Del from Detroit, me, can attest to there being some seriously whack people around these parts. Being that I work at a game store I've had my fair share of batpoop crazies.
@Bouchart: Detroit actually has some really nice areas. I really love the city. It's very diverse and it taught me alot about other cultures and ways of life that most people don't get living in the suburbs.
@FireflyPunk:
Sounds like you've stumbled on the general problem. No one cares.
But go ahead. Keep talking shit about a place I'd be willing to bet that you've never been to. Someday if your areas main source of income is pulled right out from under you, I hope you enjoy it.
@Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation:
Michigan suburban police dont dilly dally. However if that same call had come in from the city, the police would've got their about an hour or two later... i wish i was joking.
@ZenGaijin: Guess things really haven't changed much since 1980. I worked at a Hudson Oil just inside of Warren Mi then. We got robbed, and even though the cops were just down the street, it took them 35 minutes to get there.
@relic1980: It's not tooo bad the police are stretched thin because Michigan's Economy is so bad. Things are pretty bad for the entire state let alone Detroit.
@ZenGaijin: I haven't been up there in many years; it was pretty bad in 1980 (this was the time Chrysler came out with those "K" cars, courtesy of Lee Iacocca), and one of the car plants down the street told it's workers that if they drove a foreign-made car they couldn't park at the plant. I guess the executives weren't parking there either, or they seriously thought that Mercedes was one of the Big Three ^_^.
I remember seeing the burned buildings that had been up since the 1967 or 8 riots (this was near the Henry Ford Hospital though, as I recall).
But it was also when I got introduced to my first big videogame arcade; that was a blast. So I have some good memories from then too.
By the way, Owen: The adjective for the Netherlands is "Dutch". Just thought you might want to know that, since the headline sounds a bit strange this way.
You laugh and laugh at this, until the scary thought hits you.
If this guy believes he is in Silent Hill so much as to cut power to the hospital looking for a toothbrush... he lives in a scary, scary world, my friends. He is being kept in a hospital full of demons and monsters and nobody around him believes him. They tell him hes being crazy.
I mean, at this point, the guy is living in the real life silent hill. There is no game anymore for him. The whole idea of Silent Hill being something that you're trapped in and affects you differently while you're removed from the real world is REAL to him.
Laugh as much as you want. I did. But pity the fuck out of this man, because hes living in one of the most nightmarish worlds possible, that we've actually been able to witness first hand.
I'd like to smile at your comment, but it wouldn't be messing with him, so much as instilling sheer terror in a man who fully believes you are what you are.
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It might be a good spot for an archaeological dig.
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Plus Robo-Cop was filmed here.....
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The rest of the Detroit has been converted to a sort of natural preserve for idiots.
All that bailout money had to go to something...it certainly wasn't making the key industry in that city any more competitive.
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Being from Detroit, naturally I take offense to this. I wish I had words to describe how much of an ass I think you are for making this statement.
This didn't even happen in Detroit. It was in Troy, but I guess that doesn't sound as cool.
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Lesson the 1st: This is the internet.
No one cares about your feelings or what you take offense to.
Get over yourself. Detroit!
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Sounds like you've stumbled on the general problem. No one cares.
But go ahead. Keep talking shit about a place I'd be willing to bet that you've never been to. Someday if your areas main source of income is pulled right out from under you, I hope you enjoy it.
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Michigan suburban police dont dilly dally. However if that same call had come in from the city, the police would've got their about an hour or two later... i wish i was joking.
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Basically what I'm saying is in Detroit:
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8 Mile still pretty rough?
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I remember seeing the burned buildings that had been up since the 1967 or 8 riots (this was near the Henry Ford Hospital though, as I recall).
But it was also when I got introduced to my first big videogame arcade; that was a blast. So I have some good memories from then too.
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*reads article*
Man, I live in a messed up country.
By the way, Owen: The adjective for the Netherlands is "Dutch". Just thought you might want to know that, since the headline sounds a bit strange this way.
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The dude must have some grudge against jazz musicians, man.
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If this guy believes he is in Silent Hill so much as to cut power to the hospital looking for a toothbrush... he lives in a scary, scary world, my friends. He is being kept in a hospital full of demons and monsters and nobody around him believes him. They tell him hes being crazy.
I mean, at this point, the guy is living in the real life silent hill. There is no game anymore for him. The whole idea of Silent Hill being something that you're trapped in and affects you differently while you're removed from the real world is REAL to him.
Laugh as much as you want. I did. But pity the fuck out of this man, because hes living in one of the most nightmarish worlds possible, that we've actually been able to witness first hand.
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I'd love to dress up as pyramid head and mess around with him.
Also, who let this guy play Silent Hill in the first place?!
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I'd like to smile at your comment, but it wouldn't be messing with him, so much as instilling sheer terror in a man who fully believes you are what you are.
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Thankfully, we've experienced Silent Hill differently, him and me.
I would have been running down the hallway swinging a metal pipe left and right.
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