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Enter Detroit At Your Own Risk!
"Detroit is America's most violent city; its homicide rate is the highest in the country." Detroit Police department's "Enter At Your Own Risk" warning to citizens came at a rally yesterday as they fear under-staffing in the midst of what CBS reports as "the explosion in violent crime" leaves police in "deplorable, dangerous, and war-like conditions." While the union presses for more staff - or higher wages to compensate for the risk - we are sure Snake Plissken can be relied upon to rescue GM's CEO if he needs it.
Source: CBS Detroit
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A weapon help's to keep the brain in the skull, only a moron would forgoe that reality.are you a Moron? I think you might be.
Between this and pro Israel tripe elsewhere on ZH; I'm calling a troll on this one.
TMosley, as a highly trained, still in excellent shape, middle aged Grunt, I can assure you that the current goal is to avoid Detroit and anything that even remotely resembles it at all costs. Its what we call "not survivable", at least with family in tow...
Yes, but have you thought about what America will look like when those conditions spread from sea to shining sea?
It is a good thought experiment, as it challenges assumptions. For example--will the lights go out when TSHTF? Hasn't happened in Detroit yet. Will police service disappear? Yup.
Examining real world examples of economic collapse is always useful when preparing for the same. What does it take to survive in Detroit? Such skills and knowledge might be useful in the future.
Good point.
As a thought exercise, Gully's suggestion has merit --- but we both know that he made it only to disparage those trying to prepare for what might be coming down the road, most likely out of insecurity, fear, jealousy, cowardice, or some combination thereof.
Can't wait for the next idiotic prog to run through here with their hair on fire saying "Libertarians move to Somalia for your utopia."
I'll point them to Detroit for theirs.
akak
Thank you for reading my mind.
If you were good at it I would recommend you take the show to Vegas.
But you suck ass.
I posted because, as I have said many times, there are very few people here who are credible.
It's like what Phil Ochs pointed out with Love me I'm a liberal.
I admit that some of you Gold and Gun people actually have your shit together. Like Hedgeless Horseman growing his own food.
The vast majority are wannabe asshole braggarts.
I think they outnumber the paid posters.
Easy to talk shit from the peanut gallery isnt it?
Whats make you so credible? Oh, the bold font...
Gully, I suggest you leave "well enough" alone, and continue your breeding cycle. Anyone that would justify "harms way", for any reason! , is on a death wish, or mentally deficient!
Yes, because you are the ultimate authority on what it takes to survive. You tell us that while sitting from the comfort of your throne speaking down to us because we live at a lower altitude than you.
There will be good areas and there will be bad areas. I just hope, and have taken steps to increase the probabilty, that one of the areas I live in will be good....
Hulk
There is no way you can guarantee your area is safe. You do not know how your neighbors would react in any situation. Hell you don't even know how family will act.
The only thing you can do is have your personal shit together.
And be prepared to cut your losses no matter how harsh it seems.
Here is a thought question;
Robbers break into your home to steal your stash. You don't talk so they start tortureing your family. They remove their masks because it is hot sweaty work.
What do you do?
Depends on which family member they are torturing. I may just join them...
Awesome.
"There is no way you can guarantee your area is safe. You do not know how your neighbors would react in any situation."
Actually there is a way to know your area is reasonably safe and how your neighbors will react short term.
When I lived in the Burg there was...how should I put it mildly...some "community agitation" going on. The neighbors and I got together and designed zones of responsibilities.
Mine was the alley behind my house and the neighbors backyards on each side of me. My neighbors (on each side) had their fronts and my front.
The mob could have the street to rant & rave and walk up and down provided they didn't get on the sidewalk or throw shit at our homes from the street or try to damage cars parked in the street.
The alley (my responsibility) was off limits to anyone not from the hood.
The sidewalk and alley were all kill zones and we were all heavilly armed. The plan was in place but never needed.
I've been shot at. That is unnerving. I've been stabbed twice. That just pisses me off.
