Why you should never ever go to Baltimore

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

If you are outraged and want marches, why don't you march?

That was a senseless tragedy, I'm sure we agree on that. But I hate whiners who complain "Why doesn't anyone start a petition over this? Why isn't there a march over this?"

Be the change you wish to see. YOU start a petition, YOU organize a march. Otherwise, continue to be an inactive whiner.

[Anonymous]

I love Baltimore, that shit happens everywhere. Walk around drunk out of your mind at night in a new city and it is more likely to happen

[Anonymous]

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.

[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.

Bullshit. I lived in Brooklyn

[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

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are outraged and want marches, why don't you march?

That was a senseless tragedy, I'm sure we agree on that. But I hate whiners who complain "Why doesn't anyone start a petition over this? Why isn't there a march over this?"

Be the change you wish to see. YOU start a petition, YOU organize a march. Otherwise, continue to be an inactive whiner.

THIS. A THOUSAND TIMES THIS. Whiny assholes standing around to see if anyone else will step up. Either do something or STFU.

[Anonymous]

same stuff happens in DC. kids with no dads, no direction, no morals, no future. thank you welfare state.

[Anonymous]

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)?

[Anonymous]

Sounds really scary, that there Baltimore. Wasn't it the murder capitol of the US? Or was that Detroit or Kansas City?

[Anonymous]

00:01 here - I forgot that my BF used to have to pretend to be a psycho, like waving his arms all flailing about and yelling all crazy so that he wouldn't get stabbed or robbed when he walked from his place to mine. He ended up getting robbed at gunpoint anyway though, but at least he wasn't stabbed to death like his neighbor.

[Anonymous]

What part of Baltimore did you live in? That stuff happens, but there are plenty of neighborhoods where it doesn't.

(lived there 10 years AND worked in the criminal justice system.)

[Anonymous]

I lived in Baltimore for 7 years, op I'm really sorry you lived in a really shitty part of town.
Yes, there are some bad parts, and there are some great parts. I have had cops stop me while I was walking at night and kindly recommend I turn and head in another direction, but please don't scare people away from all parts of Balitmore. It has areas that have come a long way and that are wonderful!

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love Baltimore, that shit happens everywhere. Walk around drunk out of your mind at night in a new city and it is more likely to happen

Yeah. I should be able to walk around drunk in an unfamiliar area and not get severely beaten and stripped naked. There are a least 2 comments that seem to suggest that this is the victim's fault. Not cool.