Escapists who live in lower income areas, what is the craziest thing you've witnessed?

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Kaleion said:
Crazy? Huh... A neighbour was once smoking pot and the idiot left his still lit blunt on top of the gas tank, all I saw was the explosion, he died and the surrounding houses were on fire, fortunately I was in the next block so the fire didn't spread that far, I must say the explosion was far bigger than I expected it would be, it looked like a Hollywood explosion.
As terrible and terrifying as that is, this made me laugh. I sure hope that guy managed to score a Darwin award for that one.
 

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KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:
Kaleion said:
Crazy? Huh... A neighbour was once smoking pot and the idiot left his still lit blunt on top of the gas tank, all I saw was the explosion, he died and the surrounding houses were on fire, fortunately I was in the next block so the fire didn't spread that far, I must say the explosion was far bigger than I expected it would be, it looked like a Hollywood explosion.
As terrible and terrifying as that is, this made me laugh. I sure hope that guy managed to score a Darwin award for that one.
I was 12 when that happened, to be honest I thought the explosion was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen and my brothers were screaming at me because I was looking at it instead of going to safety, it was fun, I don't think the Darwin awards existed back then.
 
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I lived in or spent most of my life in Manhattan.

Really, you get numb to it after a while.

However, there was one time that I was seventeen. This story has the honor of being a crazy thing that my best friend and I did our best NOT to witness.

On the Seven line subway platform someone took excrement (don't know of what kind), apparently broke it up into little pieces, and assembled it into an arrow point down into the tracks.

My best friend and I decided that if someone was that screwed up in the head to actually take the time to do that, we probably didn't want to see whatever he wanted people to take notice of on the tracks...
 

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Kaleion said:
KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:
Kaleion said:
Crazy? Huh... A neighbour was once smoking pot and the idiot left his still lit blunt on top of the gas tank, all I saw was the explosion, he died and the surrounding houses were on fire, fortunately I was in the next block so the fire didn't spread that far, I must say the explosion was far bigger than I expected it would be, it looked like a Hollywood explosion.
As terrible and terrifying as that is, this made me laugh. I sure hope that guy managed to score a Darwin award for that one.
I was 12 when that happened, to be honest I thought the explosion was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen and my brothers were screaming at me because I was looking at it instead of going to safety, it was fun, I don't think the Darwin awards existed back then.
The Darwin Awards have existed online since 1985, so they did exist back then. Still every time I read that particular snippet I giggle a little. That is just cosmic.
 

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I witnessed a drug deal. I was actually there for that purpose. I was going to do something, because my neighbor told me where the deals were going down, and I was thinking about doing a kind of vigilante thing. I ended up driving back home like a huge Pat coward.

Also the car my dad bought me (22 years old) started rusting. Some paint came off the drivers door, in suspicious bullet-hole sized shapes. Also one in the tailgate. I have no idea how many owners it's had so it carries some cool mystique. I'm going to be the last owner, I know that. I love that thing, but it's dying and I can't keep up with the repair costs.
 

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Falaka. Someone with their feet tied to a pole, and then the soles of their feet whipped with a rubber hose. It apparently causes excruciating visceral pain in addition to the pain in the feet, which are themselves uniquely sensitive.
 

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I work in a tourist corridor a couple blocks away from a notoriously bad neighborhood. So, of course, I see people from this bad area come out to the tourist area to do "business". It's not that fun for me to relate all the "crazy" stuff that happens there.

I will relate couple brushes with criminal notoriety. In Lincoln, MT, I was in a convenience store with the Unabomber. It was a few years before he got arrested. Honestly, at the time, I thought there was something about him that freaked me out. Fortunately, I was able to leave before he asked me what my address was.

I was staying in a motel across the street from where the 9/11 hijackers were staying in when they were in Las Vegas. I probably walked by some of these guys when I was there.
 

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KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:
Johnny Novgorod said:
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Johnny Novgorod said:
Trans hookers screaming and fighting each other at like 3 AM.
It's been some years, the hood's cleaned up some since. You don't see hookers anymore, anyway.
How can you be certain that the hookers fighting were trans? Especially in the middle of the night like that?
If nothing else, because they looked and sounded like men, but they had breast implants and were wearing women's clothing.
And it's not that hard to see at night, because of street lights, and the fact this was all taking place under my window (1st floor).
And I already knew them from before, because they made their rounds around my block and one of them once made a pass at me.
A nasty consequence of such a long time being able to discriminate against trans folk in employment, housing, and medical care. Leads to people having to do particularly nasty things to make money just to get by on, along with having to go to particularly shady sources to transition.

