Try to keep the answers short. Name something you have seen in Detroit that made you go "ewwwwww!!!"
I'll go first.
Guy riding the bus who was picking his nose and then consuming what he had acquired.
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Try to keep the answers short. Name something you have seen in Detroit that made you go "ewwwwww!!!"
I'll go first.
Guy riding the bus who was picking his nose and then consuming what he had acquired.
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I would say bums taking dumps on downtown sideways during the day, but that's more funny than gross.
Yep, I've tried to ignore that one. Interestingly enough, I've witnessed same in Paris. Only in Paris, the guy who was crapping wasn't a bum.
Go Grumpy, this should be a pretty funny thread.
I got locked up for a traffic violation downtown and while in the tank there was this guy wiping down the very used common toilets with a napkin, then he would wipe the sweat from his brow with the same napkin.
Do I win??
The Incinerator.
I worked near the corner of Warren and Woodward. On woodward there used to be a enclosure with a bench for people waiting for the bus. Well, the bums have no where to go, so they used it as an outhouse. Man that thing stunk! They finally just tore it down and never replaced it.
Monica Conyers and the city council.
Olddetroiter WINS!!
Be honest, who can top THAT?!
Monica Conyers taking a dump on a downtown sidewalk.
The Dog Burner at Henry Ford Hospital.
Oh, Lord. Could this possibly become a Hall Of Fame thread?! The horrors! :eek::D
Suburbanites throwing their trash out the window on I-94.
The Taco Bell on Fort St.
Smelled things, But hey you always see things in Detroit.
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caution: these ones are a little dirtier, but i've cleaned them up for the kids
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Well, I was riding my bike down Cass, and happened to look toward Cass park, and saw a guy standing out in the open, MID AFTERNOON, with his pants down, and let's just keep it clean for the kids, and say he was paying for female services you might normally find at Cass and Temple.
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That was what *I* saw... Now, for someone else: A friend of mine who lives in Capital Park went to her car a few winters ago, and noticed what I will refer to here as a "soiled rubber" on the hood of her vehicle. Afraid to touch it, she batted at it a few times with her snow brush, but it was stuck... VERY stuck... over night, it had frozen to her hood.
So, off she drove to work [[I used to also work with her), the item flapping around in the wind - still stuck. She had incorrectly assumed it would come off while driving, but no.
Upon arriving at work, she saw our boss approaching, so, in a moment of embarrassment, she made her glove take one for the team, and pulled it off... and it splattered all over her. I still remember her running through the workplace screaming in an effort to cleanse herself in the bathroom...
Eight years ago, the McDonalds in Hamtramck on Joseph Campau had dozens of big rat holes in the bushes. The rats were so brazen they would be swarming the dumpster during the day.
Andylinn.....the visual I conjured up in my mind of that whole incident has me still laughing. The fact that she ended up wearing some of it isn't funny, but the rest it hilarious...I can just see the looks she got driving to work, lol.
I almost forgot about the day I was driving down Gratiot on the way to work, and there was a DOT bus driving beside me. A guy opened the window and proceded to vomit down the side of the bus. I made sure I got ahead of that bus real quick.
I remember walking down grand river between Woodward and Griswald on a cold November day and smelling the most vile stale piss smell ever to the senses. I thought I had smelled the worst of alleys, but this was something else. Just imagine what it would had been like if the temperature were warmer. A couple people walking by started coughing and gagging, and it lingered in the air for about a one block radius.
I was walking down Brush from GreekTown to Jacoby's a couple summers ago. Upon walking by the alley between Jacoby's and the parking lot nextdoor, I saw some guy walk into Jacoby alley from some side alley. He put his backpack down next to a telephone pole and disappeared behind a dumpster. As he was placing his backpack, two "ladies of the night," who were very much dressed for the part, followed him behind the dumpster. I can only imagine what was going on behind that dumpster, that mid afternoon.
I was in a party store on Michigan Ave a few years ago when a woman who I assume was both a prostitute and a heroin addict walked in. Her hands were swollen to the point that they looked like boxers mitts and had open sores.
I have one better- I was actually driving home on I-94 and a lovely young man hurled a full garbage bag of trash off the overpass and it landed right on my windshield and splattered. It was pretty amazing- first that I did not biff it and second that he was able to thow the bag from the unfenced corner and have it go that far out on the highway.
