A Boy Was Jumped and Robbed by a Group of Kids at Bethesda Mall tonight 4/7

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rich kids think this stuff is funny, my money is on Mater Dei graduates.

Bethesda is full of grifters, drug addicts, pan handlers, the homeless and people bused in from other areas to fill low income housing. We went to the McDonald's on the pike recently and I was shocked by the homeless people in front of the 7-11 and the drug addicts spitting over and over in front of the McD's door while waiting to ask for food of each person who went in or out. It was like stopping to pick up food on NY Ave before heading to the beach. Actually that's probably better now.

I have friends that graduated from W schools who are addicts.

Homeless and drug addicts are not new and blaming them on “housing” policy is laughable.

Stop giving your kids credit cards and no limits on spending . Stop going yo Europe thinking your teens are mature enough to be home alone. Stop spending your summer at the cape / Bethany and think it’s okay to leave your teens.

I have one friend who is a police officer and another who is very high up in MCPS central office. Both have said the amount of drugs and crime in and around the W schools is astounding and everyone is oblivious to it. The amount of vaping is very high at those schools as well. They have both said parents are clueless as to the extent of the drinking, drugs, theft, bullying, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rich kids think this stuff is funny, my money is on Mater Dei graduates.

Bethesda is full of grifters, drug addicts, pan handlers, the homeless and people bused in from other areas to fill low income housing. We went to the McDonald's on the pike recently and I was shocked by the homeless people in front of the 7-11 and the drug addicts spitting over and over in front of the McD's door while waiting to ask for food of each person who went in or out. It was like stopping to pick up food on NY Ave before heading to the beach. Actually that's probably better now.

I have friends that graduated from W schools who are addicts.

Homeless and drug addicts are not new and blaming them on “housing” policy is laughable.

Stop giving your kids credit cards and no limits on spending . Stop going yo Europe thinking your teens are mature enough to be home alone. Stop spending your summer at the cape / Bethany and think it’s okay to leave your teens.

I have one friend who is a police officer and another who is very high up in MCPS central office. Both have said the amount of drugs and crime in and around the W schools is astounding and everyone is oblivious to it. The amount of vaping is very high at those schools as well. They have both said parents are clueless as to the extent of the drinking, drugs, theft, bullying, etc.

Lol. Except the police responses tell a different story. The only high crime “W school” is B-CC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rich kids think this stuff is funny, my money is on Mater Dei graduates.

Bethesda is full of grifters, drug addicts, pan handlers, the homeless and people bused in from other areas to fill low income housing. We went to the McDonald's on the pike recently and I was shocked by the homeless people in front of the 7-11 and the drug addicts spitting over and over in front of the McD's door while waiting to ask for food of each person who went in or out. It was like stopping to pick up food on NY Ave before heading to the beach. Actually that's probably better now.

I have friends that graduated from W schools who are addicts.

Homeless and drug addicts are not new and blaming them on “housing” policy is laughable.

Stop giving your kids credit cards and no limits on spending . Stop going yo Europe thinking your teens are mature enough to be home alone. Stop spending your summer at the cape / Bethany and think it’s okay to leave your teens.

I have one friend who is a police officer and another who is very high up in MCPS central office. Both have said the amount of drugs and crime in and around the W schools is astounding and everyone is oblivious to it. The amount of vaping is very high at those schools as well. They have both said parents are clueless as to the extent of the drinking, drugs, theft, bullying, etc.

Lol. Except the police responses tell a different story. The only high crime “W school” is B-CC.

That's silly, PP. Just because the police don't get called to Whitman, Wootton, Churchill, or Walter Johnson, that doesn't mean there isn't drinking, drugs, theft, bullying, or etc.

For what it's worth, my upcounty kid hung out with their upcounty friends at Montgomery Mall once, but only once, because it was even more boring than Rio.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a reason kids feel it's okay to randomly, violently attack strangers at malls, metro stops, etc. There's a reason. It's what they are being taught at home, on internet, on TV, in schools. What are they being taught? Religion is a joke to be mocked and name called, anger and violence is glorified in some contexts, big one here - external locus of control over their lives, etc. Wake up people. Our society is becoming like a violent criminal training camp. This will only get worse until we teach better.

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.

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Anonymous wrote:Rich kids think this stuff is funny, my money is on Mater Dei graduates.

Bethesda is full of grifters, drug addicts, pan handlers, the homeless and people bused in from other areas to fill low income housing. We went to the McDonald's on the pike recently and I was shocked by the homeless people in front of the 7-11 and the drug addicts spitting over and over in front of the McD's door while waiting to ask for food of each person who went in or out. It was like stopping to pick up food on NY Ave before heading to the beach. Actually that's probably better now.

