DatRedDude
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I play both of these courses quite frequently, bad neghborhoods yes, as many have said though during the daylight not so bad.
The freaks come out at night
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I play both of these courses quite frequently, bad neghborhoods yes, as many have said though during the daylight not so bad.
The freaks come out at night
I can't see anyone from Chitown calling anything in Toledo "ghetto". True, I don't want to griplock anything over that street into the "hood", but I've never felt like I was in any danger either.
Funny though, the abandoned, boarded up house on park property is affectionately referred to as "the crack house"
whiplash
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Suprised at this. Sugaw is where I learned to play and was my home course when I lived in Charlotte. Never had any problems there.
One of the few times I've ever felt concern for my personal safety in any circumstance was on Labor Day a few years ago playing a round at Kilborne. I will not play there alone.
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I've been to a couple DGC of the years that I felt threatened. I actually traveled to Dupree Park (from Burns Park in North Little Rock) in Jacksonville, Arkansas only to turn away when I saw a car full of African Americans smoking this awful smelling whatever it was in the very back end of the park. I was thinking to myself. Why do I want to go back into the woods by myself when there's a car load of crack? heads?? in a car parked right next to mine.
Then there was another time when I played Owens Field DGC in Columbia, S.C. as my lady friend & I had already been in the parking lot, when this car pulled into the parking lot, 2 guys got out and went to hole # 2. (I thought that was weird that they went to hole # 2) but then when I finally caught up to them on a hole way back in the woods, I tried to talk with them and one of the guys would not for whatever reason want me to see his face. I took this as a clue he might be wanted by the law and that I should get the flock out of the woods with these 2 suspicious people. So I ran through the rest of the course trying to get to the van as quickly as I could. I finished the course and found my lady friend sound asleep when I got back to the van.
I've played Washington Park in Indy back in the days(early 90's). I remember hitting this one tree and my whippet bouncing off of it and landing in a yard that the house had bars on the windows and pit bull dogs in the yard. Needless to say. I left the disc behind (And if my memory serves me correctly, I think the staff @ the AM Worlds had to redo a hole because of a murder victim when the AM Worlds was held in Indianapolis (Washington, Park).
And I also got scared when I played Beatty Park in Steubenville, As I was behind the shelter when I noticed a group of African Americans smoking something and looking at me like I was ..... (dinner) I sidestepped them all, finished the course looking back at them periodically and got the hell out of Steubenville. I told this story to one of my co- workers who grew up in Steubenville and he asked me why would I risk my life to play a course as that part of town was no good. I couldn't come up with one good reason and thus will never go back (even though the club is trying to clean the park up and the park's image up by doing the good DG thing in that town). I've came across a Black bear in Troy, Mt. and it was more afraid of me that I was of it. As I made myself appear larger than I was by standing the with my arms extended. Then like a dummy I am. finished the hole and played the rest of the course (that was mainly in the deep dense woods). I was playing with my lady friend @ Highland Park in Fort Thomas, Ky. when the police actually stopped us and asked if we seen anyone wearing all black clothes recently as they said that a couple homes we're just robbed and where in pursuit for the robber.
But I'm more apprehensive with strange people or strange circumstances than I am with animals, though I still try to evaluate all circumstances as they dictate. But I'm always reading people reviews for these kind of activities and I write ahead to the local contacts if possible just to ask if there's any parks in iffy neighborhoods. I feel it's a valid question to ask.
Then there was another time when I played Owens Field DGC in Columbia, S.C. as my lady friend & I had already been in the parking lot, when this car pulled into the parking lot, 2 guys got out and went to hole # 2. (I thought that was weird that they went to hole # 2) but then when I finally caught up to them on a hole way back in the woods, I tried to talk with them and one of the guys would not for whatever reason want me to see his face. I took this as a clue he might be wanted by the law and that I should get the flock out of the woods with these 2 suspicious people. So I ran through the rest of the course trying to get to the van as quickly as I could. I finished the course and found my lady friend sound asleep when I got back to the van.
I've played Washington Park in Indy back in the days(early 90's). I remember hitting this one tree and my whippet bouncing off of it and landing in a yard that the house had bars on the windows and pit bull dogs in the yard. Needless to say. I left the disc behind (And if my memory serves me correctly, I think the staff @ the AM Worlds had to redo a hole because of a murder victim when the AM Worlds was held in Indianapolis (Washington, Park).
And I also got scared when I played Beatty Park in Steubenville, As I was behind the shelter when I noticed a group of African Americans smoking something and looking at me like I was ..... (dinner) I sidestepped them all, finished the course looking back at them periodically and got the hell out of Steubenville. I told this story to one of my co- workers who grew up in Steubenville and he asked me why would I risk my life to play a course as that part of town was no good. I couldn't come up with one good reason and thus will never go back (even though the club is trying to clean the park up and the park's image up by doing the good DG thing in that town). I've came across a Black bear in Troy, Mt. and it was more afraid of me that I was of it. As I made myself appear larger than I was by standing the with my arms extended. Then like a dummy I am. finished the hole and played the rest of the course (that was mainly in the deep dense woods). I was playing with my lady friend @ Highland Park in Fort Thomas, Ky. when the police actually stopped us and asked if we seen anyone wearing all black clothes recently as they said that a couple homes we're just robbed and where in pursuit for the robber.