The grossest thing I have seen was more along the traditional lines of public urination. There is a fellow who used to park his wheelchair right outside of the [[locked) glass side doors of the building where I work. Every morning there would be a huge stain under him, but we always assumed he spilled his drink or something. We assumed this because there would be a stain even after the liquid had dried. I was walking down the hall one day and looked through the glass walls and saw that he was really just going to the bathroom in the same spot each day. Which in itself is not that bad- but the stuff would leak under the door and into a public exhibition gallery. It was pretty nasty.
There are bus stop enclosures that are way dirtier than that one that was at woodward and warren. If you wait for the bus at around warren and southfield in the winter you will see a bus enclosure there that has a floor of frozen piss. Its so disgusting. There is so much piss and trash on the ground that it literally freezes into a yellow sheet during winter and there is all kinds of trash that gets frozen inside of the sheet of ice too... right now the walls are black with who knows what and the smell is the worst of all bus stops I have ever been in.
The Detroit Lions.
Izzy wins.
Detmich, I imagin that the heat from the engine warmed the hood just enough to loosen the afore described item.
There's nothing quite so unattractive as a floater after turtles have dined. But maybe that's just me.
This was years ago, back when they still had the ethnic festivals at Hart Plaza. Went down one Sunday morning just as the vendors were setting up, before the garbage cans had been emptied, and an elderly woman was going from can to can carfully picking chicken bones out and putting them in a bag to take home.
I almost cried. I did give her ten dollars.
A guy having anal urination on the side walk next to the party store at Cass and 75. I was on my way to Lafayette Coney Island at the time.
Yuppie 'basic white' people moving to places like Mid-town admiring and living a pseudo life of being poor all the while sporting designer labels from top used clothing stores from the Pointes, with lap-top back-packs and walking their fancy pure breads dogs......ewwwww!__go figure!
blksoul_atcha!
The BJL, the color you love to hate!
Hey Bsoul- what's a "Basic" white person? Although I get what you're trying to say, there's definitely a better way to say it.
Has this place jumped the shark? WTF?
I was riding the bus home from work and where the bus turned onto Gratiot heading North - there was a bum peeing right into the street.
Then one time when I carpooled with a coworker, we were driving home from work on I94 East and were in bumper to bumper traffic. I looked at the car next to us and the woman driving - she was alone - was --- oh, I call it - practicing oral sex on a half peeled banana. She was NOT biting portions off and eating them. Her tongue and mouth were...well you get the picture! I told my friend to take a look and we both watched her "performance" for a couple of miles till traffic started moving. The woman was so intent on what she was doing she never saw us looking at her.
I think maybe that was when the word "multi-tasking" came into my vocabulary. :eek:
[QUOTE=blksoul_x;15167]Yuppie 'basic white' people moving to places like Mid-town admiring and living a pseudo life of being poor all the while sporting designer labels from top used clothing stores from the Pointes, with lap-top back-packs and walking their fancy pure breads dogs......ewwwww!__go figure!
blksoul_atcha!
The BJL, the color you love to hate![/QUOTE
You!
This is becoming my favorite all time thread.
Public urination
incinerator
factories in southwest Detroit including Marathon Oil.
also i've seen my fair share of prostitution since i've moved to Detroit.
Yes, the smell around Marathon in SW Detroit has made me close the windows numerous times.
The toilet humor hall of fame here can't touch how gross city council has become. I suppose a bunch of ignorance and lack of common decency probably connects the two.
I didn't really wanna post this, but I will.
For about a week in early April on Westbound I-96 around Grand Blvd, there was the remains of a dog presumably struck by a car. The dog had been decapitated, and its head was resting on its base, facing oncoming traffic. I figured with the City's public service record it would sit on the road all summer, but it was cleaned up in about a week. Definitely gross, and pretty sad, too.
I'm glad everyone is having fun with the thread...I almost didn't post it.
AMEN! I remember seeing some too at that exact same location! They were big and would carry McDo bags through their hole. I'm not sure why we decided to eat there after seeing that.
Also the entrance ramp from the northbound Chrysler onto the westbound Davison was filled with garbage. Then I drove on it a couple Thursdays ago and it was clean...:)
dumpster behind hoots, st. pattys day parade. Not the grossest but definitely disgusted me.
This really isn't the grossest, but it does disgust me: bums who blow their noses directly onto the sidewalk.
