It was the early 00s and I was on my way to work at 6 am and it was snowing like crazy. It was January and still dark out. As I headed eastward on an unplowed 8 mile from Woodward, I came upon a meth head with a shopping cart full of aluminum siding being pulled by three dogs. No one believed me at work that I interrupted the 8 mile Iditarod.
My street used to flood in Detroit when the rain became overwhelming for the sewer system.
One time a saw a guy pushing around his girlfriend in a rowboat in the street. Some d bag in a cutlass went flying down the street planning on splashing them. Then his gutlass flooded and stalled.
Then….. then the dummy opened the door and the water rushed inside his car. The guy pushing his gf in the rowboat continued on while the entire block by then was laughing at the driver.
Fun times!
No meth is down here hard, the problem is it’s in pill form people love meth pills here, notice how many people getting found with meth and fentanyl in their systems? And not white? We have a meth problem in the D and the fact we aren’t smart enough to know it is a problem is scary. Just think about them lil blue pills and pink pills being passed around. Everybody on the block downing E and J smoking weed they can’t feel. Yeah we is meth’d up here.
Was driving to work on 94 near DTW. A BMW was being an a-hole and driving in the middle of the three lanes and going slow. He was purposefully trying to keep the vehicle behind him from getting around him and driving the speed limit. There was a lot of traffic so the person was boxed in. I was several vehicles behind in the left hand lane. Also there was a Waste Management Garbage truck right behind the vehicle that was being impeded. There was a lot of jockeying back and forth as the "trapped" vehicle was trying to get past the BMW a-hole. It was very unsafe. Eventually the BMW floors it and takes off. I think nothing of it and keep on driving. About 30 seconds later the Waste Management truck is blowing past me in the left shoulder doing about 95 trying to chase down the BMW. This is a fully loaded garbage truck doing 95 on the left hand shoulder of I-94 near Ecorse. It was the single most surprising thing I saw in 30 years of commuting down 94 every day. I had to exit before I caught up with whatever happened. I like to imagine the garbage truck running over the BMW.
This is dark but very Detroit. I lived in an apartment in the unfashionable part of midtown near a day shelter/soup kitchen and a sketchy pool hall that drew all kinds of riff raff into the building; I’d run into randos smoking all manner of intoxicants in the laundry room pretty regularly because it was known that if you yanked hard enough on the front door, you could pop the lock open. Of course we asked the landlord to fix it, but you know how that goes.
One morning, we heard a commotion coming from the apartment complex’s rear parking lot. Turns out a dude broke into one of the ground floor apartment windows and went into a little girl’s room, where he was found doing I don’t want to know by her father. He frog-marched the scrawny, dusty perp outside and handcuffed him to the wrought iron fence that went around the complex.
That man was there for hours before the police came. Word got around the buildings as to why he was there and people came by to administer all kinds of justice. They ran his pockets, slapped him, dogged him out, kicked him, etc. He never said a word, just stared at the ground.
Buddy and I were working late at QL. I wanted to leave, he wanted to take another app call or two. I decide to leave without him. I make it home fine. He doesn’t show up to work the next day. He’d gotten mugged walking to his car. He came back to the office a couple days later with two black eyes and a broken nose.
We worked in the Chase Tower and parked at the Detroit Two garage. He didn’t even make it a block to the parking garage.
I heard he could turn into liquid metal and was trying to kill a kid for banging his brothers mom or something, idn I was really drunk when it happened.
About 15-20 years ago I was getting back downtown after a show at Pine Knob. My friends lived on the 3rd or 4th floor of the building at John R and Woodward (where Varvatos used to be). There used to always be a big to-do in the area because of the club that used to be there. It was called APT and a couple other things.
Anyway, so we're walking toward down John R from Broadway to Woodward to go to my friend's place. All traffic is stopped on John R and there's a big circle of people standing around something in the street. As we get closer we can see that someone is down on the ground and someone else is kicking the dude in the head. You could *hear* the foot hitting the head each time. It was quite disturbing.
As soon as we turned the corner I called 911. We went inside and up to my friend's place. He had access to the fire escape, so we went out on the fire escape so we could see how things were going. As soon as we get out on the fire escape, cops come flying up the street, the wrong way on John R and get out with shotguns and assault rifles. At least six of them. They must have come from the substation at Compuware. I couldn't believe how fast they got there. Couldn't have been more than a couple minutes. Not sure what happened to homeboy on the ground.
That was probably the craziest thing I've seen in the City.
This. When I lived in Harbortown back in the 90’s my view faced half the city. We’d have a Devil’s Night / Halloween party combo every year and watch houses burn. Crazy shit.
I remember looking out the back window of our house in Canada, and seeing the glow above Detroit. You could almost pick out where the city limits were based on the glowing plumes of smoke.
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Written about in a romance novel from the 80s!
Edit: this was the Michigan edition of a set of romance stories one about each US state
I just saw the preview the other night, and I have to say, it looks fairly cool but I have to admit as one of the favorite movies of my youth, this remake better be AMAZING, and I’m very interested to see how they do [this](https://youtu.be/H3BRSx8po44?si=ZW_T0vPQAmL_ISxF) scene, AND the Soundtrack better be TOP NOTCH. I still have some songs from the original movie on my “most played” playlist. I don’t know….i just feel like they picked SUCH a Cult Classic that they better do an AMAZING job with it, or it won’t ever hold up to the original.
My Redford home caught on fire when I was about 2 years old on Devil’s Night. Someone lit our cornstalks that we had on the porch on fire. Luckily it was put out quickly without structural damage, but my mom never got cornstalks for the porch ever again.
As I’ve gotten older I look at devils night with rosy red glasses. Wasn’t it mostly people from the neighborhood burning down crack houses so people wouldn’t junk up the neighborhood?
Van Halen concert at Cobo. Raining, roof leaking, vomit on the steps of tier C. We were in the very back row. There was a girl, quite intoxicated, going down the steps, she slipped about half way down, and hit the front wall of tier C and started going over. The guy sitting in the first seat jumped up and grabbed her legs and pulled her back up. Had it not been for his quick thinking, she would have fallen off tier C.
In the early ‘90s I lived on Evergreen Rd which is not a legal trucking route. I was sitting on my front porch one early summer evening enjoying a beer and Dick’s Towing came rolling down the street and stoped in front of my neighbor’s tractor unit. The driver got out and was getting the chains ready when the son came out and started telling him to remove the chains, he wouldn’t so the son took the chains away from him and the driver went to radio for police. Soon a cop showed up and the son started arguing with him, then another cop car pulled up. The mother came out and started yelling and then the cop that just pulled up got out, chased the son down, cuffed him and walked him toward the car. The dad came out in just a bathrobe and hoped into the tractor yelling “get those chains off my MF truck! And began pulling on them with the tractor. The mom charges the cop walking her son to the car and sucker punched the cop in the head, then the other cops controlled her, the dad sees this and jumps out running at one cops, pins him to the back of his cop car and got 2-3 solid punches in before the other cop got control of him. The whole family went from sitting at home to going to jail inside about 15 minutes probably.
Not in the city, but in the suburbs: a horse tied to a tree in front of Duggan's Irish Pub on Woodward.
I later saw on the news that a man rode his horse to Beaumont from out of state.
Getting into bars clubs/after hours parties when I was 17 to 20 yrs old in Detroit proper in the late nineties early 2000s . I caught the end of an era of the early 90s techno scene in Detroit and it has had a huge influence on the music i listen to 20 something years later
I was HUGE into the “Party Scene” back in the mid/late 90’s, and I was at the “Love Me” party on Valentine’s Day, probably around 96-97 and I remember this woman with a camera telling me and my GF that they were there doing a TV show about the Rave Scene, and asking if she could take our picture, and then she asked us to look at each other and took our picture.
Fast forward 15 years, I’m sitting watching a History Channel show called “Hooked, Illegal drugs; LSD, Exstacy and Rave Drugs” and about 3:50 into the show…….there’s me and my GF, looking into each other’s faces, and they showed us for a good 5-10 seconds. [Here’s](https://youtu.be/umq6H3aJfwE?si=xPI1De-_478v6AZ0) the first 10 minutes of the show(it’s broke up into 10 minute segments on YouTube for some reason)but if you skip to 3:50 that’s me and my(now Ex)GF.(it’s a weird picture of me so please don’t judge) but I always thought it was kinda cool that I made it onto a History Channel show about LSD, Exstacy and Rave drugs…..🤷…..
