It might be time for a Chat hunting trip. We could all meet at Keef's, have a cookout and a few beers, then head downtown late and walk the streets while packing. After we killed the two thugs, we could take pictures standing over them, tie them to the hood of a car and drive them to the middle of the hood and drop them off in the street with a sign on them that said "Robbers".
Anyone else seen the story about the armed robbers in Athens?...
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Mostly done to urban pioneers over on the edge of downtown ...
Dumbasses for living over there. Still, maybe the police should concentrate a little more on that instead of writing the kids up for underage drinking and looking for DUIs. It's a real problem. That and the students over there buying crack rock and heroin with mama and daddy's money. They move over there and generally become either a customer or a victim, often both.
Dumbasses for living over there. Still, maybe the police should concentrate a little more on that instead of writing the kids up for underage drinking and looking for DUIs. It's a real problem. That and the students over there buying crack rock and heroin with mama and daddy's money. They move over there and generally become either a customer or a victim, often both.
I didn't think that area was that bad, those new apartments on..
North Ave look pretty nice. I figured there were mostly students living there who wanted to be able to walk downtown and to campus.
Dooshbag Athens and UGA cops won't do anything, no money to be made arresting two thugs for robbing people. Much more lucrative to harass students and people going to games. I really hope the thugs try and rob some guy who is packing and he kills them both.
North Ave look pretty nice. I figured there were mostly students living there who wanted to be able to walk downtown and to campus.
Dooshbag Athens and UGA cops won't do anything, no money to be made arresting two thugs for robbing people. Much more lucrative to harass students and people going to games. I really hope the thugs try and rob some guy who is packing and he kills them both.
You hope it was a liberal professor? Well...you've got about
a 90% chance of that. Or better...Liberals love of diversity and openness to different opinions ends when it comes
to who is allowed to teach on college campuses.
It's like they want the last 4 years before a young person goes out into the world to brainwash them away from their
parents teachings.
a 90% chance of that. Or better...Liberals love of diversity and openness to different opinions ends when it comes
to who is allowed to teach on college campuses.
It's like they want the last 4 years before a young person goes out into the world to brainwash them away from their
parents teachings.
My daughter said she didn't see too much wacky liberal stuff...
but she was in the Ag School mostly. I would imagine the journalism, sociology, psychology, etc programs are full of liberal wackos. A friend's son graduated with a business degree a couple of years ago. Other than a professor who decided to change from a man to a woman from one year to the next, he didn't see or hear too much either.
but she was in the Ag School mostly. I would imagine the journalism, sociology, psychology, etc programs are full of liberal wackos. A friend's son graduated with a business degree a couple of years ago. Other than a professor who decided to change from a man to a woman from one year to the next, he didn't see or hear too much either.
The apartments are very nice, but the walk to them ...
from downtown is not a nice walk and the students and young professionals have also moved all back in there off of North Avenue to the East and West, all over the hood. New student housing construction and rehabbed homes dotted all thru there. They may gentrify the area at some point, but it ain't there yet. And as long as DUIs are such a bad DEAL, they are going to walk home at 3 in the morning. They are like fish in a barrel. I thought about buying a 40 or 50 thousand dollar house over there and fixing it up a little and living in it, but I'm glad I didn't. Hell, I got robbed over off Sunset Avenue. They pour across Hancock over in here and go to town. They haven't lately since a wave and then a crackdown a few years ago, but they'll be back. Robberies and burglaries are rampant in this town. Small city with an urban attitude.
from downtown is not a nice walk and the students and young professionals have also moved all back in there off of North Avenue to the East and West, all over the hood. New student housing construction and rehabbed homes dotted all thru there. They may gentrify the area at some point, but it ain't there yet. And as long as DUIs are such a bad DEAL, they are going to walk home at 3 in the morning. They are like fish in a barrel. I thought about buying a 40 or 50 thousand dollar house over there and fixing it up a little and living in it, but I'm glad I didn't. Hell, I got robbed over off Sunset Avenue. They pour across Hancock over in here and go to town. They haven't lately since a wave and then a crackdown a few years ago, but they'll be back. Robberies and burglaries are rampant in this town. Small city with an urban attitude.
I know a few - the ones I've met don't seem so bad to me ..
They're pretty much all democrats, but I generally don't throw out huge signals about my ideology in public settings and I have never really heard one go off the rails like the stereotype says they all do. Maybe if I threw the signals out there and baited them then they would, but most I have met are nice folks with cushy well paying jobs that love living in Athens and aren't really into making major waves. One good thing about Adams was that I don't think he smiled on all that activism you see on some campuses. I imagine Jere might be about the same on that.