That was one of the reasons I left the Burg. If we're talking about the same thing, I was amazed that they burned their own neighborhood down and then got pissed when the first business to re-open put up a 'security fence'. What a joke...
Based on what GF implies elsewhere in the thread, while they are removing their mask, he bravely jumps through a window to make his excape.
Or, alternatively, GF could show us how it should be properly done and go attack some known preppers and torture their family members, and report back the response. Or give us a date and location window so we can watch for news.
Based on what GF implies elsewhere in the thread, while they are removing their mask, he bravely jumps through a window to make his excape.
Jump through the window before they round everybody up. Once they've done that, your shit is shot and you have just let down your family big-time. Forget about bravery. Yes, by all means, arm yourself to protect your home, but be prepared to flee when intruders enter in force. Read "Strong on Defense" by Sanford Strong. Best book ever written on the subject. (Unfortunately, out of print.) Treat home invasion exactly like a house fire. Everybody has an escape route out and rendezvous point nearby.
Just don't live near large concentrations of black people. It's pretty simple.
Look at the devastating tsunami that hit Japan where whole villages were literally erased. That disaster was an order of magnitude worse than Katrina. The people in Japan cleaned up, united, and rebuilt without looting and violence.
After Katrina you had every black person in that city looting stores and killing and robbing eachother.
Stop being ridiculous.
Or in Japan they see themselves as a community of like-minded people coming together. It's more like the 9-11 Inside-Job Tragedy in the states instead of Katrina. Increasing polarity and disenfranchisement in NO probably doesn't instill much comeraderie between the looters and large corporate stores. If ANY of the looting of small markets was due to racial differences, you must agree, it's something Japan didn't have to deal with. BTW, did you notice how NICE the Japanese looked? Everyone looked like they had brand new R.E.I. outfits and gear.
I could put you in a situation where looting was the least of your worries, especially if you thought help may not be coming in a reasonable amount of time - like it didn't
Where I wouldn't want to be is anyplace with a high concentration of poor ignorant angry scared people. Black, White, Mexican, Blaxican, Norwegian, French, British, Brazilian, etc.
Fail. Compare Mississippi to New Orleans post Katrina. NO got major flood waters. The city or parishes control the floodgates and there is a whole level on mind boggling corruption that goes on there with tons of $$$. The same city spent $450 million to keep the Saints there before Katrina versus beefing up the floodgates.
anyway, NO got major flooding while Miss got flattened with far worse destruction. There was little if any looting in Miss.
Why survive when you can prosper?
Highway. Car. Move to the wealth.
been there. all alone in a truck and overnighting no less. You should have seen me in the Wal Mart in Jackson, MS!
10 years is a real stretch.
I thought we were going to get zombies! I've made all my plans with hordes of zombies in mind. Are there zombies now in Detroit?
Of course, but the politically-correct name for them now is "voters".
Did you mommie fold you're underwear right?
?????
LOL!!!
Did you is even worse. The dirtwarts have arrived.
Wow, that's dumb.
Show us the way
Why in the fuck would anybody want to do that?
Did your daddy allow you to use his computer? I'm not sure he'd be very proud with what you came up with.
Omg u so right! Listen up all you earthquake preppers in california. Take your emergency food, radio and water and go live in haiti for a year. Put your money where your mouth is and lets see if you'll last a year.
Bet you won't.
Now you know, you need not prepare, the government will always protect you, you know, like in new orleans. They had to disarm those people for their own good. And they had to shoot those unarmed people on the bridge for 'officer safety' reasons.
/sarc off
been there, too. In a prison no less. Read the letters from all the Catholic nuns about "stopping the torture" as well. Well a few out of the 15,000 that is...
COSTA MESA, Calif.
http://news.yahoo.com/advocates-cities-passing-rules-targeting-homeless-...
The whole idea is to locate somewhere you think you could make it! You have like minded neighbors who you cooperate with.
