gun toting teen wants your ipod...

BTW, who recalls when PH was simply referred to as "Underhill"?

chrispy wrote: So many things wrong with the comments on this thread it's hard to know where to start. Why the hell would I pay hundreds of dollars for an ipod if I was afraid of using it in public places? The whole point of the ipod is that it's portable and helps make commuting tolerable. If I didn't want to use it on the street/in the subway/in the park I would just plug my headphones directly into my stereo at home. Same with a cellphone - if I'm only using it at home I might as well chuck it and just have a landline.

Changing your lifestyle in order to ward off muggers isn't a sensible way to avoid becoming a victim it's an affirmation that you already are a victim.

You truly are a newbie.

Emily wrote: Isn't there an obvious middle ground here between wearing your iPod alone in the dark and never wearing it at all? I wear my headphones on the subway and walking around busy areas of Manhattan. I take them off when I'm walking home from the subway. (Sometimes I wear them walking in Brooklyn, but only if it's reasonably light out and there are plenty of people around.)

In the end, that adds up to not walking much more than a block or two sans headphones, which I think is a fine trade-off for feeling safer in my environment.

agreed. I wear an ipod most mornings out of my front door and to the subway. on my way home from work, wear it on the subway. but when I get off the subway, I take it off. this doesn't seem illogical to me - it seems like the right decision.

Alecorock wrote: I'm tired of all you newcomers with your magic music boxes and fancy wheel machines. I remember this neighborhood when it was all trees... You truly are worse than the Dutch! At least they did not wear tapered pants and drink PBR. Who remembers when the this neighborhood was just called Meryckawick? And then those Dutch Real Estate agents started saying this was Midout... this ain't Midout. Midout don't start until the other side of the forest! Damn cheese eating, crazy grass smoking, buckle rockin' B#$%s. What has become of my favorite hunting grounds? Take a cab? Call a police? I show a mugger the sharp end of my hatchet before I give up my magic music box!

LOCK YOU BOX?

:roll: :roll: :roll:

Clark Kent wrote: Also, what is this with 'north', 'south' 'east' and 'west'? Since when did residents stop aligning with the Park or Flatbush Avenue or downtown? Jeez. How do you get along without a freaking compass?

You gotta be kidding me. :?

"How to piss off an old-time PH'er: Refer to the cardinal directions."

They were just recently trying to make it illegal to talk on a cell phone or use an ipod in a crosswalk. It went down in huge flames, but there was a reason why it even came up. Namely, people are stupid and can't walk and listen to their ipod at the same time. Er, wait, that wasn't quite it. Anyway, I stopped listening to my ipod while walking quickly in Manhattan, not so that I wouldn't get mugged, but so that I wouldn't get run down by some psycho cab driver or other four wheeled deviant. Or two wheeled high speed bicycle messenger deviant. I'm not averse to listening to it on the subway, because I have a good solid feeling that I am safe from the trains as long as I stay off the tracks. Except that- you occasionally miss the helpful message (it DOES happen from time to time) saying something like "DUE TO AN EARLIER INCIDENT, THERE WILL BE NO DOWNTOWN A OR C TRAINS FOR AT LEAST ONE HOUR." At which point you can walk over a block and catch 2/3, if you heard the announcement. Anyway, to each his own, hopefully none of you die hards will end up as fodder next legislative season from getting run down oblivious in a crosswalk (yes, it has happened multiple times, directly attributable to cell phone/ipod tunnel vision.)

laura wrote: [quote=Clark Kent]Also, what is this with 'north', 'south' 'east' and 'west'? Since when did residents stop aligning with the Park or Flatbush Avenue or downtown? Jeez. How do you get along without a freaking compass?

You gotta be kidding me. :?

"How to piss off an old-time PH'er: Refer to the cardinal directions."

Pardon moi, but Clark Kent is right. I believe most old-time New Yorkers see the city as such: assuming you're in PH/CH area; Manhattan is North, Bronx way North, Queens is East, Bay Ridge/Sheepshead Bay South, Red Hook would be West, so on.

Some of my friends who are relatively new to city, when talking to myself or another old-timer, refer to actual cardinal points when asking directions and we razz them mercilessly.

I'm sure the same happens in every other big city, unless you hang with a bunch mapmakers or something.

Carnivore wrote: I disagree. I grew up in Brooklyn, and whenever my friends and I would meet up in the city, we'd always specify which corner to meet at (e.g. "northwest corner of St Marks and 2nd").

Ah, but that's kind of my point. NW corner of 23rd St Manhattan, likely isn't "true" NW if you were using a compass.

Unless it is, in which case, I'm still right, so quiet you!

BoogieKnight wrote: Ah, but that's kind of my point. NW corner of 23rd St Manhattan, likely isn't "true" NW if you were using a compass.

Unless it is, in which case, I'm still right, so quiet you!

My fabulous innate sense of direction still doesn't work in Manhattan. Mostly. I've got the altered NSWE down, but I feel like tilting my head 45 degrees every time I use google maps. The need a NYC rotate function or something for that thing.

In keeping with NYC being the center of the universe, perhaps they don't need a rotate for NYC, they ought just rotate everything else in the world to match. 2cents.

I love how the title of this post sounds like a Craigslist personal ad:

"gun toting teen wants your iPod. your pic gets mine..."

iPods are sometimes nice for drowning out sexual harrassement. Because I'd rather hear a song on low volume that have to hear a constant stream of comments about the size/shape of certain parts of my body.

That being said, I don't wear them when walking home at night.

Subject: Re: gun toting teen wants your ipod...

woodrowcall44 wrote: He ran north up Underhill and I'm sure is now rocking out to Wilco and Arcade Fire. Keep those iPods out of view!

This may be a bit off topic but I'm really wondering how one rocks out to Wilco and Arcade Fire?

Well that kind of puts an end to any future discussion on the matter doesn't it.

Carnivore, I've got no video showing. :? Is it just a problem on my end?

Underhill_MT wrote: Carnivore, I've got no video showing. :? Is it just a problem on my end?

I'm not sure why. It shows up fine for me.