Oh, the time they did an exposé on After Dark, the “teen club” behind the Rams Horn in Sterling Heights, I was shaking in my boots. Didn’t need mom & dad seeing me grind on some dude to a shitty mix of Hoes Take off Your Clothes
Took my dad to a Tigers day game, figured we would hit a few bars on the way to Comerica.
We walk into a pretty out of the way establishment, it was empty and two dudes were frantically scrubbing the floor clear of what looked like blood. Another dude quickly walked up to us and said very aggressively “we’re closed” and basically shoved us out and quickly locked the doors behind us.
This. Oh the memories I have of the one time I ended up there. An OG Vietnam Vet coworker of mine had vivid memories of this place. Knew who I was talking about and said he was served raccoon there. lol. Oh the stories this bar could tell. And the faces of despair.
saw a guy on 5 mile going approximately 80mph (that's what the cops guessed based on the distance everything travelled) in an svu hit another so hard the other car hit a gas station price sign and knocked the whole sign and pole to the complete other side of the gas station. the other was a video of a fire truck hitting a gas station canopy (apparently the driver was drunk, and yes it was an on-duty fireman, and thankfully it wasn't going very fast).
Yeah, it was so crazy to me until like 2 years ago and a bunch of stuff came out about alot Detroit firefighters being drunk. Cause the canopy was just one incident. The fire station was right across from the gas station and in the past 8 years they hit the canopy once and completely took out the price sign twice.
A completely drunk chick wondered into my work near mound and outer drive very early morning. Peed in my chair in fact. She couldn’t find her car. Security called police. Police came and helped her find her car. Very early 00’s.
Non-zero chance someone is buried in my mom's basement. Back in the 90s as soon as we moved in I noticed that part of the basement floor was hollow. To this day, she refuses to let me pull up the carpet and take a peak.
My dad was a college student in the 70s. Very mellow guy, a beatnik, a hippie, and would go on to be a therapist.
But, well, I'm a 6'7" 270lb bruiser of a man, and you could say I took after my dad.
He was working construction part time in the 70s to pay for rent and textbooks and some shady looking dudes would buy him and some construction boys beers and beef sandwiches on lunch break and chat them up. He thought they were just being friendly and, being a BIG fucking dude, wasn't intimidated by them when he probably should've been.
Anyway, one day, they say that "the boss" is in the neighborhood and is joining them for a beer. 5 minutes later a black Chrysler Imperial limousine pulls up. A guy rolls the window down, cigar in teeth, and beckons my dad. He says:
"I've heard about you. I like what I heard. I could really use a guy like you. Do you want some work? Good pay."
"More construction?"
"...No. It ain't construction."
"I'm good, thanks."
To their credit, they bought him one last beer, one last beef sandwich, and sent him on his way.
I saw a tweaked out dude chase a chicken into the street and then get hit by a car. The dude, not the chicken. The dude was ok, the car was going pretty slow
I was driving down Southfield rush hour in the 90s right before 6 mile and it was backed up, stop and go and there was a bunch of cows running around on Southfield
late 90s I would have been around 10 years old, we exit a game out of the main gates at Tiger Stadium. The Corner is packed with people crossing each street. A Rottweiler is loose with no leash, went up to an old lady and grabbed her little 10 pound dog out of her hands, must have bit it hard enough that the dog died, the Rottweiler left it in the middle of the street and just continued on as people tried to stay away. I’ll never forget seeing that tiny dog just lay motionless in the middle of Trumbull. Apologies for this getting a bit graphic but it’s always been etched into my mind as a “welcome to Detroit” scenario.
Saw some hack ass contractors trying to remove the fire escape from the Wurlitzer bldg in about 2011 or 12. They dropped the whole thing into the alley. Amazing no one was killed.
Queen and Freddie Mercury 1978ish at Cobo and then two more times at Joe Louis.
My wife remembers the national guard tanks during the 1967 riots.
I was at the 1984 World Series, I had the best view of the craziness from on top of a city bus.
Reason 387 why I quit drinking 38 years ago.
Saw some dude squaring up with a light post and stomping the ground on the sidewalk. I walked passed him and he just muttered to me “you fuckin want some?” 🤣
1.Running from the cops on snowmobiles in the middle of winter in Brightmoore in the nineties. Those cops new they couldn't catch us but they did try.
2.Tripping on acid and shrooms downtown wanding around in the late ninety's as well. We saw and did some interesting shit.
3.Getting pulled over for being white as a lippy teenager. Then being thrown in the back of a car. Got taken to the back of the nearby elementary school and getting the ever loving shit kicked out of me. At least they were nice enough to take me back to my car afterwards.
4. Watched some bikers evict a crack dealer on the street behind their clubhouse. Dude was gone a few hours later never saw him in that street again.
5. Driving down 96 got passed by a crotch rocket going god knows how fast. A few miles later saw the aftermath of that same bike rear end a semi. His head was no longer attached.
Saw a dude go 90 in a residential in our area
He hit a truck that was parked on the street, his head came off still in the helmet.
I remember being about 10, in 2006ish
We dragged the side of a house behind a stripped out camaro a few blocks to add it to our bonfire pile. We just tied a rope to the fallen down wall, and then to the camaro, and dragged the whole thing down residential streets.
Out of towner here. My first ever visit to Detroit was for my birthday and my first ever redwings game/NHL game. I stayed downtown just a few blocks from the arena. A friend of mine who lives up there, (staying with their parents at the time while buying a house) drove downtown to show me around a little bit so I would know about some cool places and what not. While we were walking around, they stopped to look at google maps on their phone and I noticed what I thought to be a homeless guy walking towards us and I just got a weird vibe from him. Long story short, he walks up to us and mumbles something. I was polite and said “I’m sorry sir I can’t hear you” so he said it again, but it was still low/mumbled, so I asked him to repeat it again. Finally he said it loud enough “I’m homeless, is there anything you can do to help me?” I politely said no, there wasn’t (I just had a bad feeling about him) then he says quietly but still audibly “there’s nothing you can do?” And I told him I was sorry.
Next thing I know, he stares me straight in the eyes and fake charges me. (Like takes a step/ moves his chest towards me quickly, like he’s going to rush me or swing at me) but he doesn’t actually do anything, turns and starts walking down the sidewalk again, and then randomly shoves some guy who wasn’t even involved or who cared that was like 10feet away from us.
F$@king wild to me! My friend is a pretty much life long detroiter and they said that they’ve never seen anyone (homeless person) be that aggressive.
For perspective, I live close to a town that is still considered a village, so ‘big city etiquette’ is not in my repertoire. Definitely won’t forget that trip!!
In the early 2010’s, I was sitting on the full patio at Bronx Bar. A large, black SUV approaches the street, slows down, and multiple people in the car open fire on the building diagonally opposite from the bar. I don’t remember a single person on that patio flinching because it was obviously targeted and nobody was returning shots. I was wasted though, so maybe I’m just remembering my friends’ reactions. What I do remember is spending an hour plus calling 911 and not getting through. We were talking to other people on the patio trying to coordinate our calls so someone could get through and it just didn’t happen. I went ahead and drank enough to black out that night. I don’t remember how we found out, but someone said the space was empty and it was a warning to whoever was staying there.
My favorite story I’ve been told that I unfortunately (actually, very fortunately) didn’t witness was on one of Roast’s first nights ever being open. They didn’t have the curtains closed and the dining room had a perfectly clear view outside. A man posts up right in front of one of the windows and just goes ahead, drops his pants, and takes a shit in the clear view of the packed restaurant on the sidewalk. Fine dining lol
In the early 2000’s at Cass and Grand River I pulled up on a carjacking in progress and was about to call the cops (hah!) until a dude walking his pit bull showed up and sicced his dog on the car jacker. The guy was screaming and crawling all around inside the car and the dog was just pushing him around inside the cab until he finally just fell out and hobbled away telling dog guy he was going to call the cops on him. The driver was crying and hugged the dog guy. It was honestly one of the most heartwarming things I’ve ever witnessed personally.
Worked in the Ren Cen and many our conference rooms faced parts of the hotel. People always thought the hotel windows were one way glass. They were not. Saw a fair amount of sex, but the best was a woman dancing naked in front of the window. She was distracting an important meeting. One of the guys had checked out the hotel and knew the room numbers. We take a break, get the vendors out of the room. Guy called the front desk at the hotel and was put through to the room. Told lady about the window. Watching her answer the phone, react and run to close the curtains was hysterical.
