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| | | Re: Would you carry a weapon when you're scouting? < Reply # 28 on 12/22/2014 4:41 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | No. Cops make the choice whether to ticket you, arrest you, or let you go. They don't like people with guns, so having a gun might just make the difference between getting ticketed and not. Also, in my 15-year exploring career, I have only been at risk of being a victim on one single occasion, and that was not at a UE site, they saw us on a busy street in a reasonably good part of downtown Detroit, it had absolutely nothing to do with exploring other than the fact that we happened to be in town for exploring. Our legs and muscles got us away from that situation nooooooo problem. Didn't need a gun. Never run into a would-be criminal in an abandoned building. I don't get the impression they go in them all that often, although they do frequent abandoned houses. Even if you do run into them, in an abandoned building they won't be prepared to mug you on the spot unless it gets an insane amount of explorer traffic like the Packard. The thing to watch out for anywhere with crime like Detroit or Gary is groups of young men. It's not the old people, and I hate to sound sexist, but it's not the women either. And the men probably won't want to mug someone in front of their girlfriends. If you see a group of young men in a dangerous neighborhood, try to avoid them if you can do so without making it obvious that you're intentionally avoiding them. Once you're sure you're out of sight, move more quickly. Chances are you're more in shape than they are so you'll be fine as long as you keep moving away from them. That said, I don't know what to think about guns. I don't get the impression many of them actually carry, but if they did, I'd probably just end up getting shot running away. Another thing is if you have dirty clothes and a beat up car like I have and most of my fellow Midwestern explorers have, they're far less likely to bother you. If they don't think you have money, they'll pass because it's not worth the risk to get what little you do have. Although I guess people that are dumb enough to spend their money buying an unnecessarily expensive car like a Lexus would probably also be dumb enough to drive it right through Gary, and those people I have no sympathy for. I'd probably laugh and wave at the perpetrators if I saw some bitchy uppity suburbanite get their Lexus carjacked in Gary. Yes, I despise the 1%.
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