I definitely don't miss living in ghetto neighborhoods, but they certainly provided stories lol.
Happy New Year Pete.
Living in the ghetto stories...
Please share some Lemur.
I'll start:
- I heard, then saw, a dude get chased down the street then beat up in my yard. There was about 4-5 dudes beating on him and they wound up on the other side of my roommates sliding glass door.
We discussed saving the poor asshole, but the way them fellas was beating on him, it felt like odds were he deserved it.
Westbury NY
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- Drive by shooting. 14 bullet holes.
Next door neighbor house.
I had just moved in with my band
that was the first weekend, we had a 1 year lease.
Found out quickly that was a trap house / drug house. Cars would roll up, dude would get in, drive around block, get out and go back inside.
Huntington Station LI, NY
random detail: that house came with free cable. Someone had cracked it before we moved in. Plugged in TV and ALL the channels worked, we never paid any cable bill.
Guitarist fell in love with a coke addicted stripper, so i moved to LA.
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- read in newspaper that gang initiations were occurring in my neighborhood. Public advised to not walk outside alone as the gang initiation was to jump random people and beat the shit out of them and rob them.
Roommates truck got broken into.
I moved out after one month to live on a couch in frathouse garage.
Had a surprisingly great sex life throughout this whole time even though I was really borderline homeless.
Hempstead LI, NY
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