First time I saw that, I stopped wearing sandals for my tours. :eek:
Disgusting pig people who spit all over the sidewalks. This is not only a Detroit problem, but it sure makes me go Ewwww.
Yep, I remember seeing that a few times. I was recently giving a tour of the city to my friend from Cincinnati. Despite visiting many cities across the U.S and Europe he was surprised by the open gross behavior of some individuals. I mean you'll find public urination in all places, but usually its concealed to back alleys and trees in parks, etc. I feel like every time I'm in Detroit I'll see at least one person pissing inside the bus shelter. Also because of the lack of activity downtown that produces good smells to counteract the bad ones, many streets just smell like piss in general. When people say "Detroit smells like piss," I respond with, "I know."
Well, here's one from days gone by that you youngsters really should have experienced.
Hygrade used to have a rendering plant on Michigan up around, oh, 18th street or so. They processed all the left-over meat products into god-knows-what, and the odor from the place could be smelled along Michigan all the way from 14th almost to the Boulevard on a damp, foggy night. The place was torn down about 1965 or so, but when I pass by the area, my nose still thinks it smells that most unique odor.
Eastern Market slaughterhouses
Watching a city council meeting on TV, makes me regurgitate my dessert.
A most horrendous caterpillar infestation when I was a kid. The front porch was covered with them, my mother desperately needed something from the store and my father was at work It was one of those days I was glad that I was not the eldest child.
It was also one of those days where it was good to be a girl. My oldest sister just waited at the front door until one of the boys she knew passed by. He went and got a broom and cleared a path for her and dutifully waited until she returned from the store to make sure she had a clear path back into the house.
Hotdogs!
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Two gross things I've seen in Detroit - both many years ago.
Riding home on a DOT bus watching a cockroach crawl in and out of the pockets of a girls coat. And praying I wouldn't loose sight of it before I could exit the bus!:eek:
My mother yelling for me to come out into the alley with the big broom and the hose. The whole alley was crawling with maggots! Our ex-con neighbor across the alley had shot his wife's little poodle and just dumped it in the garbage can in the alley. Took my mom hours to get someone to come out and deal with the situation.:eek::eek::eek:
I have a lot of gross stories from my telephone installer days in NW Detroit, but this one's up there. I was installing a wall phone in a very filthy kitchen. A 6-year-old kid wandered in and proceeded to make himself a bowl of cereal. He opened the sugar bowl and a bunch of roaches scooted away from it. Not missing a beat, he whacked as many as he could reach with the back side of his spoon. He then proceeded to use the same spoon to put sugar on his cereal and then eat it. I just about barfed.
A fast-food oil/grease tanker truck overturned and spilled part of its contents nearby where I worked about 10 years ago, and apparently every vehicle and that got within "smelling distance" of the accident soon pulled off the road so that its occupants could get out and retch up the undigested contents of their stomachs . Fortunately it was mostly cleaned up by the time that I got off work, and the odor was still detectable but very weak. Several of my co-workers had gone out to lunch and were victims. They told me that the used grease was the most powerful and gut wrenching stench that they had ever come in contact with.
When I was a very young child living in Detroit, I was walking down an alley that ran parallel to Gratiot one hot summer afternoon, and there was several flattened rats that had been run over by a truck, and their guts were smeared all over the pavement, but they looked like they were moving, I bent down to get a better look and the "moving" was caused by thousands of maggots..ewwww!! My first look at both dead rats and maggots was something I never forgot.
Welcome back, Black Soul.
This isn't exactly an EWWWW situation in the traditional sense of the word, but it is funny and seeing it had an element of ewwww. I was riding the Woodward Express bus home [[to HP back when it was nice) when we stopped in the New Center area right near the Art Center. I happened to notice a heavy set middle age lady running like mad for the bus in front of it. Unfortunately for her, it was quite windy and her wig suddenly sprouted wings and flew....right into the bus window and landed in the drivers lap. Poor guy let out a scream and jumped a good 2 feet, lol.
Your bus story helped me recall one of the more embarrassing times in my life. At the end of the school year our 8th grade class was scheduled to go to a daylong trip to Camp Dearborn. The night before, I stayed overnight at a classmates' home and whatever his mother made for us for dinner apparently did not agree with me. As our class traveled in a chartered bus on the way there, I suddenly became very sick to my stomach. and knew that I was about to puke.
