re: Is crime the most overblown issue on the OT?

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My current job brings me through the worst of the hood every day. 

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What kind a work puts you in those neighborhoods? Utilities or power company or something like that?

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Downvote if you've already been shot/stabbed to death or upvote if nothing has happened to you. I'll start with an upvote.

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when Sir Clucks-a-Lot gets here in the morning this is going to get your thread whacked, and you banned if hes in a bad mood. cant use the upvote/downvote for polls. he doesnt like it at all.

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Downvote if you've already been shot/stabbed to death or upvote if nothing has happened to you. I'll start with an upvote.

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If my employees could vote.. you'd have 4 downvotes out of 31 employees... 3 shot, 1 stabbed

To be fair, most have done jail time after their injuries

Boganwalk?

I lived on staring and there were 2 murders withing a couple miles of me in a 4 year period. Also had some guys try to carjack me at Albertsons.

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My current job brings me through the worst of the hood every day.

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I used to bring a guy home after working in a restaurant and he lived behind the bus station, deep in the hood. He would always ask me to just drop him off at the corner and he'd walk. One night, it was raining and I insisted on bringing him to his house. It was a run down shack, but whatever. There was a car parked on the street and I just pulled up next to it to drop him off. He got kinda antsy and said 'no man, not here, pull up a bit' so I did. I was kinda confused and he said that his brother would probably think someone was about to break into his car and come out shooting. THat resonated with me about the environment this kid was growing up in. Never, at any place I've ever lived or anyone I've ever brought home, have I had to worry about someone coming out shooting over anything, much less because I was parked next to their car, with my lights on, for 30 seconds. I don't know, not a big thing but the anxiety and seriousness of his voice about stopping where I did and the danger that we were in but doing that left a mark on me. Also, just seeing the activity out on the street at midnight was surprising.

perfect timing. This happened by the royal sonesta last night

n alleged attack on Bourbon Street on Jan. 18 has left one man hospitalized, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

The victim was in the 400 block of Bourbon just before 10 p.m. when he was struck from behind by an unidentified man, police said. The victim was knocked unconscious and hit his head on the concrete after falling to the ground.

He is listed in critical condition at an area hospital from injuries believed to have been sustained in the incident.

Thanks to the OT I now stay in my house hidden under a blanket 24/7. Safer that way.