Coming March 1.
Letter from Rochester.
Colin,
I listened to your podcast on no go zones. (No Go Zones in America.)
I live in Rochester,Ny we have a few here. I’m 31 now when I was around 19/20 I found out first hand.
A friend of my friend needed a ride home from work at 3am from a burger king. Looking back in hind sight when I stopped at the gas station and had to do business throught 3 inches of plastic and a rolling door, and that burgerking had a security guard waiting while the crew closed up for the night.
This should have triggered something in me to be on guard more. My friends and I got there a little early so we decided to walk the the 24hr walmart on Huson ave right across the street.
On the way we noticed some black kids hanging out in the parking lot throwing rocks at each other seemed like playing. On the way back to burger king the group had moved down in our way.
Right after we passed by them I was struck in the head with a rock knocking my glasses off. Black guy is then in front of me with his hands rasied like a boxer asking me if I want to fight.
I yell at him NO you just hit me in the head with a fucking rock. Looking to the sides I see my two friends on the ground being beat up. There was like 10 to 13 guys there.
I just took off running twoards the burger king and the gaurd yelling for them to call the cops. Managed to out run them. Couldn’t ID anyone because my glasses were knocked off.
Had to get a few stiches. I stopped going into the city at night after that. Eventually that walmart stopped 24hr service. Now another walmart in the city has stopped 24hr service. Thanks for your time just wanted to share keep up the great work.
xx
GREAT LETTER. I have probably written and talked about Rochester as much as anywhere……
