SanliHearts Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Living in the deepest, darkest corner of Leith, I'd sometimes be a bit wary walking back home from a night out or just walking at night in general. Not so much anymore as now know where to avoid etc. Coming back from a derby always gets me on my toes aswell. Is there certain places you don't feel safe walking about or just don't walk about at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BoJack Horseman Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Pilrig Park at 6am. Cargo at the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogsy Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Will be taking more care coming home from Easter Road after getting sucker punched while going into my pocket to give someone a fag last season . I try to make sure I stay away from any 'dodgy' areas as much as possible, last place that freaked me out a bit was Lochend/Restalrig area. Full of wee pricks trying to make a name for themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosanostra Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Drove through Juarez once. Absolute shithole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanliHearts Posted July 30, 2012 Author Share Posted July 30, 2012 As scary as it is, I cannot ******* wait for the next time I walk down there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeylandJambo Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 In bed with the Mrs. She scares the shit out of me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Tolbooth Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I stayed in Kings Cross on a business trip a few years back, and that place at night is like gang central, kids as young as 10 (or they looked it) hanging about until 2am in large groups, it was quite unnerving walking past them, even on the opposite side of the road as it was clear that I wasn't from there (I wasn't out at 2am I have to add, it was around 11pm when I got in from the local boozer, which was rough too) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Seeger Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I don't think I've ever felt unsafe in Edinburgh. I worked in a scheme just off Maryhill road for a short time and the local chavs were reasonably intimidating when they tried to tan our vans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJambo Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I stayed in Kings Cross on a business trip a few years back, and that place at night is like gang central, kids as young as 10 (or they looked it) hanging about until 2am in large groups, it was quite unnerving walking past them, even on the opposite side of the road as it was clear that I wasn't from there (I wasn't out at 2am I have to add, it was around 11pm when I got in from the local boozer, which was rough too) My wife used to live in Camden and her (female)friend used to get chased down the street by gangs with baseball bats. Just because she was Chinese. Oddly, I don't tend to feel freaked out in the streets of East London. Last place I felt properly unnerved was in the centre of Cape Town in the middle of an afternoon. Empty streets, other than the beggars that won't leave you alone and the security guards(not police) on every street corner with big guns. You can't blend in in Cape Town. My watch went in my pocket with my wedding ring As soon as we'd seen the Bo-Kaap and had a quick bite to eat we were on our way back to Camps Bay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jezza Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Muirhouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougieHMFC Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Pennywell shopping centre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoJack Horseman Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I stayed in Kings Cross on a business trip a few years back, and that place at night is like gang central, kids as young as 10 (or they looked it) hanging about until 2am in large groups, it was quite unnerving walking past them, even on the opposite side of the road as it was clear that I wasn't from there (I wasn't out at 2am I have to add, it was around 11pm when I got in from the local boozer, which was rough too) Is that the only time you've been in London, John? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shapes Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Is that the only time you've been in London, John? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Loblaw Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Pennywell shopping centre Ya big girls blouse. Most of the folk hanging about are too out of it to hurt you anyway. Plus, it's worth taking some risks for a trip to El Mexicanos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Old Tolbooth Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Is that the only time you've been in London, John? Been there plenty times mate, only fled the once though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N User Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Nowhere in Edinburgh but having lived in Leith, I was always anxious when the missus was coming home from a night out. Places like The Kirkgate and the Muirhouse centre can seem daunting but the neds and junkies normally stick to themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigieboy Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I walked home at new year from wester hailes cause my mate messed up ordering the taxi. Pretty scary likes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsychocAndy Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Ya big girls blouse. Most of the folk hanging about are too out of it to hurt you anyway. Plus, it's worth taking some risks for a trip to El Mexicanos. That still there? I was out last week with for a pint with my brother and his mate, and his step dad used to own, and or, manage that place in the 70's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fort Vallance Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Haven't been near for years but the underpass at Sighthill was a bit scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 The bridge of doom always makes me feel slightly uneasy too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desmondo Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Stayed in London yonks ago,thought of this tune on many occasion's, usually on my way home from a night out, spot on IMO Walking the length of Livi when I canny get a taxi has its moments to say the least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Muirhouse. Pennywell shopping centre Nah - used to stay in Muirhoose (West Pilton Green) there is a few Jambos staying there. Try walking into the Willie Muir (Pat Shantons pub) or Dookit (on Ferry Road) with your