Things you can’t do safely in DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Things you can do safely in DC:

Drive a 20 year old Toyota (like me)

Wear a lands end coat and have it not stolen (like me)

Use an android phone in public and no one even looks twice at it (like me)

Walk a mutt from the local shelter.

If you aren't styling and profiling, you have a much lower risk of getting robbed.

You could wear your designer clothes (at least in broad daylight as well as at night in well populated/nightlife areas) and walk a dog that you paid money for and have the latest iPhone and a new car … 10 years ago. It was a different place back then. What happened?

[Anonymous]

Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren't you guys tired of making these threads every day? If you are this exhausted consider moving, for the last time: city living comes with risk.

I cannot imagine having this much anxiety over something that is unlikely to happen.

In any major metropolitan city in the world [London, Brussels, Madrid, Sao Paulo] you can be mugged. DC is not unique in that.

I felt beyond safe in Europe this summer. What we accept in the US is gross.

I've only been to the us and Canada but I feel like one trip to Europe and I wouldn't want to come "home." I know that in my soul.

[Anonymous]

Be president trump!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ride a bike:
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/memorial-held-for-well-known-dc-cyclist-shot-killed-in-northwest

For this accident - they never talked about the biker being at fault.
It sucks - but riding at your bike at 1 AM and running the light puts you at risk for an accident.

Are you freaking kidding me? There was no traffic light, it was a quiet residential street and he was held up at gunpoint. Talk about blame the victim!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Things you can do safely in DC:

Drive a 20 year old Toyota (like me)

Wear a lands end coat and have it not stolen (like me)

Use an android phone in public and no one even looks twice at it (like me)

Walk a mutt from the local shelter.

If you aren't styling and profiling, you have a much lower risk of getting robbed.

You could wear your designer clothes (at least in broad daylight as well as at night in well populated/nightlife areas) and walk a dog that you paid money for and have the latest iPhone and a new car … 10 years ago. It was a different place back then. What happened?

I went out a lot 10 years ago. Can't say that I remember anyone causally walking around in a mass market $2,000 Moncler puffer jacket.

Nobody cares about phones anymore. Your iphone isn't special.

Dogs though, that's messed up.

[Anonymous]

Can't exit a metro station without constant "bing" of turnstile jumpers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren't you guys tired of making these threads every day? If you are this exhausted consider moving, for the last time: city living comes with risk.

I cannot imagine having this much anxiety over something that is unlikely to happen.

In any major metropolitan city in the world [London, Brussels, Madrid, Sao Paulo] you can be mugged. DC is not unique in that.

The point iis not about living in a city. It's about living in a city where there's a direct correlation to policies and an increase in crime. Much of the crime could be prevented with different policies. The city is less safe than it was 5 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Can't get money from the Wells Fargo Wisconsin Ave ATM without being flashed with an uninvited pen*s by the resident "sleeping bag guy". And soon you won't be able to to get money at all since the branch is closing.

[Anonymous]

Use the ATM.
I was the victim of indecent exposure in an atm vestibule on Wisconsin Ave. early evening, a few weeks ago. Police came but did nothing, didnt even ask him to leave. The man basically lives in the atm vestibule. Still there tonight in his sleeping bag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why an adult, independent and married person would be entitled to secret service escort just because another adult relative works at White House?

. Because kidnapping them would shake the leader of the country enough to compromise our national security. Obviously.

It would've shaken Obama if it happened to his sister or Bush if it happened to his sister. Why weren't those living in White House?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trump.

Yes, yes - trump caused every single one of DC’s current problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Things you can do safely in DC:

Drive a 20 year old Toyota (like me)

Wear a lands end coat and have it not stolen (like me)

Use an android phone in public and no one even looks twice at it (like me)

Walk a mutt from the local shelter.

If you aren't styling and profiling, you have a much lower risk of getting robbed.

Translation: "Things you can do safely in DC: Be a Poor"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:- Drive a car
- wear a coat
- walk your dog
- eat at a restaurant
- be a member of the FBI, Secret Service or even the President’s own granddaughter
- shop for groceries

-own a business and oppose bike lanes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Use the ATM.
I was the victim of indecent exposure in an atm vestibule on Wisconsin Ave. early evening, a few weeks ago. Police came but did nothing, didnt even ask him to leave. The man basically lives in the atm vestibule. Still there tonight in his sleeping bag.

Hi, after we saw your post we have been calling in this person to 311 wellness checks every time we see him on our walks. My hope is that they actually move him into hospitalization (involuntary fine). As the victim of flashing myself as a child (traumatized) I feel for you and don't want my kid literally exposed to this man. She walks all the time to the Starbucks nearby. It is incredibly disturbing to me that he has not been arrested. Especially after the sex criminal attacked the daycare workers. Did you file a police report? Have you contacted Frumin? Have you gone to district 2 and reported this directly to the new police chief. Frumin is having some kind of community event this weekend and claims the attorney will be there. Please go and report this to all of them in person. This is not ok that he is still there tonight. You are the victim of a sex crime.