I walked up to the front of the bus and asked the driver to pull off the expressway.because I was sick.and I must have looked as white as a sheet, but he ignored me, and after I continued to plead with him, the prick told me to return to my seat. I almost made it back to my seat but then dived into a seat row that a pair of my classmates were sitting in, slid open the bus window, and let loose...
The bus was in the middle lane on the freeway, and it was busy, so a couple of cars' windshields in the next lane were splattered with my rather prodigious amount of vomit, enough that the drivers had to turn on their windshield wipers...LOL!!
Looking back, I almost wish that I would have barfed instead all over that jerk bus driver, but he might have lost control of the bus.
The open tandem semi trailer trucks hauling entrails from the slaughter houses on Russel to the Wayne Soap rendering plant on a hot summer day back in the day.
Body parts washing up at the Detroit WasteWater Treatment Plant.
Monica Conyers French Kissing Donald Lobsinger.
Probably 10 years ago or more, my wife and I were leaving the Masonic Temple after whatever show we seen. We had to walk around the side of the building to get to where we parked. There is a ledge along the side of the building. On that ledge was the biggest rat I still have ever seen. It had to be the size of an average cat. I've seen vermin before but the "ewwww" part was that it proceeded to trot along the ledge like none of the dozen or so people around us were even there. The old saying "it is more afraid of you than you are of it" didn't apply here. I prefer my vermin to try to avoid people!
Andys frozen condom story gets my vote for Best EWWWWW Comedy.
[quote=Sludgedaddy;15424]The open tandem semi trailer trucks hauling entrails from the slaughter houses on Russel to the Wayne Soap rendering plant on a hot summer day back in the day.
Body parts washing up at the Detroit WasteWater Treatment Plant.
Monica Conyers French Kissing Donald Lobsinger.[/quote]
You're kidding, right? Isn't he an old guy?
[[And yes, I know her current husband is quite old.)
Yes...so far the frozen condom has gotten me laughing the hardest. But hopefully there's lots more "ewwwww" moments to come. Bring 'em on, folks!
This isn't just a Detroit phenom, but any pile of vomit on the sidewalk--especially if the contents are recognizeable.
This was a long time ago, but so far the most disgusting thing I have ever smelled anywhere. I was riding the bus to work down Michigan Avenue and traffic was stop and go. There used to be real rush hours in the D once upon a time. Our bus gradually caught up to, flanked and slowly passed an open vat truck from Detroit Rendering. This truck had the rankest, most overpowering, most clinging miasmic stench that you could ever imagine. The whole overtaking and passing process took about twenty minutes. It was very very hot in town that week. That truck, full of no doubt every kind of animal scraps that could be gleaned from the slaughterhouse, had obviously been sitting out in the sun for far too long. In addition to smelling unbelievably horrible, it also appeared to be leaking ever so gently from every possible seam. I guess it was the poor animals' last revenge on all meateaters on Michigan Avenue that morning.
GG Allin show at the original Blondie's.
Ya I've seen a bum crapping out in broad daylight in front of MCS once.:eek:
The bathrooms at Harpo's.
Once, lying in the 2 inches of urine and assorted shit, I saw someone passed out on the floor.
I had to take the bus to Wayne State from the 7 & Kelly area for a while in 1990, before I got my first car. Passed by a lot of ghetto shit, tons of garbage everywhere. I think the Gratiot and Warren area was one of the worst, looked like a couple of trucks dumped their loads of trash right on the street.
Not every night but a few times outside my front window[[i live on woodward) this male prostitute stands on the corner touching himself. At first I thought it was just some crazy guy, until cars started pulling over and he would audition for them! Living on Woodward is quite a trip. Always something going on to get my attention.
Lots of ewwww stories involving the bus....
Riding my bike on Fort St. by Livernois I saw a prostitute grinding herelf on a fire hydrant. Guess she was trying to put her own fire out.
Isn't it about time to give this thread the red dot Hall of Fame designation yet?
Monica Conyers, Barbara Rose Collins, JoAnn Watson, Christine Beatty, Adolph Mongo, Thug KK.....and the list goes on.....ewwwww!
All the abandoned buildings.
All the losers and degenerates I see on a daily basis.
People who "love" the city but yet wouldn't set within 50 miles of it.
The kid I saw bleeding from a gunshot wound who eventually died in front of the state theater a few years back.
