You Know You Live In A Bad Neighborhood When......

[TNW]

When you call 911 and get put on hold.
When you are woken up at 1 AM to 13 gunshots.
When someone tells you they are going to kill you when you honk at them for driving on the wrong side of Presidents Street.
When your HD gun is an SBR.

All true stories from Baltimore, and I live in a pretty decent area.

At my last apartment, someone broke in while I was home, 5 mins after I usually left for work, which was unnerving because it seemed they had been watching me. Someone had been shot two years prior in the adjacent apartment on my birthday.

When I lived in California my neighbors were drug dealers that didn't even really try to hide it. They would smoke in their caddy and acted like they owned the complex. I had someone get their apartment mixed up with mine once and try and break in at 1AM. Stood on the other side of the door ready to smoke them with a Les Paul (no gun at the time)

 

[Second Amendment]

Bullet resistant glass between you and the taco bell cashier.

Bullet resistant glass at a Comcast service center. Oh wait, not the same thing. It's not to protect from roberies, but to keep customers from beating the shit out of Comcast's a-hole employees.

 

[llkoolkeg]

You know you live in a bad neighborhood when you see a baby standin on the street corner at 3am.

That was a funny bit of stand-up, indeed=> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzn55RGAvuA

 

[Vile Shadow]

Kileen TX sounds like parts of east Baltimore except that you would be hard pressed to get anyone to "work" for $2.00

What are the first 4 letters of Killeen, TX?

'Nuff said.

 

[frogman68]

after the first 10 times your neighbors are raided by the cops you no longer freeze when you hear " Sherriffs Office search warrant"

 

[Parttime]

You see your neighbors installing bars on all their windows and doors.

 

[Semper Noctem]

A buddy of mine that once lived in Philly said that you know when you're in a bad part of town when there are chicken bones littering the street.

 

[Gambler]

When watching "The Wire" you yell, "Hey, that's MY house!"

 

[lilmike1464]

When you see this store

 

[240 towles]

And that's why I lived in Georgetown and sucked up the commute when I was stationed at Hood.

Coppers cove was ten miles away, much nicer. Temple was alright, but it didn't have much by way of shopping. There were nicer parts of killeen, but nowhere near Rancier. Every post has some form of Victory Drive. Hell, at Irwin we had the whole city of Barstow.

 

[j_h_smith]

- The main businesses in your neighborhood are churches and liquor stores.

- Police are always in your neighborhood OR they never come when something bad happens

- Your neighborhood is patrolled by the Feds, not the local police force who is scared to death of where you live

- The sound of police sirens, ambulances and or gunshots is the white noise that helps you sleep at night.

- You neighborhood has been featured on a ghetto DVD like Hood 2 Hood or a reality crime show like America's Most Wanted or Cops.

- The median per capita income in your neighborhood is 10K a year although you live in one the most expensive cities in the country.

- Taxi's and pizza delivery men refuse to service your neighborhood

- If you live near a bar or a nightclub, there are local men waiting for you to park taking "tips" to watch your car while you are clubbing.

- The streets are completely dead in the daytime with no kids playing outside of people walking their dogs OR the streets are cluttered with loitering people all hours of the day and night.

- Your neighborhood corner store has "EBT" painted in huge letters next to the main store sign.

- You have been asked if want to buy weed or other drugs from prepubescent kids.

- Things like cigars used for smoking weed (i.e. swishers, dutch masters) and liquor are significantly cheaper in corner stores in your neighborhood compared to stores in surrounding wealthier neighborhoods.

- You make sure you get indoors and stay indoors before the sun goes down.

- People would be crazy to take a jog around your neighborhood like they do in the suburbs.

- You wouldn't dream of visiting the park across the street from where you live.

- Crackheads/homeless drug addicts in your neighborhood aren't scary, they are a pleasant reminder of the God-given gifts of sanity and sobriety.

- All the teenagers in your neighborhood wear matching colors or the same pro sports apparel of the same team that doesn't even play in your city.

- A few feet away from your residence is strictly off limits for walking and or driving.

 

[j_h_smith]

 

[j_h_smith]

 

[Alan3413]

1. Getting lead poisoning has nothing to do with old paint
2. The crew of America's Most Wanted has reserved parking on your street.
3. The Taliban avoid your street because back home they only have to worry about drone strikes.

 

[TNW]

Does anyone know the convenience store off of franklin that has the sign that says something like "Obama now Obama forever Obama and for always"? Because that cracks me up whenever I see it.

 

[Andrew White]

...when you're within 3 or 4 blocks of "Martin Luther King Blvd"...pick any city or town.

 

[jorjohn11]

Brooklyn. nuf said

 

[Kelson1066]

When it's the middle of the work day and not a single car has moved in your parking lot.

When prepubescent teens break into your car and leave their dog when you show up.

 

[tmschrader1]

That was a funny bit of stand-up, indeed=> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzn55RGAvuA

+1 Dave is great

 

[dogbone]

-When you can't put the garbage out in cans on trash day because someone will steal the cans.
-When you don't worry about hearing gun shots if they aren't on your block.
-When you don't need to turn on the light for a late night bathroom trip because the searchlight from the police chopper provides enough illumination.