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dwai
was half joke half serious I just remember you mentioning it on radio and I was like holy shit druff walking around Compton is funny and scary
When I started the job, a lot of fellow computer dorks there told me not to go out into that neighborhood, and to just eat at the wokplace cafeteria. I did this for like 2-3 days and got sick of the shitty food there really fast.
So I started going out every day to a rotation of places where I was a regular. Because the area was mostly industrial/commercial, it wasn't that bad during the day. But it was Compton, and this was the 1990s when crime was pretty bad.
One of the times I went to Jack in the Box for the drive thru, I saw it was closed off with police tape, so I went somewhere else and wondered what happened.
Turned out that a guy was carjacked in the drive thru lane and stupidly refused to give up his keys, and was shot dead. Happened about 45 minutes before I got there. The victim was rich and owned a nearby large business, and obviously had insurance. Not clear why he decided to risk his life to protect the car. Funny enough, I was taking a late lunch that day, and would have been there right around the moment of the carjacking had I gone at the normal time.