You don't get it Gully.
But awl yer new nayburs in De-Triot be good about tryin to fix you ober, take yo shit and stik you wid a shiv, MsC. They be co-operatin' good, sheiiiiiiiiiiit.
MsCreant
I do get it.
Use your brain first.
Trust no one.
Travel light.
You don't get because you assume someone else will be there to rely on.
Even your dog will eat you if it doesn't have food.
That advice will get you killed.
Pretty much. There are many to rely on and have those rely on you.
Besides, the dog can't eat you if you've already eaten the dog ;-)
Barry? Is that you?
Shit way to live, Gully.
Tell ya what- before I do that, I'll stick with my non-Gully approved method of growing a large garden and canning the produce, and shall proceed with my plan to start raising chickens this spring. Probably will have to go to court on that one, but I'm ok with that.
That way, when my dog gets to thinking he ought to eat me, I can feed him an omlette with salsa on it instead of killing him to prove how badass I am. Then, we can be friends again, and I will be able to sleep while said dog stands guard.
I think you may have seen too many episodes of that old show "Kung Fu." Myself, I'll do the best I can to muddle through with the home, town and friends I have. That won't be pleasant either, but it's smarter than trying to fight the whole world alone. If being a lone gunman was really the best way, society would have evolved along vastly different lines.
Have you started your 'no shoes' regimen yet? Once they wear out, you're F'ed if not. Also you need to acclimate your epidermis to the sun (once your clothes deteriorate). THE BEST SURVIVAL situation is going nude for a whole year in a cardboard box by the ocean in summer, and under pine boughs in winter.
When you can live naked - you've MADE IT!
cheers (no down arrow here ;)
"THE BEST SURVIVAL situation is going nude for a whole year in a cardboard box by the ocean in summer, and under pine boughs in winter."
Why the fuck are you even typing this shit here?
Just when I thought the comments could not get more gay.
BANG....there it is.
Ok, now it's my turn.
Troma's WAR (1988) FULL MOVIE - YouTube - http://youtu.be/pbPNzvpmRlA
Watching that is better than typing here. That's how OVER this one is boyz.
The two songs in it are almost up to the standards of the ending song of "Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter".
FUCK RIPOFF ABE LINCOLN ANYWAY. JC did it first and best.
How about you go first and if you survivie then tell the rest of us how you did it
"THEY say that dead men tell no tales!"
Haniel Long. 1888
Yes, and if you shot at anyone that is precisely when the cops would show up and decide to arrest you.
Eric Holder, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton too.
LISTEN UP ALL THE SEATBELT-WEARING ASSHOLES!
Here is your chance to prove you could actually survive a crash.
Take the family, take the child safety seats, take the dog and take your grandma to a car made in Detroit.
Put your money where your mouth is and see if you can make it through a crash. Or will you hit the brakes and avoid an accident like the whiney bitches with big old virtual internet balls but tiny Micheal Jackson infant balls you really have.
No need to reply, just post the pics or have a family member post the obituary.
U get a +1 for teh name - the pic should show the benank in the middle.
Look more closely...
I don't brake for zombies...its sorta like the lanes filled with deep sand for runaway trucks on the down slope of mountains.
WeekendAtBernankes
New Hampshire has no seatbelt law.
I guess you are speaking to them.
Live free or die...
Bitchez.
It is unlawful to carry a loaded handgun in any vehicle or concealed about one's person without a license.
Ok...so half free.
Wonder what their definition of "loaded" is?
Gully
Don't blame others if you choose to place yourself in danger.
Gully I've got a better idea.
You go to Detroit first without guns, gold, or rations. We will measure the total amt of time until your death, and then we will try and get a volunteer equipped with gold, guns and rations to move there. If we can't beat your record, or if nobody volunteers, you win.
This is the appropriate response to this particular bit of trolling.
