[sanjuro]

... by an air gun of some type.

I am riding up Mission Street, a mostly Latino neighborhood. I was huffing and puffing uphill, when I pass right by a late model Caddy with a black kid yelling at some dudes in front of a bar, asking them mockingly if he could have a beer.

After I pass by, I hear behind me the sickening sound of "pop pop pop pop pop". I got on the sidewalk just as the Caddy hauls past me.

I didn't think it was a gun, by the sound and the frequency of the bursts. I went back, and the guys who got hit were shaken, but OK.

I was real scared, because I was perfect target for a pellet or just to get clipped by the car...

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

... by an air gun of some type.

I am riding up Mission Street, a mostly Latino neighborhood. I was huffing and puffing uphill, when I pass right by a late model Caddy with a black kid yelling at some dudes in front of a bar, asking them mockingly if he could have a beer.

After I pass by, I hear behind me the sickening sound of "pop pop pop pop pop". I got on the sidewalk just as the Caddy hauls past me.

I didn't think it was a gun, by the sound and the frequency of the bursts. I went back, and the guys who got hit were shaken, but OK.

I was real scared, because I was perfect target for a pellet or just to get clipped by the car...

i have a friend who carries a bb gun in his car. a crystal clear imi look alike.

anytime a combi (a southamerican iconic public transportation van, whose only purpose in life is to stop the traffic in front of a green lights and to kill other drivers) makes a bad move on him, he shoots the driver in the face/head in the next red light.
way more effective than yelling.

 

[DaveW]

What a great town you live in!

Glad to hear your ok dude.

 

[Westy]

California is great.

GYWNH (glad you were not hurt)

 

[Da Peach]

That's nuts. They just stab people in my city...

 

[SkaredShtles]

That's nuts. They just stab people in my city...

That's nice and quiet. No point disturbing the rest of the folks around.

I mean until the stabee starts with that bloodcurdling gurgly scream of death.

 

[BurlyShirley]

woooo! California. Id love to pay a million dollars to live in that.

 

[dirtydirtysouf]

i have a friend who carries a bb gun in his car. a crystal clear imi look alike.

anytime a combi (a southamerican iconic public transportation van, whose only purpose in life is to stop the traffic in front of a green lights and to kill other drivers) makes a bad move on him, he shoots the driver in the face/head in the next red light.
way more effective than yelling.

thats a good way for your friend to get shot by the realthing

 

[BurlyShirley]

thats a good way for your friend to get shot by the realthing

Havent you ever seen "City of God"? That's what I imagine all of south america to be like.

 

[dirtydirtysouf]

Havent you ever seen "City of God"? That's what I imagine all of south america to be like.

nope cant say i have..........but ill look it up and see if its the type of movie i like..............i have been to TJ mexico and its great except for the donkey shows hudder:

 

[BurlyShirley]

nope cant say i have..........but ill look it up and see if its the type of movie i like..............i have been to TJ mexico and its great except for the donkey shows hudder:

Ive seen similiar "shows" in Thailand. Not pretty, but strangely intriguing.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

thats a good way for your friend to get shot by the realthing

 

[Echo]

The suburbs in upstate NY ain't perfect, but at least I don't have to deal with stuff like that.

 

[sanjuro]

The suburbs in upstate NY ain't perfect, but at least I don't have to deal with stuff like that.

I seem to live near the slums every state I lived in:

NY: The Bronx and Buffalo
LA: New Orleans
CT: Hartford
CA: San Francisco

The more I look at this picture, the more I believe my apartment in Ct was in the building next to this one:

 

[kidwoo]

woooo! California. Id love to pay a million dollars to live in that.

Yeah I NEVER EVER had sh1t like that happen when I lived in the south.

Airguns and rednecks driving by me shooting at me? Oh my goodness..........sooooo unheard of.

 

[amydalayna]

dude. your place in CT was the GHETTO.

someone made this snotty comment to me yesterday at the track about me not knowing what the slums are like, being from CT and all. this came from someone who had never been to CT, but imagine it's all like Greenwich.

 

[kidwoo]

dude. your place in CT was the GHETTO.

someone made this snotty comment to me yesterday at the track about me not knowing what the slums are like, being from CT and all. this came from someone who had never been to CT, but imagine it's all like Greenwich.

Taking comments on culture from someone in reno or south lake tahoe seriously <----------------funny

 

[amydalayna]

Taking comments on culture from someone in reno or south lake tahoe seriously <----------------funny

let alone townie kids who never leave the basin.

 

[Ciaran]

woooo! California. Id love to pay a million dollars to live in that.

Yeah, because in other parts of the country there is no violence.

 

[OGRipper]

Glad you're ok Sanjuro.

And yeah, for such a small state CT has the full range, everything from serious slums/poverty to lifestyles of the rich and famous.

 

[sanjuro]

dude. your place in CT was the GHETTO.

someone made this snotty comment to me yesterday at the track about me not knowing what the slums are like, being from CT and all. this came from someone who had never been to CT, but imagine it's all like Greenwich.

You know what the ghetto looks like, everytime you guys dropped me off!

As a New Yorker, my perception of Ct was totally Fairfield, which is where David Letterman lives.

After living in Hartford County, I think more about the middle and east of state, which is mostly rustic. I still rarely visit anywhere in Fairfield, but I do think the Ct cities are near bottom, by design.

 

[sanjuro]

Glad you're ok Sanjuro.

And yeah, for such a small state CT has the full range, everything from serious slums/poverty to lifestyles of the rich and famous.

I think the problem with Connecticut is that there is very little in the middle.

I lived in Hartford because I didn't want to live in the suburbs. But my own option was to live the slums because there were scant few decent neighborhoods, and all of them were on the suburb border.

If I had to do it again, I would have moved into New Haven. It has a decent middle class because of the economy of Yale, and I had good times there. There were some dangerous parts of NH, but I thought it made the city more interesting.

Hartford was just boring and sh*tty.

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

thats a good way for your friend to get shot by the realthing

there is no gun culture in peru. very few people have real guns in Lima.

 

[Chunky Munkey]

Hey I resemble that comment! I drive a Cadillac!

Down Hill Diva almost gets doored by a guy running in for moo shoo pork, Sanjuro almost gets shot, GEE do you think you see a pattern here!? There are no cadillacs OR guns in the woods.

Eat lead?
Or eat dirt!?

What would you prefer.

Woods, it's what's for dinner.

 

[Chunky Munkey]

P.S.

You'd think in this economy with energy crisis issues that the person on that top floor would not leave ALL their lights on in their apartment all night long, wouldn't ya think?