Things you can’t do safely in DC

[Anonymous]

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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.

Nobody CARED about phones. That has changed. I was held up and gunpoint and told explicitly “I won’t take your wallet. Just your phone.”

And they specifically demand that you unlock it so they can have access to all your financial apps, Venmo, Uber etc. And why not? Most people have $10 cash at most in their wallets, if you steal a credit card I can call or go on my account online and cancel it so quickly it will never work. But they can do a lot of damage if they have your phone unlocked.

I have Venmo attached to my credit card. I guess I can cancel my credit card if my phone is stolen.

I never started using other financial apps and do it all via my laptop. Seems like I am dodging possible robbery.

You’re not dodging anything. The kid with a gun to your head isn’t going to believe you don’t have any financial apps on your phone. They’ll make you unlock it and still take the phone.

I'd much rather lose my phone than lose my phone AND have my bank account cleaned out.

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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.

Nobody CARED about phones. That has changed. I was held up and gunpoint and told explicitly “I won’t take your wallet. Just your phone.”

And they specifically demand that you unlock it so they can have access to all your financial apps, Venmo, Uber etc. And why not? Most people have $10 cash at most in their wallets, if you steal a credit card I can call or go on my account online and cancel it so quickly it will never work. But they can do a lot of damage if they have your phone unlocked.

I have Venmo attached to my credit card. I guess I can cancel my credit card if my phone is stolen.

I never started using other financial apps and do it all via my laptop. Seems like I am dodging possible robbery.

You’re not dodging anything. The kid with a gun to your head isn’t going to believe you don’t have any financial apps on your phone. They’ll make you unlock it and still take the phone.

I'd much rather lose my phone than lose my phone AND have my bank account cleaned out.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC LAW
"It is unlawful for a person, in public, to make an obscene or indecent exposure of his or her genitalia or anus, to engage in masturbation, or to engage in a sexual act as defined in § 22-3001(8). It is unlawful for a person to make an obscene or indecent sexual proposal to a minor. A person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01, imprisoned for not more than 90 days, or both"


This is a law of our city. Demand to speak with Frumin and the new commander of District 2.

Why did the former District 2 commander last only a few months in the job?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Making and keeping friends.

Sad to read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: - ride the metro

https://wjla.com/news/local/metro-assault-robbery-yellow-line-train-congress-heights-navy-yard-station-suspects-search-investigation-violence-crime-washington-dc-wmata

No wonder more people drive even as overall commuting is less than Lee-pandemic.

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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.

Nobody CARED about phones. That has changed. I was held up and gunpoint and told explicitly “I won’t take your wallet. Just your phone.”

And they specifically demand that you unlock it so they can have access to all your financial apps, Venmo, Uber etc. And why not? Most people have $10 cash at most in their wallets, if you steal a credit card I can call or go on my account online and cancel it so quickly it will never work. But they can do a lot of damage if they have your phone unlocked.

I have Venmo attached to my credit card. I guess I can cancel my credit card if my phone is stolen.

I never started using other financial apps and do it all via my laptop. Seems like I am dodging possible robbery.

You’re not dodging anything. The kid with a gun to your head isn’t going to believe you don’t have any financial apps on your phone. They’ll make you unlock it and still take the phone.

I'd much rather lose my phone than lose my phone AND have my bank account cleaned out.

Okay. But you aren’t dodging possible robbery even if that financial info isn’t on your phone.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Good question. I guess you can ask Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr and their assorted partners and many children.

For one because they were getting attacked

https://www.thepinknews.com/2016/12/22/gay-couple-booted-off-flight-for-harassing-ivanka-trump/

[Anonymous]

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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

Visit Bethesda instead.

For more of the same?
https://www.wusa9.com/video/news/local/maryland/attempted-carjacking-caught-on-camera-in-bethesda/65-4803ea28-1637-4c75-a194-a26263c91a1a

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t get it. We have the best gun laws and bodily autonomy. We have social programs to help people. DC should not be like this.

Why are we facing these issues you don’t see in modern societies elsewhere like the Netherlands?

Because we have a small amount of unmodern people ruining it for everyone and the schools are teenage daycares. You obviously can’t impose new age social norms on people who haven’t matured enough to live in modern societies. People are mentally stuck in the Bronze Age and we’re trying to skip them to post reformation, post enlightenment, post industrial society of trust?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Low IQ, low impulse control populace.

The kind of people who would pull a fire alarm if they can’t pull a gun.

+1

Some of the people I have worked with aren't much past the age of 12, mentally, and they will be damned to exercise any impulse control. Some people should not be repopulating, particularly if they don't care to actually raise that child with discipline until age 18.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Low IQ, low impulse control populace.

The kind of people who would pull a fire alarm if they can’t pull a gun.

+1

Some of the people I have worked with aren't much past the age of 12, mentally, and they will be damned to exercise any impulse control. Some people should not be repopulating, particularly if they don't care to actually raise that child with discipline until age 18.

Child discipline is so passé.

[Anonymous]

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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

- go to school

https://twitter.com/alanhenney/status/1730308071426032088

Police are looking for two armed teens who are possibly targeting school kids in robberies with KIDNAPPING. One took place this morning near Coolidge (5th St and Underwood St NW DC) and Roosevelt yesterday morning.

Omg. When I saw French bulldogs were being stolen at gunpoint, I wondered if kids would be next.

I guess so.

While DC burns Bowser fiddles in Dubai.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh no, they care about the phone too. An unlocked phone can be wiped and resold. iPhones sell for a lot more used than most Android phones. Even if it’s not unlocked the parts can be sold. But the financial data is important too.

Android for the win once again

[Anonymous]

So glad I moved from that sh*thole. 45+ years was enough for one lifetime.

[Anonymous]

What an idiotic take. I guess because some tiny amount of people had those things happen that means you "can't do" any of them? So by that logic, here's a list of things you can't do anywhere in the world:

Drive a car (deadly accidents every day!)

Work a job (nearly every single occupation on the planet has had someone die doing it at some point)

Take a shower (bathroom slip and falls kill an average of 1 person every day)

Pet a dog (4.5 million people bitten every year in the US alone)

Better just hole yourself up in a padded panic room for the rest of your life because by your standards literally everything is verboten.