So yeah, sorry you had to put up with a situation like that, but it's still worse that society actively puts people in situations like that.
I've always wondered how much it is society though. Not that there isn't discrimination. There is. But Johnny lives in the same country as I do and here people are pretty progressive about sexuality (considering it's a latin american country. I mean we've had gay marriage for quite a while now AND trans people are able to change their documents to match their gender and so many other things) I have met quite a few transexual people at my university and I study law (which is considered to be a pretty conservative field). I mean, I am more prone to believe that (at least in my country) things like that happen not only because of the hookers being transexual, but because of the increments of poverty in the area (after a lot of stupid economic decissions)
Just my two cents.
(And by the record, I think what he had to put up with could have happened with cisgender hookers. In fact I've overheard something like that happen to an acquaintance of mine)
 

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We've moved now, but for about 15 years we lived roughly in this area behind a huge military base. When I was still very young, some kind of fire or whatever went off in their ammunition stores, which led to a 4 hour long soundtrack of an 80's John Woo movie taking place and everyone evacuating their homes to the hills to watch the "fireworks display". It was pretty crazy and many people were calling for the national guard as they thought we were under attack.

In more recent years, when I was driving home around 3am I was behind a motorcycle when the pillion passenger just fell off right in front of me and I had to leap on the brakes to avoid going over the bastard. Turns out they were 2 very drunk lower ranks snuck out for a night on the town. After the fella threw up and passed out again, I offered to throw him in the trunk of my car, get him back to base and sort themselves out, for which his mate was very grateful. I've done crazier on my own, but for things I've witnessed that's probably one of them.
 

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A lesbian couple, who used to live next door to me, pointed two guns at a dude's head while threatening him to pay for child support... After 10 (or so) minutes of loud profanity and the sound of both guns cocking, the police showed up, arrested the dude, and confiscated the guns from the couple... One week later, the couple and the kid that was staying there moved out not long before the first day of Summer...

Other than that, when I was younger, the upstairs neighbors had a "house party" one night and their sofa crashed onto my mom's apartment patio... Not long after they were reported to the apartment managers, they had another "house party" and two steel chairs and an analog TV crashed onto the apartment patio... It was an eventful July that particular year...
 

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- hooker in her underwear crying in a bank, surrounded by people taking photos of her getting arrested.
- some guy smashed in a cab's window for reasons i couldn't ascertain.
- a fucking ton of random cosplayers doing cringy shit in the streets.
- old lady threatening some old guy with a bat. she didn't have a bat.
- three ultra-hipsters in their "neoist" attire (wearing coat hangers on their heads like teletubbies), and their confused seeming friend in a hazmat suit. one was a 6'5 dmab in semi-drag and a self-described "screech artist." one of them tried to give me shit over my shirt or something and then i made friends with the rest.

i know i have more than this, but this is what i can think of off the top of my head.

edit: wasn't in my actual hometown but at Canada Cup a bunch of girls got in a fight in the hotel lobby and a guy dressed as Dudley from Street Fighter 3 broke it up, shortly after he got back from a night in the drunk tank.
 

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viscomica said:
I've always wondered how much it is society though. Not that there isn't discrimination. There is. But Johnny lives in the same country as I do and here people are pretty progressive about sexuality (considering it's a latin american country. I mean we've had gay marriage for quite a while now AND trans people are able to change their documents to match their gender and so many other things) I have met quite a few transexual people at my university and I study law (which is considered to be a pretty conservative field). I mean, I am more prone to believe that (at least in my country) things like that happen not only because of the hookers being transexual, but because of the increments of poverty in the area (after a lot of stupid economic decissions)
Just my two cents.
(And by the record, I think what he had to put up with could have happened with cisgender hookers. In fact I've overheard something like that happen to an acquaintance of mine)
Your country, passed protections for transgender employment just this year, historically speaking though, these protections take a while to have a practical effect, usually years after the laws go into effect. Even so a lot of people will discriminate in ways that take advantage of loop holes in the law, for example Nevada in the US is a "right to work", or "at will employment" state. That means if it's against the law here to fire someone for being gay, black, or trans, you can simply fire them for no stated reason instead. Proving such cases as discriminatory termination is extremely hard, if you do take an employer to court, others will know, thus hurting your chances to be employed else where.

The problem is that discrimination is so pervasive, especially with the trans community, that it severely limits the options people have. Specifically for trans folk, we have a disproportionately high level of poverty, not because poverty is common, but because we're so easily discriminated against. For trans folk, if we do get fired or denied a job, we really can't seek legal recourse, because even if that discrimination is illegal, no one is willing to give us credence and take our case. That includes lawyers. Many trans folk face the options of being prostitutes, selling drugs, or being pornographic actors and actresses, because they simply have no other options for income. Many trans people I know who have stable employment are terrified of being outed, because in all likelihood being outed means they'll lose their job and likely be unable to find another.

So while poverty is a factor in the trans community, it's a larger factor than it is for others because of systemic discrimination.

Also transgender isn't a sexuality.
 

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My hometown is a small, rural community in southern missouri. Lots of bored kids, and lots of meth abound in such places. My first hotel job was working the front desk at the cheapest motel in town... and I mean the cheapest... Picture the rattiest, most sketchy-looking motel you've ever seen, and you probably won't be far off from this place. If life were a game of monopoly, this is the hotel you'd put on baltic avenue. On my first day on the job I witnessed a drug transaction in our little laundry room, and that pretty much set the tone for the whole year I would work there.