The 4 relatives and friends I know of that have been gunned down since 1999.
The 2-3 people who will ask me for change as I walk to my car 4 blocks from here.
The fact that the word Detroit and liveable neighborhood is an oxymoron.
The fact that so many of my college educated friends and associates want to live here but cant because there is nothing left for them here.
The fact I still live here more than occasionally hate it but wont leave because its home and I love it and will see it rise again.
How naive that last fact is and how common it is in Detroit.
Just the fact that a couple folks have suggested this thread for Hall of Fame status makes me very pleased to have submitted the original thread. I knew we'd have some fun with it, and also cover some serious "ewwww" topics, too.
Let's keep it going! Keep thinking...I'm sure you can contribute more than one "ewwwww"
The bathrooms at Dmongo's. Tell me again, how does this place stay open?
I worked for the school board for a short period back in 1972-1973.Driving in from what's now East English Village I'd take Warren Avenue all the way in.The meat packing plant on Warren just east of I-75 used to emit the worst stench.I used to hold my breath as I drove by it.
Sludgedaddy's contribution:
"...Monica Conyers French Kissing Donald Lobsinger...."
Just made me laugh so hard that I nearly sprayed the computer screen!
Here's one for you- this happened in about 1983. While with a friend who was watering his grass, talking in the front yard of his home in Brush Park, a homeless man had just crossed Woodward from the mission where he received his block of government cheese- he offered to my friend, saying, "heh, man, wanna buy some cheese?" My friend turned the hose on him and said, "I paid for that cheese once, you want me to pay for it again?"
In the gross department, another friend who lived in the Parkstone apartments in West Village back in the early 80's left for work one morning, and upon entering the hall, noticed the odor of garbage in the hall, not too stinky, but just enough to take notice.
The smell was there returning home, and for each of the next four days, each morning the smell grew worse until it made you gag coming off the elevator, and it took a couple of geniuses to discover that the neighbor opposite the garbage room had died, the odor of his rotting corpse wafting under the door, since his apartment windows were open a little in early spring, so the draft brought the odor under his front door and into the hall.
The maintenance people said the methane gas in the dead man's system literally exploded and stuck parts of him to the ceiling, walls, windows and everywhere else within reach.
A couple of months later after new plaster, flooring, etc, a young single woman moved in, unaware of what had happened until someone told her and she ran screaming out of the apartment, never to return. True story!
Hey, people have to die somewhere, might as well be at home.
Years ago, my cousin and I had a donut shop on Gratiot. After 11PM we kept the door to the back [[where the bathrooms our drop safe and purses are kept) locked unless it was a customer that we knew well. One night a fellow became quite agitated and stormed out because we refused to allow him access. I turned around just in time to see him relieving himself right on the middle of the front window...and being it was a typical Michigan winter, there was a very nice yellow icicle handing from certain areas.:eek: :D
Linda,
That reminds me of the time I was in the drive-though line at McDonald's. It was early evening in the summertime. I had my window rolled down preparing to order. A homeless man walked up to my car and asked if I had a dollar. I said no and rolled my window up. He licked all over my driver's door window leaving wet tongue marks and saliva. Then he just walked off.
In 89 or 90, we were 16 or 17 and cruising cass looking at the crazy ladies. Up near Peterboro, we encountered a one-legged hooker. My buddy offered her 10 dollars to see her 'stump' which was covered with a large, filthy tube sock. The resulting sight is seared into my brain like grill marks on a steak... Mid thigh chop, and I don't thik she paid much attention to the post-op recomendations. Looked real chunky.
Locke09 - You're right...that is a major EWWWWW lol
And here I thought mine was ewww and original... turns out it's par for the course.
I was at Oakman & Grand River. There was a one leg guy just standing there holding onto a walker right in the middle of the street, in the middle of traffic. When I got close enough I notice that he had it out, taking a leak. Just standing in the middle of the street with one leg.
Gross: I apologize for not being able to be specific, but it involves a somewhat known public figure. I was heading in to a radio station I worked at. When in the hall I decided to let loose the flatulence. When I walk into the studio I told the guy there to not go in the hall for a minute, and to thank me for sparing him. Then it hit me. My God... That couldn't be the trail, it was much too strong. Before I could say anything he just looks at me and said "I tried to hold it. The record was gonna end. I tried to hold it."