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7/10/2009 9:36:09 AM

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"It's funny, because people say that Durham isn't really as bad as everyone says it is, and then stuff like this happens. It either generally is or isn't that bad, and it sounds like it really is that bad."

Just depends on the area. I bought a place in a nice subdivision two years ago and no problems thus far.

7/10/2009 9:40:26 AM

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"aha you'd have to be a real dumbass to install that in your car."

One of my friends at the car wash I worked at in high school was smart enough to try out the pepper spray attached to a customer's keychain after cleaning the inside of her car. She hopped in, shut the door, cranked the car, and then jumped out screaming obscenities.

7/10/2009 9:40:32 AM

move to raleigh

houses never get broken into here

7/10/2009 9:43:32 AM

Yeah, you just get motherfuckers mugging you outside the car wash and Subway in the open-ass daylight. :/

7/10/2009 9:45:48 AM

shit i could have told you that area was going to shit a long time ago...

some of my co-workers live on alston ave, north of the freeway quite ghetto actually, and have never been yet broken into.

sounds like some 'quality representatives of a particular minority' cased your place.



my parents have lived in durham for 22-23 years and have never had any problems. the only issue in the neighborhood was someone getting something stolen out of their garage while they were gone, the dumbfucks left the garage door wide open the whole week too...

7/10/2009 9:48:35 AM

^^

hmm.. I had break-in problems in raleigh, but not in durham.

it all depends on where you live. Durham just has more intertwining of bad/good areas. In raleigh, all the riff-raff are contained in specific areas.

7/10/2009 9:52:36 AM

damn. the spiders didn't scare them away?

7/10/2009 9:52:42 AM

ok there have been what, 2 break in's in durham that tww people have been victims of yet at least a half dozen 'events' from burglary to out and out muggings in Raleigh....

7/10/2009 9:53:01 AM

What was your incentive for moving into a shitty part of Durham? I guess I'm just confused as to how or why you'd ever volunteer to move to a shitty location if you're making money and stuff.

I mean, I lived in Durham throughout my childhood and I never had a problem. My parent still lives there. It's not a bad place at all, but like everywhere, if you move into the shittier parts of town you can expect to have more crime.

7/10/2009 9:53:08 AM

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"^^^ I used to love to see those ads for carjack prevention devices in South Africa. One where the driver could press a button and a machete would swing out from under the car fast as hell and cut the jacker's feet off. Another was a flame thrower that came out from under the car. Another was a driver's seat with 6 shotgun shells in it facing up and that the driver would press a button as they exited the car and the next person to sit on the seat would get blasted in the ass..."

that's awesome

7/10/2009 9:54:41 AM

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"hmm.. I had break-in problems in raleigh, but not in durham."

sarcasm, do you read it?

7/10/2009 9:55:34 AM

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"confused as to how or why you'd ever volunteer to move to a shitty location if you're making money and stuff."

housing is ridiculously cheap in those areas. but you really have to do your homework on the area in general, looking at crime rates and such of surrounding areas as well...

that said ever since southpoint got built and southsquare got torn down the gangs have moved north near northgate and such.

i still think the best way to deal with gangs is eradication.

7/10/2009 9:55:43 AM

My brother lived in Durham for about 3 years and never had any issues either. I live in Cary, so I'm pretty much sheltered when it comes to crime, lol.

7/10/2009 10:01:22 AM

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"I'd love to unload some rock salt into the face of an assailant."

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"Well, depends on if they're breathing. And if they happened to be holding a deadly weapon at the time of discharge."

I'm sorry man, but that rock salt bullshit is completely pointless, especially when you consider that even birdshot has been proven to have relatively marginal stopping power. Yes, it produces gruesome, HORRIFIC flesh wounds at very close range (Rock salt will not do this), but it cannot reliably reach vitals and the wounding effect dramatically drops off with increased range. So, unless you hit them at extremely close range in the neck and inner thighs with that birdshot they are probably going to live and it may not stop them at all, especially if they are someone who can essentially only be stopped via incapacitation for whatever reason (These people do, in fact, exist).

I wouldn't even consider the possibility of a rock salt load being lethal or even particularly effective at wounding unless you just get lucky and hurt them with the concussive effect of the shotgun blast or something ridiculous like that. Rock salt is beyond pointless for self defense.

