Now I have seen a few places where I did feel unsafe I have to say at least even beaten up in places .

 

 

Now Fitzroy Crossing in Northern Australia was something else wild west really , never got into trouble but got out of there within minutes .

 

When I was working in San Fran for a removal firm I had one move where this guy was moving out of the projects , I really did think I could be killed for a table and two chairs .

 

Was in Cambodia in the early 90s and was told not to go out after dark otherwise we may never see you again , hey I got the hint .

 

Anyone else .

 

 

Close the thread now

Que PM coming in and saying Bandon 

Tegucigalpa - Honduras. One of the murder capitals of the world. Lots of slums and punters wandering around the city with machetes. I never really felt safe there. 

 

What we call a rough estate here is Disneyland compared to the U.S. You've a serious chance of being shot to death for the even the slightest of things.

Grimsby is the most horrible place I have experienced in the UK. The only place I have been a week before Christmas where they didn't even have any council/city decorations or Christmas lights up, not even a tree. There's also an element of your sister is your mother, your father is your brother about the locals too. 

Around Anfield a few years ago before they did up the new stand sticks out also. I'm told it looks a lot better now.

Askeaton in Limerick is terrible too.

 

So a normal Monday night in Tom Tavey's so

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One Way streets can be very inconvenient indeed

That sounds brilliant, I was going to Blundell on Good Friday, might go for Xmas now. f**king lights were being put up here last week.

You are correct An C., Bandon is a kip!

When dividing places into kips you have to factor in the local character too, Hornet may not like this but I preferred Luton To Watford as anything could happen in Luton and Watford is the sort of place that feels like Royston Vasey. Was in Stevenage recently, felt like I was in some Dystopian drama. Every building looked thesame and it had completely sucked the life out of the locals.

 

I recall we had to pick up a BBQ at some Mexicans house once in Oakland  , my mate said stay in the truck I said don't worry I will only get out if they set light to the truck  

 

 

 

Why bring Chubby into this. YFB...........

Was referring to the town named after him on 'The League of Gentleman' on which he appeared, the only time the **** was ever funny.

stayed in Toxteth for a weekend and it was rough as f**k all around the area.Good craic in the pub locals were sound and couldnt believe we were staying around there 

+ 1. Loved it though, helped I was with a local I worked with. Collected tickets from those three towers behind Celtic Park before, couldn't get in the lift as some poor junkie had passed out. Some really great people in both places.

Ended up in some back alley drug den all because the lads wanted to get some weed  

Downtown Edmonton isn't overly appealing either, the amount of drug addicts floating about is scary. 

Chester Pennsylvania (outside Philadelphia) where we met Costa Rica in 2014 looked really rough.  The stadium was fine but the area around the railway station for a few miles looked really dangerous.  I went down early on my own and felt really uncomfortable before getting on a public bus and even on the bus it felt dangerous.  

I visited the old Den in the late 80's and the new Den in the 90's and both were pretty rough.  Brilliant atmosphere in the old Den though.

The East End of Glasgow obviously as others have said.  

Parts of Lodz in Poland where we stayed for the euros looked rough but no issues there.  

The area around the stadium in Orlando in 1994 was a real "no go" area also.  

    

 

Unreal never saw anything like it really walked in and you knew you would get lost in seconds really hard to describe .

 

Later I was walking down a street and two cops stopped to search a likely looking lad walking in front of me. He pointed at me and asked 'why aren't you stopping him too, mate?' Just then a new bright red bmw with the top down drove past, the gold covered Lebanese looking passenger smiled at me before gobbing full force at the cops, hiiting one on the back of the head. The driver put the foot to the floor and disappeared round the corner. 

 

All the shops were like banks with the stock and tills behind the counter. I was trying to sell a phone line to a pawnshop owner when I heard a Dublin accent behind me. An early 20s girl was trying to sell jewellery and arguing with one of the staff over the price. I chatted to her for a while. Turned out she was from Dun Laoghaire, arms marked to bits. I asked her did her family know where she was - she said they thought she was still backpacking. She made a quick exit when I turned the conversation towards getting help.

 

Saw a documentary a few years ago, seems to be plagued with a Heroin problem and it's all done out in the open. 

ffs ive worked in rougher pubs than the fox and hounds in ballyvolane, its actually not a bad spot.

Daly City in San Fran: plenty of characters sitting around the BART station deciding which granny to mug

Newcastle and Liverpool in parts  Dundee was a kip too

In other parts of the world, probably close to the Serbia/Bulgaria border inside Serbia, saw a few villiages that were gypsy ghettoes.  

to be fair a lot of the pubs that have bad reputations such as 
the fob and gill

the red cove
the hollyhill inn

are not as bad as people make out, usually they are clannish but i bet you there are more people thrown out of the East Village in douglas than there is out of these places.

The East Village is on a very short list of places I have been thrown out of. We were having a good sing song at about six o'clock and we got two warnings.

Although like D69er, I've also been to Rhyl, so it's a tough call. Never seen so any mobility scooters also.

That's some account - didn't think Sydney would have a place like that even back in the day. Must ask my uncle about the place he's lived in Sydney for 40 years

Yarmouth has almost as many, think it is better than Rhyl mind.

How were the Zapatistas, always been, erm, interested in their work.

 

I'd say he'll know it alright - the place was infamous - the local MP was shot dead a couple of years before.

