damn do I love livin' in da hood

[ericlee]

about 10 minutes ago, I hear a bunch of Spanish folks having a bit of a spat outside. Then I hear a whole shitload of beer bottles breaking and even louder argument.

I then hear someone walking up to the spat dragging a chain. Even louder commotion and argument went on with some yelling and screaming. Then it all stopped with the pattering of running feet.

Now, there's a few cop cars across the street, an ambulance and a NYPD emergency services truck.

/tips 40 up

[Waus]

Rowdy spaniards! (!)

[BangkokB]

I ghetto lived many times but once upona I was forced to call the police one night when I heard gun shots outside my window and they asked my address and I said "Do you think I'm dumb: I'm giving you a courtesy call to scoop up a body...I don't need anyone knocking at my door~ I saw nothing. Besides you know where I'm calling from anyway" and that was that. And I was on violation of probation when I made the call....So I moved quick fast in a hurry after that

that didn't catch up with me for at least 2 years

[Bob]

did you have to use your AK today?

[ericlee]

no ak today. Ice Cube probably had to use his.

I've got a whisk broom sitting next to me though, I would've scared that chain dragging esse away, I tell ya.

[Matt]

no ak today. Ice Cube probably had to use his.

While he stars in his next family-friendly movie?

[BangkokB]

We could hire our own midget, even shorter than his. - Jr. O'Daniel

[ericlee]

While he stars in his next family-friendly movie?


I was going to write a post about that. Something amongst the lines of him having to 187 some paparazzi.

[funk63]

the hoods nice but Im a pullover guy POW

[Dorothy Wood]

I heard some bums yelling at each other in the alley behind my house last night. some shit like, "YOU WOKE ME UP!" and "blargh blargh blargh, I'm a crackhead, yadda yadda."

when I used to live about a half mile north and west, shit got shady sometimes, couple three murders, handful of child's-birthday-party-turned-street-fights, but it's a world of difference where I am now oddly, even though I'm pretty much in the middle of gangland. I'm like in a green zone or something. you gotta watch where you roll or you gonna get capped though. for reeeealllz.

[silence7]

Guy upstairs from me has had the SWAT team out after his ass on three separate occasions over the last year, you'd have thought they would have learned after the first time, he jumps off the balcony and runs out onto the hill full of bushes behind our place. I know this, they know this, but they never cover the back, they just crash down the front door after knocking politely for 5 minutes with a giant Mag-Lite and yelling.

They always come at like 2am, 3am, and make a shitload of noise, and then stay around until the sun comes up. I'm not a morning person as it is, but this crap just make me vicious for the first half of the day.

[ericlee]

the time is now, 0522.

Five minutes ago, I'm chilling in the stairwell of my building. I hear someone walking up the stairs. I think it's my second flood neighbors but the footsteps progress to the third floor, which is mine.

My wife and the inlaws are long asleep in my apartment so, these footsteps don't belong. I'm above my apartment.

Next thing I know, the footsteps get louder and I looked down to see a complete stranger start walking up to me. Once you get past my apartment and especially up to where I chill, you're outta bounds.

So I see this guy, he's got a hoodie over his face, he looks up at me and I say "que pasa" and he bolts down the stairs.

I get up after I know he's already out and see that the door downstairs has been jigged and my front gate was wide open.

Thing is, recently, my roof has been tagged and there's some nights when I leave my guitar on the landing because I feel it's safe there, only four sets of keys in this building gives you access to the roof and he wasn't any of the people I know.

[mikizee]

wow. what does que pasa mean

[funk63]

the time is now, 0522.

Five minutes ago, I'm chilling in the stairwell of my building. I hear someone walking up the stairs. I think it's my second flood neighbors but the footsteps progress to the third floor, which is mine.

My wife and the inlaws are long asleep in my apartment so, these footsteps don't belong. I'm above my apartment.

Next thing I know, the footsteps get louder and I looked down to see a complete stranger start walking up to me. Once you get past my apartment and especially up to where I chill, you're outta bounds.

So I see this guy, he's got a hoodie over his face, he looks up at me and I say "que pasa" and he bolts down the stairs.

I get up after I know he's already out and see that the door downstairs has been jigged and my front gate was wide open.

Thing is, recently, my roof has been tagged and there's some nights when I leave my guitar on the landing because I feel it's safe there, only four sets of keys in this building gives you access to the roof and he wasn't any of the people I know.

Time to get a gun

[ericlee]

wow. what does que pasa mean

was up, was happening.

Still, I'm thinking how did he get inside, why was he up here? I left my guitar up here last night. I would've left it here tonight but I left myself up here with it because I want to get shitface as well.

I know the neighbors on the lower floors enough to know they wouldn't want any strangers up here.

[kaiser soze]

Time to get a gun

fuck a gun....get a ninja!

[NoFenders]

couple three murders, .


Come on. You live in Chicago. It's ...A couple two tree murders.


