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I'm going to the Metallica show for the weekend down there in June and we were going to walk from the hotel to Bader Field where the concert is so we could have a few drinks and not worry - I'm definitely re-evaluating those plans.
Maybe you should watch the concert on DVD and drink at home instead. Then you really won't have to worry about being murdered by a crazy lady from Philly.
Its sad that they have to be....but the Murder and assault of 2 Canadians in NYC a few weeks doesn't help... I wish Newark was like Montreal or Toronto which only had 20 murders last year with a population of 3 Million....
Murders in Montreal and Toronto are much lower than in most U.S. cities but they are not that low. Around 60 or 70 in each city.
AC has always been like this--is it worse, or different? Not to say that this stabbing in any way should be expected or acceptable--I just mean that as along as I've gone to AC (I used to have a friend in Ventnor I who worked in AC for a law firm, and I visited down there a lot, so I have some familiarity with it) there has been this seedy, criminal element walking the streets and looking for handouts.
It's really pretty simple. You take a horrible poor, depressed area, and throw up monuments to lavish wealth next to it where the poor can view it every day but can't touch it. The desperate and criminal-minded amongst those poor are going to look at all that money after a while and say, "Why should "they" have it all--I'm going to take some of it." Now these two tourists are certainly not part of the machine driving the wealth, but to these desperate, criminal types, they are viewed as just another part of everything that excludes them from having a piece of the pie. The really wealthy are in no danger--they can hide in their limos and not walk the streets and stay inside their $500 a night hotel rooms. The average person is accessible, and hell, if they have $20 and you have nothing, they become a target.
Edit: I read the story after I wrote this. It does not sound as if it may have even been a robbery, but just some nutcase with a knife.
Much less of a police presence which I think somewhat helped
Lets not forget within the last two years they also had two fatal car jackings in hotel parking lot...
I stayed at the Taj Mahal this past weekend, and I think the reason it was so cheap for me to stay there was because those carjackings have driven away lots of business. In any event, that specific casino has declined in quality more severely than any other in recent years.
Never understood the attraction to AC if I'm going to lose my money betting I'll lose it on Wall street. At least the brokers are not trying to shoot me.
Never understood the attraction to AC if I'm going to lose my money betting I'll lose it on Wall street. At least the brokers are not trying to shoot me.
i agree. i dont gamble when im in AC. just go to the restaurants, walk around the hotel, stay by the pool, etc. ill go to the pier mall and the hotels in that area. dont like walking along the boardwalk.
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