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re: Most unsafe or unsafe event that happened in your travels
Posted on 1/30/23 at 7:47 am to tigerterrace
Posted on 1/30/23 at 7:47 am to tigerterrace
Caught smack dab in the middle of about 50 Chicago youths on a wilding rampage just north of the Northwestern School of Law. I was never scared but they were intentionally trying to intimidate my 2 small children.
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Posted on 1/30/23 at 9:20 am to Ham And Glass
What were they doing?
Posted on 1/30/23 at 9:24 am to tigerterrace
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I want to say that Penn Station is around 39th Street. Once we got off the train in Jersey we were getting back to the hotel and found out that they had been a pipe bomb that went off around 42nd street. on the same cross street so like 3 blocks South of Penn Station. The next day there was one at a train station in NJ.
I don't remember any of this.
FWIW, Penn Station in NYC is on 34th (although it stretches for a few blocks). 42nd Street would be 8 blocks North of Penn Station.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 10:57 am to Mo Jeaux
They just sort of ran through the place yelling and grabbing and tipping over things. Other than petty theft, they didn't appear to do much damage. They were filming themselves the whole time saying things like 'you can't do s___ to us.' I was pretty amused by the whole spectacle until two of them came up to us and leaned into my 8 year old, saying "what you got for me? Gimme something." At about that point the cops had showed up and the kids turned their attention and filming to the police.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 12:59 pm to GentleJackJones
We were hiking noobs in Yellowstone. Walking along a trail when about 50 yards ahead of us a moose pops out. We froze and started taking pics, we couldn't believe our great luck. Then her twin babies came out of the shrubs behind her. We didn't make a sound or move and they just walked on. But when she looked at us I just knew we were toast.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 1:13 pm to GentleJackJones
Strangely enough, the most unsafe I've felt traveling was at a Nottingham Forest soccer match in England in 1989. The Hillsborough disaster had been the summer before, English hooliganism was in its prime and everyone was on edge. My hosts made sure I was not wearing any team colors and instructed me to not look anyone in the eye and to high tail it to the stadium without stopping, eyes on the ground. You had the feeling some random guy would just come up and punch you in the face. Cops everywhere on horses, which actually heighted the sense of danger. In the stadium, there was a standing room only section at the end, separated from the other team's fans by just a chain link fence that both sides pushed against and rocked. Cops would wade into the crowd, hitting fans with their sticks and making arrests. On the way out after the game, we saw a guy get thrown through a pub window into the street.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 4:58 pm to GentleJackJones
I've never really had anything bad in any country - including a lot of African countries.
I am surprised in this thread at the lack of Mexico citations, as I know LOTS of people that have had shite happen to them, most often, federales (or god knows who) pulling rifles on entire groups and having them up against the wall for 30-90 minutes.
I still think it's poor risk/reward to go to Mexico in general.
I am surprised in this thread at the lack of Mexico citations, as I know LOTS of people that have had shite happen to them, most often, federales (or god knows who) pulling rifles on entire groups and having them up against the wall for 30-90 minutes.
I still think it's poor risk/reward to go to Mexico in general.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 5:28 pm to GentleJackJones
I love this thread.
1) The worst was in Johannesburg when Obama spoke there when I was on my way to the airport. Overall, I've never seen so much concertina wire in my life, and I've been to the DMZ in Korea. In was in the courtyard of my Marriott hotel in the financial district, everywhere. I was told I really should not walk to the Luxury mall 200m away in broad daylight, and to wait on the shuttle. While I was there, eight minibuses were shot up and the drivers were killed not far out of town. Then, my Zulu bartender, Mandla, explained to me how South African blacks place no value on life... An Arab co-worker refused to walk 50m from one client building to another, and insisted on an Uber, because an employee had previously been robbed in the middle of broad daylight two weeks prior.
So Obama is giving his speech while I'm stuck in traffic on back roads in my taxi, and he's laying into "white man oppressing you" and all that crap. People are getting agitated, you can tell. Traffic is awful, and I'm surrounded by tall residential walls with both electric fencing and concertina wire, with nowhere to go.
2) I was in London in 2017. We were fresh off of the truck attack in Nice, if I recall correctly, so anytime I was near a roadway or bridge, I was observant of my escape route behind a bollard or something, just in case. Bataclan occurred the previous summer. I was at a bar in London when I started getting alerts on my phone about a terrorist attack in the city. The bar isn't showing the news, obviously, but as I keep getting alerts, it's happening about 300 meters away, just across the river. I asked the bouncers if we should lock the doors at least, and they responded with something like, "It wouldn't be very English of us to overreact." So I ordered another beer.
1) The worst was in Johannesburg when Obama spoke there when I was on my way to the airport. Overall, I've never seen so much concertina wire in my life, and I've been to the DMZ in Korea. In was in the courtyard of my Marriott hotel in the financial district, everywhere. I was told I really should not walk to the Luxury mall 200m away in broad daylight, and to wait on the shuttle. While I was there, eight minibuses were shot up and the drivers were killed not far out of town. Then, my Zulu bartender, Mandla, explained to me how South African blacks place no value on life... An Arab co-worker refused to walk 50m from one client building to another, and insisted on an Uber, because an employee had previously been robbed in the middle of broad daylight two weeks prior.
So Obama is giving his speech while I'm stuck in traffic on back roads in my taxi, and he's laying into "white man oppressing you" and all that crap. People are getting agitated, you can tell. Traffic is awful, and I'm surrounded by tall residential walls with both electric fencing and concertina wire, with nowhere to go.
2) I was in London in 2017. We were fresh off of the truck attack in Nice, if I recall correctly, so anytime I was near a roadway or bridge, I was observant of my escape route behind a bollard or something, just in case. Bataclan occurred the previous summer. I was at a bar in London when I started getting alerts on my phone about a terrorist attack in the city. The bar isn't showing the news, obviously, but as I keep getting alerts, it's happening about 300 meters away, just across the river. I asked the bouncers if we should lock the doors at least, and they responded with something like, "It wouldn't be very English of us to overreact." So I ordered another beer.
Posted on 1/30/23 at 6:20 pm to Ham And Glass
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I was never scared but they were intentionally trying to intimidate my 2 small children.
What were they doing
This post was edited on 1/30/23 at 6:21 pm
Posted on 1/31/23 at 8:30 am to LemmyLives
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2) I was in London in 2017. We were fresh off of the truck attack in Nice, if
Those few years of terrorism in Europe from Isis were kinda wild in hindsight. My mom was on the Ramblas in Barcelona maybe 2 days before those terrorists drove over all those people, then my brother was in London for those knife attacks.
Posted on 1/31/23 at 12:27 pm to GentleJackJones
Domestic: Probably nothing but wasn't going to take the chance. Leaving from dinner in Chicago and wife wanted to walk back to the hotel. We took a wrong turn and ended up in a very sketchy area. Had a bunch of guys start yelling at us to come talk to them, come here you're in the wrong neighborhood..., and a few jog across the street to approach us as we're walking. Duck into a bar and call an uber.
Foreign: Horseback riding on the beach and they offer the opportunity to take them for a swim. You have to ride bareback, and it gets real slippery. I fall off the back as the horse is swimming and barely miss getting kicked in the face while underwater. Noped out real quick and swam back to shore
Foreign: Horseback riding on the beach and they offer the opportunity to take them for a swim. You have to ride bareback, and it gets real slippery. I fall off the back as the horse is swimming and barely miss getting kicked in the face while underwater. Noped out real quick and swam back to shore
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