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Originally posted by Siberbat
You can keep the $100 homes. If given a choice between Detroit and a rat infested sewer...you'd be safer in the sewer.
Originally posted by Chickensalad
They need to send in the State Militia. Let them clean it up. Show that us citizens can do it without more Federal intervention.
Originally posted by neo96
Pure evil, and you know why?
Since those notices have been put up the city, and the police force are no longer liable for wrongful death law suits.
Think.
Originally posted by WhatAreThey
Detroit is nearly 83% black.
Originally posted by Andcoulter
Originally posted by Iwinder
My personal experiences in Detroit are as follows,
1975 was a fantastic visit for a rock concert at Cobo hall.
Had cony dogs after and a few beers in the parking lot all was good and fun.
1989 went back for the same thing at Cobo hall and when leaving we were called white bread.
1992 was my last trip there, leaving Cobo hall once again we were harassed and called lots of names being mainly due to our skin colour and our Canadian license plates on our car.
We foolishly stopped at a local Mcd's and the police inside escorted us right back out to our car and followed us for about 5 miles.
The cop was so amazed that we even entered that restaurant he was speechless for a few seconds, then asked us why we had a death wish......I kid you not all of the above is true.
The last visit was a bit of an eye opener as we never had seen armed police in a Mcd's up to that point in life.
We also met a lot of great people but the death threats overshadowed the last trip.
My two cents worth, and hell no I would never go back there again and no disrespect intended to the people of Detroit.
Regards, Iwinder
Thank god that cop was stationed in that McDonalds to keep white people out.
You might have been called more names.
No offense but trying to say Detroit is a warzone makes sense. Trying to point it out by saying you were called names does not. I was called honky through my entire childhood and I survived. No cop ever came and escorted me out of the ghetto I grew up it.
Remarkably being called honkey did not leave and PTSD at all. I got over it. You might too. I know Canadians are more polite than us and all on the average but damn that is a sad example.
Feeling sick and being medicated makes this place awesome.
I read the thread title and click on the thread and see it is a warzone. You got called whitebread.
My god, are you ok??????????????
Do you need anything?
Originally posted by SprocketUK
100 bucks for a house?
Hell, buy a street and get all your mates to move in.
I reckon you could clean up one street at a time if you're all of the right mind set (and well armed).
Ah yes, The American way of handling situations.
Originally posted by milkyway12
Gang members should live in terror. They aren't. The police obviously cannot maintain order. Send us in, we WILL restore order in reverence to the constitution or die trying.
Originally posted by r2d246
reply to post by xuenchen
Maybe there's an opportunity right now in Detroit to set up an "Adventure Tourism" business. You'd call it surviving an economic collapse. The tour would consist of a group of you being dropped off on foot with just some simple bags in a bad area of town. Your goal would be to start by getting into one of the many abandon houses for shelter. And then working as a team you'd have to find your way on foot at night across the city. sleeping in abandon houses by day, seeing how far you can hike by night. And sort of pretending that you're in the middle of a collapsed city. What do you think?
In this case, Detroit decided to impose a new contract on the police union without entering negotiations, leading several union leaders to file suit, alleging that the city has a legal duty to bargain under Public Act 312.
However, the court rejected the union’s argument and sided with the state and Murphy who argued that Public Act 312 only applies to current contracts. Because the police union’s contract had expired, the statute was inapplicable.
Originally posted by WhatAreThey
Detroit is nearly 83% black.
Originally posted by SprocketUK
100 bucks for a house?
Hell, buy a street and get all your mates to move in.
I reckon you could clean up one street at a time if you're all of the right mind set (and well armed).
Originally posted by BrokenCar
reply to post by xuenchen
So I've only read the first page of comments here and I think most of you are out of touch. Detroit is not nearly that bad. I am in Detroit EVERYDAY.
I suspect this has something to do with the cops wanting prop 2 passed here in MI. We are bombarded right now with ads showing teachers, firefighters and cops telling us we need to vote yes on 2.
This is BS quit spreading the crap.