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Tell me about it. I have a friend who lives in Mount Pleasant on one of those streets running down toward the zoo. Not. Safe. At night.

Ahhh, yes. Mount Pleasant. A bunch of my friends rented a house there in the 1990-1991 timeframe. Decided to throw a party and a good number of uninvited guests turned up. Including one guy who they found (and ran out of the house at the business end of a baseball bat) trying to sell drugs out of one of their bathrooms.

A couple of them were still there for the 1991 riots. Where Metro PD moved in and tear-gassed the entire area after the Church's Fried Chicken and 7-11 got looted. I remember watching, live on local TV, the guy busting out the 7-11 windows with nunchuks, and the footage video crew that got swept into the Church's with the looters - followed by the tear gas barrage. Didn't appreciate how the prevailing winds carried the tear gas over my neighborhood (up by National Cathedral) tho.

Good times. Good times.