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

**Bodybagging** · March-08-10, 08:56 AM

Ok apparently seeing someone take a crap on the corner isnt as disgusting as I once thought in the corridor, but I will justify the true disgusting nature of this incident, where I looked over on the corner of Martin Luther and Third and seen a very obese woman just hike her skirt and crap, while people walked past, drove past and acted as nothing was happening. What I found the most disgusting aspect of this was the Detroit Police Officer that was stopped at the redlight watching her and laughing until the light turned green, and he drove off.
Now to make matters ever so more disgusting we will fast forward a few years, and I am awakened in the middle of the night 2:30ish to a call that my brothers car would not start outside of Jumbos Bar would I please come get it running so he could get up and go to work,the next morning.... Like a good brother I hopped out of bed and headed to the parking lot to jump his car. while allowing the battery to charge I realized I had to Pee, Being the modest fellow I am I walked clear behind the bar , out of sight of the world,behind a large dumpster and when i walked back around the corner
a Detroit Police Officer was there questioning my brother then proceeded to give me a ticket for disordely conduct although he never seen me do anything wrong...... That sir was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen while in Detroit.

**bdglsmn** · March-08-10, 11:33 AM

The one legged hooker in a wheelchair ,on Fenkell, flashing her boobs as I went by. I actually went around the corner and drove by again because I couldn't believe what I just saw...

**exmotowner** · March-10-10, 02:04 PM

I managed the apartment building right behind Menjos in palmar park and one of my tennants was laying in front of my door with his throat slit ear to ear [[that I had to clean up). That was pretty gross.

**daddeeo** · March-10-10, 10:26 PM

Monica Conyers and Kwame Kilpatrick...ewwwwww.

**Detroitej72** · March-10-10, 11:49 PM

Originally Posted by exmotowner

I managed the apartment building right behind Menjos in palmar park and one of my tennants was laying in front of my door with his throat slit ear to ear [[that I had to clean up). That was pretty gross.

Did he know his killer, as do 80% of the victims?

This was/is a sad fact in many, if not most murder cases.

**mcsdetroitfriend** · March-11-10, 12:12 AM

Originally Posted by Detroitej72

The bathrooms at Harpo's.

Once, lying in the 2 inches of urine and assorted shit, I saw someone passed out on the floor.

the toilets are no better now then they were 20 years ago. It's the worst place ever, the toilet backstage is even worse, i feel for the guy that has to clean that up. It starts off fine then as the night goes on it's a flooded fecal mess!

**REL** · March-11-10, 08:53 AM

This thread makes me go "eewwwwwwwwww"

**ejames01** · March-11-10, 09:53 AM

Was that around 83-84?

Originally Posted by exmotowner

I managed the apartment building right behind Menjos in palmar park and one of my tennants was laying in front of my door with his throat slit ear to ear [[that I had to clean up). That was pretty gross.

**Hermod** · March-11-10, 09:59 AM

Growing up in Detroit in the 1940s, we thought that the purpose for putting the telephone poles in the alleys was to provide urinals for small boys on their way home from school.

**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.

**exmotowner** · March-11-10, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by Detroitej72

Did he know his killer, as do 80% of the victims?

This was/is a sad fact in many, if not most murder cases.

They never found his murder and I dont think they cared to look. He was a black gay man so the cops really could have cared less and acted like it too. I'm pretty sure he went down to the adult movie house on 6 and woodward and picked up a trick and the trick slit his throat when he got into the apartment.

**REL** · March-11-10, 10:28 AM

exmotowner, wait a second...

You are upset that people are making judgements and assumptions about suburbanites, then in your next breath you make assumptions about both cops and gay, black men.

Huh?

**exmotowner** · March-11-10, 12:49 PM

I was talking about the city versus the suburbs and you know it, and No Im not making assumption about the cops. They were very obvious that they could have gave a fuck less. Were you there and did you see the way they acted. No you werent so stop being an ass.

**lizaanne** · March-11-10, 01:39 PM

Originally Posted by Bodybagging

...seen a very obese woman just hike her skirt and crap, ....

So many stories like this - why in the world do you think people get to be like this? Surely this woman was not raised to think this is acceptable behavior.