Hearts scarf on - mind you though anyone who does that will need to post the outcome in the Stupidity thread Edit: forgot to add the Gunner (on Pennywell Road) to my unsafe pubs list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoJack Horseman Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Nah - used to stay in Muirhoose (West Pilton Green) there is a few Jambos staying there. Try walking into the Willie Muir (Pat Shantons pub) or Dookit (on Ferry Road) with your Hearts scarf on - mind you though anyone who does that will need to post the outcome in the Stupidity thread Edit: forgot to add the Gunner (on Pennywell Road) to my unsafe pubs list. Pretty sure a hearts bus used to run from the Dookit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougieHMFC Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Pretty sure a hearts bus used to run from the Dookit? I get that bus every now and then. Never said any trouble going for a pint with my scarf on before bus leaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ribble Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Nowhere in Edinburgh but having lived in Leith, I was always anxious when the missus was coming home from a night out. To be honest I actually feel safer walking home after a night out than I do during the day in leith! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debut 4 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 When I used to go for a slurp in the Dell Inn/Tickled Trout many moons ago, I was my own worst enemy by just having to sink that one more pint!.....I'd often miss the last bus back to the Calder Terminus at weekends and sometimes jump on the last bus to Wester Hailes Centre if there were nae taxis....... funnily, it was a Sunday night that was more unnerving......the streets were empty, there was usually a gale blowing , and walking (or nashing!) down from Wester Hailes Centre and through the Calders was a Non contact run the gauntlet! I twitched at every sound....yer mind plays havoc....haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.J Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 The Vatican. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gizmo Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 When I used to go for a slurp in the Dell Inn/Tickled Trout many moons ago, I was my own worst enemy by just having to sink that one more pint!.....I'd often miss the last bus back to the Calder Terminus at weekends and sometimes jump on the last bus to Wester Hailes Centre if there were nae taxis....... funnily, it was a Sunday night that was more unnerving......the streets were empty, there was usually a gale blowing , and walking (or nashing!) down from Wester Hailes Centre and through the Calders was a Non contact run the gauntlet! I twitched at every sound....yer mind plays havoc....haha. The Calders is weird now. I grew up there and it was always busy with folk out, or kids playing. Had to pass through it recently and it's like a ghost town. Broomhouse still seems dodgy, dunno if the flats being brought down has helped. It was certainly rough as feck when I lived out at the Calders in the 70s. I saw some locus scene photographs of a murder that happened in one of the roundabout underpasses in the late 90s if memory serves - poor auld bloke got a kicking from some yobs, and one of the feral wee *******s then picked up a concrete slab and smashed him over the face and head with it, whilst he was lying knocked down, face up. Not the worst murder locus photographs I ever saw in defence files mind, the ones from the Parkhead fire-axe murder in Glasgow were brutal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Payton Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I walked home at new year from wester hailes cause my mate messed up ordering the taxi. Pretty scary likes. Just saw this What Craig means to say is after his mate kindly called a taxi for him (The chances of the taxi-operator understanding that mumbling drunken arsehole of a man were very slim), Craig stumbled down the stairs to find a taxi waiting for him. What Craig probably didn't tell his wife was that, due to the effect of the beer goggles which he normally acquires after 2 or more pints and had on at the time, he spotted Big Bertha coming out her pals place and thought he'd "share the cab" with her. BB wasn't up for that and left him standing, with a walk back to Longstone ahead of him. The 15 minute walk probably took him days, the state he was in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locky Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 When I first started going the see the bursd in Niddrie I felt uneasy all the time. Especially because I used to walk about mostly when it was very late. Been here that long now though I don't mind it. Still a holocaust of a place though. Hate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Pretty sure a hearts bus used to run from the Dookit? Yeah? Cool. Thought it was a hibby hang out - only been in the once and some of the looks I got were just too evil to be from Jambos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paolo Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 I had a mate who was jumped in Albert Street. Never liked the place since and we are talking about nearly 18 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dean Winchester Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Been there plenty times mate, only fled the once though See some nice luxury cars though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bighusref Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 When I went to America with my mate years ago, we wanted to go to a firing range to shoot a gun. We thought we'd found one in LA and got a taxi there. Taxi drivers English wasn't great, so when we were trying to ask him for directions to one place, we toiled to get our request across. So, we ended up getting dropped off at a pretty rough area where folk were selling stuff on the kerb in some sort of kerbside market. We were the only white guys in the area and looked like tourists, my mate Col looks like a German tourist most of the time, FFS! So, instantly feeling out of place, we went looking for the next taxi possible to get us out of there. Never did get to shoot a gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Pretty sure a hearts bus used to run from the Dookit? Mid you its been that long could be getting mixed up with the Ferry Boat on Ferry Road iirc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanliHearts Posted July 30, 2012 Author Share Posted July 30, 2012 When I first started going the see the bursd in Niddrie I felt uneasy all the time. Especially because I used to walk about mostly when it was very late. Been here that long now though I don't mind it. Still a holocaust of a place though. Hate it. Quite the same for me. My missus lived in Magdalene and the first few times I went to visit I was threatened... Ended up living there 3 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locky Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Quite the same for me. My missus lived in Magdalene and the first few times I went to visit I was threatened... Ended up living there 3 years Magdalene is a bit of a dodgy place sometimes like. I always thought it sounded quite posh, until I went through it on a Saturday night... