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Originally posted by boarkiller:
Why is it that here in US, majority places with extreme violence are black and Hispanic areas?
And I don't wanna hear anything about disadvantaged poor people...that just pisses me off to no end

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Originally posted by larryshores:

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Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:

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Originally posted by Goatwhiskers:
Probably not a great comparison, but Baton Rouge, La. is getting that way. I don't keep a tally, but seems as tho they kill at least one a night ever since Katrina. I definitly carry when I go to town. GW

One of my co-workers said the invasion of New Orleans to take the city back by special forces was worse for him than the 2nd invasion of Iraq.

In a 6 block area around the stadium they found 205 dead bodies with gunshot wounds in them.

They personally disarmed and arrested over 50 police officers that were involved in looting businesses. He said there were deadly firefights on a regular basis, until the tide shifted enough for people to start acting right.

He told me that he had no hope for humanity in a big city if there was another natural disaster like that.

Little doubt that New Orleans is a really bad place. If you go to the wrong area, you are in real trouble.

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Originally posted by A.Dahlgren:

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Originally posted by larryshores:

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Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:

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Originally posted by Goatwhiskers:
Probably not a great comparison, but Baton Rouge, La. is getting that way. I don't keep a tally, but seems as tho they kill at least one a night ever since Katrina. I definitly carry when I go to town. GW

One of my co-workers said the invasion of New Orleans to take the city back by special forces was worse for him than the 2nd invasion of Iraq.

In a 6 block area around the stadium they found 205 dead bodies with gunshot wounds in them.

They personally disarmed and arrested over 50 police officers that were involved in looting businesses. He said there were deadly firefights on a regular basis, until the tide shifted enough for people to start acting right.

He told me that he had no hope for humanity in a big city if there was another natural disaster like that.

Little doubt that New Orleans is a really bad place. If you go to the wrong area, you are in real trouble.

Never thought that but a friend was there a couple of years ago, robbed first night! He is a BIG guy ended up at the hospital with some bruises and a black eye and no money or phone.

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Originally posted by Saeed:
A Uruguay friend of mine says he does not know one person who has not been robbed in that country

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Originally posted by LionHunter:
I Corps, Republic of Vietnam, 1966-67. Hands down.

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Originally posted by jaegerfrank:
Caracas

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Originally posted by billrquimby:
I was 20 in 1956 and attending the University of Arizona when I took a summer job at a railroad siding called Hyder, about 20 miles across the desert from Gila Bend and Dateland (this area was called the "fan belt capital of the world" back then) in Arizona. A farmer had cultivated the Gila River bottom land and his first crop was 1,000 acres of cantelope. My job was to operate a machine that made all the wooden crates needed to ship them.

The "town" consisted of one small building owned by the Southern Pacific railroad. There were no permanent residents, even the farmer lived elsewhere. This was long before OSHA, so there also were no Porta Potties or showers.

About 300 migrant workers were needed to pick, pack and load the melons into refrigerated railroad cars, and they slept (and relieved themselves) everywhere imaginable -- in the reefer cars, on hastily built conveyor belts, in their cars, under the "town's" three or four tamarisk trees, wherever. I was fortunate that I had a small camp trailer.

As a "college kid," I was a novelty. If I had to guess, a lot more than half of the men around me had spent hard time in prison.

I worked for a box company and my assistant and I were its only employees at the site. I was paid $0.015 per crate, and could make 300 crates an hour. It was a lot of money at a time when the minimum wage was $1.00 hour.

If I failed to keep up with the packers another crew would be sent in, and that meant less money for me. To keep up I worked from 4 AM to midnight, stopping only to eat, seven days a week for six weeks. The long hours helped get me through the school year.

Did I mention that it reached 120 degrees every day and cooled down to about 100 at midnight? Or that the migrants were paid in cash at sundown every Saturday? The money arrived in one car, followed by three or four station wagons with prostitutes who set up shop next to the railroad tracks. A couple of guys would also arrive with trucks of groceries, beer, wine and cheap whiskey for sale at outrageous prices.

There were at least four or five crap games -- accompanied by fighting with fists and knives -- every evening, but especially on Saturday nights.

On Sunday mornings, deputies and an ambulance or a hearse would arrive to take away the injured and dead. One guy died in front of my trailer, and I had to wait until the season ended before I could wash his blood off it in Yuma.

Bill Quimby

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Originally posted by Scott CWO:
Central African Republic June 19, 2016. Shot at by 9 LRA cult soldiers with AK-47s. Miraculously, not a single bullet hit me. Then detained at a village by doznes of angry young men with machetes. Guess it wasn't my time. You can read about it in The Hunting Report. Don't go there.

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Originally posted by jaegerfrank:
Caracas

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Originally posted by tsibindi:
...Laos, 1969