The McDonald's on the what? There's a McDonald's on Rockville Pike, but it's not in Bethesda, and there's also no 7-11. There are two McDonald's in Bethesda: one on River Road, which is not "the pike", and again, there's no 7-11 (it's next to Talbert's); the other in the Montgomery Mall food court (no "pike", no 7-11). There's a McDonald's on New Hampshire Avenue in White Oak, which is near (though not on) Columbia Pike, and there's a 7-11 across the road and down a ways.

Also, how do you "bus in" people to the housing that they live in?

The McD's on the pike is "north bethesda" -- near where Old Georgetown Rd hits the pike. There is a 7-11 right next to it. Like it or not, my post is accurate. Instead of nitpicking stupid irrelevant facts, how about addressing the issue -- drug addicts and homeless beggars are now standing sentinel outside the door of a suburban McDonalds hitting up everyone who walks in or out, and spitting on the sidewalk over and over when the door is closed, so we have to walk over their spit to get food. It's gross. Fact.

But they have always been there.

There was guy who wore shorty shirts who basically live out of the Bally’s for year.

Are you new to Montgomery Coubty?

I was born and grew up in Montgomery County. No, they have not always been there.

PP again. I actually know that guy. He's wealthy and lived out of his car, showering at they gym because he thought it was a cool thing to do. Not the same.

Yea they have always been there. I work with homeless and that’s some crazy urban legend you made up in your head.

People have always lived in the woods near the tracks on Montrose and panhandle on Rockville Pike right there.

Most have disabilities/social security /VA but no millionaires

LOL bullshit. Gaslighting people into believing this area has always been a crime-riddled, homeless-living, panhandling area is just plain bullshit. It's changed.

Yes, it's true, it's not 1975 in Montgomery County anymore. Or anywhere else.

The crime rate in the 7’s/80’s was doubled what it is now.

Shhh, angry indignant suburban PP doesn’t want to hear any of those pesky facts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rich kids think this stuff is funny, my money is on Mater Dei graduates.

Bethesda is full of grifters, drug addicts, pan handlers, the homeless and people bused in from other areas to fill low income housing. We went to the McDonald's on the pike recently and I was shocked by the homeless people in front of the 7-11 and the drug addicts spitting over and over in front of the McD's door while waiting to ask for food of each person who went in or out. It was like stopping to pick up food on NY Ave before heading to the beach. Actually that's probably better now.

I have friends that graduated from W schools who are addicts.

Homeless and drug addicts are not new and blaming them on “housing” policy is laughable.

Stop giving your kids credit cards and no limits on spending . Stop going yo Europe thinking your teens are mature enough to be home alone. Stop spending your summer at the cape / Bethany and think it’s okay to leave your teens.

I don't care if the spitting drug addict beggars graduated from a W school. They're still spitting on the ground over and over, begging for money, picking at their scabs as we go into a McD's for food. It's gross, no matter where they graduated from school -- or do you think graduating from a W school makes any and all behavior a thing of beauty?

Go to the low income housing "projects" in Bethesda and see for yourself. Smashed beer bottles in the parking lots, plastic trash stuck in a tree waving in the breeze for 9 months before it disintegrates, ashtrays dumped out of car doors. It's gross. If you like that, fine, but most people move to the suburbs to escape that environment.

Move to a gated community, in the exburbs, with no public transportation, then.

Sadly this is getting to be the only safe and enjoyable option in most well developed areas of the US
we aren’t quite there yet but I see the future

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe I have to explain this here but Montgomery Mall, just like any other establishment in the DMV area, is not in a bubble that can't be accessed by the "bad" people. Anywhere can be reached with a car, bus, or metro. If you want a guarantee that nothing bad will happen to your kids, then tell them to stay home and play Roblox all day.

Grew up in Bethesda. No one "accessed" Bethesda by bus or metro or car to commit crimes then. Things have changed. To pretend otherwise is craziness. People move to areas so they can feel comfortable their kids won't be jumped. They don't want them to be inside playing roblox all day. They want a safe community where kids can be on their own, safely. That used to be the case in Bethesda. Now it's not. Buses and metro and car access is not what's changed.

That's an interesting definition of "people" you have there.

Grew up in Rockville in the 80s and 90s and yes, we absolutely took the bus to Montgomery Mall and downtown Bethesda. What's funny is that there were Bethesda kids who we encountered (BCC kids) who actually behaved worse- did drugs, stole from stores, etc. What's crazy is that you think you moving to the bubble of Bethesda gives you ownership of the mall. It's a public space and anyone, good or bad, can access it.

We should welcome people who jump our teens to steal their shoes and air pods. They belong there, too.

This is why the left is a joke to many people these days.

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First of all, I'm not the left. Next, you can welcome (or not) whoever you want but that's not stopping people from going to the mall! Do you want a security guard by the door to ask everyone for an ID with proof of address before entry?