They're pretty much all democrats, but I generally don't throw out huge signals about my ideology in public settings and I have never really heard one go off the rails like the stereotype says they all do. Maybe if I threw the signals out there and baited them then they would, but most I have met are nice folks with cushy well paying jobs that love living in Athens and aren't really into making major waves. One good thing about Adams was that I don't think he smiled on all that activism you see on some campuses. I imagine Jere might be about the same on that.
I'm amazed at how nice the area around the Chicopee mill is...
That was straight up ghetto when I was in school. Now, most of the houses have been fixed up and it actually looks pretty nice down there. I don't know what the reality on the ground is, but it looks a hundred times better.
That Athens area politician, Michael Thurmond, made sure Athens got more than it's share of govt housing and the liberal Athens local politicians make sure the city stays pretty friendly to the "disadvantaged", as long as the "disadvantaged" don't want to live too close to the old money Athens folks.
That was straight up ghetto when I was in school. Now, most of the houses have been fixed up and it actually looks pretty nice down there. I don't know what the reality on the ground is, but it looks a hundred times better.
That Athens area politician, Michael Thurmond, made sure Athens got more than it's share of govt housing and the liberal Athens local politicians make sure the city stays pretty friendly to the "disadvantaged", as long as the "disadvantaged" don't want to live too close to the old money Athens folks.
I've said for awhile that the hunters should become the hunted, that a
Death Wish type vigilantism needed to start up. Predators think they own the streets and frankly they're right because the cops and ALL levels of gubmint have been unable and are now unwilling to do what's necessary to take them back. So maybe it's time THEY stay inside for fear of getting offed in the streets like the animals they are.
Death Wish type vigilantism needed to start up. Predators think they own the streets and frankly they're right because the cops and ALL levels of gubmint have been unable and are now unwilling to do what's necessary to take them back. So maybe it's time THEY stay inside for fear of getting offed in the streets like the animals they are.
The reality on the ground is that it is still a great place ...
to buy crack or get your HEAD stoved in walking home at night. I could take you thru there and show you some STUFF. I hate working back in there. They work the streets in groups 24 hrs a day and they'll try to flag you down at 10 in the morning to sell you a rock. I'm sure a lot of kids down there take them up on it, hit a rock and watch the Price is Right instead of going to class. I skipped class with the bong, today's kids are doing it with a crack rock.
Now if you want an underprivileged white girl, probably from FL, to give you a quick BJ, then the Rocksprings area between Baxter and Broad is still the place for that. Athens is still sin city. Maybe even worse in some ways now. A lot less innocence.
to buy crack or get your HEAD stoved in walking home at night. I could take you thru there and show you some STUFF. I hate working back in there. They work the streets in groups 24 hrs a day and they'll try to flag you down at 10 in the morning to sell you a rock. I'm sure a lot of kids down there take them up on it, hit a rock and watch the Price is Right instead of going to class. I skipped class with the bong, today's kids are doing it with a crack rock.
Now if you want an underprivileged white girl, probably from FL, to give you a quick BJ, then the Rocksprings area between Baxter and Broad is still the place for that. Athens is still sin city. Maybe even worse in some ways now. A lot less innocence.
It sure looks a lot better, but I'm not too surprised to hear it..
isn't a great area. My daughter lived in The Woodlands. She said the distance to downtown wasn't too far to walk but the section of the walk from the river to the bypass was too sketchy for people to do it so they always got a cab. I cut through the Chicopee area on game days, it looks pretty good then but I guess the "locals" lay low on game days when there are so many people around.
I think Athens is like most mid sized Southern cities when it comes to sin.
isn't a great area. My daughter lived in The Woodlands. She said the distance to downtown wasn't too far to walk but the section of the walk from the river to the bypass was too sketchy for people to do it so they always got a cab. I cut through the Chicopee area on game days, it looks pretty good then but I guess the "locals" lay low on game days when there are so many people around.
I think Athens is like most mid sized Southern cities when it comes to sin.
Like I said, I've met a few - I don't hang out with any of them ..
I don't know much about the groups or politics over there on campus. Thankfully. I'm over here on the west side - I stay away from the campus side and Five Points as much as I can. Too congested over there.
I don't know much about the groups or politics over there on campus. Thankfully. I'm over here on the west side - I stay away from the campus side and Five Points as much as I can. Too congested over there.
90% of those 25,000 come from upper middle to upper class...
households, they buy alcohol and some drugs, but they also add a large number of high achievers to the population. They also live a much higher lifestyle than when I was there. There was nothing in Athens to compare with the new apartments and housing options today's students have. I'm sure there is some hard drug activity some students are involved in, but I'd guess it's a small number of actual students relative to the total student population. It's so hard to get in UGA these days, the hard partying crowd doesn't usually get accepted. I think there are probably a fair number of kids who either couldn't get in or couldn't stay in that decide to move to Athens and get a job to be around the college and they are probably pretty wild and live on the edge so to speak.
