smokey
2A TEACHER
- Jan 31, 2008
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Graduated from the bury in '07 and spent my junior and senior years living in a house on S division street right behind the giant. ALL of my neighbors in every direction had their homes broken in to during those two years. That's across the street, both sides, and diagonal. The girls diagonally across the street had their home broken in to twice, once one of them was sleeping and woke up to a stranger in her room. I lived with 4 other guys and we had a big assed belgian malinois...our house didn't get f'd with. Something about a belgian malinois looking over a 6' fence at the locals kept them away(the storm cellar doors propped him up a bit near the driveway).
I know a LOT of people that were jumped/robber/otherwise stuck-up back in the neighborhoods behind the wawa...especially off of smith street. We had some interesting things, like the guy shooting the shotgun through the back window at mulligans(when it was still there), the guy get stabbed with the broken bottle at monkey barrel, and a variety of other local violence things. It was also pretty routine to have people get stuck-up on the train tracks while walking to and from the university from UP.
I'm relatively I avoided getting jumped on my way to a rugby party because I'm good with people. I saw a group of 6 or so black kids suddenly change the side of the street they were on and come to the side I was walking on. I stopped, went to them and made small talk then tossed them some beers from my backpack. We drank some and parted ways on good terms, I even got invited to a local party...which I had no intention in hell of going to. There were lots of reports of kids getting jumped along smith street.
Every day there seemed to be a new crime report coming out to us in our email system. One would be a naked guy beating his crank while peeping through downstairs windows at chester hall(That was a relatively funny one to be there for). Another common one was, "2 or 4 black males between 18-14 got out of a car and approached a student walking by themselves with a gun/knife. They took purse/phone/money, roughed up the student and drove off". Jenni was walking home one time and two local guys walking behind her split up and one increased their pace so that she now had one in front and one behind her. she stopped and checked the guy behind her and waited for him to pass and got on the phone. I still think her awareness kept her out of some trouble there. I was dating her then and may have had to hurt someone badly had things gone a different way.
Being a teaching major, I did lots of work with wicomico county schools at all levels....yeah....I'm fairly sure I've got a good clue of what the future looks like there....it aint good. At our s division home, I'd see teenagers pushing strollers down the street at 2 Am all the time. I worked at "beyond the limits", a high-ropes experiential learning center similar to genessee valley. Along with the normal groups we'd get from wicomico high/middle/elementary schools, sports teams, and the occasional corporation interested in team-building activities, we had special days set up for the adjudicated local youth. We'd get about 25 kids with extensive records and break them into groups of 4-5 with 2-3 facilitators/group. Those were interesting days.
My aunt lives in salisbury and has for a decades. When I was young, I remember going to the annual festival they have in downtown salisbury. Over the years it's changed. By the time I went to college, I decided it would be good for my wellbeing to just go ahead and skip the festivals. Many reports of stabbings and other random violence by locals was pretty good incentive to just have a party at home...which wasn't even that safe. One party, some kid got pissed that his rearview mirror got clipped out in front where he parked his car mostly in the street. He came back in and started yelling at our partygoers. I kindly decided to "have a conversation" with the kid to "persuade" him to stop showing aggression to our guests. Numbnuts lifted his shirt to show off a pistol-handle poking out of his shorts....that didn't go so well for him. One jazzy-jeff down the front steps later and the trash was taken out, party back on.
having been visiting a lot of different friends at a lot of different party colleges, I know pretty much most college towns are sh!tty. Almost every college I've ever been to is surrounded by bad neighborhoods...salisbury just seems to have been worse that most of the others.
I know a LOT of people that were jumped/robber/otherwise stuck-up back in the neighborhoods behind the wawa...especially off of smith street. We had some interesting things, like the guy shooting the shotgun through the back window at mulligans(when it was still there), the guy get stabbed with the broken bottle at monkey barrel, and a variety of other local violence things. It was also pretty routine to have people get stuck-up on the train tracks while walking to and from the university from UP.
I'm relatively I avoided getting jumped on my way to a rugby party because I'm good with people. I saw a group of 6 or so black kids suddenly change the side of the street they were on and come to the side I was walking on. I stopped, went to them and made small talk then tossed them some beers from my backpack. We drank some and parted ways on good terms, I even got invited to a local party...which I had no intention in hell of going to. There were lots of reports of kids getting jumped along smith street.
Every day there seemed to be a new crime report coming out to us in our email system. One would be a naked guy beating his crank while peeping through downstairs windows at chester hall(That was a relatively funny one to be there for). Another common one was, "2 or 4 black males between 18-14 got out of a car and approached a student walking by themselves with a gun/knife. They took purse/phone/money, roughed up the student and drove off". Jenni was walking home one time and two local guys walking behind her split up and one increased their pace so that she now had one in front and one behind her. she stopped and checked the guy behind her and waited for him to pass and got on the phone. I still think her awareness kept her out of some trouble there. I was dating her then and may have had to hurt someone badly had things gone a different way.
Being a teaching major, I did lots of work with wicomico county schools at all levels....yeah....I'm fairly sure I've got a good clue of what the future looks like there....it aint good. At our s division home, I'd see teenagers pushing strollers down the street at 2 Am all the time. I worked at "beyond the limits", a high-ropes experiential learning center similar to genessee valley. Along with the normal groups we'd get from wicomico high/middle/elementary schools, sports teams, and the occasional corporation interested in team-building activities, we had special days set up for the adjudicated local youth. We'd get about 25 kids with extensive records and break them into groups of 4-5 with 2-3 facilitators/group. Those were interesting days.
My aunt lives in salisbury and has for a decades. When I was young, I remember going to the annual festival they have in downtown salisbury. Over the years it's changed. By the time I went to college, I decided it would be good for my wellbeing to just go ahead and skip the festivals. Many reports of stabbings and other random violence by locals was pretty good incentive to just have a party at home...which wasn't even that safe. One party, some kid got pissed that his rearview mirror got clipped out in front where he parked his car mostly in the street. He came back in and started yelling at our partygoers. I kindly decided to "have a conversation" with the kid to "persuade" him to stop showing aggression to our guests. Numbnuts lifted his shirt to show off a pistol-handle poking out of his shorts....that didn't go so well for him. One jazzy-jeff down the front steps later and the trash was taken out, party back on.
having been visiting a lot of different friends at a lot of different party colleges, I know pretty much most college towns are sh!tty. Almost every college I've ever been to is surrounded by bad neighborhoods...salisbury just seems to have been worse that most of the others.