The biggest reason I find it to be pointless is that you will not be treated "lightly" for shooting someone with rock salt. You will be charged as if you had shot them with buckshot or any other "real" load. A shotgun is still considered a lethal weapon even with "LTL" loads and you will be charged accordingly.

If you shoot someone in NC, you'd better be justified in killing them if you don't want to go to jail, and in that case why in the fuck would you want to have a gun full of rock salt?! If you're justified in killing them, that means your life is in imminent danger and you need real ammunition. Fuck some rock salt son.

7/10/2009 10:03:05 AM

hahaha i read that whole thing and was nearing the end and wondering why there was no "son" and then you threw it in at the very end.

nice, son

7/10/2009 10:04:59 AM

7/10/2009 10:05:31 AM

I was waiting for the son, and just when you think he wasn't going to say it...

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"Fuck some rock salt son."

7/10/2009 10:06:26 AM

the only part of durham i would ever consider living in is the part over by brier creek.

its not really in durham but has a durham address

7/10/2009 10:46:38 AM

Well, in which case, triple ault buck or slug, then. Of course, rock salt ain't lethal. But it sure as fuck hurts. And if it incapacitates them long enough to weigh them down with a couple of car batteries...etc, etc.

7/10/2009 10:51:38 AM

all he was saying is that if it's legal to shoot them with rock salt, it's legal to shoot them with any type of load

so you might as well make it where he can't talk

7/10/2009 10:55:32 AM

aught

7/10/2009 10:55:41 AM

actually, he should've typed "000 buckshot"

[Edited on July 10, 2009 at 10:56 AM. Reason : actually, i think it's 190% buckshot]

7/10/2009 10:56:03 AM

I'm pretty sure I saw this documentary, Kill Bill, that showed how using a shotgun full of rock salt was, scientifically speaking, the baddest-ass way to defend one's self.

7/10/2009 11:07:59 AM

Sorry to hear about your break in. We lived in Colonial Village down from Duke University and didnt ever have any issues, granted we were in an upscale apt/townhouse community and we always felt safe...but like all areas including Cary...each city has the flaws.


-hope the cops get back all of your stuff in one piece!

7/10/2009 11:32:07 AM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1365483/

7/10/2009 11:36:51 AM

That really sucks. You may have seen this before but you can use the Durham Crime Map to check out how bad an area is. The North Roxboro/East Club area shows about 50 burglaries in the past 11 months. Looks like a typical Durham area.

http://www.durhampolice.com/crimemapper.cfm

7/10/2009 11:41:24 AM

7/10/2009 12:16:13 PM

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahaa

7/10/2009 12:16:45 PM

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"its not really in durham but has a durham address"

Don't most of the places there have Raleigh addresses?

7/10/2009 1:21:16 PM

^^^ holy shit hahaha

7/10/2009 1:28:02 PM

bump

8/14/2010 8:35:41 AM

i know this thread is about getting robbed, but i have never been robbed

8/14/2010 8:40:42 AM

i was walking home yesterday and a guy in a mask jumped out of the bushes, pointed a gun at me and demanded $5

8/14/2010 8:52:37 AM

Lived in durham for 17 years. Never got robbed never knew anybody who got robbed. Move out the projex

Roommates car got robbed freshman year on campus and last year living off campus in a pretty nice area

I'm astraladvent and I approved this message.

8/14/2010 9:10:26 AM

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"If you shoot someone in NC, you'd better be justified in killing them if you don't want to go to jail, and in that case why in the fuck would you want to have a gun full of rock salt?! If you're justified in killing them, that means your life is in imminent danger and you need real ammunition. "

Exactly.

0 buck (or #1) for in-home defense.

8/14/2010 9:54:57 AM

or just shotgun slugs, put a hole in them you can stick your arm through

8/14/2010 11:45:47 AM

Arab13 is a racist

8/14/2010 12:12:56 PM

a sabot slug would probably travel all the way through an intruder and still be lethal to anyone behind them. If you managed to miss the intruder, that slug might travel through the wall of your house, your neighbors house, and still be lethal. If you miss with buckshot, it won't have enough energy to make it much further than through your house wall.

8/14/2010 1:00:53 PM

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"the only part of durham i would ever consider living in is the part over by brier creek. its not really in durham but has a durham address "

a few of us on this site grew up in south durham not too far from where southpoint mall is now. its a nice area, the neighborhood i grew up in was all rtp commuters.