They were a bit arsey when they didn't get their pay-off. They had spike strips you see, so we had to pay up to let our bus pass. Anyway, there was only about 12 of us on a 44 seater bus, so I think they were expecting quite a bit more loot. So after quarantining our bus and escorting us off it at the business end of a few AK's and sticks with nails in them, we had to make our own way to a place called Palanque. Pretty dodgy too as it was nightfall. 

Other than that, I couldn't really tell you. Was fully behind their wishes for indigenous rights and protection of their lands however, just not the whole shakedown thing they were at. 

Did a quick google of it and seems a good few others have ended up in the same hassle. Probably the same lads who held us up 

http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/thieves-target-buses-on-chiapas-highway/" rel="nofollow - http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/thieves-target-buses-on-chiapas-highway/

good shout, only place I've ever been attacked in my life as well

Likewise, not sure if I would fancy an AK being waved in my own face but I can understand why. I'm sure you will have watched 'A place Called Chiapas' but I recommend it to those that haven't. 

I used to have the t-shirts too as a teenager, in my 'Rage' days.

Not seen it PM. Nice one, will give that a go later. 

twas indeed, presume be grand any other time, and it wasn't even that bad but still the only place I have been attacked so will go for there

Its closed now a while but my god what a kip but being the only pub near the RSC it got business from that. A scumbag element about it. Another rough Waterford pub was the Toddle on the yellow road, its was like the wild west in there, fights everynight and if u looked at someone the wrong way you were in trouble. It closed down and is now a Calvary religious club lol

Masons sports bar in Waterford is another kip as it sells all drinks for 3 euro and anyone is let in there, few pubs in the barrack street area are bad but nothing compared to the likes of the Yellow house and Toddle 

The film Little Fish was set in Cabramatta.Worth checking out deals with a recovering heroin addict trying to go straight. 

Your  rage days are over? Must say, I wouldn't have noticed

I was in the Yellow House with a few lads I was in college with from Arklow once, dunno how we didn't get the head bate off us 

Is Masons still open? I heard loads of stories of people getting spiked in there. Still,never as bad as Oxygen

Don't listen to them as much as I used to, my tastes are to eclectic to be tied down to one band.

The closure of Waterford Crystal across the road from Yellow house killed it.Would be packed on a Monday morning up to lunchtime.Linden village can sales well down now .

Yep Gastown. Lovely city but they seemed to move all the junkies there. Tight spot but one or two good bars around there. Could buy literally anything down there

Omonia square  area in athens actually. The only place I've seen people openly injecting...People out of their head and out of it on the ground. Brazzers everywhere. Loads of rats on the street. Was a horrible place

My boss, ex Canada U17s head coach was telling me a story of when he was in El Salvador for an international and the team bus was held at gunpoint. In order to let the players leave safely he basically gave them everything he had (watch, money, jewellery etc) and was taken hostage as the bus was allowed leave. Think he said he was 3 days in the jungle before he was released. 

 

That's the place where Louis Theroux did a documentary on. You should watch it. It's excellent.

Did you see Ross Kemp doing his documentary in Glasgow? He visits that oul fella who was literally rotting away. He pulled off his own toes and kept them in his flat  

True.

The worst (First World) poverty I've witnessed was in the US. 

 

They think it's great because they are ignorant and uneducated about the rest of the World.

 

 

Dublin seems to have gotten worse in the last few years too.

The chickens are coming home to roost in Dublin/Ireland regarding the years of austerity. The majority of us didn't earn as much money as we wanted for a few years due to increased taxes and a lot of people have suffered terribly at the hands of the banks/government/EU/IMF but the worst victims have been the people on the periphery of society economically. They have been further marginalized and that is being illustrated by the number of people sleeping rough. 

 

Same as myself. Listened to Bulls on Parade last week for a trip down memory lane. My favourite lyric when he describes the Pentagon 

 

"That five sided fist-a-gon
Tha rotten sore on tha face of mother earth gets bigger
Tha triggers cold empty ya purse"
 

 

 

I used to pass by that Merchants Quay Ireland place after work and it's sobering thought when you look at the poor devils outside in the depths of drug addiction and homelessness. The colour on their faces alone. Awful existence

I think it was ,place was full of meth addicts all sleeping in tents around the city.

Give me a dump in Lancashire or Yorkshire over a dump down south any day, at least the people are individual. Go to Stevenage, Crawley, Milton Keynes,High Wycombe, Watford, Chelmsford etc. All full of Danny Dyers, Ian Beales and low level accountants called Nigel who live with their dead mother. These places would be nuked if they thought it could kill them.

Might put a bit of 'rage' on actually MUFF, far too mellow this morning.

 

Now a friend of mine in San Fran had his own homeless dude who used to sleep in his front steps each evening . I said did it worry him he said no just stepped over him every morning without waking him .

The sad thing is one day he will be gone as that's what happens they don't go anywhere else just die .

 

 

Beautiful World

Any chance the FAI could arrange a friendly for Noel King over there? 

similar incident happened to a couple of squaddies in our hostel in SD. Not sure why people are so determined to leave the paradise of SD to go there. These boys said they swam back as their passports had been taken from them so they wouldn't go to Tijuana (this could have been bullsh*t).

A taxi driver in Lapa robbed my mate at gun point which was obviously bad news for him. However, I did get the ride off some Brazilian strange which was great news for me. So swings and roundabouts and all that.

Their gig in the Point a few years back is my favourite gig of all time