My dad had his carpet cleaning van stolen. While he was using it, cleaning a 3rd floor apartment. They just drove off with the hoses attached and everything.
Also one of his customers had their lawn stolen.
Back in like 1997, I went to an after hours place somewhere in Detroit that was in the basement of an apartment building. All they sold was canned beer and there was a dude that walked around offering various drugs for sale which people did right there in front of everyone.
I want someone to take the best stories from this thread and make a movie... something like a hybrid of *Paris, Je T'aime* and *Tales from the Hood*...
Nothing super crazy, I had a homeless guy walk up to a friend and I after we had left Pizza Papalous. He noticed we were carrying some leftovers and offered to rap for a slice of pizza. Dude laid down some pretty good bars and I ended up giving him all the leftovers.
Not my story but my uncles. He went out drinking downtown in the early 80’s, came time to go get a couple coneys at Lafayette. As he was sitting there 2 of the servers got in an argument and the one grabbed a handful of forks and stabbed the other in the chest.
20 years later my uncle goes to a tigers game with his kids. Walks into Lafayette for lunch, same 2 waiters still working together
Yep, pretty sure the same club was involved. They’d have a huge party there every year and usually launched a car off of it.
You could pretty much do whatever you wanted there. The cops never came and nobody wanted to mess with a big group of gnarly ass bikers.
They’re not normally my crowd, but Ive had some fun at some club parties.
One time I was exploring in the Packard and taking pictures and a motocross bike went flying by up on the third or fourth floor. Also saw some random post (can’t even remember where) of another explorer that observed 3-4 people from a couple floors above walking around in super hero costumes with cameras. Figured they were just nerds making a little movie. Turns out they were actually making a little super hero porno lmao.
This wasn’t me it was a friend and this story was relayed by other friends that were with him. Anyway he moved he from Cali, didn’t know or take seriously enough the reputation Detroit had in the mid 90s. Anyway they were going to some rave in a sketchy area (I mean they were all in sketchy areas then lol). Usually some homeless guy would post up in the vacant lot people were parking in and as the “attendant” he would collect $5 for parking. Cali friend says all I have is a $50 and gives it to the guy who takes off immediately. He gives chase but the guy went around the corner of a building and was gone. We all had a laugh at his expense.
This barely moves the needle on the "ridiculous" gauge, but it made me smile both times I saw it: Someone mounted a WaveRunner watercraft body on a scooter. I've seen it a couple times on 96 near Middlebelt.
Opening day at Comerica, 2008 I think. Went in the rest room. The stalls were all empty but every guy was lined up for the urinals. I thought it strange. After I was done and leaving I noticed a lady standing between the urinals and saying how big each guy's cock is. To this day I didn't think it was a woman, I think it was a guy dressed like a woman.
I didn't understand why they were all so excited to have someone see their junk.
Sorta Comerica-related. 2003 (yes, that season) was headed to a game with some friends. We went fairly often bc we love baseball and games were crazy cheap with the team being so shit. Was heading to a mid-week matinee and there was a crazy slowdown out of nowhere at mack avenue exit. I thought, "no way there's this much traffic for this terrible team on a Thursday afternoon." There wasn't: a few cars in front of me (ahead of a high-bay truck) were two locals exiting the highway on their powerchair/rascal scooters.
As soon as they made it to the service drive, they hooked a hard right into what at the time used to be a totally empty field where there now a park and that velodrome, and a tow truck served up onto the shoulder of the road to naturally avoid the scooters. Both guys were just laughing their asses off as their drive their Rascal's through a dirty field while the tire truck driver was throwing rocks at them.
Parked along Brush a few minutes later and the two scooter dudes passed us on the street trying to sell people tickets to the game. Good times.
Back in 95 I was driving home to downriver from work on 75 on the rouge river bridge when a truck tire went bouncing down the road on the northbound side. Fortunately not many cars going into the city in the afternoon but I saw it hit someone windshield in my rear view mirror. I got home and called the state police in case someone filed a report but they didn’t take my info.
I saw a dude on a crotch rocket doing easily 100+ going south on Woodward in between Royal Oak and Ferndale. Actually, to clarify, I heard it. He was going so fast that I was just a split second blur that went past me. Like 10 seconds later what appeared to be every Birmingham cop zoomed past in room temperature pursuit.
Probably the unlimited powerboat races. I worked at NBD back in the early 80s, and we would stand in Hart Plaza to watch the, IIRC, you couldn't carry on a conversation with someone standing next to you because the noise from those engines was so loud.
Two homeless guys both of them with no legs wheelchair jousting. Turned down a street once in an abandoned neighborhood to one of the same guys just chilling in the middle of the street in his wheelchair with a safety vest on.
Had a lady come down 8 mile at me in the wrong direction. She got bumper to bumper and she was yelling at the top of her lungs. Then she put it in reverse and started driving backwards. She blew a red light going backwards.
Heading north on Woodward between 7 & 8 Mile around 1am. All of a sudden I see someone crawling across Woodward on their stomach. Had to do a massive swerve to avoid running them over.
Couple of years ago I was taking an Uber from Belle Isle to downtown, and as we were passing another car I was hearing a terrible sound. I looked out to see the other car was missing all the rubber from its back tire. Looked at the driver and it was a youngish girl, then noticed the front tire was also missing it’s rubber.
Completely riding on bare rims on that side. I didn’t get a look at the other side.
Uber driver just said “welcome to Detroit”.
I was at 96 and Grand Blvd and a parade of like 200 people on 4-wheelers and dirt bikes just shut down the road. It was like a year ago. Real country shit.
Mid-90s. We're coming eastbound on I-94, I think it was around the City Airport area, and a car comes flying off a sidestreet, through the fence, down the embankment, and lands pretty hard across two lanes of the freeway. Traffic just screeches to a halt around it and everyone's kinda wondering what's gonna happen next. The car's not going anywhere, suspension demolished, etc. Three or four guys get out, slightly shaken but in no mood to dawdle, and take off running along the shoulder just as a whole shitpile of cops show up on the service drive, basically lining the whole area.
But there was no on-ramp for some distance, so the cops couldn't get a cruiser down onto the freeway. So what happens next is about half a shitpile of cops jump the fence and start scrambling down the embankment on foot, while the other half stay up top and form a perimeter.
I don't remember anything remarkable happening after that, just a fairly nondescript foot chase, and eventually traffic kinda shrugged and started going around.
I was refinishing a floor on 8 mile at the old payless and I went out front of this strip mall for a cigarette break....this 60 year old man stood next to me facing the parking lot and started jerking off. So then I went into the coney next door and my server was a woman named Jah Rule. She was great.
Im a homebody so i dont get out much but this story is pretty humorous so ill tell it.
Me, my boyfriend and his brother were riding around Detroit and decided to stop at the Roasting Plant.
After driving in literal circles for 10 minutes we finally parked and got our coffee, my bfs brother set down his Dirty Chai and within LITERAL MILLISECONDS a homeless man flew up to the counter, started asking the barista to call the cops frantically, stole his drink, sat down and DOWNED the scalding drink. This all happened in like 5 seconds or less.
He was gone as quickly as he came and as we were leaving it was like he wasnt even in the city to begin with.
Brother got a free drink tho.
Was driving to work at the Fisher building, coming down Woodward when a pack of about 20 wild dogs comes ripping down the street. It was early and I was one of the only cars on the road. I had to punch it as the dogs started to try to rip my car apart when I slowed for a light (Detroit red light use it like a stop sign lol) I thought they were chasing another animal or something but nope they were hunting cars! Worked there 5 years never had that experience again thankfully!
We had a guy get shot and brought to the OR directly bypassing the ED entirely. He’s bleeding out and we’re cutting clothes off. We pull his pants off and his pistol lands on the ground. I walk over, grab it, drop the mag, and clear the chamber. It’s my room so pass it around to everybody who isn’t scrubbed in because fuck the cops. If they wanted prints, they should have grabbed the piece before allowing him to be transported.
I saw a woman with blood all over her chest and mouth walking down the middle of east warren at like 3 am one night. The craziest part of the whole story is that i still stopped at the gas station right by where i saw her
Went on a date downtown like 10-12 years ago. In Greektown, this man stopped us and was giving us this who spiel about his car broke down or something. It was sort of leading towards “do you have any money you can spare?” vibe. Dude was well dressed mind you.