When I was at Georgia in the early 80s, the real party types could get in and, yes, there was some serious debauchery. I don't think there is anything in Athens that isn't in Albany, Augusta, Savannah, Macon, etc. I do think the criminals in Athens have an easier and larger target in the students than the criminals in other cities without a large college in the downtown area.
households, they buy alcohol and some drugs, but they also add a large number of high achievers to the population. They also live a much higher lifestyle than when I was there. There was nothing in Athens to compare with the new apartments and housing options today's students have. I'm sure there is some hard drug activity some students are involved in, but I'd guess it's a small number of actual students relative to the total student population. It's so hard to get in UGA these days, the hard partying crowd doesn't usually get accepted. I think there are probably a fair number of kids who either couldn't get in or couldn't stay in that decide to move to Athens and get a job to be around the college and they are probably pretty wild and live on the edge so to speak.
When I was at Georgia in the early 80s, the real party types could get in and, yes, there was some serious debauchery. I don't think there is anything in Athens that isn't in Albany, Augusta, Savannah, Macon, etc. I do think the criminals in Athens have an easier and larger target in the students than the criminals in other cities without a large college in the downtown area.
Cops are generally useless at preventing crime, they show up..
after the crime and write a report and hope someone turns the criminal in or the criminal does something stupid and they get caught somewhere else. Augusta had a spell a couple of years ago where three or four criminals were shot and killed by homeowners or their intended victims. The number of robberies and burglaries dropped dramatically after that and, knock on wood, has remained lower than average. The thugs live together and know each other, they talk about who and what are easy marks.
The local DA said there are about 2500 people in the Augusta area that are constantly in the criminal justice system and are responsible for around 80% of the crimes reported. He was speaking at my Exchange club last year. My response was; "why don't we just round those people up and kill them all?".
after the crime and write a report and hope someone turns the criminal in or the criminal does something stupid and they get caught somewhere else. Augusta had a spell a couple of years ago where three or four criminals were shot and killed by homeowners or their intended victims. The number of robberies and burglaries dropped dramatically after that and, knock on wood, has remained lower than average. The thugs live together and know each other, they talk about who and what are easy marks.
The local DA said there are about 2500 people in the Augusta area that are constantly in the criminal justice system and are responsible for around 80% of the crimes reported. He was speaking at my Exchange club last year. My response was; "why don't we just round those people up and kill them all?".
These rich atlanta kids do tons of drugs ...
It's actually easy for the smarter kids to do a lot of drugs and stay in school. Georgia is only hard to get in. Their academic workload is no worse than ours was and they are smarter, so it's easier for them. And lots of kids don't party these days until they get to school because it is too easy to get in trouble with DUIS etc ..., but many make up for lost time when they get here.
They also have infinitely more spending money, on average, than kids did when we were in school. I've been around the bar business. These kids run huge tabs on their parent's cards. The girls more than the guys. You need to go downtown with me at about 1 AM one night. It is hard core down there. Sometimes it is French Quarter mardi gras type revelry on a random Thursday night.
But I wouldn't really compare Athens to Augusta, Columbus, Savannah etc ... Those towns are much larger than Athens. Athens is still really just a town. I don't think many towns its size sin like it does. I used to work in Dalton a lot and my Grandparents lived in Albany. Both are much more similar sized towns to Athens than Augusta, Columbus etc ... Athens blows those towns away in the sin quotient. Rome and Lagrange, too. We just couldn't disagree more on this one. They might not have been partying hard before they got here, but they catch up quick. They're still mostly pu$$ies these days, but they party like Hell.
It's actually easy for the smarter kids to do a lot of drugs and stay in school. Georgia is only hard to get in. Their academic workload is no worse than ours was and they are smarter, so it's easier for them. And lots of kids don't party these days until they get to school because it is too easy to get in trouble with DUIS etc ..., but many make up for lost time when they get here.
They also have infinitely more spending money, on average, than kids did when we were in school. I've been around the bar business. These kids run huge tabs on their parent's cards. The girls more than the guys. You need to go downtown with me at about 1 AM one night. It is hard core down there. Sometimes it is French Quarter mardi gras type revelry on a random Thursday night.
But I wouldn't really compare Athens to Augusta, Columbus, Savannah etc ... Those towns are much larger than Athens. Athens is still really just a town. I don't think many towns its size sin like it does. I used to work in Dalton a lot and my Grandparents lived in Albany. Both are much more similar sized towns to Athens than Augusta, Columbus etc ... Athens blows those towns away in the sin quotient. Rome and Lagrange, too. We just couldn't disagree more on this one. They might not have been partying hard before they got here, but they catch up quick. They're still mostly pu$$ies these days, but they party like Hell.
