10 real life situations I've faced. What would you do?

[reagansquad]

I graduated from Davis too! '99. Was Mr O'Brien still there back in 1980?


Davis was a lot like that when I went there. It would just be stupid to start trouble there... I never saw someone packing, but I knew that someone must be. There was even one teacher who admitted to keeping a CC weapon in his car while teaching, haha. Yakima as a city comes with a certain level of respect and dignity reguardless of who you are or how much money you have. I haven't really experienced that anywhere else.

The hookers story is classic yakima. No more hookers around when I lived there though.

Davis was a very interesting school to go to. My favorite things included the taco vans at lunch, daily drug busts in the bathrooms, getting my car broken into, etc. Sounds bad, but really it isn't. Everyone there will be cool to you if you are cool to them. No stupid cliches or jocks picking on nerds crap.

As far as crime moving west of 16th, I remember the 1st time that a murder happened west of my house (pleasant ave, 2 or 3 blocks east of 16th)... someone got killed at Larson park where I used to swim in the wading pool when I was 3. I knew a guy in highschool who killed someone there over a drug deal... Was no friend of mine though.

The stuff that happened to me there is minor next to the stuff that I've heard about happening to people.

 

[Flyboy]

Why does it always seem to be the east side of the city that you want to avoid? East Yakima; East St. Louis; East Dayton; what is it that attracts the scum to the east side? Even here in Norman, the west side of town is markedly more affluent than the east side. Alternatively, what cities are OK in the east, and not in the west?

 

[p35]

Yeah, MISTER O'Brien was- hard to believe he's still teaching. Always laid out his rules at the start of term and enforced them (No pogey bait, feet on the furniture, or bad mouthing the Marine Corps) and the kids loved him for it. Says something there. His son was in my class and he treated him worse than the rest of us. Tommy was a good guy, though.

Back then, it was common to talk about guns and shooting in school as an ordinary part of life. ("what did you do this weekend?") I guess now even mentioning guns in school gets you suspended. Not to mention the fad of wearing Buck knives on your belt, which was also common when I was there. Gets you kicked out now, from what I hear. The world is going downhill...

 

[TamThompson]

Flyboy,
I've noticed that too, about the east sides of town. South sides tend to also be either bad or just kind of rundown and seedy.

Bad east sides I know of: Austin, Houston, and I think Galveston. And LA, I hear.

Bad/seedy south side: Austin (seedy), Houston (rundown, with major exceptions inside Loop 610), Chicago, LA.

Yepper, if you're moving to a town sight unseen, bet on the northwest side of town!

OH--actually, I know why some east sides are bad! Here in Austin, the east side is the older part of town, and it was originally built east of downtown on purpose, so that buggys (and, later, Model T's) could drive into town in the morning without the sun in their eyes, then come home in late afternoon also without the sun in their eyes. Then, of course, that part of town got seedy and people migrated west.

 

[reagansquad]

Mr O'Brien called me 'big skateboarder' because once at football practice I was skating around the locker room on my skateboard. He says

"Mr! In all my years i've never seen anything like this. Get your big lard butt over here and give me that skateboard before I burn it. Now then. Shut up. Get dressed and get out there. And I don't wanna see anyone standing around on a plp. Now then. Shut up. go go go."


He used to make me come to his room at lunch so he could give me vegitables and apples and raisins and crap. "This is better than that hogey bait in the lunch line. Now shut up."

God that guy is awesome.

 

[Pinned&Recessed]

For situation 10, I would have grabbed the M16 I keep in my trunk for just such an occasion and laid suppressive fire while my friends popped smoke and made a retrograde movement. Once they had bounded back behind suitable cover and set up the '60, I would bound back to join them and begin careful aimed fire. Between 4 or 5 M16s and a Pig working out, we'd have those miscreants stacked like cordwood.

Seriously though, the whole thing goes back to what you said, "It was a bad Idea to begin with, (stopping there)" Situational Awareness is your friend. If I saw a whole crowd of "them" across the street from me at night, I would didi mau to a new location. What's the best way to win a gunfight? Don't get in one. Avoidance is the key.

As far as the whole South/East part of town being bad, I recall a show on the History Channel that said that since the prevailing winds blow out of the NorthWest, it would blow all the smoke from factories and Power Plants toward the South and East parts of a city/town/area, and over time, the wealthy folks moved to the North and West, while the poor folks were stuck there. Eventually, they turned into the mean scag ghettos they are now.

So if you want to blame something for why the South and East Sides are bad, blame the wind.

 

[reagansquad]

"them"?

I hope you mean bad guys and not what I think you mean.

 

[Pinned&Recessed]

Of course I meant "bad guys".

If you really thought anything other than that, that's not my fault. I'm just showing the ink blots, what you see, or read into it is up to you, and is a reflection of your own fears and insecurities, not mine.

 

[reagansquad]

outstanding

Friend of mine used the same term after returning from a southern station with the marines. He didn't mean bad guys. Just thought I'd make sure. haha

 

[TheDutchman]

#10
Call in your grid and fire for affect, no marker needed.

 

[AF_INT1N0]

In my book "Them" refers to any 20+ animals, plants, humans, or otherwise you don't know moving in your direction in a group or mob format. As in "lets get the #$^& out of here be for they get here and we become food for, get trampled by etc. them... Mobs congregate for reasons. Fish travel in schools for protection, buffalo in herds, wolves in packs for the hunt, so too travel men.