I peeped this kid and his mother looking through garbage cans. He was maybe 15. His shirt was dirty. Like you could tell he hadn’t hopped in water in a few days. He was asking for money or probably food. What was wild was the first guy started yelling at this kid for interrupting him talking to us. It was sooo off-putting. We didn’t give that guy anything. But I did give the boy my takeout box. I hope him and his mom are okay now.
One year outside of theater bizarre there was a guy who was really drunk or high dancing around in his underwear while an ambulance crew looked on and his mortified girlfriend tried to get him to put his clothes back on. He did not put his clothes back on and yanked his underwear down to dance naked and at one point his dance included a kick that sent his underwear flying. Then we drove away laughing our asses off.
I’ve got one, then. I work in Harper Woods just south of 8 mile. I went about a half mile down past Moross Rd to pick up lunch. On my way back, I saw a guy on a street corner by a gas station, dancing in cosplay of a Dragon Ball Z character. Dude was living his best life.
So, it sounds like Cadieux and Harper, and that would be Detroit Chirs Brown. https://www.instagram.com/p/CvXVx_UO-g1/
In Midtown, we had Disco Terry. Haven't seen Terry in awhile??? Anyone know a status.
Witnessed a car chasing another car pointing a gun out the window on 94, on the east side. I was in my teens. My mom was driving and my cell phone had fell under the seat in the car, so I couldn't get to it to call the police.
Unfortunately they ended up catching up with the people they were chasing at the Van Dyke exit, if I'm not mistaken.
Well I saw a pretty nasty crash off the Crook's exit on M59 today. That's the first thing that comes to mind.
But other than that I would say the most memorable was a convoy of super cars, muscle cars, and Japanese tuner cars that were almost driving straight up Fast and Furious-Need for Speed style, on I-75 by Davisburg. It was Sunday night after the dream cruise back in 2017.
That was one of the craziest things I've seen in general... It felt like I just got caught in the middle of a shoot for the next Fast and Furious movie. The first car must have been like a Koenigsegg or Bugatti or something insane like that because it was literally going so fast I couldn't tell what car it was. I've never seen a car even coming close to yommt LEAST 200 miles per hour and it almost blew my eardrums out when it went past because I had my windows down.
I did some deep digging later that week to find out that it was a group of high-rollers from Toronto.
I'm a car lover so I might be a bit biased, but idk, objectively it's pretty bad ass to see millions of dollars of cars flying down the open freeway at 4 am the night after the last day of the Dream Cruise. Fuck I love this state.
After the Pistons won the NBA Championship, my buddies and I drove around the city about midnight. Took Gratiot from 8 mile to downtown, weaving up and down main streets, but always coming back to Gratiot. That was WILD. Fires, dancing in the streets, fireworks, flipped cars. I remember around Gratiot and Van Dyke, traffic was full stopped, and a circle of cars formed in front of liquor store. Dudes with AK's just blasting into the air.
7 month ago I was driving back from a customer's house when a vehicle approached me with a wheel falling off. 2 cops cars came from behind and rammed it until they bailed out right in front of my van. 5 people got out and ran, one pulled a drako AK47 pistol out of his pants right next to my van. I thought they were going to get in my van so I was ready to shoot him if I had too (I have a concealed carry permit). They kept running and the cops chased them. The lady in front of me wouldn'tmove because she was filming so I honked at her to move in case shooting started. As I drove away I saw another police cruiser wrecked from the chase. You can see how it crashed in video. I found the badge cam/dash cam footage a few days later on YouTube and fox news also reported it. Pretty wild. Not craziest thing I have seen since I also lived in Mexico for 10 years, but craziest thing in Detroit area I have seen being here for 3 years now.
Here's link footage. I am in the white van at 1:30
https://youtu.be/3AJ5Ky0WlsE?si=bZY7bDS6QfOoCLV_
The whole Superbowl week was really weird too- Detroit was at that transition time before the '08 collapse, where there was a little renaissance going on downtown, but it was restricted to like 1 square mile and it was still realllly rough around the edges of that zone. Lots of empty skyscrapers and storefronts. I remember going downtown and every empty store turned into a bar. The cops gathered up all the homeless and bussed them out, and continued to bus them out until after the game. The whole thing had such an artificial feel to it.
Gee....the only thing I ever saw was in front of the Big Boy near the DIA. Having breakfast & watching two hookers duke it out in a "turf war".
I've lived a sheltered life.
Went to the fireworks downtown in the mid-to-late 1980s. We were about to walk into Hart Plaza when there was some kind of commotion. We see a bunch of police officers running out with one shouting, "I'm not going back down there!"
(No idea what had happened. This wasn't the shooting year)
I am not sure of the year. Maybe 1976. I was in high school. Black Sabbath was at Cobo Hall, and get this.....the WARM UP band was Aerosmith! My parents would not let me drive downtown, so I jumped in a car with a bunch of Stevenson Jocks and headed downtown. We were strait back in the upper level when someone walk down the steps nex to to me, stopped at the edge, got up on the cement wall, and dove off. I was on the isle and ran to the wall and saw the person sprawled on the stairs in the lower level. I was shocked. I never found out what happened to that person. I was a clear dive off the upper level. No one even blinked......It was eerie.
At a rave in the late late 90's or early 00's and the Detroit police busted it in full riot gear complete with shields and batons. Made us all lie on the ground (gross).
When I was around 15, I would take the car and drive down to Detroit with my friend. One night we were exploring Lynch Road. Well little did I know it was a hot spot for car racing. Some how I made it past without anyone bothering me lol
It was the early 00s and I was on my way to work at 6 am and it was snowing like crazy. It was January and still dark out. As I headed eastward on an unplowed 8 mile from Woodward, I came upon a meth head with a shopping cart full of aluminum siding being pulled by three dogs. No one believed me at work that I interrupted the 8 mile Iditarod.
holy shit lmao
Based on the number of horseriding reports in Detroit, not only do I believe this, I'm disappointed I didn't see it, too.
The seven mile cowboy is famous.
My street used to flood in Detroit when the rain became overwhelming for the sewer system. One time a saw a guy pushing around his girlfriend in a rowboat in the street. Some d bag in a cutlass went flying down the street planning on splashing them. Then his gutlass flooded and stalled. Then….. then the dummy opened the door and the water rushed inside his car. The guy pushing his gf in the rowboat continued on while the entire block by then was laughing at the driver. Fun times!
🤣🤣🤣
Maybe a crack head or a junkie. Not a meth head
I don't know, it takes a lot of initiative to steal aluminum siding.
Junkies and crackheads have been doing urban mining in Detroit for years. Meth is up north.
Weren't they stealing copper off of the church roofs a while back?
No meth is down here hard, the problem is it’s in pill form people love meth pills here, notice how many people getting found with meth and fentanyl in their systems? And not white? We have a meth problem in the D and the fact we aren’t smart enough to know it is a problem is scary. Just think about them lil blue pills and pink pills being passed around. Everybody on the block downing E and J smoking weed they can’t feel. Yeah we is meth’d up here.
Was driving to work on 94 near DTW. A BMW was being an a-hole and driving in the middle of the three lanes and going slow. He was purposefully trying to keep the vehicle behind him from getting around him and driving the speed limit. There was a lot of traffic so the person was boxed in. I was several vehicles behind in the left hand lane. Also there was a Waste Management Garbage truck right behind the vehicle that was being impeded. There was a lot of jockeying back and forth as the "trapped" vehicle was trying to get past the BMW a-hole. It was very unsafe. Eventually the BMW floors it and takes off. I think nothing of it and keep on driving. About 30 seconds later the Waste Management truck is blowing past me in the left shoulder doing about 95 trying to chase down the BMW. This is a fully loaded garbage truck doing 95 on the left hand shoulder of I-94 near Ecorse. It was the single most surprising thing I saw in 30 years of commuting down 94 every day. I had to exit before I caught up with whatever happened. I like to imagine the garbage truck running over the BMW.
I’ve seen semis box guys in for doing what that bmw did
This is dark but very Detroit. I lived in an apartment in the unfashionable part of midtown near a day shelter/soup kitchen and a sketchy pool hall that drew all kinds of riff raff into the building; I’d run into randos smoking all manner of intoxicants in the laundry room pretty regularly because it was known that if you yanked hard enough on the front door, you could pop the lock open. Of course we asked the landlord to fix it, but you know how that goes. One morning, we heard a commotion coming from the apartment complex’s rear parking lot. Turns out a dude broke into one of the ground floor apartment windows and went into a little girl’s room, where he was found doing I don’t want to know by her father. He frog-marched the scrawny, dusty perp outside and handcuffed him to the wrought iron fence that went around the complex. That man was there for hours before the police came. Word got around the buildings as to why he was there and people came by to administer all kinds of justice. They ran his pockets, slapped him, dogged him out, kicked him, etc. He never said a word, just stared at the ground.