Thinking is better than blind hate or simple denouncement. It is quite clear that it would be better to go into Detroit armed rather than unarmed, though your gold might not get you much. Well, if it is stolen, that is. If you protect it properly, you can buy the whole city with it.
socalbeach
I''m not the one bragging about going Rambo when the shit hits.
You aren't now? Fuck, I just read your Rambo post about trusting no one and going it alone while moving often. Which is it junior? You don't know a damn thing do you?
Detroit. If you need to prove tough, why not go to the Congo, or South Africa, or the slums of Brazil--Haiti. Street law, wacking, pulling a trigger, those with nothing left to lose and knowing no moral bound. That proves yer tuff, tuff enuf. Put Eisenhower, Nelson, Bonaparte, Montgomery, A.P. Hill, Pershing alone in Detroit. Outcome?
It's not about how savage, how hand-to-hand, it's about how you use your freedom in poverty and wealth. If war calls it's about harnessing the productivity of a nation, perfecting strategy and tactics, taking initiative as a formed, disciplined group. Banging away at each other with fists is for subhuman encounters. Even experts can take an unexpected but final thrust. As a silent arrow takes away the daily intensified perfect form of a karate, kenpo, fencing master.
Detroit's industry died, whatever ability decided to leave. What remained was barrel-bottom zombies. You want tough? Send them to the high arctic, send them to Magadan, send them to Stalingrad. Anywhere below -30 Celsius and the truly crafty, truly hard, truly enduring are the only ones who make it.
This is a labour dispute. The police want more. The tax base cannot support them. They are making reconnaisance upon the capacity of the city to support them. They will take whatever high ultimate they can. When that is not enough, they shrink. Or join the other side.
It is a theme that very many will soon experience.
On the likely matter of major collapse, that's why the Mrs and I learnt to sail to Yachtmaster Ocean standard, and why us "strange people" live on a fully provisioned, fully transocean-capable yacht . . . . . .
Survival planning involves a LOT more than "Guns, Ammo and PMs"
Actually I might consider it (because of the cheap land) if there was a longer growing season; but as it stands, the southern interior is where it's at for me. Too damn cold up there. Not to mention, if I left the homeland, my grandmother would KILL me.
As far as the crime goes, I think I'd be ok. I worked for years at a video store in Centerpoint, AL (little Nicaragua). Got canned for returning fire on a criminal that was trying to rob me for the second time that week. Not fun, but doable if need be.
No need to move there anyway; most metro areas will probably follow suit so we can all experience zombieland in our home state.
Welcome to the "West bank/Gaza Strip/Lebanon" , of the Great Lakes! Handing out fliers? Are you fucking kidding me? Every Detroit Police Chief for the last "15years", has been more rotten than the, "Apple Eve Picked in Eden"!
Great place to lose control! Major waterways in the Heart of Amerika! Mean-while Panetta is gallifanting around Paraguay!
The "Hold it! Next man makes a move, the nigger gets it!" negotiation strategy...
I had to check that...he's gone to Peru and Uruguay
http://en.mercopress.com/2012/10/05/pentagon-chief-flies-to-uruguay-for-...
Why? Barry run outta blow?
A hell of a gal u are. Lying and all. ya gonna try for some goodies? Perhaps we can go "jugular"?
Better yet I ? (directive#1) Thank you.
It looks like the Police is looking ways to increase their wages and pensions.
"protection" rackets no longer do the trick for supplemental income?
Only for the Federal Government and the Mob...except the mob will sell you guns, not take them away.
There should be signs like this in California and the southern border. "Attention: Enter U.S.A. at your own risk"
At least then we would be being honest with the Mexicans and Asians coming here.
Um, there ARE signs like this. I'm in AZ, there are signs posted on I-8:
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/1041/1020461.jpg
http://www.wanderlodgeownersgroup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7297
Well Mr. ZONIE, I suggest you hit the road! Learn to "comenserate", and treat a woman well!
If ya listen propperly, millionairism might happen! Shut your "PIE HOLE"!
