Why you should never ever go to Baltimore

[Anonymous]

Let's make this a cat fight about which city is more ghetto. That'll solve problems!

You go ladies, keep it true to the elitist, DCUM entitled princesses that you are.

I don't believe "Brooklyn" was ever the murder capitol of the nation, but I'm not sure. You can always go check crime stats and do some research. Or argue here about which city has the scarier walk to your car.

Just sayin'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp here, I can't imagine there is any city where you can walk around in a bad part of town that drunk and not have something happen to you. This was ridiculous, but really could happen anywhere.
I was just at a hospital up in Baltimore visiting a friend, and every single one of us visiting her commented on how friendly everyone at the hospital was-from the parking attendant to the security guard, to the nurses and random people we ran into in the elevator.

Does this happen in Miami?

Las Vegas?

New Orleans?

Amsterdam?

Paris?

LA?

Chicago?

Brooklyn?

DC?

Dallas?

Rio?

GO! Tell me about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp here, I can't imagine there is any city where you can walk around in a bad part of town that drunk and not have something happen to you. This was ridiculous, but really could happen anywhere.
I was just at a hospital up in Baltimore visiting a friend, and every single one of us visiting her commented on how friendly everyone at the hospital was-from the parking attendant to the security guard, to the nurses and random people we ran into in the elevator.

You are comparing the entire city to an experience that you had at a hospital, from the parking garage on up? That is ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

I went to college in Baltimore -- grew up in the DC area. There are dangerous parts, certainly. Scary as hell parts. But the PP is absolutely correct -- people in Baltimore are kinder and more friendly than here in the DC area. I have had people try and walk me places (when I parked my car) in Balto. because they knew how dangerous it was. Baltimore is no different than New Orleans or Detroit or Chicago in that regard. That said, I've never had any problems myself. I actually taught for a while on the west side at what was Southwestern High School. It had a bad reputation but I loved the kids and never had a problem.

[Anonymous]

NP here. That's horrible.

And blaming the victim for being drunk? That's just obnoxious. Being drunk doesn't give people the right to take your sh&t and strip you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lived there for 7 years and it is the most ghetto, dangerous city I have ever been to in my life. I couldn't even walk in the daytime with a wallet - just cash and a license. I had to have a police escort to go 2 blocks to my car. Notorious B.I.G.'s block in Brooklyn (circa 95) didn't have sh*t on baltimore.

If you think the entire city is that way they you are an incredibly sheltered human being and I feel very sorry for you. I live in the city, shop in the city, work in the city, run, walk, bike, eat and everything else....the people that committed that crime are a ver ysmall percentage of ANIMALS that exist in every URBAN environment. I think you need to crawl out of your hole and learn a little.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Pp here, I can't imagine there is any city where you can walk around in a bad part of town that drunk and not have something happen to you. This was ridiculous, but really could happen anywhere.
I was just at a hospital up in Baltimore visiting a friend, and every single one of us visiting her commented on how friendly everyone at the hospital was-from the parking attendant to the security guard, to the nurses and random people we ran into in the elevator.

Does this happen in Miami?

Las Vegas?

New Orleans?

Amsterdam?

Paris?

LA?

Chicago?

Brooklyn?

DC?

Dallas?

Rio?

GO! Tell me about it.

I've lived in a few of these cities and grew up in Baltimore, if you think that crime is a "baltimore specific" problem you are just silly. Crime is an urban thing. If you've been in any city, anywhere in the world, you know there are good parts and bad parts. You know where to go for fancy shopping and where to clutch your purse close.

Cities are the same EVERYWHERE from New Dehli to Buenos Aries to Baltimore to LA to London.

Only the uneducated or untraveled would post like this (OP). I assume you are one or the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/04/07/tourist-beaten-robbed-baltimore-caught-camera-video_n_1409900.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

I doubt there will be any marches a la Duke lacrosse or Jena, Louisiana.

