But at least it's safer than East St. Louis...
Sorry...
@dfwgator Mogadishu is safer than East St. Louis.
I somehow became instantly alert from my drunken blackout and found myself in East St. Louis after midnight on a Saturday Night. IIRC,this was sometime in the 80's when I liked to wash down my LSD with jugs of white whiskey. To this very day I have no idea how or why I got there. I was probably living over 1,000 miles away from there at that time. What I do know is I instantly became aware I was in danger,and when I looked up I discovered I was the only white man in sight,it looked like I was back in Haiti again,and all I had for protection was a 6 shot 38 Special revolver. I had an adrenaline rush from all the looks of hatred I was getting,and it sobered me up instantly. I think the only thing that saved me was they probably thought I was a undercover cop looking to get assaulted so the cops could make arrests.
One of the scariest damn places I have ever been. To this day I have no idea why I was there. The only two people I knew from St.Louis were army friends of mine,and both of them died in Laos during the VN war.