Posted: 12/30/2010 5:01:23 PM EDT
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I know concealed carry is Just that, but anyone have any issues at this mall We will be in the area tomorrow and the Boss wants to stop by there tomorrow and do some shopping.
just wanted to know about the mall there and all!! |
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do yourself a favor and stay out of that ghetto ridden, goblin infested crack house. i am not sure where you're from but there is a newer outdoor mall about 15 minutes from the old one. most of the major retailers have closed up shop and moved out there.
it is off exit 171 on i-75. -matt |
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Avoid the Macon Mall. Look up River Crossing. New walking mall. Bass Pro is close as to it as well.[/quote] ok that is the deal breaker she can shop and so can I 
didnt relize the macon mall was so bad now many moons ago it was a pretty nice place to go to but that was long long ago. |
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yea its pretty bad. i used to live in macon and i never went there without CC. search macon mall on youtube and you'll be suprised!
You can shop with this fine upstanding citizen |
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yea its pretty bad. i used to live in macon and i never went there without CC. search macon mall on youtube and you'll be suprised!
You can shop with this fine upstanding citizen yep, that video represents the large majority of macon now, every time i visit friends there i just shake my head 
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I will go against the grain here. There were a few high-profile incidents in the past but I personally think they were blown out of proportion. You should be fine if you exercise normal situational awareness and common sense. Quite frankly, I'm on the same level of alert whether I'm at Bass Pro, Riverside Mall, Macon Mall, etc.
I don't have the statistics but I'd bet that mall has a very low rate of crime, especially when compared with the adjacent areas or even the rest of Macon. The mall itself is a decent facility (meaning not run-down) but the selection and number of stores is shrinking. Once Riverside has one or two high-profile incidents, I bet it will follow the same path as Macon Mall. |
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I will go against the grain here. There were a few high-profile incidents in the past but I personally think they were blown out of proportion. You should be fine if you exercise normal situational awareness and common sense. Quite frankly, I'm on the same level of alert whether I'm at Bass Pro, Riverside Mall, Macon Mall, etc. I don't have the statistics but I'd bet that mall has a very low rate of crime, especially when compared with the adjacent areas or even the rest of Macon. The mall itself is a decent facility (meaning not run-down) but the selection and number of stores is shrinking. Once Riverside has one or two high-profile incidents, I bet it will follow the same path as Macon Mall. so i guess the "incident" at Rio Bravo was overblown, raping all the white girls and robbing the place, that place went under and that was the "nicer" side of Macon. everyone and i repeat everyone i went to high school with has left that city. i graduated in 1990 at Central High School, and the north side of Macon was good then, all the apts. along Northside are all section 8 now. your right, you better keep your head on a swivel. i have a couple of friends that moved back do to no fault of their own, when i go visit, it makes me shake my head at a once nice town |
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yea its pretty bad. i used to live in macon and i never went there without CC. search macon mall on youtube and you'll be suprised!
You can shop with this fine upstanding citizen That kid looks like Michael Vick when he was a teenager. |
| Btw. Did I mention I f**king hate that town. The rio bravo incident still makes me sick to my stomach. I'm so glad I live in NE GA now where the complexion is much " lighter" and I know my kids when I have them don't have to be raised around the same sacks of sh*t I had to be raised around. |
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Btw. Did I mention I f**king hate that town. The rio bravo incident still makes me sick to my stomach. I'm so glad I live in NE GA now where the complexion is much " lighter" and I know my kids when I have them don't have to be raised around the same sacks of sh*t I had to be raised around. a friend of mine is related to one of the girls that was raped, that was one of my favorite places to hang out, drink beer and eat chips and salsa. i promise things would have ended up different if one of us was carrying when that went down  
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"The Mall". The only place I go there is Sears and run in there and back out if I need some tools. That department is right inside the outer door. It's been a couple of years since I actually walked down the mall itself. Even then I felt I would have been underarmed with a 870 riot gun. I'm sure it's not improved.
