heh - i'd be scared shitless in any city in the USA just by being there.
I remember a crime wave hit my street 3 years ago, my bicycle was stolen, and further up the road a window was broken.
Isn't London, like, really bad? It is a gigantic city after all. Hell, I just saw a statistic on the news last night about my city (Canadian city of around 1 million). There were 234 police high speed chases last year.
That's not to mention what happened the last day I stayed home sick. We see these kids (17-18) walking around the complex (town houses) with pipes in their hands. Out front of my place, I hear tires squeal, a car races into the parking lot and a kid rolls out the door. The kid runs to my door, poungs on it yelling "dial 911!". The kids in the car yell "Squealer!" at hime (or something to that effect) and peel out. Meanwhile, the kid at our door has moved next door as I didn't answer. My 75 year old enighbor opens her door, and the kid rushes past her into the house, grabs the phone, and dials 911.
My poor neighbor is too scared to go back into the house, so I go in looking for him. Under the kitchen table I find him curled into a ball, cut and bruised from head to tow with the phone in his hand, tears streaming down his face. I ask him if he's okay and he said that he was - the cops should be here shortly. Must've been 2 minutes later a cop shows up at the door, takes out his gun and points it at the kid's chest. I'm standing between the cop and the kid off to the side watching a little laser thingy hold on the kid's chest. The kid then follows the cop outside for questioning.
Apparently it was just the kid getting beat up because he didn't have drug money or something. The most important part of this story? The kids were all white, driving $400 Civic's with $3,000 stereos. What's the deal?
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