I don’t usually like the Youtube sob stories but this one is worth the time. Detroit sucks… sorry Dave.
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GTJack
GT Owner
His new philosophy stated at the end of the video makes it worth watching. Too bad he had to go through what he did to realize it.
Empty Pockets
ex-GT Owner
The hood is a dangerous place.
That video is popular around here. Macomb is really not very close to Detroit. It may be 35 miles on a map, but it might as well be on a different planet.
That video is popular around here. Macomb is really not very close to Detroit. It may be 35 miles on a map, but it might as well be on a different planet.
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JCSB
Ex GT Owner
About 25 years ago I went to Detroit for a programming class for one of the machines I bought. Things were pretty dicey at the plant location. When I pulled up to the guard inside the parking compound I asked him if I should park my rental car in the razor wire compound. He said "if you want to see it again". The small amount of time I spent there I soon realized why the price of plywood had increased. They were all on the windows.
daytrayd
GT Owner
Empty Pockets
ex-GT Owner
I was been trying to figure out who this kid reminded me of, and then it struck me; Adam Sandler. He could be Sandler's younger brother. 'Looks like him, 'kinda moves like him, 'talks like him, & 'sounds like him IMO.
Empty Pockets
ex-GT Owner
:agree: And the sentence should be served in a tent somewhere near Barrow, Alaska. ("Sheriff Joe" probably has a spare one lying around that he'd be willing to donate.)
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HHGT
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I figured if the victim was 15-16 and driving a decent Grand Cherokee that his family was doing better than most in Detroit.
I know what you're saying, just because he didn't get a kill shot doesn't mean he should get any break. I think it's more about social effect. This kid will be out in 10 years anyway. Imagine that, 25 years old and 10 years of his life in prison. He will be a well trained criminal when he gets out.
BlackICE
GT Owner
Should have gotten the death penalty. As you say my bet is he will do more crime, his head isn't screwed on strait and that ain't going to be fixed by 10 years in prison.
The term "Detroit" is really loosely used. People say "Detroit" and they mean the roughly 5 million people that live in the suburbs that sprawled out of what used to be Detroit. The actual city of Detroit is not very big, and the population is only around 700k, and it's pretty much exclusively black. If you meet a white guy that says "I'm from Detroit," unless he's a hipster 20-something that's living downtown while he has less responsibility, odds are he means one of the surrounding cities. The areas don't transition slowly like they do in a lot of cities. There are lines to be crossed, and you're gonna know when you've done it.
AJB
GT
Agree with Dave . I live in Bloomfield Hills (about 20 miles from 'The D' and 4 miles from Dave) but still say I am from "Outside Detroit" when asked. The 'lines' are clear, but in reality the danger of the "Detroit Mindset" is creeping outward. Southfield is becoming dangerous and just last night in Waterford Twp, 5 were shot in a bowling alley in an argument. Dearborn at night is no place to be either.
I am careful even in my subdivision. It is a sad state of affairs. But the ''social engineering and entitlement mindset'' started several generations ago. I feel sorry for the school kids.
ajb
I am careful even in my subdivision. It is a sad state of affairs. But the ''social engineering and entitlement mindset'' started several generations ago. I feel sorry for the school kids.
ajb
I've never been to Detroit but every city has it's no-fly zone. There are plenty of places in Dallas the DPD does not go after dark. It just seems like in Detroit, most of the city has been lost to the plague. If your partial to the town, then I'm sure it is sad to watch it fall apart. It the first modern city, of my time anyway, that seems to be on the verge of total self implosion. LA, Houston, Honolulu they've all got problems too.
BlackICE
GT Owner
BlackICE
GT Owner
The kid, Ross Capicchioni, gets to meet the man who saved his life.
http://www.andersoncooper.com/2011/10/28/ross-meets-the-man-who-saved-his-life/
http://www.andersoncooper.com/2011/10/28/ross-meets-the-man-who-saved-his-life/
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