New poster but it would be nice to have face control. No large rowdy groups, no bad smelling dirty people. Always thought it was the basic stuff until I arrived into the great US of A. No right of pleasant enjoyment anymore it seems

[Anonymous]

The PP who claimed there has been an uptick is correct.

https://moco360.media/2022/10/19/police-blotter-aggravated-assault-reported-at-westfield-montgomery-mall-in-bethesda/

http://www.rockvillenights.com/2022/08/assault-at-montgomery-mall-in-bethesda.html

http://www.rockvillenights.com/2022/07/assault-at-montgomery-mall-in-bethesda.html

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teens-sought-after-attacking-spraying-bleach-at-woman-in-maryland-mall-police/3041349/

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/bethesda/car-break-montgomery-county-mall-ends-with-family-targeted-home-invasion/65-bfa2ad88-1def-40ff-98fc-4cda8f9a00ef

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/suspect-caught-on-camera-trying-to-assault-women-in-westfield-wheaton-mall-police-say

Those were just some hits.

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^ Oops, 2 of those were Wheaton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The PP who claimed there has been an uptick is correct.

https://moco360.media/2022/10/19/police-blotter-aggravated-assault-reported-at-westfield-montgomery-mall-in-bethesda/

http://www.rockvillenights.com/2022/08/assault-at-montgomery-mall-in-bethesda.html

http://www.rockvillenights.com/2022/07/assault-at-montgomery-mall-in-bethesda.html

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teens-sought-after-attacking-spraying-bleach-at-woman-in-maryland-mall-police/3041349/

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/bethesda/car-break-montgomery-county-mall-ends-with-family-targeted-home-invasion/65-bfa2ad88-1def-40ff-98fc-4cda8f9a00ef

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/suspect-caught-on-camera-trying-to-assault-women-in-westfield-wheaton-mall-police-say

Those were just some hits.

Two of those articles are for Wheaton Mall which has gotten 10X more dangerous than Montgomery Mall.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:All it’s going to take is one incident too close to home and this wife is GONE

Enjoy your gated community.

I will. Guarded. And I will still be armed.

[Anonymous]

I agree - we are moving to the point where people will live in gates communities, like South Africa.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Compared to Wheaton Mall, it's been a lot better but it's spiked up lately.

Both Montgomery Mall and Pike and Rose have been attracting kids from east county to hang out on weekends. Montgomery Mall basically has the only movie theatre left downcounty making it a big draw for kids from all over. I know people in Silver Spring whose kids spend a lot of time hanging out in Bethesda. So this doesn’t surprise me.

You can thank the County Council and Planning Board.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rich kids think this stuff is funny, my money is on Mater Dei graduates.

Bethesda is full of grifters, drug addicts, pan handlers, the homeless and people bused in from other areas to fill low income housing. We went to the McDonald's on the pike recently and I was shocked by the homeless people in front of the 7-11 and the drug addicts spitting over and over in front of the McD's door while waiting to ask for food of each person who went in or out. It was like stopping to pick up food on NY Ave before heading to the beach. Actually that's probably better now.

I have friends that graduated from W schools who are addicts.

Homeless and drug addicts are not new and blaming them on “housing” policy is laughable.

Stop giving your kids credit cards and no limits on spending . Stop going yo Europe thinking your teens are mature enough to be home alone. Stop spending your summer at the cape / Bethany and think it’s okay to leave your teens.

I don't care if the spitting drug addict beggars graduated from a W school. They're still spitting on the ground over and over, begging for money, picking at their scabs as we go into a McD's for food. It's gross, no matter where they graduated from school -- or do you think graduating from a W school makes any and all behavior a thing of beauty?

Go to the low income housing "projects" in Bethesda and see for yourself. Smashed beer bottles in the parking lots, plastic trash stuck in a tree waving in the breeze for 9 months before it disintegrates, ashtrays dumped out of car doors. It's gross. If you like that, fine, but most people move to the suburbs to escape that environment.

Ummm…where are these “projects” exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The PP who claimed there has been an uptick is correct.

https://moco360.media/2022/10/19/police-blotter-aggravated-assault-reported-at-westfield-montgomery-mall-in-bethesda/

http://www.rockvillenights.com/2022/08/assault-at-montgomery-mall-in-bethesda.html

http://www.rockvillenights.com/2022/07/assault-at-montgomery-mall-in-bethesda.html

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/teens-sought-after-attacking-spraying-bleach-at-woman-in-maryland-mall-police/3041349/

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/bethesda/car-break-montgomery-county-mall-ends-with-family-targeted-home-invasion/65-bfa2ad88-1def-40ff-98fc-4cda8f9a00ef

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/suspect-caught-on-camera-trying-to-assault-women-in-westfield-wheaton-mall-police-say

Those were just some hits.

Glad we moved out of there.