I grew up south of Macon. It was where we went when we went to the "city". Downtown was pretty nice, lots of nice stores, good economy. Saw it turning in the late 70's. The street hoods, juke joints, racial changes, etc. I took my 18 yr old old over for Black Friday to Bass Pro, Academy, Dicks, etc. We decided to head downtown to Arvins. Hadn't been down there in years. Even worked out of the post office building on College St. off and on for several months in the mid-80's. We'd frequent several old restaurants downtown during lunch. Felt comfortable anywhere during the day but got the hell out of town at dark. Now.........WOW! Most every storefront closed. A real dump downtown. They could use the whole area for a set for one of those "what happens after society breaks down movies". At least Arvins still is the same. Best gun shop experience I've had in a while. Didn't buy a thing but sure will keep them in mind for my next Glock. |
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We stuck with river crossing and Bass Pro, I mean Bass pro right up the road from the Mall the wife got to shop and I got to go to bass pro compromise is a wonderful thing.
and she loved the bass pro shop I just wish i could talk her into a trip to springfield Missouri to the Main store that place is the cats meow for sure!! it was beautiful when I was there a few years ago passing through! |
| There is absolutly nothing wrong with the Macon mall. It's no more dangerous than going to lenox. The new mall on riverside is great too, but really no reason to trash the macon mall. I've been in macon for about 3 and a half years now. Having lived in Fayetteville, Atlanta, Covington, previously; Macon is my favorite place i've ever lived. I really don't get the constant Macon bashing. You ladies act like anyone who goes downtown will be murdered and raped. In my time here knowing literally thousands of people who are dowtown everyday i don't know anyone who has been the victim of a violent crime. I think the basis of most of the Macon bashing is racisim. I think some of the post above confirm this. oh and bass pro sucks donkey balls. |
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There is absolutly nothing wrong with the Macon mall. It's no more dangerous than going to lenox. The new mall on riverside is great too, but really no reason to trash the macon mall. I've been in macon for about 3 and a half years now. Having lived in Fayetteville, Atlanta, Covington, previously; Macon is my favorite place i've ever lived. I really don't get the constant Macon bashing. You ladies act like anyone who goes downtown will be murdered and raped. In my time here knowing literally thousands of people who are dowtown everyday i don't know anyone who has been the victim of a violent crime. I think the basis of most of the Macon bashing is racisim. I think some of the post above confirm this. oh and bass pro sucks donkey balls. i do appreciate the troll post, i also like the fact that we are racist for pointing out the true facts of macon. yes there is i huge factor to "white flight" in macon, the new macon mall and that area are still nice and pretty safe from what i've seen first hand. did macon have it's issues when i live there in the 80's and early 90's, yes it did. only then did east and south macon have crime issues. almost everyone i know from high school has moved because of Macons changing culture. all the apts on northside drive have changed to section 8, they were the nicer places to live when i was in high school, that whole area was a great place to grow up in, now everyone is moving to Monroe, Butts, Lamar, Twiggs, Peach, etc....to get away from a city that is turning violent, poor schools, and few jobs. i know 3 people still there, none have kids, and i have been told that they would move elsewhere to have their kids in better schools. unless you can send your kids to private schools in Bibb county, your kids will be outnumbered, picked on, unless they start acting like thugs. i'm sure i'll get banned for this post, being the climate in the HTFnow. but facts are facts, why is it that most every single person poats about Macon, has almost the same story  the Rio Bravo story was the game changer for me with my attitude about macon. IM me and i'll give you the details being that it's a horrific crime. my best friend lives of the zebulon road exit in some apts with with wife. the apts have been section 8 for 1 year now, want to guess what kind of problems are starting to crop up? when he paid his rent last month, the manager pulled him to the side and thanks him for paying his rent on time, he is 1 of 12, out of 100's to pay on time. i'm certainly glad you like Macon better than any other place you have lived in GA. i live in Augusta now, to me it's the same as Macon, you have great areas, then most other places that are warzones. it's what GA is coming to, violent urban/city areas and nices places all around. and before you call me a lady racist, you need to meet me and have an adult conversation. i doubt very seriously you would say such a thing after meeting me
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I just wanted to say, that if you are a young non-Caucasian male, and you walk through Macon Mall with a Caucasian female on your arm....... Every one you see, will feel obliged to talk your ears off until you go deaf. Other than that...I always found good deals on running shoes. As far as the Macon bashing? It's certainly not the worst place to be....but it's got infrastructure and social problems. Problems that won't be solved by fleeing Macon and shunning it.
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well to be honest with me not going to the macon mall had nothing to do with to do with what might or might not be there. the deal breaker was bass pro i got to look and the wife got to shop and we didnt have to drive all that far in between them.
