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Username: Diehard
Post Number: 129
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 4:55 pm: |    |
One of my other favorite head-shakers is the 20something Germans here for the first DEMF who asked where our subway was, because they wanted to go to an afterparty in Pontiac.
Actually, that's not a good one - it's just an embarrassment for Detroit. |
Jt1
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Username: Jt1
Post Number: 10155
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 5:00 pm: | |
quote:I try to avoid helping visitors so that the homeless can help them, and in that way earn an honest living.
You should change your screen name to dialh4humanitarian. |
Rocket_city
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Username: Rocket_city
Post Number: 399
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 5:10 pm: | |
Spirit of Detroit:
""HOW DO I GET THERE??!!?"
Um, just cross the street."
When it's that bad, that's when you say, "follow me". 
I had a guy in Brush Park ask me how to get to the train station (the Amtrack). I think he must have exited on northbound I-75 near the Ambassador Bridge where there is an exit for train station along w/ Michigan Avenue. I always thought that was confusing. |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 2407
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 7:24 pm: | |
LOL Jt1. |
Goat
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Username: Goat
Post Number: 9807
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 9:02 pm: | |
Sport, they also banned him from what I hear. Isn't that what they were upset with Lowell about?
Can't we all just get along? |
Texorama
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Username: Texorama
Post Number: 55
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 9:44 pm: | |
One time I encountered a female truck driver on Jefferson downtown, lost and sobbing in the cab of her truck. Can you imagine being lost in the maze of streets downtown while pulling a semi trailer? I thought she was Canadian because she was driving a Canadian truck, but it turned out she was from El Paso, Texas. She had apparently been given bad directions to the Ambassador Bridge. So I gave her directions to I-75, but for some reason I had a feeling that she had been told to go to Clark St., but that somebody had omitted the left turn onto Fort from her directions. The weather was turning ugly, and something made me act on my hunch. Sure enough, I found her on S. Clark, where it bends, south of Fort; she later said I was her guardian angel. This time I made her follow me to the bridge entrance. Some weeks later, I got a thank-you card in the mail from El Paso--I had given her a business card at one point so she could contact me if she got lost again. |
Ffdfd
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Username: Ffdfd
Post Number: 187
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 9:49 pm: | |
quote:Sport, they also banned him from what I hear. Isn't that what they were upset with Lowell about?
Who did what? Did someone ban out-of-towners, and was Lowell somehow involved? Clarification? |
Ffdfd
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Username: Ffdfd
Post Number: 188
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 9:56 pm: | |
quote:turned out she was from El Paso, Texas
quote:I got a thank-you card in the mail from El Paso
... and from that day forward you declared yourself ... Texorama? |
Patrick
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Username: Patrick
Post Number: 4929
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 10:15 pm: | |
During the Super Bowl I had 3 burned out stoners from Seattle come up and ask me where they could score some weed. I wanted to tell them to drive to Newport and Mack and ask for Big Tone, but I just made up some bullschitt and said "uh, over that way near that vacant building." |
Karl_jr
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Username: Karl_jr
Post Number: 80
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 11:25 pm: | |
Last september while on a lunchtime walk near warren and woodward a really cute probably new student asked me which way was "C ahh ss" avenue. |
Supersport
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Username: Supersport
Post Number: 11680
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 7:43 am: | |
Working in Greektown on Monroe St, more so than out of towners asking for directions, you get the locals asking one of two questions. "How do you get to the Frank Murphy Hall of Justice" or "How do you get to the 36th district court." Oh, almost forgot, you gotta toss in "How do you get to the Wayne County Jail? My boyfriend is there." |
Dds
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Username: Dds
Post Number: 337
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 8:48 am: | |
quote:Sport, they also banned him from what I hear. Isn't that what they were upset with Lowell about?
Can't we all just get along?
It's my understanding he threatened to crash the site and also to shoot people. If that's all true, I don't blame them. Personally, I would call the cops. |
Pam
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Username: Pam
Post Number: 2592
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 9:00 am: | |
quote:It's my understanding he threatened to crash the site and also to shoot people. If that's all true,
True. I read his post saying that over there yesterday. |
Michigan
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Username: Michigan
Post Number: 1172
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 9:40 am: | |
True, and all the posts referencing it over here were "purged". I feel like cossack. |
Susanarosa
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Username: Susanarosa
Post Number: 1672
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 9:44 am: | |
All the threatening posts are still on the site for all the world to see.
The spam stuff was removed. The Admins have always deleted spam.
(Message edited by susanarosa on September 14, 2007) |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 2419
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 9:46 am: | |
What are you guys talking about? |
Susanarosa
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Username: Susanarosa
Post Number: 1673
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 9:54 am: | |
Ask Sport.