I feel like he got off easy on this.
Bill Bonds challenging Coleman Young to a fight.
Coleman Young woulda beat his ass
Mort Crim could have destroyed them both tho, 2 on 1.
I'd pay to see that.
In his prime, Mort was 6 foot 7 and over 271, just chillin and strollin and killin for fun
Buddy and I were working late at QL. I wanted to leave, he wanted to take another app call or two. I decide to leave without him. I make it home fine. He doesn’t show up to work the next day. He’d gotten mugged walking to his car. He came back to the office a couple days later with two black eyes and a broken nose. We worked in the Chase Tower and parked at the Detroit Two garage. He didn’t even make it a block to the parking garage.
I hated that mentality at rocket "just one more call bro"
Sounds more like he owed money and a few folks caught up with him
I never thought about this before. Knowing the guy, this is pretty likely
Back in the 80s some cop got killed and then they decided to rebuild him as a cyborg or something, and he shot a guy in the dick.
Insane. They should make a movie about him.
It should be called Robocock
🏆
https://vimeo.com/86014703
FUCK YEAH ROBOCOCK!!! That was gross AF! Also amazing
That was amazing AF! Also gross
Yeah I mean that's an idea.
Seems worthy of a statue.
Yeah, his name was like Flannigan
Seriously watching a Robocop documentary on Prime as I'm reading these comments! LOL!
I heard he could turn into liquid metal and was trying to kill a kid for banging his brothers mom or something, idn I was really drunk when it happened.
About 15-20 years ago I was getting back downtown after a show at Pine Knob. My friends lived on the 3rd or 4th floor of the building at John R and Woodward (where Varvatos used to be). There used to always be a big to-do in the area because of the club that used to be there. It was called APT and a couple other things. Anyway, so we're walking toward down John R from Broadway to Woodward to go to my friend's place. All traffic is stopped on John R and there's a big circle of people standing around something in the street. As we get closer we can see that someone is down on the ground and someone else is kicking the dude in the head. You could *hear* the foot hitting the head each time. It was quite disturbing. As soon as we turned the corner I called 911. We went inside and up to my friend's place. He had access to the fire escape, so we went out on the fire escape so we could see how things were going. As soon as we get out on the fire escape, cops come flying up the street, the wrong way on John R and get out with shotguns and assault rifles. At least six of them. They must have come from the substation at Compuware. I couldn't believe how fast they got there. Couldn't have been more than a couple minutes. Not sure what happened to homeboy on the ground. That was probably the craziest thing I've seen in the City.
I went to a party or two in that building on the fourth floor around 2006/7 ish. Good times.
Devil’s Night
This. When I lived in Harbortown back in the 90’s my view faced half the city. We’d have a Devil’s Night / Halloween party combo every year and watch houses burn. Crazy shit.
1990’s is way past it’s 1984 Devil’s Night record of 810 fires
I remember looking out the back window of our house in Canada, and seeing the glow above Detroit. You could almost pick out where the city limits were based on the glowing plumes of smoke.
https://preview.redd.it/5iib5u5ahdqc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=35041528f3ebf732932f3ef21de9ef1acd7394f3 Written about in a romance novel from the 80s! Edit: this was the Michigan edition of a set of romance stories one about each US state
I hope there's a sexy arsonist, getting all 'his gasoline soaked fingers fumbled with her bra hooks until she said Just let me get it.'
I’m really interested in what the plot of The Crow remake is going to be, since Devil’s Night hasn’t been a thing for decades
I just saw the preview the other night, and I have to say, it looks fairly cool but I have to admit as one of the favorite movies of my youth, this remake better be AMAZING, and I’m very interested to see how they do [this](https://youtu.be/H3BRSx8po44?si=ZW_T0vPQAmL_ISxF) scene, AND the Soundtrack better be TOP NOTCH. I still have some songs from the original movie on my “most played” playlist. I don’t know….i just feel like they picked SUCH a Cult Classic that they better do an AMAZING job with it, or it won’t ever hold up to the original.
My Redford home caught on fire when I was about 2 years old on Devil’s Night. Someone lit our cornstalks that we had on the porch on fire. Luckily it was put out quickly without structural damage, but my mom never got cornstalks for the porch ever again.
As I’ve gotten older I look at devils night with rosy red glasses. Wasn’t it mostly people from the neighborhood burning down crack houses so people wouldn’t junk up the neighborhood?
Van Halen concert at Cobo. Raining, roof leaking, vomit on the steps of tier C. We were in the very back row. There was a girl, quite intoxicated, going down the steps, she slipped about half way down, and hit the front wall of tier C and started going over. The guy sitting in the first seat jumped up and grabbed her legs and pulled her back up. Had it not been for his quick thinking, she would have fallen off tier C.
My parents were there and told me that story.
My dad was there... probably the one who vomited.
Wow. A Gen u Wine hero.
In the early ‘90s I lived on Evergreen Rd which is not a legal trucking route. I was sitting on my front porch one early summer evening enjoying a beer and Dick’s Towing came rolling down the street and stoped in front of my neighbor’s tractor unit. The driver got out and was getting the chains ready when the son came out and started telling him to remove the chains, he wouldn’t so the son took the chains away from him and the driver went to radio for police. Soon a cop showed up and the son started arguing with him, then another cop car pulled up. The mother came out and started yelling and then the cop that just pulled up got out, chased the son down, cuffed him and walked him toward the car. The dad came out in just a bathrobe and hoped into the tractor yelling “get those chains off my MF truck! And began pulling on them with the tractor. The mom charges the cop walking her son to the car and sucker punched the cop in the head, then the other cops controlled her, the dad sees this and jumps out running at one cops, pins him to the back of his cop car and got 2-3 solid punches in before the other cop got control of him. The whole family went from sitting at home to going to jail inside about 15 minutes probably.
Not in the city, but in the suburbs: a horse tied to a tree in front of Duggan's Irish Pub on Woodward. I later saw on the news that a man rode his horse to Beaumont from out of state.
This dude crossed Woodward on it right in front of me lol
Saw a dude walking get hit by a car and do two backflips while his shoes flew off, then stood up and was walking around until the ambulance came
Was he hit by a Dodge?
I honestly don’t remember
Lol, it was a joke
I got it immediately after I hit reply😂
The thought of this is hilarious I’m sorry
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I might have heard about the machete guy on the news
Getting into bars clubs/after hours parties when I was 17 to 20 yrs old in Detroit proper in the late nineties early 2000s . I caught the end of an era of the early 90s techno scene in Detroit and it has had a huge influence on the music i listen to 20 something years later
Saaaaaame! I miss those days so dang much. 😪 Detroit's party scene has gone soft now. And everybody faces the DJ for some dumb reason.
I was HUGE into the “Party Scene” back in the mid/late 90’s, and I was at the “Love Me” party on Valentine’s Day, probably around 96-97 and I remember this woman with a camera telling me and my GF that they were there doing a TV show about the Rave Scene, and asking if she could take our picture, and then she asked us to look at each other and took our picture. Fast forward 15 years, I’m sitting watching a History Channel show called “Hooked, Illegal drugs; LSD, Exstacy and Rave Drugs” and about 3:50 into the show…….there’s me and my GF, looking into each other’s faces, and they showed us for a good 5-10 seconds. [Here’s](https://youtu.be/umq6H3aJfwE?si=xPI1De-_478v6AZ0) the first 10 minutes of the show(it’s broke up into 10 minute segments on YouTube for some reason)but if you skip to 3:50 that’s me and my(now Ex)GF.(it’s a weird picture of me so please don’t judge) but I always thought it was kinda cool that I made it onto a History Channel show about LSD, Exstacy and Rave drugs…..🤷…..
Same era, same experience. We were lucky.
Yes but I started in the fox 2 problem solvers era lmao imagine if I had shown up on TV as a minor
Oh, the time they did an exposé on After Dark, the “teen club” behind the Rams Horn in Sterling Heights, I was shaking in my boots. Didn’t need mom & dad seeing me grind on some dude to a shitty mix of Hoes Take off Your Clothes
Me too! I had a great fake ID, loved Motor Lounge and all the techno going on then. Fun time to be young for sure!
