Crime was one of the reasons I moved out of Atlanta Georgia. What a miserable place to live.
Another reason was traffic ...
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It is odd though how people on bikes get hassled so much. I've never been attacked but the neighborhood school kids (brats) are always yelling a bunch of BS at me or anybody else when we ride by. Sometimes I'd love to wring their precious little necks and pound the living crap out of their parents for being so permissive. If my Dad had ever seen me harass somebody like that he would have beaten my arse good with a belt! Times were very different then and children didn't rule the household.
I weep for the future! - the Maitre D' in Ferris Beuller's Day Off