Shit, in S. Arizona be signs put up by the Federal Gubamint tellin' Americans not to get too close to the border at their own fucking risk.
What else is new?
South Bronx, Robert Taylor Homes, Cabrini Green, LA (who gives a shit where)....
The miracles of Urban Renewal, Gubamint Intervention.
Fuckin'-A Bitchez
Knukles, you're a little behind the times. Robert Taylor and Cabrini-Green are gone. Those folks have been dispersed to the collar counties of Cook, with a good number of them now living in my community. I thought it was bad enough around here before, but now...
Oh yeah, I left ChiTown somewhere in the 80's I think... about 2 or 3 centuries ago... They were just startin' to talk about what to do with the raging successes of Urban Renewal (aka Negro Removal) when I was a leavin'.
Wondrous places of human civility and kindness.
Destroying the places would have been better served with Neutron Weapons.
You are my ""IDOL"" Knuckles.
Mexico's a Corrupt Cess Pool itself part of the do as I say crowd not as I do - the only signs obama wants on that border is Welcome new voters
Obama Increased Foreign Aid 80%; Spent 76% More on Foreign Aid Than Border Security
Unreal… Obama Partners With Mexico to Boost US Food Stamp Use – Even Though Most Illegal Immigrants Collect Welfare
alla yo yt folks stuff gone be uh, uh, mine nex, uh, uh year. I gone gibs it ma mooslam broes.
--hussein.
What do Detroit and Africa have in common other than 'war like conditions' and abject poverty?
Visiting either of them would be preferable to visiting with you?
what's up with the down arrow here? it's a joke...made me laugh. "gotta finish what you started" some times.
Let's see...socialist governments and corrupt government officials? Confiscation of the fruits of private labor by cronies of politicians?
Those things have the same effect wherever you see them. Race doesn't matter. If it did, Asians would rule the world, not whites or joos.
"Asians" do rule the world, U stupid f*ck. They're called: Ashkenazic Jews. Right out of Central Asia, c. 700 A.D. ff. That's why the smarts, and the murderous collectivism. Out of Asia.
You really are an idiot. Central Asia is not Asia. If it were, then according to you, the Huns would rule the world. Why don't they? How about the Mongols? Surely they should be better off than the Indians, at least.
The right to the fruits of one's own labor is the greatest predictor of economic prosperity. Nothing else. Ignore reality at your own peril.
Yes it is. That's why it's called Central ASIA. And the issue isn't "prosperity". The issue is WHO RULES? And, as usual, Race Rules. Once, the Huns did rule...post Rome. Now, Bennie & the Jews rule.
###Double Post### Ooopsy!
and then there's the asshole who thinks bold and italicized text makes their statement intellectually profound.
Extremely low per capita sunscreen lotion sales?
Sheeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit....
Your veiled attempts at getting someone to say blacks is sad. They do however both have plenty on unions that freed the shit out of the working man...
Ok, "blacks". Now I'm raaaacist. I'm also right.
Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away.
PLENTY OF AK47
Snake Plissken wouldn't be caught dead in either?
Oh, by the way, Plissken's retired now. He's changed his name and got a new jawb involving boats.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103924/
Obummer needsDetroit's taxes to fund Al-Queda on the other side of the planet so the NoWorldOrder anarchists can stop China from getting the globalist's oil. Detroit should legalize machine guns in preparation of the revolution.
So... Robocop is set to return so why worry?
Privatize the police force.
Bad idea! The so called "public police forces", are already privatized. More , not less transparancy is needed.
It's back! Big is back. Because bigger is better. The 6000 SUX. An American Tradition. (8.2 MPG)
http://robocop.wikia.com/wiki/6000_SUX
So Detroit is just another big-city cesspool run by Democrats for generations...what's so unusual about that? (I know, I know...no difference between Democrats and Republicans...right, right...got it.)
Nothing wrong with Detroit that a little Republican magic underwear couldn't fix.