But I'm more apprehensive with strange people or strange circumstances than I am with animals, though I still try to evaluate all circumstances as they dictate. But I'm always reading people reviews for these kind of activities and I write ahead to the local contacts if possible just to ask if there's any parks in iffy neighborhoods. I feel it's a valid question to ask.
discgolf4lif3
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Plunkett park MO shady ass town got jumped there in the parking lot and they closed the park cause of drug related violence and ect
Here is the winner....hands down...just read the reviews.
http://www.dgcoursereview.com/reviews.php?id=722&mode=rev
http://www.dgcoursereview.com/reviews.php?id=722&mode=rev
lavon_andy
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Veterans park in Arlington tx
Only because if I play it on a 100+ degree Texas summer day I could pass out from dehydration and no one would ever find me. But then again I doubt I'd go back to that course; it's pretty lame IMO.
Other then that there's no DFW courses that are scary; neighborhood wise.
Only because if I play it on a 100+ degree Texas summer day I could pass out from dehydration and no one would ever find me. But then again I doubt I'd go back to that course; it's pretty lame IMO.
Other then that there's no DFW courses that are scary; neighborhood wise.
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Scanning the Cons, this jumped out at me:
locals at the 18 hole they are no threat but did offer prostitution and we felt very uncomfortable.
I think that is just the NJ idea of "Hole 19".....or maybe "Ho 19"?
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slicemaster
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None. I'm a man.
Men get robbed as well, but I also said which of these course would yo not let your wife/daughter/sister play alone.
Baltimore has their reputation for a reason, I wonder how pissy he would have got if I added shumaker pond due to the risk of hurting children with your discs
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I used to play at Carver Rec Center here in Chattanooga quite often. I never felt threatened but I would probably not go there alone either. I probably haven't been back there in a year or so and have no plan to either.
Over the past year, many shootings have happened near there and have decided to not push my luck, you never know who is having a bad day and decides to take it out on some disc golfers.
Over the past year, many shootings have happened near there and have decided to not push my luck, you never know who is having a bad day and decides to take it out on some disc golfers.
Timmianut Pikiuqarvik in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada
Talked about in the most remote course (event) thread. Any course where an encounter with a polar bear is a remote possibility. You wouldn't find me there without at least one other person and a shotgun.
My Polar Bear Encounter
Talked about in the most remote course (event) thread. Any course where an encounter with a polar bear is a remote possibility. You wouldn't find me there without at least one other person and a shotgun.
My Polar Bear Encounter
At any rate that shouldn't be a Con, that should go in Other Thoughts if you ask me. Maybe those locals are just trying to scrape up some cash to spend at the local pro shop, some folks will do anything for that pretty Latitude plastic.
That was the best review. Somebody call that guy.
MNcyclone
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Schenley park in Pittsburgh.
There are lots of guys cruising for encounters. Straight up gives me the willies. I don't mind gay people, and I don't mind if they go to public places to meet, but damn don't come right up to me and ask if I want a blowjob while you are still covered in spooge from the last guy. The disc golf course isn't even by the proper cruising spot so only the braindead/rolling ones wander over there.
I also got attacked by LARPers once. Not so much dangerous, its like a declawed cat pawing at your face.
At any rate I always hated playing schenley and I will never have to again, yay!
There are lots of guys cruising for encounters. Straight up gives me the willies. I don't mind gay people, and I don't mind if they go to public places to meet, but damn don't come right up to me and ask if I want a blowjob while you are still covered in spooge from the last guy. The disc golf course isn't even by the proper cruising spot so only the braindead/rolling ones wander over there.
I also got attacked by LARPers once. Not so much dangerous, its like a declawed cat pawing at your face.
At any rate I always hated playing schenley and I will never have to again, yay!
I stay away from Paw Paw for fear of seeing Mark Susi and Tony Ellis naked.
Schenley....really? hmm, never seen anything to be afraid of there in 18+ years.
Schenley....really? hmm, never seen anything to be afraid of there in 18+ years.
I'm not sure that I've seen any that I absolutely wouldn't play alone. There are some that I've been pretty wary at, and some I'd rather play earlier in the day. Some, like Sugaw, I might not play alone because there are so many other courses nearby, without the concern.
When I started in the mid-1990s, Earlewood was a bit sketchy. Disc golfers were rare and there was stuff going on that made me eager to finish up before it got too late. The presence of disc golf has been a big factor in cleaning up the park, and there's a lot more people around, so I'm fairly comfortable deep into dusk.
Oddly, perhaps the wariest I've been alone was a little course in Bloomington, Indiana.....because it was next to a housing project and, in those pre-DGCR days, I had nothing else to go by.
Well, the wariest I've been regarding people. I played Bohart Ski Ranch when I seemed to be the only person on the property. I had no idea whether there were grizzlies around, but I'd just come through Yellowstone with all the bear warnings, and by about hole 10 I'd used up all my adrenaline just being on alert.
When I started in the mid-1990s, Earlewood was a bit sketchy. Disc golfers were rare and there was stuff going on that made me eager to finish up before it got too late. The presence of disc golf has been a big factor in cleaning up the park, and there's a lot more people around, so I'm fairly comfortable deep into dusk.
Oddly, perhaps the wariest I've been alone was a little course in Bloomington, Indiana.....because it was next to a housing project and, in those pre-DGCR days, I had nothing else to go by.
Well, the wariest I've been regarding people. I played Bohart Ski Ranch when I seemed to be the only person on the property. I had no idea whether there were grizzlies around, but I'd just come through Yellowstone with all the bear warnings, and by about hole 10 I'd used up all my adrenaline just being on alert.
MNcyclone
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Fear of man rape is a hard fear to shake. I pray you never are given reason to share that fear.
chrishysell
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that's happened so many times most of us are used to it
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