MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Outrun how you've changed my life

> They do still have those. Before we were married my wife lived in some apartments on
> Colorado Blvd. & Colfax...not the best part o town. Anyway her building had a lot of
> blind people living there so I'm sure the beeping lights were handy.

I always chuckle when I hear about Colfax being the bad part of town. Sure you can get a hooker and some meth in the Subway parking lot, but it's relatively tame compared to other places I've seen. I always have to lead in to a story about an evening near 26th and California:

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It was pretty late, and I was just getting back from attempting to bail a friend out of jail (interesting experience...). I was out of gas, and stopped at a corner Amamco. So we have a 19 year old white boy, in a classic hotrod ('67 mustang), pumping gas at 3AM in the heart of a pretty bad neighborhood.

Cops pull up behind me, turn on their lights as I'm pumping gas. They instruct me over the loudspeaker to come over to their vehicle. I wave them over as I had to keep holding on to the gas nozzle in that old car due to the rear fill pipe. They continue to wave me over to them. I finally head over and ask "What the hell did I do?" They respond with another question...."Do you know what they do to white boys around hear at this time of night?" Long story short, After an unsettling chat I let the officers know that I can handle myself (isn't teenage invincibility great?). They pull away laughing.

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I've been in some pretty bad spots, but I always consider that one to be one of the worst even though nothing happened. You have to take notice when the cops won't even get out of their cars.