I read somewhere they are made of fiberglass and itch like hell.
Ironically, the original Mormon magical underwear were made out of hemp fiber.
Choomgutchies!
How the system will evolve under the presence of other failed attempts.
Interview Immanuel Wallerstein -2008
Why go to detroit and see the end result of government central planning when you can observe the destruction occuring living in chicago
Upped ya for that.
Spend a few days in the Chicago Hilton last month for a work trip, and even though it was a classy ol' joint with a nice veiw of the park across the street, it didn't take much walking to find myself in shithole slums. One our guys even got a geniune Chi-town shakedown by the Chicago PD. Evidently, being a rube and running off if the cops come at you with guns drawn is a crime in and of itself there. The guy had never been in a city, and got scared because he was walking past a drug bust when he was drunk. Stupid? Of course- a crime? Not as far as I know. PD rolled him for his cash and ID, then made him hoof it across half the city the next morning.
(As an aside, I like that guy better now after that- it was a fine demonstration of a guy putting on his big boy pants and taking care of his own problem- no calls for help from that fella.)
I don't worry easily, and wasn't too bent out of shape down there- but even so, I will not be moving there in the foreseeable future. Looked like even the nice neighborhoods were rotten at the core, to my eyes. I'll keep the fields and woods for my family. We may be poor by most standards, but I do get to wake up every day and look at what folks from Chicago drive for hours to vacation in.
"Most violent city" is not true. East St. Louis' overall per capita crime rates, particularly violent crimes rates, are three times that of Detroit. Statistically a family of four in ESL will experience a violent crime (murder, rape, assault, armed robbery) every two years.
So, ESL is not always: English as a Second Language, duly noted.
"Statistically a family of four in ESL will experience a violent crime (murder, rape, assault, armed robbery) every two years."
And if the population stays the same as in no new comers... it won't take long for the population to be culled dramatically at that rate!
That's a genuinely bad place.
What is the outside of day fambly crime rate?
Detroit had some AWESOME techno:
http://youtu.be/QV2QfKEcXEM
Detroit, the model city for the upcoming series of cowboys vs zombies wars after the collapse.
Attention: no police officer in the history of Detriot has ever prevented a crime. Same goes for Baltimore, New Orleans, New York, pick a major metropolitan area. Not being part of the police officer guild makes you subject to beatings, random arrest, theft, destruction of your personnel property, and possibly death. You should under absolutely no condition ever call 9-1-1, ask for police assistance, or speak any words or phrases other than your name in front of a police officer in any situation.
Snake Plissken/ Bitchez<>
I thought he was dead.
Veiled threats and blackmail from the police. Why would I be surprised?
They're just thugs in uniform.
I like to call it costume rather than uniform. Especially the fat meter maids. Clowns.
But our President has said the car industry has come roaring back. Is he fibbing?
stateside
I think he's right.
Out here in the Neck of the Woods in which I live in California, I've seen all of One (1) fucking Chevy Volt and it had an OBAMABIDEN2012 bigger then Michelle's ass bumper sticker on it.
Real time evidence.
(whimpering sounds)
Oh, and just for shits and grins, every other damned Chevrolet branded product with the exception of some Corvettes are rental cars with them little bar code stickers on the windows.
And to make a further point about Gubamint Motors, with all the horse shit being ranted and raved about by the administration concerning green energy, conservation and all the shit they preach but don't fucking practice, how come Gubamint Motors still sells Corvettes and shit like the fastest production automobile in the world, that Cadillac ahwhateverthefuck?
Yes!
Your tax dollars at work
Aaraghhhhhhhhh!
Fuckin-A Bitchez!
LFMAO...Christ, this place has gone to the fucking dogs in the last 6 months. The average IQ drop is about 50 points.
Who is twisting your arm to stay, then?
Make that 60 points...minimum.
ZH be fluoridating the comments section...x4
Boilermaker what did you expect in an election year. Almost every site I visit these days the pundits are out in force. After the elections most will disappear!
