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Any of y'all have kids at UGA?

Posted on 2/23/24 at 7:57 am
Posted by schatman
Montana
Member since Nov 2018
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Posted on 2/23/24 at 7:57 am
I do. This shite is terrifying. Tell your loved ones to be on their guard.

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Posted by Dirk Dawgler
Where I Am
Member since Nov 2011
2479 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 8:05 am to
I used to fish the lake at the fields a lot back in the mid 90s. Walked some of the trails on occasion. Just a lot of mentally ill and sinister people in the world. Surprised this is the 1st time it has happened. Those woodsy areas have always been ripe for an ambush type attack against a solitary female.
Posted by The Pirate King
Pangu
Member since May 2014
57622 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 8:05 am to
I would not recommend a woman running by herself, especially with headphones in, even in a highly trafficked area. There's a lot of sick mofos out there
Posted by Swagga
504
Member since Dec 2009
16130 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 8:08 am to
Something like this happened a few years ago at ole miss right?

College can be a scary place, especially for young women. Doesn’t matter if it’s UGA, Harvard, LSU or La Tech. Hope you baws are educating your daughters.
Posted by BK Lounge
Member since Nov 2021
3409 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 8:32 am to
Yeah, this just so happened to be at UGA but could have happened on literally almost any college campus.. ive never been to Athens GA, but i obviously spent many years in the vicinity of the LSU campus and though it’s beautiful and relatively safe, as we all know just outside the gates on one side is a slum…. I am old enough to remember when a kid got kidnapped after a night out outside of Kirby Smith dorm and murdered, so it’s not just women… America as a whole is a shithole country and these incidents are just more proof .
Posted by 0x15E
Outer Space
Member since Sep 2020
12632 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 8:39 am to
Didn’t LSU have some issues with the area between the Greek theater and Kirby Smith? When I attended, it hadn’t been cleared out and I was told to never walk through there at night.

I forgot the nickname for that area. “Enchanted Forest” maybe?
Posted by HeadyMurphey
Los Santos
Member since Jan 2008
17183 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 8:41 am to
First homicide on school grounds since 1983? Sounds pretty safe to me
Posted by LSU Grad Alabama Fan
369 Cardboard Box Lane
Member since Nov 2019
10160 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 8:52 am to
quote:

Any of y'all have kids at UGA?
I do. This shite is terrifying. Tell your loved ones to be on their guard.


At least it's not the 1980s anymore and it's much harder to get away with these type of crimes.
Posted by rockchlkjayhku11
Cincinnati, OH
Member since Aug 2006
36449 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 8:53 am to
quote:

ive never been to Athens GA, but i obviously spent many years in the vicinity of the LSU campus and though it’s beautiful and relatively safe, as we all know just outside the gates on one side is a slum

uga is the same. i never once felt unsafe, but it's a ridiculously poor area outside of the school. the freshman dorms are across the street from government housing.

Posted by oleheat
Sportsman's Paradise
Member since Mar 2007
13436 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 9:00 am to
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I forgot the nickname for that area. “Enchanted Forest” maybe?


Yes. The remnants of the old cypress swamp that it used to be before the Greek Theatre was built.....
Posted by schatman
Montana
Member since Nov 2018
2603 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 9:08 am to
[img]First homicide on school grounds since 1983[/img]

While true, this is somewhat misleading- though I guess not to be unexpected with a college town this size. But Google Tara Baker and Jennifer Stone.
Posted by runforrestrun
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2013
810 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 9:35 am to
I took my son to Athens last year for a UGA tour. It’s a beautiful campus and has a lively downtown. But my god at the homeless people. It looked like the walking dead. I stopped at a nearby circle k & saw a crackhead pull a knife on a family. First time I’d ever seen anything like that, and I’m from BR.
This post was edited on 2/23/24 at 9:37 am
Posted by kcpizzle
Member since Mar 2022
551 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 9:46 am to
quote:

I took my son to Athens last year for a UGA tour. It’s a beautiful campus and has a lively downtown. But my god at the homeless people.


Took my daughter for a tour 2 years ago and that was the major thing that struck me....homeless people begging on every corner in the downtown area. Was a major turnoff. Such a nice area, hard to believe they can't find a way to get that under control.
Posted by CrazyTigerFan
Osaka
Member since Nov 2003
3274 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 10:34 am to
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First time I’d ever seen anything like that, and I’m from BR.
I've had a knife pulled on me by a junkie outside of the Circle K at Highland and State Street, so it happens in BR too.
Posted by turnpiketiger
Southeast Texas
Member since May 2020
9427 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 10:42 am to
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Doesn’t matter if it’s UGA, Harvard, LSU or La Tech. Hope you baws are educating your daughters.


Believe me. Mine will be Chris Kyle level by the time she’s college age. We aren’t raising some cosmo suburbanite yuppies.

Posted by turnpiketiger
Southeast Texas
Member since May 2020
9427 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 10:44 am to
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First homicide on school grounds since 1983? Sounds pretty safe to me


About the same amount of time it took them to win another championship. Weird coincidence? I think not. Investigate them ncaa!
Posted by Dawgfanman
Member since Jun 2015
22224 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 10:46 am to
quote:

Took my daughter for a tour 2 years ago and that was the major thing that struck me....homeless people begging on every corner in the downtown area. Was a major turnoff. Such a nice area, hard to believe they can't find a way to get that under control.


The local Athens Govt has no desire to fix any homeless issues, they are very liberal and often times very anti student and UGA in general.
Posted by Krane
Member since Oct 2017
827 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 10:46 am to
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as we all know just outside the gates on one side is a slum

I admire your positivity
Posted by Dawgfanman
Member since Jun 2015
22224 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 10:54 am to
It’s safer than the alternative large Universities in the state that aren’t suitcase schools. Basically GT and GSU, both with more surrounding homelessness and crime.

Then you’ve got Kennesaw and Southern.

If you want a safer feeling alternative that’s smaller consider GCSU. But it is the definition of a suitcase school (dead after noon on Friday until Late Sunday)
Posted by lsursb
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2004
11577 posts
Posted on 2/23/24 at 10:55 am to
I saw this story earlier. Makes me so angry. UGA is absolutely one of my favorite campuses and I really like Athens. But, it's the same problem everywhere...drug addicts /homeless panhandlers/armed thugs have overtaken everywhere. I always smirk when I read "my kid will never go to LSU. It is not safe". Wake up...it is everywhere.

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