Lightning McQueen wrote:Had a massive eye opener last night.
Got offered a couple of box tickets to the cricket early afternoon to which I obliged, I then decided to just book some accommodation and stay in the city.
Being a Tuesday night I thought I could just find a bar or cafe in the city to have a nightcap after the game so stayed pretty central.
There were gangs galore, it was very confronting with a lot of aggression going on, the poor OTR on North Terrace seemed to be a target for young gangs, I grabbed a coffee from there around 11:30pm and the staff had all sorts of shit going on, twice separate gangs came running in and grabbed whatever they could and went running out, the staff had no chance as they have to backtrack about 8 metres to get around the counter to apprehend them.
I asked “what would you do if you did actually catch them?”
“There’s nothing I can do mate, it’s the only way to get them to run out the store though”.
Give me a Friday or Saturday night in the city any day after that experience.
Shit!! Given you grew up in the original South Australian hood that must have been pretty bad last night. So glad im 100's of kilometers away from that shit. The closest we get to a gang war is when the North Clare and South Clare footballers are both at The Bentleys hotel on a Saturday night.