Yes let's March! Teach people how to drink responsibly!

Oh...is that not what you meant?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP here. That's horrible.

And blaming the victim for being drunk? That's just obnoxious. Being drunk doesn't give people the right to take your sh&t and strip you.

No, but I bet you money that he won't ever drink to much and walk around a neighborhood he doesn't know again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived there for 7 years and it is the most ghetto, dangerous city I have ever been to in my life. I couldn't even walk in the daytime with a wallet - just cash and a license. I had to have a police escort to go 2 blocks to my car. Notorious B.I.G.'s block in Brooklyn (circa 95) didn't have sh*t on baltimore.

Bullshit. I lived in Brooklyn

...and have you LIVED in Baltimore? Horrible, horrible crime-infested town.

My sister lived on Notorious B.I.G.'s block, I spent a lot of time there and she hung with me in Baltimore, and even she was like OMG Baltimore wins the ghetto prize. I didn't seem to notice any piles of sand soaking up blood on the sidewalk anywhere in Brooklyn or nightly shootings when I was there. Did people die regularly on your block? Do you know what type of gun is used when it goes off? Do you know when somebody who got shot is dead because of the vehicles parked at the scene? Did you have to kick heroin addicts off your porch in the morning? Did you have to get tight with straight up street people for protection? Did you have to set up a makeshift home alarm system by piling loud stuff against your door so that when people tried to open it (ALL THE TIME) they would get startled and run? Ever get caught up in a riot after the police killed somebody next to you? Do pawn shops in your neighborhood have pit bulls behind the counter and sell gold teeth (like, a freaking tooth - with gold on it)? [/quote

Ok, so you are describing on section of Baltimore. It's a 100% black area that will exist in perpetuity (do you know what that word means?) because the people that live in those neighborhoods have no education and live on welfare and drug money. the sense of entitlement runs rampant through those types of neighborhoods nationwide. Until this changes it will contiue to be this way.

[Anonymous]

Baltimore is HOOD. Hands down probably rivals Detroit. Baltimore is the absolute worst.

[Anonymous]

I have a soft spot for Bloodymore after a Johns Hopkins student severed a bad guy's head with a samurai sword.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a soft spot for Bloodymore after a Johns Hopkins student severed a bad guy's head with a samurai sword.

In 2009, defending himself.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2009-09-15/news/17931268_1_johns-hopkins-university-student-suspect-sword

[Anonymous]

Born and raised in Baltimore!!! In a beautiful neighborhood near Loyola College. It's a quirky city, with a lot of charm, and a lot of really rough areas too - hello, it's a city!? You gotta keep your wits about you in rougher areas. But to never ever visit? coming from a DC poster (or at least on a DC message board), are you kidding me?? As if DC is amazingly safe all over? Baltimore has an incredible amount to offer and was a wonderful place to grow up. Nice being in a city where generations have grown up, and not like here where it feels like 90% of everyone i meet is from somewhere else, there you say your last name and you have 5 connections to the person you are talking to. I love both cities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived there for 7 years and it is the most ghetto, dangerous city I have ever been to in my life. I couldn't even walk in the daytime with a wallet - just cash and a license. I had to have a police escort to go 2 blocks to my car. Notorious B.I.G.'s block in Brooklyn (circa 95) didn't have sh*t on baltimore.

Bullshit. I lived in Brooklyn

Mentally handicapped white male walking his yellow labrador retriever-shot and killed after a driver exiting a taco bell almost hit him.

http://www.azfamily.com/home/Sister-of-man-killed-in-Taco-Bell-drive-thru-say-he-was-murdered-146226885.html

No immediate arrest and no vast outrage or fear of rioting. Less than 20 results on google news search for Daniel Atkins the man killed with no weapon and a yellow lab on a leash!
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474981257118

I don't have a gun and think Zimmerman is a jerk but I also find it incredible that cases like this and the Knoxville rapes and murders get little media attention.