Topic: You know you live in a ghetto when..

[LesterPiglet]

I feel so lucky. I go out regularly without locking my door. It's only locked when I go to bed.

[Bob Wessner]

What did you say your address was? 

[LesterPiglet]

I'm hoping someone will break in and leave something valuable. 

[IndyFour]

I feel so lucky. I go out regularly without locking my door. It's only locked when I go to bed.

One of my neighbors a few houses down does the same thing....leaves her porch light off and front door unlocked most of the time.  Never a problem.  Go figure.  It's my paranoia that drives my precautionary actions more than any threats.   

[Really?]

Can have those triggered flood lights at my house, too many squirrels n cats n stuff running around.

[wookie]

....it was a purple sweatshirt with Eyore (Disney) on it....and it was covered in jizz.  Nice.   

Too funny, thanks for the laugh.

[ThomasD883]

I think the key to avoiding crime in the hood is having an active neighborhood association....or at least communicating with your neighbors and keeping an eye out for each other.  If we see anything at all....even someone parked in their car on our street that we don't know or acting suspicious, we call the cops immediately and they come check it out.  The cops here have told us on a number of occasions that they don't mind checking things out at all and to call anytime....so we do.  I happen to live adjacent to a few retired couples who know EVERYTHING that happens in the neighborhood during the day, so that is really helpful.

I think that part of that whole "community" metality has been lost simply because people have become so suspicous of everyone, like they expect you to be a criminal before you've even met, theres a lot of really weird m'fers around it seems. I actually had my new neighbors come over last week and tell me some goof was over sitting on my bike and acting funny , my apartment mate even left a note, really cool i think, can't thank them enough.

[rb550four]

I'm about as far out in the country as you can get and stuff still happens here too. Not gang stuff, but stuff. I built a house last year and last week it got 12 guage'd pretty good,2 cases of missing young women, every hunting season bodies are found in the woods,if your house is empty for the season it'll get robbed, then vandalized , then burned. You can walk the streets all night long and the main worry is getting hit by drunk drivers (also a problem when you're on a bike). We have tons of drunks around here with 5,6,and 7 DWI's, no license,and still driving in borrowed vehicles. Nowheres near the danger you endure on a daily basis, but it's moving out here too.

[faux fiddy]

I'm about as far out in the country as you can get and stuff still happens here too. Not gang stuff, but stuff. I built a house last year and last week it got 12 guage'd pretty good,2 cases of missing young women, every hunting season bodies are found in the woods,if your house is empty for the season it'll get robbed, then vandalized , then burned. You can walk the streets all night long and the main worry is getting hit by drunk drivers (also a problem when you're on a bike). We have tons of drunks around here with 5,6,and 7 DWI's, no license,and still driving in borrowed vehicles. Nowheres near the danger you endure on a daily basis, but it's moving out here too.

So you're in Pottowattomie County?

[rb550four]

No, it's Schoharie County,upstate new york...They don't spell too good either.

[boatsdickson]

I hope its not a simple inflammatory statement to say 'Its the sign of the times', but I think it sums it up.

I live in Joplin MO and its far from what I concider the ghettos I envision such as Detroit and the Bronx, but the disparity of current economics and job loss travels and affects far. Ive lived here for 38 years and have seen the attitudes change of most people that I know. This is made apparent by the amount of crime and opportunistic theft that occurs everywhere around me.

It was made clearly apparent after our tornado last year how many people were here only to defraud ANYONE they could, or lay surveillance to the ones who hadnt completely lost everthing so they could later return and clean them out at a better time. My third-eye was wiped clear during this time and encouraged a more militaristic approach to anyone else other than the family and friends we were helping. It taught us to always keep the sidearms closer to hand and always keep the gates and house locked tight when not within sight.

Thats kind of off topic but yes the times are changing for the worse and as honest people that 99% of us are, we have to protect what is ours. DVRs with well placed cameras, locked gates, reinforced hinges guarding our cycles, and firearms protecting our loved ones. Thats just my 2 pennies.

On the other hand though, I placed half of a DOHC honda motor behind the property the other night for a drive-around salvager, and he left me 2 tore up garbage cans in its place with his household garbage in it. Maybe he just wanted to trade.  . If I gave a sh1t I would go through it and find out whos it was.

Boats.......

[thrutheframe]

  I live 5 blocks and 900 feet above one of the worst ghettos in America, Over the Rhine.  We get the car traffic thru our neighborhood from johns and crack heads trying to get out of the ghetto and into a neighborhood where they think they've escaped the police.  Thier erratic driving patterns and inability to fully stop at the stop signs gives them away everytime.
  A few years a go it got kind of bad for awhile.  We had the nasty hookers bringing tricks into the neighborhood because they thought it was off the radar of the man but close enough to thier stroll (McMicken St. also known as McTricken).  Right next to me we had white trash wife beater weating morons selling meth or crack right out of the front yard, they'd stand in the front yard all day, talk on the cell phone about dollar amounts then a car would roll up, an exchange would be made and the car would roll away.
  My brother (he of the .44 Colt revolver) fixed the hooker situation single handedly by walking up to the cars they were in having sex and banging on the window with the barrel of his pistol.  The drug dealers went away when 3 of us, me, my brother and Mr Ramos started walking up to the kid in his yard and asking if we could buy some of the dope he was selling.  We did it everytime we saw the kid or his fat ass uncle.  In about three weeks they moved away.

[Duke McDukiedook]

I hope its not a simple inflammatory statement to say 'Its the sign of the times', but I think it sums it up.

I live in Joplin MO and its far from what I concider the ghettos I envision such as Detroit and the Bronx, but the disparity of current economics and job loss travels and affects far. Ive lived here for 38 years and have seen the attitudes change of most people that I know. This is made apparent by the amount of crime and opportunistic theft that occurs everywhere around me.

It was made clearly apparent after our tornado last year how many people were here only to defraud ANYONE they could, or lay surveillance to the ones who hadnt completely lost everthing so they could later return and clean them out at a better time. My third-eye was wiped clear during this time and encouraged a more militaristic approach to anyone else other than the family and friends we were helping. It taught us to always keep the sidearms closer to hand and always keep the gates and house locked tight when not within sight.

Thats kind of off topic but yes the times are changing for the worse and as honest people that 99% of us are, we have to protect what is ours. DVRs with well placed cameras, locked gates, reinforced hinges guarding our cycles, and firearms protecting our loved ones. Thats just my 2 pennies.

On the other hand though, I placed half of a DOHC honda motor behind the property the other night for a drive-around salvager, and he left me 2 tore up garbage cans in its place with his household garbage in it. Maybe he just wanted to trade.  . If I gave a sh1t I would go through it and find out whos it was.

Boats.......

Unfortunately disasters bring out the leeches to prey on the less informed. It is like turkey buzzards to a dead carcass.