Downtown Atlanta has a color problem. It I believe is one of the reasons the Braves are building their new stadium in Cobb County. Who the hell wants to go to a game in the ghetto? We went to a game last summer, Braves vs. Nationals. We left in the top of the 9th, Nats well ahead, and wanted to beat the traffic. To get back on I20, we had to drive through the hood. You saw young black punks on nearly ever street corner. As you drove by they would yell at you. We were approaching a four way stop and there was a big mob on the corner. I shot right on through the stop signs because there were no other cars at the FOUR way stop. I also had my glock in my lap. One shot and I would have returned fire. I had my wife slide low into her seat. I really feared for us. They yelled at whitey as we drove by shouting their filthy mouths. 900 F words flying. I drove well over the speed limit to get to the right area to get on the stinking interstate to get the hell out of that scummy city. We have not returned to Turner Field. We will wait for the new stadium and now a days, maybe a little better team, before we return to a Braves game. All around Turner Field is a hood. A lot of the parking lots are away from the stadium and you have to walk to the ball park. You don’t know who those other people are walking out in among the other cars. Can be anyone, and I did not get armed till I got back to the car. They shake you down as you went into the stadium.
I would have been very frightened.
Reminds me of the scene in “Bonfire of the Vanities”——and that was written in 1987,almost THIRTY years ago.
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