:)

[YoungRemy]

a couple incidents worth sharing from my days in Spanish Harlem:

1. my roommate got followed in the building by a guy who whips out a chain and demands my roommates money. roommate drops both grocery bags from both his hands and lunges his entire body into the perps gut, shoulder first.

than he (my roommate) bolts out the door back onto the street.( he decided that versus trying to run upstairs and getting caught in the hallway).

the mugger didn't make chase, he ran out the building in the opposite direction.

2. the day we moved out of the same building, there was an undercover sting operation for a heroin dealer on the first floor. we're carrying a couch out the hallway and cops are literally running past us with their weapons pulled out.

they even asked us if we "were part of all this", meaning, were we undercover and our front was that we were furniture movers.

we ran upstairs to stay away from all the action, so we watched out our Airshaft window (the space that separates buildings in NYC, the narrow, alley like space that stinks of garbage and is infested with rats)

there, hiding at the bottom of the airshaft, was the heroin guy's girlfriend. she had nowhere else to go, she was surrounded. cops win.

[Nygel]

damn, the worst i got here is some fuck who plays his acoustic guitar and sings really loud on his balcony at like 1 am -9am sometimes. (not 8 hours straight, sometime in between those times.

just in case something was to ever go down, i got a machete. cuz guns are expensive :(

[Bob]

yeah, the worst thing i have to deal with are some college kids who have a patio a few feet from my bedroom window that i have to listen to all night occasionally.

why won't they invite me.....

[ericlee]

I'm still amazed about this, it just happened so random. I know the guy probably won't be coming back and it's better he doesn't.

Now I've got to inventory all of my belongings in the hallway. Who knows how many times he's been here.

[100% ILL]

just in case something was to ever go down, i got a machete. cuz guns are expensive :(


try a baseball bat :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FRJE7g8wNY&feature=related

[Nygel]

i was talking about how I should buy an axe. Cuz if you broke into a house and you see a guy stand there with an axe... that shit would be scary.

My favorite home-defense idea is when someone breaks in an alarm system goes off that is just loud rave music with strobe lights. then a bear comes out. TECHNO BEAR ATTACK

[kaiser soze]

One time when I lived in Buffalo I was locked out of my apartment by a homeless guy!

It was in the little area before you go up the stairs which had a locked door too. I was quite drunk and was pretty mean to the guy, but I had to scare him away!

The area wasn't the "ghetto", it was actually a popular strip with shops and stuff...but also our fair share of bums.

[100% ILL]

One time when I lived in Buffalo I was locked out of my apartment by a homeless guy!

It was in the little area before you go up the stairs which had a locked door too. I was quite drunk and was pretty mean to the guy, but I had to scare him away!


Did he drink up all your alcohol? Or did you stop him in time?

[kaiser soze]

Thank god I stopped him just after he finished off my cough syrup and mouthwash, the liquor was hidden under my pillow

[funk63]

i was talking about how I should buy an axe. Cuz if you broke into a house and you see a guy stand there with an axe... that shit would be scary.

My favorite home-defense idea is when someone breaks in an alarm system goes off that is just loud rave music with strobe lights. then a bear comes out. TECHNO BEAR ATTACK

lol

[ericlee]

I've got what people call a "texas toothpick".

[The Notorious LOL]

I am on the fringes and approx 5 blocks south of the true "hood", but its boundary between it and my neighborhood is a four lane highway. It works quite nicely as last summer there were at least two homicides that occurred just 10 to 20 feet opposite the highway but still in the boundaries of the other neighborhood.

My brother lived about 25 blocks north in the thick of it when he first moved to the city. Having no real knowledge of the bad areas, he rented with some friends where it was cheapest. By the end of their 12 month lease, each of them had been robbed at least once (one of which was robbed at 6 PM in his driveway getting out of his car), the apartment had been broken into 3 times, the people up the block set their own property on fire intentionally, and there were 4 murders within 2 blocks either direction of their house.

Google maps shows the intersection where he lived at, and the day they took the picture the cops had it police taped off with a squad car blocking off the entire street for some reason or another.

[Bob]

my school is on the fringes of one of the crappiest druggiest gangsiest neighborhoods in boston. it's kind of funny, there's literally a wrong side of the track. you're on campus and you're ok, but you go to the train station and walk out the other side and you're in a bad neighborhood. even the train station itself is kind of shady, a guy i know got mugged there after dark. then he got cancer. unrelated but still, bad luck

i used to live down the street from a housing project but nothing ever happened. everyone just minded their own business, at least they did when i was around. i guess because i'm so statuesque and intimidating

[Nygel]

either you have to be scary and shaddy yourself or be the 'potentially crazy' guy who twitches and blinks his eyelids at different times and always licks his lips while looking over his shoulder.

people dont mess with those people.

[ericlee]

either you have to be scary and shaddy yourself or be the 'potentially crazy' guy who twitches and blinks his eyelids at different times and always licks his lips while looking over his shoulder.

people dont mess with those people.

I'm pretty much all of the above. The look on his face was pricless when he saw me. He didn't expect to see me up there at all and it was 5 in the a.m. and had about 8 beers in me.