DEtroit is just another example of the parasites killing their host.
The inevitable "success" of a fascist/socialist/communist economic system under a political oligarchy.
Sometimes ya just have to be thankfull for the great advice posted by basement dwelling glue-sniffers.
Finally, I got a laugh. Green.
a graphic representation
Interactive Detroit Crime Map
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/99999999/SPECIAL01/120606001
What's with Hamtramck? looks kinda boring...
Break out teh " Choom Wagons" for votes, in Detroit! Who in their right mind would verify the count? ACCORN's filled with Choom!
Pass the dutchie pon the left hand side!
USSA the greatst nation on earth. Welcome to Amerika , enjoy the drugs and shootouts .
Amerikkka; there, I fixed it for you.
Try to pay more attention to the details when trying to spew unfounded rhetorical bullshit.
I live right here in Metro Detroit.
I frequent downtown from time to time. I've lived here for 6 years now.
I've never seen any violent crimes, never been threatened, never known anyone that has either, and don't fear going downtown at all.
But, hey, why let that stop some sensationalized bullshit and mobbing by morons that have literally no fucking clue.
Another red-meat for the morons article from ZH. Look at 'em go.
Going down for a few hours during the day to Tiger (oops, Comerica) Stadium, Fox Theater, or the enclaves of Greektown, WSU or the immediate downtown area are a far cry from having to live in the crumbling, crime-infested, hopeless neighborhoods of Detroit day after day and year after year.
I was born in Detroit, and lived their for decades, and I can confidently say that virtually NOBODY here can imagine the surreal, post-apocalyptic Hell-hole that is today's Detroit unless they see it with their own eyes.
That said, I still love to go down to Eastern Market on Saturday mornings every time I visit back there.
Me three.
Home based business? I have been to Detroit several times. I lived in Cleveland and Chicago several years ago. I can personally verify, Detroit is a rough city. Matter of factly, I was in the Galleria next to Jacobs Field in cleveland ,on a layover, a few years back, and commented to a friend about the Similarities, to Detroit.
Very Primal! I'm not one to judge your interpretation of Detroit Boilermaker.
I'm sure you have a happy little enclave.
No shit it's a rough city.
It's not fucking thunderdome.
That's true. Thunderdome was "fiction", and Detroit is very real! Not to worry though. Virtual compounds are in every major city.
FWIW Boilermaker, iInever down/voted you. For the most part,you are a solid poster! ;-)
Exactly.
I wouldn't go skipping through the nasty parts of Gary, East Saint Louis, Compton, Harlem, or the slums of Rio, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Moscow, or wherever else.
There's no reason to go completely ape shit with the article and 'make pretend' that it's like a scene from Blackhawk Down.
'ESCAPE FROM DETROILET'
Wow, funny stuff.
So, those 5-6 story high tiered planters that surround Renaissance Center are for aesthetic reasons only? Detroit has been a shithole for many decades. The ride from downtown out to Gross Point on Jefferson was a very interesting progression of real estate to behold.
I'm with ya BM. I live less than 2 miles from it's border and have never seen shit. Between 6 and 8 mile on the other hand is something else but downtown is as safe as you can get. The last time I was in the Fox Theatre district, I saw tons of cops, no bums, beggars or anything of the sort. In fact I feel less safe in Melbourne Australia than I do in Detroit. This is absolutely true.
That is probably only because Steve Irwin is no longer around to warn you about and protect you from the 1001 deadly poisonous creepy-crawlies you people on the bottom of the world have to live with.
The "creepy-crawlies", tend to be very "sublime", and slow when it comes to venom. When I hang out in Queensland north, we play with Inland Tiapans,and Browns trying stay warm at sunset, on Captain Cook Highway. they are very docile. the salties are sneakey though.
Venomous creatures are not out to kill things 100 times their size. They tend to be, tightly range bound, or slow.