Now here's the craziest thing I ever saw: One day, a man and his girlfriend checked in at the start of my shift. Both reeked of alcohol, and likely had a cocktail of chemicals in their bodies I can only guess at. The man's speech was slurred, and his eyes were dilated. Still, I didn't judge, that was pretty par for the course for our clientele. I checked them in and for a few hours nothing eventful happened. That night, the girlfriend decided she wanted to buy something from our vending machine, and stepped out of her room. The vending machine was part of the front desk area, so I was treated to the sight of a woman, baked out of her mind, spending almost an hour staring at our selection of junk food, awkwardly fumbling with her change, trying, failing, trying, and finally succeeding to get the change into the payment slot, and then stumbling back out of the office.

Amusing as that was, that's not where the tale ended... see, apparently, over the course of her adventures with our vending machine, she had apparently forgotten, not only what room she was in, but even the general vicinity of the property where the room she had come from was located. Rather than come back to the office to ask me about it, she decided the best course of action was to knock on every door in order, and see if she recognized the person who answered... one of the people she bothered this way called the front desk about this, and I came out to usher her back to her proper room, thinking all was well again.

Ah, but there was one more chapter to this poorly acted farce! About an hour and a half after the girlfriend got settled, I received another call from a disturbed guest, this time they were reporting a man who was apparently dead in our parking lot. Alarmed, I went out to find the boyfriend. He was laying prone on the asphalt next to his car, his skin pale as death and his body perfectly still. Sincerely believing I was looking at a corpse, I started to dial 911 as I looked over the scene. I started to give the operator details of what was going on as I leaned down to check the boyfriend for a pulse. The second my fingers touched his skin, his eyes darted open so suddenly I dropped my phone in shock.

Apparently he and his girlfriend had a fight after she returned to his room, and he decided he would sleep in his car rather than deal with her... but either passed out or decided opening the car door was too much effort, and thus wound up sleeping right there in the lot. I was just relieved he was alive, and asked the operator to go ahead and send an ambulance, since he was clearly pretty messed up by whatever he'd been doing that night. the police and ambulance arrived, and I washed my hands of the whole issue.

It was the most eventful and surreal night of my life.
 

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once in central America watched a guy rob a store only to be hit by a truck who didn't even slow down. what's worse a guy from the store came out and fished the money off the now very messy robber and go back in like its a normal day.
 

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Mostly I see depressing shit. For an interesting incident in a not-even-that-poor-of-an-area, a lady pulls into the parking lot at 5:30 in the morning a few people and I were at with a police car behind her and her two passenger side tires blown out so she was screeching and shooting sparks (her car, not her). The cop goes up to her window and after a couple minutes of talking the lady tries to drive off with the cop sticking out of her window. She didn't get far due to her lack of traction and the cop pulling the keys. We were entertained for a bit.
 

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At a bar by where I live I actually saw the "smash the bottle and stab a guy with the jagged glass" bit. That's when I also learned that when someone hits someone else with a wooden barstool... the barstool doesn't break like it does in the movies.
 

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Not so much that it's low income as the cops form one town threw out all homeless people so they all gathered in one nearby town. But a guy that thought he was a martian going frantic because couldn't fine his martian buddies in bushes. He was form the red planet.
 

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KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime said:
viscomica said:
I've always wondered how much it is society though. Not that there isn't discrimination. There is. But Johnny lives in the same country as I do and here people are pretty progressive about sexuality (considering it's a latin american country. I mean we've had gay marriage for quite a while now AND trans people are able to change their documents to match their gender and so many other things) I have met quite a few transexual people at my university and I study law (which is considered to be a pretty conservative field). I mean, I am more prone to believe that (at least in my country) things like that happen not only because of the hookers being transexual, but because of the increments of poverty in the area (after a lot of stupid economic decissions)
Just my two cents.
(And by the record, I think what he had to put up with could have happened with cisgender hookers. In fact I've overheard something like that happen to an acquaintance of mine)
Your country, passed protections for transgender employment just this year, historically speaking though, these protections take a while to have a practical effect, usually years after the laws go into effect. Even so a lot of people will discriminate in ways that take advantage of loop holes in the law, for example Nevada in the US is a "right to work", or "at will employment" state. That means if it's against the law here to fire someone for being gay, black, or trans, you can simply fire them for no stated reason instead. Proving such cases as discriminatory termination is extremely hard, if you do take an employer to court, others will know, thus hurting your chances to be employed else where.

The problem is that discrimination is so pervasive, especially with the trans community, that it severely limits the options people have. Specifically for trans folk, we have a disproportionately high level of poverty, not because poverty is common, but because we're so easily discriminated against. For trans folk, if we do get fired or denied a job, we really can't seek legal recourse, because even if that discrimination is illegal, no one is willing to give us credence and take our case. That includes lawyers. Many trans folk face the options of being prostitutes, selling drugs, or being pornographic actors and actresses, because they simply have no other options for income. Many trans people I know who have stable employment are terrified of being outed, because in all likelihood being outed means they'll lose their job and likely be unable to find another.

So while poverty is a factor in the trans community, it's a larger factor than it is for others because of systemic discrimination.

Also transgender isn't a sexuality.
I didn't mean that there isn't discrimination. I'm just saying there are OTHER factors to be considered.
Also, I don't mean to say that being transgender is a sexuality, but maybe I worded things wrong since English is not my native language.