8/14/2010 1:08:15 PM

Video Surveillance System

8/14/2010 1:22:51 PM

Two overnight shootings, one ends in a standoff
June 20, 2010

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=7509114

Teen victim in Durham shootings dies
August 12, 2010

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"DURHAM -- A night of shootings earlier this week claimed the life of a Durham teenager today."

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"Thornton was one of two people killed from overnight shootings Tuesday in the Durham area. A second man, Larry Donnell Timberlake, 52, of East Pointe, Ga., was shot at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of a Red Lobster restaurant and killed."

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/12/626516/teen-victim-in-durham-shootings.html

Three wounded in Durham shooting
Posted: 6:51 a.m. today

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"DURHAM, N.C. — Three people ranging in age from 15 to 30 were shot in Durham early Saturday, and police say they are searching for a suspect."

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/8136390/

I keep hearing how great the place is. But it just seems like every time I turn on the TV, someone's been shot or killed in Durham.

8/14/2010 5:01:43 PM

every time I turn on the news about Mexico, there is another murder or kidnapping taking place. That doesn't mean you can't safely go to Cancun or Puerto Vallarta.

[Edited on August 14, 2010 at 5:47 PM. Reason : I've never heard anyone claim Durham was great though. I've heard "it's not so bad" a few times.]

8/14/2010 5:46:08 PM

I've been to Durham probably 40 or so times

I've never been shot, shot at, or robbed.

I also don't meddle where I oughtn't meddle.

Just like when I go downtown in Raleigh, I'm not venturing too far southeast of Wilmington Street.

8/14/2010 7:04:45 PM

yeah i try to stay away from areas between bloodworth and tarboro rds east of downtown...except for that year when i had to deliver pizzas over there...

8/14/2010 7:09:15 PM

god damn, hooksaw will even cut-paste attack a thread about durham

8/14/2010 8:06:44 PM

was on a job site in durham and someone started shooting about 50 yards away

8/14/2010 8:38:43 PM

(1) don't a dumbass buying a house in the projects of durham and get surprised when your ass gets robbed and your house burglarized. if you can only afford a house in the projects, then you better keep renting until you can afford to buy somewhere else.

(2) and why was this thread bumped from a fucking year ago

8/14/2010 10:17:01 PM

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"pay someone to housesit while yall are gone? give them a gun. pretty sure if invaders come in your dwelling you are allowed to shoot"

only while they're in the act of breaking into your dwelling. Also, as far as the rock salt goes, you'll get your ass handed to you. Unless someone is in imminent danger of being killed/raped/sexually assaulted you basically have no case in NC.

Basically, probably a good idea to move.

8/14/2010 11:00:36 PM

http://www.thewolfweb.com/joke.aspx?joke=229

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"Coach K had put together the perfect Duke team, the only thing he was missing was a good shooting guard. He had scouted all the high schools, even the junior colleges, but he couldn't find a ringer guard who could ensure a NCAA Basketball title. Then one night, while watching CNN, he saw a war-zone scene in Bosnia. In one corner of the background, he spotted a young Bosnian soldier with truly incredible ability. He threw a hand grenade straight into a 15th-story window 200 yards away - ka-boom! He threw another hand grenade into a group of 10 soldiers 100 yards away - ka-blooey! Then a car passed, going 90 mph. Bulls-eye! "I've got to get this guy!", Coach K said to himself. "He has perfect aim and I can train him to shoot baskets!" So, he brings him to the States and teaches him the great game of basketball, and Duke goes on to win the NCAA Basketball Championship. The young Bosnian is lionized as the Great Hero of Basketball, and when Coach K asks him what he wants, all the young man wants to do is to call home and speak with his mother. "Mom," he says into the phone, "I just won the NCAA Basketball championship." "I don't want to talk to you," the old woman says. "You deserted us! You are not my son." "I don't think you understand, Mother!" the young man pleads. "I just won the greatest sporting event in the world. I'm here among thousands of my adoring fans." "No, let me tell you," the mother retorts, "at this very moment, there are gunshots all around us. The neighborhood is a pile of rubble. Your two brothers were beaten within an inch of their lives last week, and this week your sister was raped in broad daylight." The old lady pauses, and then tearfully says, "I'll never forgive you for making us move to Durham.""

8/15/2010 4:34:51 AM