I mean I look at it like this now a days there is trouble almost everywhere you go, you just have to have a good situational awareness. |
| Macon Mall is not that bad, most of the hoodlums hang out at the indoor flea market across the street these days. I have to admit I fled Macon, but I only went as far as Lizella. What do I know though, I grew up in Bloomfield, even lived in Village Green for a while, so nothing really bothers me any more. We had a "drive by" not too long ago less than a 1/4mile from my house out here in the sticks. |
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There is absolutly nothing wrong with the Macon mall. It's no more dangerous than going to lenox. The new mall on riverside is great too, but really no reason to trash the macon mall. I've been in macon for about 3 and a half years now. Having lived in Fayetteville, Atlanta, Covington, previously; Macon is my favorite place i've ever lived. I really don't get the constant Macon bashing. You ladies act like anyone who goes downtown will be murdered and raped. In my time here knowing literally thousands of people who are dowtown everyday i don't know anyone who has been the victim of a violent crime. I think the basis of most of the Macon bashing is racisim. I think some of the post above confirm this. oh and bass pro sucks donkey balls. Im so happy that you love the city but keep walking downtown like you say and its only a matter of time. I was a nurse in the ER at the trauma center so i got to see and know the story of all the violent acts so i guess that makes me a little more informed (or biased) in you opinion. Another Story....My cousin who is an attorney and his wife bought and fixed up one of the older downtown homes. within the fist month of living there it was broken into twice. go figure! and the house is off of vineville an area at one time was nice. This is what happens to the people who are sticking around and trying to change the landscape of the city. Does it not make you wonder why there are hardly any business open in the downtown except on poplar and cherry streets? To each his own. |
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There is absolutly nothing wrong with the Macon mall. It's no more dangerous than going to lenox. The new mall on riverside is great too, but really no reason to trash the macon mall. I've been in macon for about 3 and a half years now. Having lived in Fayetteville, Atlanta, Covington, previously; Macon is my favorite place i've ever lived. I really don't get the constant Macon bashing. You ladies act like anyone who goes downtown will be murdered and raped. In my time here knowing literally thousands of people who are dowtown everyday i don't know anyone who has been the victim of a violent crime. I think the basis of most of the Macon bashing is racisim. I think some of the post above confirm this. oh and bass pro sucks donkey balls. Im so happy that you love the city but keep walking downtown like you say and its only a matter of time. I was a nurse in the ER at the trauma center so i got to see and know the story of all the violent acts so i guess that makes me a little more informed (or biased) in you opinion. Another Story....My cousin who is an attorney and his wife bought and fixed up one of the older downtown homes. within the fist month of living there it was broken into twice. go figure! and the house is off of vineville an area at one time was nice. This is what happens to the people who are sticking around and trying to change the landscape of the city. Does it not make you wonder why there are hardly any business open in the downtown except on poplar and cherry streets? To each his own. my best friend works at the medical center in downtown macon, he has told me some wild stories. do you know Terry Lindau? |
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i do appreciate the troll post, i also like the fact that we are racist for pointing out the true facts of macon. yes there is i huge factor to "white flight" in macon, the new macon mall and that area are still nice and pretty safe from what i've seen first hand. did macon have it's issues when i live there in the 80's and early 90's, yes it did. only then did east and south macon have crime issues. almost everyone i know from high school has moved because of Macons changing culture. all the apts on northside drive have changed to section 8, they were the nicer places to live when i was in high school, that whole area was a great place to grow up in, now everyone is moving to Monroe, Butts, Lamar, Twiggs, Peach, etc....to get away from a city that is turning violent, poor schools, and few jobs. i know 3 people still there, none have kids, and i have been told that they would move elsewhere to have their kids in better schools. unless you can send your kids to private schools in Bibb county, your kids will be outnumbered, picked on, unless they start acting like thugs. i'm sure i'll get banned for this post, being the climate in the HTFnow. but facts are facts, why is it that most every single person poats about Macon, has almost the same story the Rio Bravo story was the game changer for me with my attitude about macon. IM me and i'll give you the details being that it's a horrific crime. my best friend lives of the zebulon road exit in some apts with with wife. the apts have been section 8 for 1 year now, want to guess what kind of problems are starting to crop up? when he paid his rent last month, the manager pulled him to the side and thanks him for paying his rent on time, he is 1 of 12, out of 100's to pay on time. i'm certainly glad you like Macon better than any other place you have lived in GA. i live in Augusta now, to me it's the same as Macon, you have great areas, then most other places that are warzones. it's what GA is coming to, violent urban/city areas and nices places all around. and before you call me a lady racist, you need to meet me and have an adult conversation. i doubt very seriously you would say such a thing after meeting me No trolling here. I'm not saying macon doesnt have it's problems. I'm just saying that you can get around most of macon shopping, working, enjoying life, without any greater risk of being a victim of a violent crime than being other places in GA. Most of the crime in Macon, like most other places, is thugs robing, killing, and beating other thugs. It doesn't seem logical to base your opinion of a place based on one terrible crime. How long ago did the rio bravo thing happen? Maybe 5 plus years ago? |
