away and another guy named Shannon Briggs lived a block or so over. We nicknamed our 'hood "Baby Vietnam" cause you never knew who was your enemy or friend. Most of the people I ran with back then if they are even still alive are dead inside due to drugs and apathy or dying a slow death serving 25 to life bids......

I once had a police helicopter hover in the parking lot of my apartment complex in broad daylight. They routinely searched the park across the street in the evenings with giant search lights. Now that was comforting...

Oh... THAT kind of bear.

In Michigan we have something known as the "buck pole," no explanation needed. Surreal indeed.

-mk

Also
* all fast food places (mc Donalds, Burger king....) have plexi glass like banks, to protect the employees from armed robbers.
* all the houses in the neighborhood have bars on the windows.
* gunfire and helicopters are common sounds.
* you are used to the sound of shopping carts going down the sidewalk.

And you know you live in a tough neighborhood if none of these things bother you anymore.

Yep! The first night in my new neighborhood I couldn't sleep BECAUSE of the quiet.

As a fellow Michigan resident, I often wonder if the buck pole is unique to our state...

I used to live in Detroit. Nuff said.

Yeah, Yeah. My neighborhood could totally kick your neighborhoods ASS!