Since he was the one who brought it up and all... |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 2420
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 9:55 am: | |
Sport? Share with the rest of the class? |
Pam
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Username: Pam
Post Number: 2594
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 10:03 am: | |
quote:Share with the rest of the class
Mauser had a meltdown at the "parasite". |
Dds
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Username: Dds
Post Number: 339
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 10:03 am: | |
quote:Sport? Share with the rest of the class?
He's busy giving directions.
(Message edited by dds on September 14, 2007) |
Quozl
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Username: Quozl
Post Number: 1403
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 10:23 am: | |
quote:Sport, they also banned him from what I hear. Isn't that what they were upset with Lowell about? I was under the impression Meltdown Mauser was TEMPORARILY banned for spamming the board Goat, not for the reasons posters have been banned from this forum. |
Jelk
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Username: Jelk
Post Number: 4593
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 11:29 am: | |
Ah the Great Mauser Meltdown of 2007. It's all fun and games until someone finds him in his basement, dangling from an electrical cord. If and when that happens don't blame fudge, blame Mauser's "friends" (many of whom post on DY) for turning a blind eye to their friend's disease. And nothing in this post in meant to be glib or sarcastic in anyway. |
Goat
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Username: Goat
Post Number: 9809
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 12:24 pm: | |
Again, can't we all get along? Why all of the sniping? Is it really worth it?
I read a few weeks back about some guy driving 1400 miles to burn a person's house or car (I can't remember which) because of things said in a chat room. I guess the victim consistently attacked the accused and he lost it.
Is someone getting hurt worth the "fun" and aggravation?
To make fun of elected officials and the boobs who run our lives is one thing but the constant attacks against regular folks for the smallest things could, as has recently happened, drive someone to cause harm. I hope it doesn't come to that but in this stressful age, you never know. |
Spaceboykelly
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Username: Spaceboykelly
Post Number: 252
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 12:31 pm: | |
I've had several encounters with out-of-towners and suburbanites asking for or looking as if they need help.
I've directed people to Greektown, the Ren Cen, and if someone is into architecture and have enough time I try to recommend they visit the Guardian or Fisher buildings.
Also, there have been times when I've been asked about clubs and shared a taxi in order to point out a good spot [since it was on my way home anyway] and I walked around a bit with a stranger from London who ended up here while "couch surfing" in Windsor. |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 10179
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 12:39 pm: | |
My favorite latest?
I went down to Eph's a few months ago when I was having trouble with my internet connection...to use their wifi and get e-mail.
They were closed early, so I sat on the sidewalk and opened my laptop.
Started grooving on it when I noticed seven people walking up Woodward...and one adorable blond woman in the middle looked down at me and asked, "what are YOU doing?"
Said I was scamming my friend's internet connection while they were closed...but what are YOU doing?
"Looking for a loft, I want to move down here from Flint"
So we spent a couple hours that day wandering around, getting her familiar with the downtown and the Riverwalk.
Went loft shopping over a month...probably a half-dozen times, and she is now a resident of the city! (and a new artist friend) |
Johnlodge
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Username: Johnlodge
Post Number: 2428
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 12:40 pm: | |
"So we spent a couple hours that day wandering around, getting her familiar with the downtown and the Riverwalk."
Did you get her familiar with anything else, Gannon? Eh? Wink wink, nudge nudge? |
Detroitrulez
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Username: Detroitrulez
Post Number: 383
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 12:51 pm: | |
no doubt dude....maybe some couch-surfing-for-two action.....
I hope you weren't still downloading porn when she walked up. |
Susanarosa
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Username: Susanarosa
Post Number: 1674
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 12:59 pm: | |
quote:I read a few weeks back about some guy driving 1400 miles to burn a person's house or car (I can't remember which) because of things said in a chat room. I guess the victim consistently attacked the accused and he lost it.
Is someone getting hurt worth the "fun" and aggravation?
To make fun of elected officials and the boobs who run our lives is one thing but the constant attacks against regular folks for the smallest things could, as has recently happened, drive someone to cause harm. I hope it doesn't come to that but in this stressful age, you never know.
Gee, thanks for giving him the idea.
Goat probably things that Dylan and Klebold had every right to hunt down and murder the kids that picked on them, too. |
Michigan
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Username: Michigan
Post Number: 1175
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 1:14 pm: | |
I guess they just got his goat... |
Jelk
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Username: Jelk
Post Number: 4594
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Friday, September 14, 2007 - 1:15 pm: | |
quote:Goat probably things that Dylan and Klebold had every right to hunt down and murder the kids that picked on them, too.
They were misunderstood prophets. Just like Rick from Degrassi:TNG (if Lurker is still out there). |