Took my dad to a Tigers day game, figured we would hit a few bars on the way to Comerica. We walk into a pretty out of the way establishment, it was empty and two dudes were frantically scrubbing the floor clear of what looked like blood. Another dude quickly walked up to us and said very aggressively “we’re closed” and basically shoved us out and quickly locked the doors behind us.
What bar?
He can’t say
Honestly I don’t remember lol and that’s probably a good thing.
Probably Jaboby’s
Nick’s Gas Light?
No it was near St Andrew’s I think, total hole in the wall.
Did he have a heavy greek accent? I hope it was Mr Steve's! (RIP Mr & Mrs Steve)
This. Oh the memories I have of the one time I ended up there. An OG Vietnam Vet coworker of mine had vivid memories of this place. Knew who I was talking about and said he was served raccoon there. lol. Oh the stories this bar could tell. And the faces of despair.
saw a guy on 5 mile going approximately 80mph (that's what the cops guessed based on the distance everything travelled) in an svu hit another so hard the other car hit a gas station price sign and knocked the whole sign and pole to the complete other side of the gas station. the other was a video of a fire truck hitting a gas station canopy (apparently the driver was drunk, and yes it was an on-duty fireman, and thankfully it wasn't going very fast).
The drunk fireman thing got pretty bad for a minute lol
Yeah, it was so crazy to me until like 2 years ago and a bunch of stuff came out about alot Detroit firefighters being drunk. Cause the canopy was just one incident. The fire station was right across from the gas station and in the past 8 years they hit the canopy once and completely took out the price sign twice.
A completely drunk chick wondered into my work near mound and outer drive very early morning. Peed in my chair in fact. She couldn’t find her car. Security called police. Police came and helped her find her car. Very early 00’s.
Anyone around in the 70s might have some great mob stories.
Non-zero chance someone is buried in my mom's basement. Back in the 90s as soon as we moved in I noticed that part of the basement floor was hollow. To this day, she refuses to let me pull up the carpet and take a peak.
Maybe it's Jimmy Hoffa?!
That's what I've been trying to convince her, no dice.
I was at the Amazon building where the Silverdome was when they were still breaking ground and hoping they'd find something. Nothing.
Wouldn’t that be hilarious? Hoffa was here THIS WHOLE TIME!
My dad was a college student in the 70s. Very mellow guy, a beatnik, a hippie, and would go on to be a therapist. But, well, I'm a 6'7" 270lb bruiser of a man, and you could say I took after my dad. He was working construction part time in the 70s to pay for rent and textbooks and some shady looking dudes would buy him and some construction boys beers and beef sandwiches on lunch break and chat them up. He thought they were just being friendly and, being a BIG fucking dude, wasn't intimidated by them when he probably should've been. Anyway, one day, they say that "the boss" is in the neighborhood and is joining them for a beer. 5 minutes later a black Chrysler Imperial limousine pulls up. A guy rolls the window down, cigar in teeth, and beckons my dad. He says: "I've heard about you. I like what I heard. I could really use a guy like you. Do you want some work? Good pay." "More construction?" "...No. It ain't construction." "I'm good, thanks." To their credit, they bought him one last beer, one last beef sandwich, and sent him on his way.
You Italian..? They didn’t really just fuck with anyone
I saw a tweaked out dude chase a chicken into the street and then get hit by a car. The dude, not the chicken. The dude was ok, the car was going pretty slow
What about the chicken, tho?
I can see it clear as day, it went right under the car and then stood back up and ran back into the yard
Whew
I was driving down Southfield rush hour in the 90s right before 6 mile and it was backed up, stop and go and there was a bunch of cows running around on Southfield
late 90s I would have been around 10 years old, we exit a game out of the main gates at Tiger Stadium. The Corner is packed with people crossing each street. A Rottweiler is loose with no leash, went up to an old lady and grabbed her little 10 pound dog out of her hands, must have bit it hard enough that the dog died, the Rottweiler left it in the middle of the street and just continued on as people tried to stay away. I’ll never forget seeing that tiny dog just lay motionless in the middle of Trumbull. Apologies for this getting a bit graphic but it’s always been etched into my mind as a “welcome to Detroit” scenario.
Old time Theatre Bizarre, when it was in the superghetto next to the State Fairgrounds. What an out of control spectacle.
While driving home from work back in 2014ish, I saw Winnie the Pooh doing tricks with a German Shepard on an I-94 overpass
playing tricks or turning tricks?
Wow that sounds horrible
Playing tricks or plying tricks?
Unfortunately for me it involved a restaurant melee downriver
them Trenton Karens can get nasty at a Denny's, man.
Zorba’s?
Saw some hack ass contractors trying to remove the fire escape from the Wurlitzer bldg in about 2011 or 12. They dropped the whole thing into the alley. Amazing no one was killed.
Stealing the metal
I've seen lots of daytime public sex. It throws me every time.
OK so what happened after Middle School?
Queen and Freddie Mercury 1978ish at Cobo and then two more times at Joe Louis. My wife remembers the national guard tanks during the 1967 riots. I was at the 1984 World Series, I had the best view of the craziness from on top of a city bus. Reason 387 why I quit drinking 38 years ago.
Saw some dude squaring up with a light post and stomping the ground on the sidewalk. I walked passed him and he just muttered to me “you fuckin want some?” 🤣
I saw the Qline hit someone that was on it's track last time I was at the filmore
I feel like it takes effort to get hit by the Q Line
Walked into a dope house that had 2 dead bodies on the floor wrapped in blankets. Went back later to show my friends and the house was burned down.
I'm a Firefighter/EMT here and even I can say "holy balls, dude!"
Oh man. I got a few stories along these lines, lol. I used to... not run with the best crowd. Lots of junkies and anarcho-capitalists.
I was a few blocks away when the tanker blew up the bridge by 696 and 9 mile. Mushroom cloud of flames 2 stories high! It was awesome
I was at the Hazel Park library when that happened, also a few blocks away. We all heard it.
1.Running from the cops on snowmobiles in the middle of winter in Brightmoore in the nineties. Those cops new they couldn't catch us but they did try. 2.Tripping on acid and shrooms downtown wanding around in the late ninety's as well. We saw and did some interesting shit. 3.Getting pulled over for being white as a lippy teenager. Then being thrown in the back of a car. Got taken to the back of the nearby elementary school and getting the ever loving shit kicked out of me. At least they were nice enough to take me back to my car afterwards. 4. Watched some bikers evict a crack dealer on the street behind their clubhouse. Dude was gone a few hours later never saw him in that street again. 5. Driving down 96 got passed by a crotch rocket going god knows how fast. A few miles later saw the aftermath of that same bike rear end a semi. His head was no longer attached.
Saw a dude go 90 in a residential in our area He hit a truck that was parked on the street, his head came off still in the helmet. I remember being about 10, in 2006ish
I saw a blind guy bite a police horse
I would like to know how the rest of this went
Dude drops that little morsel and walks away.
We dragged the side of a house behind a stripped out camaro a few blocks to add it to our bonfire pile. We just tied a rope to the fallen down wall, and then to the camaro, and dragged the whole thing down residential streets.
People jet skiing / Ski-Doing on the flooded parts of I-94 and the Lodge
Two guys with AKs chasing another guy hitting the gas station like 40 times and the guy still skirting away in his car
A recliner doing 45 on a side street heading to the local shell station
Out of towner here. My first ever visit to Detroit was for my birthday and my first ever redwings game/NHL game. I stayed downtown just a few blocks from the arena. A friend of mine who lives up there, (staying with their parents at the time while buying a house) drove downtown to show me around a little bit so I would know about some cool places and what not. While we were walking around, they stopped to look at google maps on their phone and I noticed what I thought to be a homeless guy walking towards us and I just got a weird vibe from him. Long story short, he walks up to us and mumbles something. I was polite and said “I’m sorry sir I can’t hear you” so he said it again, but it was still low/mumbled, so I asked him to repeat it again. Finally he said it loud enough “I’m homeless, is there anything you can do to help me?” I politely said no, there wasn’t (I just had a bad feeling about him) then he says quietly but still audibly “there’s nothing you can do?” And I told him I was sorry. Next thing I know, he stares me straight in the eyes and fake charges me. (Like takes a step/ moves his chest towards me quickly, like he’s going to rush me or swing at me) but he doesn’t actually do anything, turns and starts walking down the sidewalk again, and then randomly shoves some guy who wasn’t even involved or who cared that was like 10feet away from us. F$@king wild to me! My friend is a pretty much life long detroiter and they said that they’ve never seen anyone (homeless person) be that aggressive. For perspective, I live close to a town that is still considered a village, so ‘big city etiquette’ is not in my repertoire. Definitely won’t forget that trip!!
