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Originally Posted by LisaNewYork
Goddamn it. You people really need to be more scared of us so it doesn't take me an hour to walk through Times Square. Maybe Death Surge can come to visit and bring some Detroiters with him? We need to get some homicidal fear going again in this city.
Actually, the reason I keep making that joke is that on another message board I used to post on, there was this fucking idiot who said she'd never ever visit NYC, because it's "a well known fact" that people get stabbed to death in broad daylight all the time here. Yup - that you can just walk down the street in NYC, and boom! Stabbed! How did she hear that? Weeell, turns out that she's heard it from people in the town she lived in - none of whom have ever been to NYC either. But they watch TV! They know how easily you can get stabbed from watching Law and Order. Two other friends of mine, both of whom live here and who also used to post at that board, were just stunned. And the conversation came about because this moron was trying to figure out where to go on her summer vacation. The three of us just posted collective general responses of, "Uh, no. First of all, in the almost 20 years I've lived here, I've heard of maybe two random stranger-on-stranger murders. And both of those were a mentally ill person shoving someone else in front of a subway train. But someone running gleefully through the streets of NYC stabbing random tourists to death on a sunny afternoon? Yeah, not so much. However, that much being said, far be it from us to change your mind. If you're going to spend your entire vacation terrified of the city you're in, then maybe NYC isn't the place for you." We still joke about it when we get together - we'll be walking down the street going, "Hey, watch it now. Don't wanna get stabbed for the first time today." |