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i do appreciate the troll post, i also like the fact that we are racist for pointing out the true facts of macon. yes there is i huge factor to "white flight" in macon, the new macon mall and that area are still nice and pretty safe from what i've seen first hand. did macon have it's issues when i live there in the 80's and early 90's, yes it did. only then did east and south macon have crime issues. almost everyone i know from high school has moved because of Macons changing culture. all the apts on northside drive have changed to section 8, they were the nicer places to live when i was in high school, that whole area was a great place to grow up in, now everyone is moving to Monroe, Butts, Lamar, Twiggs, Peach, etc....to get away from a city that is turning violent, poor schools, and few jobs. i know 3 people still there, none have kids, and i have been told that they would move elsewhere to have their kids in better schools. unless you can send your kids to private schools in Bibb county, your kids will be outnumbered, picked on, unless they start acting like thugs. i'm sure i'll get banned for this post, being the climate in the HTFnow. but facts are facts, why is it that most every single person poats about Macon, has almost the same story the Rio Bravo story was the game changer for me with my attitude about macon. IM me and i'll give you the details being that it's a horrific crime. my best friend lives of the zebulon road exit in some apts with with wife. the apts have been section 8 for 1 year now, want to guess what kind of problems are starting to crop up? when he paid his rent last month, the manager pulled him to the side and thanks him for paying his rent on time, he is 1 of 12, out of 100's to pay on time. i'm certainly glad you like Macon better than any other place you have lived in GA. i live in Augusta now, to me it's the same as Macon, you have great areas, then most other places that are warzones. it's what GA is coming to, violent urban/city areas and nices places all around. and before you call me a lady racist, you need to meet me and have an adult conversation. i doubt very seriously you would say such a thing after meeting me No trolling here. I'm not saying macon doesnt have it's problems. I'm just saying that you can get around most of macon shopping, working, enjoying life, without any greater risk of being a victim of a violent crime than being other places in GA. Most of the crime in Macon, like most other places, is thugs robing, killing, and beating other thugs. It doesn't seem logical to base your opinion of a place based on one terrible crime. How long ago did the rio bravo thing happen? Maybe 5 plus years ago? it's been easly 5 plus years, my family moved to Macon when i was 11, i graduated there and hung around the area for quite a few years. there are areas in macon that are great, but the area as a whole, is going downhill fast. it's not one crime that makes me dislike the area, it's that most cities in GA are heading the way of being thugville. Macon isn't the same town it was, non of the bigger cities are now. i honestly hope you stay safe there, just to many people have moved away, and are leaving that area. good luck |
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There is absolutly nothing wrong with the Macon mall. It's no more dangerous than going to lenox. The new mall on riverside is great too, but really no reason to trash the macon mall. I've been in macon for about 3 and a half years now. Having lived in Fayetteville, Atlanta, Covington, previously; Macon is my favorite place i've ever lived. I really don't get the constant Macon bashing. You ladies act like anyone who goes downtown will be murdered and raped. In my time here knowing literally thousands of people who are dowtown everyday i don't know anyone who has been the victim of a violent crime. I think the basis of most of the Macon bashing is racisim. I think some of the post above confirm this. oh and bass pro sucks donkey balls. Im so happy that you love the city but keep walking downtown like you say and its only a matter of time. I was a nurse in the ER at the trauma center so i got to see and know the story of all the violent acts so i guess that makes me a little more informed (or biased) in you opinion. Another Story....My cousin who is an attorney and his wife bought and fixed up one of the older downtown homes. within the fist month of living there it was broken into twice. go figure! and the house is off of vineville an area at one time was nice. This is what happens to the people who are sticking around and trying to change the landscape of the city. Does it not make you wonder why there are hardly any business open in the downtown except on poplar and cherry streets? To each his own. my best friend works at the medical center in downtown macon, he has told me some wild stories. do you know Terry Lindau? doesnt ring a bell but i have been gone from there for 3 years. its also a huge place and if we werent in the same departments i would have never crossed paths other than to call report. |