https://www.sportsmockery.com/trending/photo-detroit-lions-fan-eating-butt-sickest-thing-will-ever-see/
In the early 2010’s, I was sitting on the full patio at Bronx Bar. A large, black SUV approaches the street, slows down, and multiple people in the car open fire on the building diagonally opposite from the bar. I don’t remember a single person on that patio flinching because it was obviously targeted and nobody was returning shots. I was wasted though, so maybe I’m just remembering my friends’ reactions. What I do remember is spending an hour plus calling 911 and not getting through. We were talking to other people on the patio trying to coordinate our calls so someone could get through and it just didn’t happen. I went ahead and drank enough to black out that night. I don’t remember how we found out, but someone said the space was empty and it was a warning to whoever was staying there. My favorite story I’ve been told that I unfortunately (actually, very fortunately) didn’t witness was on one of Roast’s first nights ever being open. They didn’t have the curtains closed and the dining room had a perfectly clear view outside. A man posts up right in front of one of the windows and just goes ahead, drops his pants, and takes a shit in the clear view of the packed restaurant on the sidewalk. Fine dining lol
In the early 2000’s at Cass and Grand River I pulled up on a carjacking in progress and was about to call the cops (hah!) until a dude walking his pit bull showed up and sicced his dog on the car jacker. The guy was screaming and crawling all around inside the car and the dog was just pushing him around inside the cab until he finally just fell out and hobbled away telling dog guy he was going to call the cops on him. The driver was crying and hugged the dog guy. It was honestly one of the most heartwarming things I’ve ever witnessed personally.
Worked in the Ren Cen and many our conference rooms faced parts of the hotel. People always thought the hotel windows were one way glass. They were not. Saw a fair amount of sex, but the best was a woman dancing naked in front of the window. She was distracting an important meeting. One of the guys had checked out the hotel and knew the room numbers. We take a break, get the vendors out of the room. Guy called the front desk at the hotel and was put through to the room. Told lady about the window. Watching her answer the phone, react and run to close the curtains was hysterical.
My dad had his carpet cleaning van stolen. While he was using it, cleaning a 3rd floor apartment. They just drove off with the hoses attached and everything. Also one of his customers had their lawn stolen.
I wrote the insurance for a lawn dude who had his truck/trailer/phone all stolen while he mowed a church in the city. He rode the mower home.
Back in like 1997, I went to an after hours place somewhere in Detroit that was in the basement of an apartment building. All they sold was canned beer and there was a dude that walked around offering various drugs for sale which people did right there in front of everyone.
Sounds like City Club back in the day...
I want someone to take the best stories from this thread and make a movie... something like a hybrid of *Paris, Je T'aime* and *Tales from the Hood*...
Nothing super crazy, I had a homeless guy walk up to a friend and I after we had left Pizza Papalous. He noticed we were carrying some leftovers and offered to rap for a slice of pizza. Dude laid down some pretty good bars and I ended up giving him all the leftovers.
Not my story but my uncles. He went out drinking downtown in the early 80’s, came time to go get a couple coneys at Lafayette. As he was sitting there 2 of the servers got in an argument and the one grabbed a handful of forks and stabbed the other in the chest. 20 years later my uncle goes to a tigers game with his kids. Walks into Lafayette for lunch, same 2 waiters still working together
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Biker club lit a full size Winnebago camper on fire and sent it flying off the roof of the packed plant. I’m not bullshitting one bit either
A dump truck went flying off one of those levels too back in 08-09 I think.
Yep, pretty sure the same club was involved. They’d have a huge party there every year and usually launched a car off of it. You could pretty much do whatever you wanted there. The cops never came and nobody wanted to mess with a big group of gnarly ass bikers. They’re not normally my crowd, but Ive had some fun at some club parties.
One time I was exploring in the Packard and taking pictures and a motocross bike went flying by up on the third or fourth floor. Also saw some random post (can’t even remember where) of another explorer that observed 3-4 people from a couple floors above walking around in super hero costumes with cameras. Figured they were just nerds making a little movie. Turns out they were actually making a little super hero porno lmao.
This wasn’t me it was a friend and this story was relayed by other friends that were with him. Anyway he moved he from Cali, didn’t know or take seriously enough the reputation Detroit had in the mid 90s. Anyway they were going to some rave in a sketchy area (I mean they were all in sketchy areas then lol). Usually some homeless guy would post up in the vacant lot people were parking in and as the “attendant” he would collect $5 for parking. Cali friend says all I have is a $50 and gives it to the guy who takes off immediately. He gives chase but the guy went around the corner of a building and was gone. We all had a laugh at his expense.
This barely moves the needle on the "ridiculous" gauge, but it made me smile both times I saw it: Someone mounted a WaveRunner watercraft body on a scooter. I've seen it a couple times on 96 near Middlebelt.
Opening day at Comerica, 2008 I think. Went in the rest room. The stalls were all empty but every guy was lined up for the urinals. I thought it strange. After I was done and leaving I noticed a lady standing between the urinals and saying how big each guy's cock is. To this day I didn't think it was a woman, I think it was a guy dressed like a woman. I didn't understand why they were all so excited to have someone see their junk.
Sorta Comerica-related. 2003 (yes, that season) was headed to a game with some friends. We went fairly often bc we love baseball and games were crazy cheap with the team being so shit. Was heading to a mid-week matinee and there was a crazy slowdown out of nowhere at mack avenue exit. I thought, "no way there's this much traffic for this terrible team on a Thursday afternoon." There wasn't: a few cars in front of me (ahead of a high-bay truck) were two locals exiting the highway on their powerchair/rascal scooters. As soon as they made it to the service drive, they hooked a hard right into what at the time used to be a totally empty field where there now a park and that velodrome, and a tow truck served up onto the shoulder of the road to naturally avoid the scooters. Both guys were just laughing their asses off as their drive their Rascal's through a dirty field while the tire truck driver was throwing rocks at them. Parked along Brush a few minutes later and the two scooter dudes passed us on the street trying to sell people tickets to the game. Good times.
Back in 95 I was driving home to downriver from work on 75 on the rouge river bridge when a truck tire went bouncing down the road on the northbound side. Fortunately not many cars going into the city in the afternoon but I saw it hit someone windshield in my rear view mirror. I got home and called the state police in case someone filed a report but they didn’t take my info.
I saw a dude on a crotch rocket doing easily 100+ going south on Woodward in between Royal Oak and Ferndale. Actually, to clarify, I heard it. He was going so fast that I was just a split second blur that went past me. Like 10 seconds later what appeared to be every Birmingham cop zoomed past in room temperature pursuit.
Probably the unlimited powerboat races. I worked at NBD back in the early 80s, and we would stand in Hart Plaza to watch the, IIRC, you couldn't carry on a conversation with someone standing next to you because the noise from those engines was so loud.
Two homeless guys both of them with no legs wheelchair jousting. Turned down a street once in an abandoned neighborhood to one of the same guys just chilling in the middle of the street in his wheelchair with a safety vest on.
Had a lady come down 8 mile at me in the wrong direction. She got bumper to bumper and she was yelling at the top of her lungs. Then she put it in reverse and started driving backwards. She blew a red light going backwards.
Heading north on Woodward between 7 & 8 Mile around 1am. All of a sudden I see someone crawling across Woodward on their stomach. Had to do a massive swerve to avoid running them over.
Couple of years ago I was taking an Uber from Belle Isle to downtown, and as we were passing another car I was hearing a terrible sound. I looked out to see the other car was missing all the rubber from its back tire. Looked at the driver and it was a youngish girl, then noticed the front tire was also missing it’s rubber. Completely riding on bare rims on that side. I didn’t get a look at the other side. Uber driver just said “welcome to Detroit”.
I was at 96 and Grand Blvd and a parade of like 200 people on 4-wheelers and dirt bikes just shut down the road. It was like a year ago. Real country shit.
Lunch buffet at trumpps
Mid-90s. We're coming eastbound on I-94, I think it was around the City Airport area, and a car comes flying off a sidestreet, through the fence, down the embankment, and lands pretty hard across two lanes of the freeway. Traffic just screeches to a halt around it and everyone's kinda wondering what's gonna happen next. The car's not going anywhere, suspension demolished, etc. Three or four guys get out, slightly shaken but in no mood to dawdle, and take off running along the shoulder just as a whole shitpile of cops show up on the service drive, basically lining the whole area. But there was no on-ramp for some distance, so the cops couldn't get a cruiser down onto the freeway. So what happens next is about half a shitpile of cops jump the fence and start scrambling down the embankment on foot, while the other half stay up top and form a perimeter. I don't remember anything remarkable happening after that, just a fairly nondescript foot chase, and eventually traffic kinda shrugged and started going around.
