Things you've seen in Detroit that make you go "ewwwww".

**Jimaz** · May-03-09, 10:59 PM

Oh, Lord. Could this possibly become a Hall Of Fame thread?! The horrors!

**East Detroit** · May-03-09, 11:27 PM

Suburbanites throwing their trash out the window on I-94.

**Chub** · May-04-09, 12:18 AM

The Taco Bell on Fort St.

**reddog289** · May-04-09, 01:28 AM

Smelled things, But hey you always see things in Detroit.

**RickBeall** · May-04-09, 01:35 AM

Eight years ago, the McDonalds in Hamtramck on Joseph Campau had dozens of big rat holes in the bushes. The rats were so brazen they would be swarming the dumpster during the day.

**grumpyoldlady** · May-04-09, 02:47 AM

Andylinn.....the visual I conjured up in my mind of that whole incident has me still laughing. The fact that she ended up wearing some of it isn't funny, but the rest it hilarious...I can just see the looks she got driving to work, lol.

**grumpyoldlady** · May-04-09, 02:50 AM

I almost forgot about the day I was driving down Gratiot on the way to work, and there was a DOT bus driving beside me. A guy opened the window and proceded to vomit down the side of the bus. I made sure I got ahead of that bus real quick.

LodgeDodger · May-04-09, 12:00 PM

Originally Posted by grumpyoldlady

Andylinn.....the visual I conjured up in my mind of that whole incident has me still laughing. The fact that she ended up wearing some of it isn't funny, but the rest it hilarious...I can just see the looks she got driving to work, lol.

I can imagine her driving to work, her eyes fixed on the offending condom on her hood. I laughed out loud, too.

**wolverine** · May-04-09, 02:53 AM

I remember walking down grand river between Woodward and Griswald on a cold November day and smelling the most vile stale piss smell ever to the senses. I thought I had smelled the worst of alleys, but this was something else. Just imagine what it would had been like if the temperature were warmer. A couple people walking by started coughing and gagging, and it lingered in the air for about a one block radius.

**raptor56** · May-04-09, 05:33 AM

I was walking down Brush from GreekTown to Jacoby's a couple summers ago. Upon walking by the alley between Jacoby's and the parking lot nextdoor, I saw some guy walk into Jacoby alley from some side alley. He put his backpack down next to a telephone pole and disappeared behind a dumpster. As he was placing his backpack, two "ladies of the night," who were very much dressed for the part, followed him behind the dumpster. I can only imagine what was going on behind that dumpster, that mid afternoon.

**rajdet** · May-04-09, 05:34 AM

I was in a party store on Michigan Ave a few years ago when a woman who I assume was both a prostitute and a heroin addict walked in. Her hands were swollen to the point that they looked like boxers mitts and had open sores.

**dtowncitylover** · May-04-09, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by RickBeall

Eight years ago, the McDonalds in Hamtramck on Joseph Campau had dozens of big rat holes in the bushes. The rats were so brazen they would be swarming the dumpster during the day.

AMEN! I remember seeing some too at that exact same location! They were big and would carry McDo bags through their hole. I'm not sure why we decided to eat there after seeing that.

Also the entrance ramp from the northbound Chrysler onto the westbound Davison was filled with garbage. Then I drove on it a couple Thursdays ago and it was clean...

**Dustin89** · March-14-10, 12:39 AM

Originally Posted by RickBeall

Eight years ago, the McDonalds in Hamtramck on Joseph Campau had dozens of big rat holes in the bushes. The rats were so brazen they would be swarming the dumpster during the day.

I was once walking to Lafayette Coney for lunch from Cobo Hall, where I was covering an event, and a rat trotted through the crosswalk near me dragging an empty McDonald's bag...

**HazenPingree** · May-04-09, 01:34 AM

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caution: these ones are a little dirtier, but i've cleaned them up for the kids
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Well, I was riding my bike down Cass, and happened to look toward Cass park, and saw a guy standing out in the open, MID AFTERNOON, with his pants down, and let's just keep it clean for the kids, and say he was paying for female services you might normally find at Cass and Temple.

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That was what *I* saw... Now, for someone else: A friend of mine who lives in Capital Park went to her car a few winters ago, and noticed what I will refer to here as a "soiled rubber" on the hood of her vehicle. Afraid to touch it, she batted at it a few times with her snow brush, but it was stuck... VERY stuck... over night, it had frozen to her hood.

So, off she drove to work [[I used to also work with her), the item flapping around in the wind - still stuck. She had incorrectly assumed it would come off while driving, but no.

