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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:30 pm

killjoy32 wrote:
a CAB RIDE??!!! you have seriously gotta be shitting me man.

if mike gets a cab, he is NOT gonna hear the last of it all weekend!

Made me actually laugh out loud. Makes me want to go just to get a cab with Mike ;-)

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:32 pm

killjoy32 wrote:
a CAB RIDE??!!! you have seriously gotta be shitting me man.

if mike gets a cab, he is NOT gonna hear the last of it all weekend!

You're nuts if you think I am going to walk ten blocks back to the hotel at night in downtown Indy. Especially after eating a plate of sausages and sauerkraut and drinking a few pints of beer. I prefer not to get mugged by some of the crazies that we saw last year hanging around downtown. And after all that beer, I would rather enjoy a quick cab ride back to the hotel instead of the possibility of risking arrest by the police because I couldnt wait and had to take a whizz behind a bush.....just because you wanted to take a nice stroll.

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:48 pm

you cant even go for a stroll for 10 blocks?

things are that bad?

ooooooook

Al

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:59 pm

killjoy32 wrote:you cant even go for a stroll for 10 blocks?

things are that bad?

ooooooook

Al

Listen up Mr. "I can run across the Sahara in my bare feet".....if you recall correctly, there were several ne'r-do-wells hanging around the convention center last year just waiting for some unsuspecting geek to drop his guard so they could rob his ass blind. I specifically remember a 7' tall nutjob yelling at people to convert to the worship of Thor and swinging a large hammer over his head. Since they wont let me carry a gun on the plane I pretty much have to go mano-a-mano with these types of people if they show up. I'm no slouch in the kick-ass department but he did have a frickin' hammer.

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:15 pm

In regards to walking around Indy at night during the convention, I've done it in various states with no problems. The 'bums' tend to sit and beg from there, while some of the others try to sell postcards and shit but don't push it.

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:29 pm

I can tell you that I walk downtown at night all the time. There is very little crime at all in the downtown area. You would be very safe walking to and from the Rathskeller as your path will take you thru the nightlife district if you will. Really no problem, downtown.

The only thing that I feel I need to warn you about is the Circle Center Mall late on Saturday night. Last weekend 14 teenage girls got into a brawl on the mall. Saturday night the local teens use the mall as a hangout. Shopping during the day to early evening presents no problems at all. Also since there will be a convention in town, there will be extra police around.

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:42 pm

Prufrock wrote:I can tell you that I walk downtown at night all the time. There is very little crime at all in the downtown area. You would be very safe walking to and from the Rathskeller as your path will take you thru the nightlife district if you will. Really no problem, downtown.

In Dallas you'd be dead in three blocks...no lie.

Big D is NOT very downtown friendly, as you might have guessed. Anyway, moot point, as I'm jogging from the hotel and back that night, no problem.

The only thing that I feel I need to warn you about is the Circle Center Mall late on Saturday night. Last weekend 14 teenage girls got into a brawl on the mall.

Martin, is this meant to warn me away or pique my interest in the area? Sounds like free entertainment...is there any chance of a hose-down before the girls start wrestling????

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:51 pm

i was just thinking the same thing mike. that has GOT to be a pleasant diversion to everything else going on?

could we possibly introduce a huge pool of mud and maybe request that they dress a little more appropriately?

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:13 pm

killjoy32 wrote:a CAB RIDE??

I will have my car, and can carry 4 others to the event.

Though it's close enough to walk to the dinner, I'd rather not walk 10-15 blocks after a large, filling, exquisite German dinner accented by good beer or wine.

We can ride alongside Al as he jogs back and taunt him en route. :twisted:

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:59 pm

ExTSR wrote:I will have my car, and can carry 4 others to the event.

Though it's close enough to walk to the dinner, I'd rather not walk 10-15 blocks after a large, filling, exquisite German dinner accented by good beer or wine.

We can ride alongside Al as he jogs back and taunt him en route.

F

Can someone record it if one of you throw baby carrots at him?

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:14 pm

ExTSR wrote:I will have my car, and can carry 4 others to the event.

Though it's close enough to walk to the dinner, I'd rather not walk 10-15 blocks after a large, filling, exquisite German dinner accented by good beer or wine.

We can ride alongside Al as he jogs back and taunt him en route.

F

I was planning on tying a small wagon to him and letting him pull me back as I recline and take a snooze...

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:35 pm

Badmike wrote:
I was planning on tying a small wagon to him and letting him pull me back as I recline and take a snooze...

Mike B.

actually, that would make for good training for the 6633ultra.

i will be doing this event in a few years, once i have gotten a few other things out the way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmmq4X64iKM this is a section of the wright pass that you go through - one of the most forbidding places on the planet at that time of the year, with a luvverly temp of -58C

so dragging mike 10 blocks is nothing

and as for you guys throwing carrots at me, i will be back there before you have even organised getting in the cars :p

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:47 pm

When the police tried to stop the brawl a couple of the girls beat up the police men. Film footage finally shows three officers slamming one of the females to the ground. The teen women here in Indy are just as badass as the boys.

I've heard that Dallas is quite dangerous. Not that way at all in Indy. Remember when we won the Superbowl, there was not one riot or even a jay-walking in the city that night.

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 7:59 pm

FWIW: Indianapolis is one of the safer bigger U.S. cities I've ever been in. I used to travel there at least once a year for business and I never recall feeling like I was in any danger, even when I was searching for a Steak & Shake at 11 p.m.

(I will, of course, later edit this post if an Acaeum member reports a robbery or something like that ...

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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:09 pm

Prufrock wrote:I've heard that Dallas is quite dangerous. Not that way at all in Indy. Remember when we won the Superbowl, there was not one riot or even a jay-walking in the city that night.

Drifting off-topic: The city of Dallas can be a dangerous place. Stay near the nightclubs, the bars, or the tourist spots, and you'll be OK. Wander off to the ghettos, the Section 8 housing, or the red-light districts, and you can get into big trouble. I've never had a problem going to the rougher spots, but the potential for trouble is there, especially for tourists.

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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:34 am

Well, for those of escorting ladies, we might just take a cab

Cheers,
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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:27 am

but then all that aside, once anyone gets a look at mike, casually walking his shrew down the street, its unlikely anyone in the nearby vicinity will be bothered

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Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 8:28 am

killjoy32 wrote:but then all that aside, once anyone gets a look at mike, casually walking his shrew down the street, its unlikely anyone in the nearby vicinity will be bothered

Al

Yeah I hear those things can attack out of the blue.

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