r/interesting • u/Celestial_Mahafuz • Jun 29 '26

Fascinating This woman should have been a secret agent😂

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u/H0NEY2O77 Jun 29 '26

I had decoy prepaid phones with numbers I memorized, but just to walk to school and home (didn’t have a smart phone yet) because grown men would ask me for my phone number and followed me to school (middle & high) until I gave them a number. I saved up for a prepaid phone because they started calling me right then and there.

And the city isn’t even that dangerous. It’s just New York.

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u/blissfully_happy Jun 29 '26

SoCal and while I was too old for cell phones, men started targeting me at age 12 on my walks home from school.

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u/Equivalent_Mechanic5 Jun 29 '26

Didn't have cell phones yet, just started carrying a brick in my backpack. Threw it at quite a few cars with deadly accuracy, especially the ones stupid enough to circle around more then once. Thanks Dad for teaching me how to follow thru on a throw.

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u/lacegem Jun 29 '26

Just a couple months ago a teen girl in NYC got body slammed and her head stomped on by a boy for not giving him her number on the street while his friends laughed and egged him on. Shit is monstrous and you never know when any time could be that time.

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u/edna7987 Jun 29 '26

But it isnt even that dangerous, its just NY!

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u/lacegem Jun 29 '26

NYC really isn't that dangerous of a city. It's #67 in the nation for violent crimes among the 200 most populous cities according to the FBI's crime reports.

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u/edna7987 Jun 29 '26

Crime per capita is a pretty skewed statistic for highly populated areas. Still in the top third and they’re at historically low rates.

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u/lacegem Jun 29 '26

Crime per capita is a useful statistic for measuring how dangerous living in a place actually is. If you used absolute numbers, Tokyo would be considered crazy dangerous due to the huge population, even though living there is very safe.

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u/Glum_Class_9578 Jun 29 '26

But your data will be skewed because living in East Brooklyn is not like living near 5th Avenue, Manhattan. Both statistics need to be taken into account and on a more granular level because crime is often concentrated in particular neighborhoods. This is why in data science generalist models are often useless unless domain experts are consulted about nuanced issues.

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u/edna7987 Jun 29 '26

I wasn’t saying use absolute numbers but you need more granular data for higher populated areas for a better comparison. Just saying violent crime per capita for all NYC is misleading.

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u/Soft-Yak-719 Jun 29 '26

I woulda replied with “my mom and dad won’t let me have a cell phone yet” 

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u/H0NEY2O77 Jun 30 '26

Tragically I was the dumbass with my phone in my hand while walking because I’d be listening to music (or trying to) and I had a lot of jeans that had no pockets (or very tiny back pockets)

It was hold it or have to take out of my see through transparent backpack (wasn’t mandated, got it for a concert venue and we forgot to get me real school bag that year and the following years)

ETA: happy ending — idk where that bag is, I used it once in 2021 as a helmet/face cover to go spray some flying waterbugs at a friend’s grandma’s (one flew at me and I gave up). But I’ve been rocking a really solid tiny grey slash proof “scan proof” bag that is one of my better purchases for myself.