Upon arriving at work, she saw our boss approaching, so, in a moment of embarrassment, she made her glove take one for the team, and pulled it off... and it splattered all over her. I still remember her running through the workplace screaming in an effort to cleanse herself in the bathroom...

detmich · May-04-09, 08:48 AM

Originally Posted by andylinn

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caution: these ones are a little dirtier, but i've cleaned them up for the kids
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Well, I was riding my bike down Cass, and happened to look toward Cass park, and saw a guy standing out in the open, MID AFTERNOON, with his pants down, and let's just keep it clean for the kids, and say he was paying for female services you might normally find at Cass and Temple.

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That was what *I* saw... Now, for someone else: A friend of mine who lives in Capital Park went to her car a few winters ago, and noticed what I will refer to here as a "soiled rubber" on the hood of her vehicle. Afraid to touch it, she batted at it a few times with her snow brush, but it was stuck... VERY stuck... over night, it had frozen to her hood.

So, off she drove to work [[I used to also work with her), the item flapping around in the wind - still stuck. She had incorrectly assumed it would come off while driving, but no.

Upon arriving at work, she saw our boss approaching, so, in a moment of embarrassment, she made her glove take one for the team, and pulled it off... and it splattered all over her. I still remember her running through the workplace screaming in an effort to cleanse herself in the bathroom...

Wait, if it was frozen to her hood, then how did it turn to liquid and splatter when sh picked it off?

**gnome** · May-04-09, 09:06 AM

Detmich, I imagin that the heat from the engine warmed the hood just enough to loosen the afore described item.

There's nothing quite so unattractive as a floater after turtles have dined. But maybe that's just me.

**jcole** · May-04-09, 09:17 AM

This was years ago, back when they still had the ethnic festivals at Hart Plaza. Went down one Sunday morning just as the vendors were setting up, before the garbage cans had been emptied, and an elderly woman was going from can to can carfully picking chicken bones out and putting them in a bag to take home.
I almost cried. I did give her ten dollars.

**silverbeauty** · May-05-09, 11:15 AM

Originally Posted by andylinn

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A friend of mine who lives in Capital Park went to her car a few winters ago, and noticed what I will refer to here as a "soiled rubber" on the hood of her vehicle. Afraid to touch it, she batted at it a few times with her snow brush, but it was stuck... VERY stuck... over night, it had frozen to her hood.

So, off she drove to work [[I used to also work with her), the item flapping around in the wind - still stuck. She had incorrectly assumed it would come off while driving, but no.

Upon arriving at work, she saw our boss approaching, so, in a moment of embarrassment, she made her glove take one for the team, and pulled it off... and it splattered all over her. I still remember her running through the workplace screaming in an effort to cleanse herself in the bathroom...

LOLOLOL

**aoife** · May-04-09, 06:30 AM

Originally Posted by East Detroit

Suburbanites throwing their trash out the window on I-94.

I have one better- I was actually driving home on I-94 and a lovely young man hurled a full garbage bag of trash off the overpass and it landed right on my windshield and splattered. It was pretty amazing- first that I did not biff it and second that he was able to thow the bag from the unfenced corner and have it go that far out on the highway.

The grossest thing I have seen was more along the traditional lines of public urination. There is a fellow who used to park his wheelchair right outside of the [[locked) glass side doors of the building where I work. Every morning there would be a huge stain under him, but we always assumed he spilled his drink or something. We assumed this because there would be a stain even after the liquid had dried. I was walking down the hall one day and looked through the glass walls and saw that he was really just going to the bathroom in the same spot each day. Which in itself is not that bad- but the stuff would leak under the door and into a public exhibition gallery. It was pretty nasty.

**epiphany** · May-04-09, 07:36 AM

There are bus stop enclosures that are way dirtier than that one that was at woodward and warren. If you wait for the bus at around warren and southfield in the winter you will see a bus enclosure there that has a floor of frozen piss. Its so disgusting. There is so much piss and trash on the ground that it literally freezes into a yellow sheet during winter and there is all kinds of trash that gets frozen inside of the sheet of ice too... right now the walls are black with who knows what and the smell is the worst of all bus stops I have ever been in.

**izzyindetroit** · May-04-09, 07:56 AM

The Detroit Lions.

**GREENTROIT** · May-04-09, 08:22 AM

Izzy wins.

**rajdet** · May-04-09, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by izzyindetroit

The Detroit Lions.

Indeed Izzy wins hands down!

**bike4beer** · May-04-09, 09:21 AM

A guy having anal urination on the side walk next to the party store at Cass and 75. I was on my way to Lafayette Coney Island at the time.

**exmotowner** · March-11-10, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by East Detroit

Suburbanites throwing their trash out the window on I-94.

How the hell do you know it was Surbanites? It could have been anyone. Of course someone in the city is going to blame the suburbs.Thats what they have been doing for years! When are you guys going to quit this shit and try to accept each other. One does not survive without the other. Detroit is evidence of that.