I live in Hazel Park on a really nice street down from an elementary school. One summer Saturday morning my husband and I were getting ready to have breakfast in our Florida room on the front of the house. Two early teen black boys were walking down the sidewalk in front of the house, one proceeded to pull his business out of his pants and urinate on the sidewalk. I was FURIOUS - and yelled at him through the window. His friend was saying "I told him not to! I told him not to!".

He just put it back and kept on walking, didn't even bat an eye, or look the least bit embarrassed or ashamed.

Where does this mentality come from? I just don't get it.

**redfordman** · March-11-10, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by grumpyoldlady

Try to keep the answers short. Name something you have seen in Detroit that made you go "ewwwwww!!!"

I'll go first.

Guy riding the bus who was picking his nose and then consuming what he had acquired.

Doc backs nose picking
Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor. Innsbruck-based lung specialist Prof Dr Friedrich Bischinger said people who pick their noses with their fingers were healthy, happier and probably better in tune with their bodies.

He says society should adopt a new approach to nose picking and encourage children to take it up.

Dr Bischinger said: â€œWith the finger you can get to places you just canâ€™t reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner. â€œAnd eating the dry remains of what you pull out is a great way of strengthening the bodyâ€™s immune system. â€œMedically it makes great sense and is a perfectly natural thing to do. In terms of the immune system the nose is a filter in which a great deal of bacteria are collected, and when this mixture arrives in the intestines it works just like a medicine. â€œModern medicine is constantly trying to do the same thing through far more complicated methods, people who pick their nose and eat it get a natural boost to their immune system for free.â€ â€”Ananova

Source: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...8-3-2004_pg9_5

**REL** · March-11-10, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by exmotowner

I was talking about the city versus the suburbs and you know it, and No Im not making assumption about the cops. They were very obvious that they could have gave a fuck less. Were you there and did you see the way they acted. No you werent so stop being an ass.

Whoa.... easy, buddy! No, I wasn't there, but you weren't there when people were throwing trash out of their car windows.

No need to name call, Mr. Pouty Pants

Haikoont · March-11-10, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by lizaanne

So many stories like this - why in the world do you think people get to be like this? Surely this woman was not raised to think this is acceptable behavior.

I live in Hazel Park on a really nice street down from an elementary school. One summer Saturday morning my husband and I were getting ready to have breakfast in our Florida room on the front of the house. Two early teen black boys were walking down the sidewalk in front of the house, one proceeded to pull his business out of his pants and urinate on the sidewalk. I was FURIOUS - and yelled at him through the window. His friend was saying "I told him not to! I told him not to!".

He just put it back and kept on walking, didn't even bat an eye, or look the least bit embarrassed or ashamed.

Where does this mentality come from? I just don't get it.

What I don't get is why the race of the boys matter in the story. Was it pivitol to the story, or add context to it?

**RickBeall** · March-11-10, 05:17 PM

Whooooosh! It's the PC police! Look out! In an earlier story there was an obese woman. Whooosh!

It's probably politically incorrect to even mention where these events happened. Whooosh!

Heck, I do not think this is a politically correct thread! Whooosh!

You are all arrested! Including people who just took a peak! Turn around, put your hands on your monitor and spread'em!

**FerndaleDamon** · March-11-10, 07:40 PM

Blksoul, I agree with you!

**lizaanne** · March-12-10, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by Haikoont

What I don't get is why the race of the boys matter in the story. Was it pivitol to the story, or add context to it?

**Django** · March-12-10, 09:59 PM

Originally Posted by Haikoont

What I don't get is why the race of the boys matter in the story. Was it pivitol to the story, or add context to it?

What if it were 'two early teen white boys" and the story took place in Detroit?

What if they were in their early 20s.

Stories are boring without a little description.

I get called white boy all the time on my block but never thought twice about it.

Just sayin.

**mauser** · March-13-10, 07:02 PM

pooh. lots and lots of pooh.

**RickBeall** · March-13-10, 07:19 PM

Two homo sapiens, ... no ... two bi-peds ... no ... two mammals were walking down the street ...no ... two carbon based life forms were walking down the street. ....

It would be good if video cameras had "auto-filters" on them too.

**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...

**RickBeall** · March-14-10, 03:14 AM

In Hamtramck, the bushes in front of McDonalds used to be riddled with rat holes. The rats were so brazen, they would swarm over the dumpster in the day. .... They said the closed the Farmer Jack in Hamtramck because they could not control the rats. We have covered garbage cans now and the rat problem has sunk from public vision.