Black Cat Shows

[plateauxofmirror]

Oh wait. Extended hours? Metro?

[markie]

its normally really easy to park around the blackcat. If you are more than a block and a half away you will be unlucky. And it is fine now around that area.
 
 I highly recommend the fall show.

[manimtired]

my girlfriend and I got robbed leaving black cat about a month or so ago.  yep.

[markie]

Originally posted by manimtired:
  my girlfriend and I got robbed leaving black cat about a month or so ago.  yep.

Really? Care to reveal the details?

[mjnova]

Originally posted by the scientist:
  its normally really easy to park around the blackcat. If you are more than a block and a half away you will be unlucky. And it is fine now around that area.
 
 I highly recommend the fall show.

Yeah, I have a super secret place where I always park before black cat shows, but suffice to say, just go around the neighborhood behind the club and you will find a spot.

[bungle bud]

their is a big parking lot at the main street you turn off to get to the black cat, dont know how much or if you can park there, ring the black cat they can tell yer.

[manimtired]

sure...my g/f and I were leaving her sisters show at around 11pm on a friday.  i was parked about 2 streets behind the black cat.  3 dudes walk past us, one dude grabs my g/f, 2 guys grab me from behind.  they stole her purse and my wallet and then ran off....didnt really rough us up.  cops came, took my story..and thats the last ive heard about it.  shit sucked.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by manimtired:
  sure...my g/f and I were leaving her sisters show at around 11pm on a friday.  i was parked about 2 streets behind the black cat.  3 dudes walk past us, one dude grabs my g/f, 2 guys grab me from behind.  they stole her purse and my wallet and then ran off....didnt really rough us up.  cops came, took my story..and thats the last ive heard about it.  shit sucked.

That sucks man, I'm sorry to hear that.  DC is a big city and it happens all over.  Smackette and I were recently robbed at gun point in Cleveland Park of all places, so it can happen anywhere.
 
 But don't let that ruin your fun.  I find these to be isolated incidents and sometimes just bad luck.  I go to both the Black Cat and the 9:30 often, and have never been bothered.  Instead, just walking home from the local watering hole in my neighborhood I got robbed, so pay attention to your surroundings and be alert, and if accosted, give them the cash - it's not worth bodily harm.

[markie]

shit smackie, you didnt tell us you got robbed....
 
 Sorry to hear about both your incidents.
 
  I suggest we move to the 'burbs asap.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by the scientist:
  shit smackie, you didnt tell us you got robbed....
 
 Sorry to hear about both your incidents.
 
  I suggest we move to the 'burbs asap.

Cheers.  Thankfully, No one was hurt, so you just move on.  It's just a little disturbing to the psyche, that's all.  
 
 As for moving - I chose San Francisco instead - just avoid the Tenderloin I'm told.

[markie]

Isnt all the porn in the tenderloin?
 
 We stayed at a cool resort hotel there one time, the phoenix, it was a bit dodgy around the hotel, but the hotel itself was hipster heaven. Probably the coolest place I have ever stayed.
 
 I didnt mean my last response to be so flippant. If that happened to me I doubt I would want to leave the house for a month. I guess the good thing is that in both cases no one was hurt.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by the scientist:
  Isnt all the porn in the tenderloin?
 
 We stayed at a cool resort hotel there one time, the phoenix, it was a bit dodgy around the hotel, but the hotel itself was hipster heaven. Probably the coolest place I have ever stayed.
 
 I didnt mean my last response to be so flippant. If that happened to me I doubt I would want to leave the house for a month. I guess the good thing is that in both cases no one was hurt.

You flippant?  Never.  I didn't take it that way anyway.
 
 I too stopped going out a bit afterwards which is why you didn't see me at too many shows in March/April.  But we've moved on and are out and about and only terrified for that last few yards before our Condo - which sucks!  I should be at The Fall on Thursday.

[lily1]

you too smackie? bugger. ex and i were walking from friend's party last december down towards u street and got robbed at 16th and a couple blocks up from u by 4 men at gunpoint. get this--across the street from a big apartment building and under a street lamp. my friend's house just got broken into on capitol hill. they ripped the bars off the basement window, then ripped out the entire security system control pad on a monday around 12 noon. it can happen anywhere and at any time.  like smackie said, stay alert and trust your gut instinct.
 

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

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That sucks man, I'm sorry to hear that.  DC is a big city and it happens all over.  Smackette and I were recently robbed at gun point in Cleveland Park of all places, so it can happen anywhere.
 
 But don't let that ruin your fun.  I find these to be isolated incidents and sometimes just bad luck.  I go to both the Black Cat and the 9:30 often, and have never been bothered.  Instead, just walking home from the local watering hole in my neighborhood I got robbed, so pay attention to your surroundings and be alert, and if accosted, give them the cash - it's not worth bodily harm. [/QB]

[plateauxofmirror]

Thanks a lot for all the info.
 
 I wish I had grown up in a city so I'd be halfway used to the threat of being robbed or something. I've been in yuppie Fairfax forever so this type of thing kind of scares the hell out of me. Regardless, I'll be there.
 
 Thanksss

[Bags]

Not to downplay *any* of the incidents discussed on the board, but I've been in DC 13.5 years and nothing has ever happened to me (yes, I realize I've just doomed myself to a mugging in the near future).  And I go to all the places discussed here often.  It's a crapshoot; I'm no more careful or aware then they -- but, as you see, even the folks who've been mugged are still here to tell the tale.  Key is to hand over your stuff, and be obvious about not looking at them enough to i.d. them.
 
 Damn, that sounded scary.  DC isn't scary!!!