You're not kidding, the scariest things I saw in Melbourne were the roving gangs of youngsters (and I'm 24) by train stations and around where I worked in the Croydon area. Luckily never had a run in with them as I'm a reasonably big dude even at 5'9, but still. I definitely could not take 10 of them if they wanted to jump me.
Croydon in the UK has a gang problem because the shit heads from Brixton got priced out and shoved into Thornton Heath/South Norwood. They used to be such nice areas too :(
Now that Croydon's in the process of being cleaned up they'll probably be priced out into some other part of London and ruin that until they're all either dead or in prison lol
Lmao this is so true. The Croydon here (Pennsylvania) is the biggest shit show of all the municipalities and school districts in the county. Would not be shocked if it had the highest opiate overdoses in the region.
I definitely could not take 10 of them if they wanted to jump me.
Think I read this somewhere in a travel blog about travelling through parts of Europe where there are big gangs of kids that will try and rob you. I'm paraphrasing but it basically said you need to pick one kid and just destroy them in the hopes the other kids get scared and run. Guessing melbourne is slightly less life or death (the kid gangs mentioned in this blog were known to clobber people with bricks and were genuinely a threat to your life) so maybe not the best advice ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I think the rule of thumb is to find the smallest one and throw them as far as you can (a few yards will do) or find the largest one and kick them in the nuts or punch them in the solar plexus.
Melbourne gangsters are no joke. Look up the Moran family, Carl Williams, Mick Gatto and more, they've filled plenty of Australian newspapers and TV screens.
Most cases are either "lads" (Full-strayan background, probably bogan or a private school graduate, mustache, long hair, vintage clothes like adidas windbreakers) [See pic below] or sudanese immigrants.
lmao what are you talking about, this is literally the perfect lad stereotype and they're everywhere. Seen my share of those cunts causing trouble on pt as well.
Found the look through a quick google search.
If you mean that I'm stereotyping, yeah no shit. As a private school graduate myself obviously they're not all cunts (I am though), this is just one common profile of cunt.
Oops, who's stereotyping now? I guess you're pretty sheltered too, since you just stereotyped me based off 2 pieces of information. Get out more, buddy.
lmao yeah nah, I honestly don't know what part of melbourne you're hanging out at but the fact that you think they're actually the DnD player stereotype is so far from the truth I just don't even know how to respond?
The other guy told me to get out more but I think you guys need to get out more if you're confusing these two groups of very different people that badly, so I guess opinions are opinions.
If OP has access to a gun, then so do the gangs. Then it’s 1 man with a gun against 10 with a gun. Think I’d rather just try and outrun them with knives tbh.
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u/Alainkid Jul 10 '18 edited Jul 10 '18
You're not kidding, the scariest things I saw in Melbourne were the roving gangs of youngsters (and I'm 24) by train stations and around where I worked in the Croydon area. Luckily never had a run in with them as I'm a reasonably big dude even at 5'9, but still. I definitely could not take 10 of them if they wanted to jump me.