I worked in Pioneer Square for a few years but hadn't spent much time there for a while, and I guess rarely on weekends. I got used to ignoring the drunks and homeless around our office, and escorting female coworkers to their cars. Definitely a rough part of town but I never felt particularly threatened, and that was pre-CPL.

Saturday around 6pm I was returning from the range via the Bremerton ferry which now drops you into Yesler, then I turned right onto 2nd Ave. to get to the freeway.

2nd Ave was like a scene from a George Romero zombie film. There must have been 100 plus homeless and street people milling around the sidewalks in that area, including some freaky guy in a mask dancing in the middle of the street and several people stumbling across against the red light. One tweaked looking guy bangs on my window asking for money, scaring the h*ll out of me while I'm waiting to turn, and suddenly there are three homeless guys around my car arguing about something and I can't move without hitting them. Finally they moved, but it was pretty freaky, even with a car full of guns and ammo.

WTF is going on down there on Saturday nights?

And what color MRAP should I rent for my next visit to downtown Seattle?

For Seattle may I suggest a pink camo motif?

Welcome to the    "YES WE CAN"     America where    "HOPE AND CHANGE"
can be seen all over the streets of this once great nation......................

I drove by that place accidentally the other day and had similar impression.    It's like the humans' rejects conglomerate over there.  

If that's the progressive-liberals' ideal world I'm definitely out.    

Kinda like spending more than an hour in any casino...

My wife and I went to the comedy underground last month to catch a show.  I was blown away by the amount of dope, homeless, shit heads and freaks that wander that area.  My wife actually said it looked like a scene out of the walking dead.

Sounds like some of you guys have lead some fairly sheltered lives.

Well...  I have to say that I avoid Seattle like the plague.  

This, so much this.

For a country boy, it's an amazingly good place to not go.

A) I had a job interview down on 2nd (this was during the middle of the afternoon), and I was like holy shit, I hope if I get this job they allow me to carry, especially if I would have worked an off shift.  

B)Wanna see the real dregs of humanity, stop by westlake, that's another place I really don't like going.

The City of Seattle, in their progressive wisdom, wants to encourage more families to visit Westlake and Occidental parks. No, this is not a joke.



http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2023996106_parksactivationxml.html

The comments on that article are priceless.

Those comments are priceless.  Though to be honest, I can see their point in trying to get families to go there, however the people will go somewhere else.