re: If You Were Dropped Off In The Middle Of The Most Dangerous Neighborhood In the US

my whits and some party favor crack to hand out

A hoodie and some black face paint.

I’d bring a bag full of Certified mail and a dog

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Out of all the stupid threads you start this is near the top.

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Meh - OweO shits worse threads than this before breakfast.

Nothing.

If by most dangerous area you mean criminal violence, if you’re A total stranger the only issue you’ll face is being robbed. Not getting killed over a beef or because you look like you’re trying to take over the block.

Maybe some shitty clothes to signify im not worth the time and a paper map marked for where I am.

A pair of shoes, and I'll just walk out of there.

A tee shirt that says "job" on the front - that would keep all them motherfrickers away from me.




Maybe a glass of lemonade in case I get thirsty.

Reminds me of when my wife was working on her phD. She and another phD had to do a survey of a very poor Jackson, MS neighborhood. It was just driving thru it and making notes on something like every 10th house.... She said it wasn't 15 minutes till the police arrived and they were told to stop and leave. Residents thought they were two middle age white women looking for drugs or their men.

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Fortunately for me, I live approximately seven miles from the most dangerous neighborhood in the U.S.

Give me a shitty old bike so I can pedal the frick out of there as fast as possible and no one will steal it. Give me an old toboggan so people think I'm a homeless addict and won't bother me.

The next town over is a nice suburb, so pedal quickly for about two miles, and you're good.

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I assume you're talking about the west side of Chi. When I was in high school a couple buddies and I took the train in from the burbs to go to the auto show at McCormick. This was pre-internet or cell phone days so we were pretty uninformed as to the best way to get to McCormick and also pretty broke so a cab was out of the question.

I don't remember how we chose the particular bus we did, but we ended up hopping on a CTA bus which proceeded to take us in the exact wrong direction. We finally decide to ditch the bus and find a way back toward downtown. Get off the bus and it was really eerie...it was like a main street sort of thing, lots of small retail spaces but they were all shuttered. We saw only a couple of people walking around.

We're standing there not quite sure what to do. This older black woman comes up to us and is like, "why are you boys here?". Explained the situation and she let us know that we needed to get the hell out of there as quickly as possible because this was apparently NOT a safe neighborhood for 3 white goofy teenagers wearing Js and Starter jackets. She pointed us to another bus stop and told us when the bus was coming.

We left without incident but her reaction definitely let me know that there are neighborhoods my white arse just shouldn't go into.

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Let's say someone kidnapped you and told you that they were going to drop you off in the most dangerous neighborhood in the US, you can pick any two items to take with you and if you get out alive you will win $5M. What two items would you pick and what would be your plan?

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I bring my keys and my dog and just walk the 2 blocks to my house.

I live in BR, they'd be taking me home