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanliHearts Posted July 30, 2012 Author Share Posted July 30, 2012 Magdalene is a bit of a dodgy place sometimes like. I always thought it sounded quite posh, until I went through it on a Saturday night... There's nice parts but mainly its an absolute hovel Couldn't beat the view out my window though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bighusref Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Pretty sure a hearts bus used to run from the Dookit? Just saw this. They did, I went on their bus a few times about '94ish. As I recall I went to a cup tie at McDiarmid Park with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigieboy Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Just saw this What Craig means to say is after his mate kindly called a taxi for him (The chances of the taxi-operator understanding that mumbling drunken arsehole of a man were very slim), Craig stumbled down the stairs to find a taxi waiting for him. What Craig probably didn't tell his wife was that, due to the effect of the beer goggles which he normally acquires after 2 or more pints and had on at the time, he spotted Big Bertha coming out her pals place and thought he'd "share the cab" with her. BB wasn't up for that and left him standing, with a walk back to Longstone ahead of him. The 15 minute walk probably took him days, the state he was in... Bertha actually climbed in my cab before I could do anything about it due to your procrastination over the taxi call. Was ****in freezin anaw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locky Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 There's nice parts but mainly its an absolute hovel Couldn't beat the view out my window though Haha, aye it fits in well with this side of the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Gordons Gloves Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Dundee. When i was at uni there, some wee ******* pulled a samurai sword on me when i was staggering home, not alone i may add, but with 3 mates. All 4 of us kind of froze as this sword was waved close to my head. Fortunately, the wee shite was obviously as scared as us and nothing much happened. I worked an old mans boozer there for a year while in my last year and some of the stuff that i saw out in the street didn't make my walk home to my flat that great. Funnily enough, only time i've had a doing has been in Edinburgh, just off Dalkeith Rd. Although some **** tried to slash my face with a ripped can of irn bru in Glasgow, fortunately he hit my specs and i only got a scratch. Walked about NYC many a time and never felt safer, including the subway at 3am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinnybob72 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 There's nice parts but mainly its an absolute hovel Couldn't beat the view out my window though Surely that's a pic from East Berlin, circa 1960's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Cheever Loophole Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 There's nice parts but mainly its an absolute hovel Couldn't beat the view out my window though You can tell the upper flats with Grass plants in their loft due to the lack of snow on the roofs.Just saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swanny17 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Being stuck on the wrong Underground train (Express) going into Harlem was pretty scary - especially when we were the only white folks in our carriage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real Maroonblood Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 The Vatican. The Lounge or The Bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Phamism Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Spent time in most major US cities and have walked the streets late at night without any problems. However, once in Baltimore, I was walking back from Fells Point area to the city centre and got little lost. Ended up on the mean streets of an area which was straight out of 'The Wire' Got a little freaked and jumped on bus that took me back towards Fells Point. I got off at a Hampton Inn and got the reception to call me a cab. The boy on the desk said I was lucky not have been " messed over". I had to sink a few large ones when I got back to base to calm my nerves. Hasn't put me off from wandering and exploring whenever I get the chance though. HP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stirlo Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 The centre of Naples at night. I've been there a few times and there is an eery silence about the place when darkness falls that you don't really experience in any other major Italian city. To be fair its a city where you have to keep your wits about you at all hours though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronJambo Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Spent time in most major US cities and have walked the streets late at night without any problems. However, once in Baltimore, I was walking back from Fells Point area to the city centre and got little lost. Ended up on the mean streets of an area which was straight out of 'The Wire' Got a little freaked and jumped on bus that took me back towards Fells Point. I got off at a Hampton Inn and got the reception to call me a cab. The boy on the desk said I was lucky not have been " messed over". I had to sink a few large ones when I got back to base to calm my nerves. Hasn't put me off from wandering and exploring whenever I get the chance though. HP I love exploring off the "tourist trail" when I'm away but it can be so easy to end up in the wrong place. We walked about 25 blocks east of the french quarter in New Orleans (was mid afternoon) and couldn't find the bar we were looking for. We stumbled into a sports for a beer and the barman and locals were really taken aback that two tourists had made it out there On their advice we headed back before dark after our 2nd beer. The reckoned if we'd walked 5 more blocks we'd have had a pretty real chance of getting shot. For what it's worth, these guys watch EPL and SPL on satellite so if anyones ever stuck there for a big match I'm sure I could remember the name of the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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