Posted on 10/31/2017 8:13:48 AM PDT by rktman
It’s the heart of Baltimore’s tourism industry, but the Inner Harbor turned into a nightmare for a visiting family of 10 earlier this month.
Out of nowhere, they were swarmed and beaten by a large number of teenagers.
While the family that was attacked does not want to be identified, they do want their story to be heard. They told their story to WJZ off-camera.
“They swarmed us,” said Stacey. “They hit my husband in the head. They knocked him out… and then it was just complete bedlam.”
It happened on the day of the Baltimore Marathon, Oct. 21. The event brought a big crowd to the harbor that night. The 10 family members, from grandparents to grandchildren, were walking by the H&M store when they were overwhelmed.
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The heart of the tourist district? In Baltimore? Isn’t that like saying the Market District in Mogadishu?
“But at least we took those 100 y/o statues down. Right?”
I was with a couple customers a few weeks ago at an Orioles game, We walked to a place for dinner after the game through the hood. One of the guys is a recently retired US Marine MP.
I wasn’t too worried. Otherwise, no possible way was I making that trek.
-—WTF? Does this family usually vacation in Baghdad?-—
Oh’ come on now. The Inner Harbor is a cool place during the day...
Baghdad is probably safer after dark though...
No kidding. I just saw that movie for the first time this past summer (I thought I had seen it when it came out, but...no)
How times have changed...at least then, there was a chance of a young Jeff Goldblum type as a thug.
Yes, anyone who knows what goes on at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore knows that it’s not the fantasy land promoted by politicians and Chamber of Commerce types trying to rejuvenate downtown areas plagued by crime and filth. This area has not been safe or even pleasant for many years. Tourists are fooled into thinking it’s a great place to go. Locals know better.
I was in Baltimore a few years back for a conference in the tourist district area. I had to walk several blocks to the venue from my hotel, and found that there was a elevated walkway that you could take that took you over the busy city streets.
It was very nice. I got up a little before the conference started, and took the elevated walkway around 0900. It took me over roads, through some little malls, etc.
Bustling with people and felt very safe.
When I went back to the hotel around 1800, I took the walkways again. But it was very different. Not only was nobody taking the walkways, but the little malls were deserted and the cages were down over the storefronts. The sidewalk was bustling with people dodging the traffic.
I was pondering this ominous situation, when I walked onto a walkway, and there were three teen “youths” blocking the elevated sidewalk about halfway across. Then I understood and realized what a fool I had been. I backed out, closed the door, and backtracked through the deserted mall which seemed downright menacing now, and got down on the street with everyone else.
This was probably 10-12 years ago. I can only imagine what it is like now.
Wow, the comments after that story are amazing. People are sick and tired of this crap. Everyone knows what they mean by “teens” now. So, where are the Baltimore NFL players protesting what blacks did to this white family? No injustice there, I guess.
Jackie Chan was recently channeling him in The Foreigner.
The tourist areas in the city of Baltimore are clustered around the Inner Harbor in a “Green Zone”. Canton and Fells Point to the east and Federal Hill just south of the harbor. What most out-of-towners fail to note is that these upscale yuppified neighborhoods are just 10-15 minutes’ walk of less by trot to the worst ghettos imaginable. The buildings in these slums are not bad, its the humanoids spawned there that are the problem with the yutes the worst of it. If you are visiting and maintain situational awareness and always have an exit in mind, you will probably be OK. I forget who said it but it is true that the one who keeps its head down gets eaten.
Out of nowhere, they were swarmed and beaten by a large number of (insert descriptive word here) teenagers.
A whole slew of letters addressed to the players, coaches and staff of the Ravens, Orioles, Bullets and whoever else plays there demanding that they speak out would be highly appropriate.
I worked in Baltimore, visited the Harbor with the wife and had a blast, but got out of there long before sundown. City filled with African-Americans with chips on their shoulders bigger than their brains. Hated the city.
Worked in Alabama, in an area with 80 percent black Americans. No chips present on any of the Americans I met. Loved the town. Did not meet a single African...
But in Alabama you don’t have government welfare breeding projects for Africans.
‘Wire’ is a great series. IIRC one of the principles who developed it was a detective from Bal’more and it’s loosely based on real events.
A sequel will need to include gangs of yutes attacking tourists.
The only trouble I had was with some white yutes who were offended that the local chicks preferred sailors to them. Came close to blows but not quite when some adults happened along, called the kids "glue sniffing winos" and shooed them away. I don't recall seeing any blacks then other than some of my own shipmates.
Dat article no give no mo details on the youffs?
Same situation with me. My wife and kid and I were walking across a big plaza area in Inner Harbor after a wedding in the city. I saw out of corner of my eye three “youths” running at an intersecting angle about 100 yards away. We were more than 100 yards from any other persons.
I braced the wife and said to stop and see if they changed their run. They did and angled toward us. About 30 feet from us, I squared to them and very obviously put my hand in my jacket. I wasn’t carrying but I thought if I looked bold and obvious about it, I could bluff them.
It worked. They looked like someone pulled back on the reins as they stopped short and started stuttering about bus fare. I stood perfectly still while I told them no.
They slunk off and I kept my hand in my jacket until we made it to a “safer” area.
I know we would have been robbed had I not bluffed them. Closest I’ve ever been to being robbed. I will never go to Baltimore again.
This doesnt hapen in shall issue CCW states. Just in the liberal gun controlling states where the roaming packs of hyeanas can be sure that their victims are de-clawed.
We used to go there by boat as part of a larger trip and stay in the inner harbor for a few days, go to little Italy, take in a baseball game, visit the aquarium. That ended July 4, 2001, when one man was murdered at the McCormack and Schmidts and a child was shot at the intersection of Platt and Light Streets, all right at the inner harbor.
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