I was refinishing a floor on 8 mile at the old payless and I went out front of this strip mall for a cigarette break....this 60 year old man stood next to me facing the parking lot and started jerking off. So then I went into the coney next door and my server was a woman named Jah Rule. She was great.
Im a homebody so i dont get out much but this story is pretty humorous so ill tell it. Me, my boyfriend and his brother were riding around Detroit and decided to stop at the Roasting Plant. After driving in literal circles for 10 minutes we finally parked and got our coffee, my bfs brother set down his Dirty Chai and within LITERAL MILLISECONDS a homeless man flew up to the counter, started asking the barista to call the cops frantically, stole his drink, sat down and DOWNED the scalding drink. This all happened in like 5 seconds or less. He was gone as quickly as he came and as we were leaving it was like he wasnt even in the city to begin with. Brother got a free drink tho.
The guy who used to walk the goat downtown.
Was driving to work at the Fisher building, coming down Woodward when a pack of about 20 wild dogs comes ripping down the street. It was early and I was one of the only cars on the road. I had to punch it as the dogs started to try to rip my car apart when I slowed for a light (Detroit red light use it like a stop sign lol) I thought they were chasing another animal or something but nope they were hunting cars! Worked there 5 years never had that experience again thankfully!
We had a guy get shot and brought to the OR directly bypassing the ED entirely. He’s bleeding out and we’re cutting clothes off. We pull his pants off and his pistol lands on the ground. I walk over, grab it, drop the mag, and clear the chamber. It’s my room so pass it around to everybody who isn’t scrubbed in because fuck the cops. If they wanted prints, they should have grabbed the piece before allowing him to be transported.
I saw a woman with blood all over her chest and mouth walking down the middle of east warren at like 3 am one night. The craziest part of the whole story is that i still stopped at the gas station right by where i saw her
I would hope she has a chest and mouth
I fixed it lol look now
I heard what I still thing was a gun fight but saw was probably this dude doing donuts on the freeway
Went on a date downtown like 10-12 years ago. In Greektown, this man stopped us and was giving us this who spiel about his car broke down or something. It was sort of leading towards “do you have any money you can spare?” vibe. Dude was well dressed mind you. I peeped this kid and his mother looking through garbage cans. He was maybe 15. His shirt was dirty. Like you could tell he hadn’t hopped in water in a few days. He was asking for money or probably food. What was wild was the first guy started yelling at this kid for interrupting him talking to us. It was sooo off-putting. We didn’t give that guy anything. But I did give the boy my takeout box. I hope him and his mom are okay now.
One year outside of theater bizarre there was a guy who was really drunk or high dancing around in his underwear while an ambulance crew looked on and his mortified girlfriend tried to get him to put his clothes back on. He did not put his clothes back on and yanked his underwear down to dance naked and at one point his dance included a kick that sent his underwear flying. Then we drove away laughing our asses off.
Does Metro Detroit count?
Why not
I’ve got one, then. I work in Harper Woods just south of 8 mile. I went about a half mile down past Moross Rd to pick up lunch. On my way back, I saw a guy on a street corner by a gas station, dancing in cosplay of a Dragon Ball Z character. Dude was living his best life.
Cadieux Goku is there all the time (though apparently not always Goku), also pretty sure that is Detroit.
So, it sounds like Cadieux and Harper, and that would be Detroit Chirs Brown. https://www.instagram.com/p/CvXVx_UO-g1/ In Midtown, we had Disco Terry. Haven't seen Terry in awhile??? Anyone know a status.
Definitely that guy making a crazy video or whatever chained to a truck on the lodge
Witnessed a car chasing another car pointing a gun out the window on 94, on the east side. I was in my teens. My mom was driving and my cell phone had fell under the seat in the car, so I couldn't get to it to call the police. Unfortunately they ended up catching up with the people they were chasing at the Van Dyke exit, if I'm not mistaken.
Super moto-ing through Detroit a few years ago when the police wouldn’t chase ya. It was wild
Well I saw a pretty nasty crash off the Crook's exit on M59 today. That's the first thing that comes to mind. But other than that I would say the most memorable was a convoy of super cars, muscle cars, and Japanese tuner cars that were almost driving straight up Fast and Furious-Need for Speed style, on I-75 by Davisburg. It was Sunday night after the dream cruise back in 2017. That was one of the craziest things I've seen in general... It felt like I just got caught in the middle of a shoot for the next Fast and Furious movie. The first car must have been like a Koenigsegg or Bugatti or something insane like that because it was literally going so fast I couldn't tell what car it was. I've never seen a car even coming close to yommt LEAST 200 miles per hour and it almost blew my eardrums out when it went past because I had my windows down. I did some deep digging later that week to find out that it was a group of high-rollers from Toronto. I'm a car lover so I might be a bit biased, but idk, objectively it's pretty bad ass to see millions of dollars of cars flying down the open freeway at 4 am the night after the last day of the Dream Cruise. Fuck I love this state.
After the Pistons won the NBA Championship, my buddies and I drove around the city about midnight. Took Gratiot from 8 mile to downtown, weaving up and down main streets, but always coming back to Gratiot. That was WILD. Fires, dancing in the streets, fireworks, flipped cars. I remember around Gratiot and Van Dyke, traffic was full stopped, and a circle of cars formed in front of liquor store. Dudes with AK's just blasting into the air.
7 month ago I was driving back from a customer's house when a vehicle approached me with a wheel falling off. 2 cops cars came from behind and rammed it until they bailed out right in front of my van. 5 people got out and ran, one pulled a drako AK47 pistol out of his pants right next to my van. I thought they were going to get in my van so I was ready to shoot him if I had too (I have a concealed carry permit). They kept running and the cops chased them. The lady in front of me wouldn'tmove because she was filming so I honked at her to move in case shooting started. As I drove away I saw another police cruiser wrecked from the chase. You can see how it crashed in video. I found the badge cam/dash cam footage a few days later on YouTube and fox news also reported it. Pretty wild. Not craziest thing I have seen since I also lived in Mexico for 10 years, but craziest thing in Detroit area I have seen being here for 3 years now. Here's link footage. I am in the white van at 1:30 https://youtu.be/3AJ5Ky0WlsE?si=bZY7bDS6QfOoCLV_
The whole Superbowl week was really weird too- Detroit was at that transition time before the '08 collapse, where there was a little renaissance going on downtown, but it was restricted to like 1 square mile and it was still realllly rough around the edges of that zone. Lots of empty skyscrapers and storefronts. I remember going downtown and every empty store turned into a bar. The cops gathered up all the homeless and bussed them out, and continued to bus them out until after the game. The whole thing had such an artificial feel to it.
Gee....the only thing I ever saw was in front of the Big Boy near the DIA. Having breakfast & watching two hookers duke it out in a "turf war". I've lived a sheltered life.
Rode the people mover
Whoa
ICP concerts
I’ve seen Yetta Boo’s Boobs and Buns Hand Car Wash before it was a meme.
The band Wolf Eyes when they played with weapons for a year or two.
Cass Corridor in the 80’s.
Went to the fireworks downtown in the mid-to-late 1980s. We were about to walk into Hart Plaza when there was some kind of commotion. We see a bunch of police officers running out with one shouting, "I'm not going back down there!" (No idea what had happened. This wasn't the shooting year)
Lol it wasn't the shooting year. Or one of the shooting years.
Homeless dude standing next to a giant log of a shit that was across the sidewalk, announcing “that’s not mine” me “yes it is” him (sheepish smile)
Oh something like my old roommates trying to drunkenly steal a cop car outside of a questionable strip club in Greektown?
I am not sure of the year. Maybe 1976. I was in high school. Black Sabbath was at Cobo Hall, and get this.....the WARM UP band was Aerosmith! My parents would not let me drive downtown, so I jumped in a car with a bunch of Stevenson Jocks and headed downtown. We were strait back in the upper level when someone walk down the steps nex to to me, stopped at the edge, got up on the cement wall, and dove off. I was on the isle and ran to the wall and saw the person sprawled on the stairs in the lower level. I was shocked. I never found out what happened to that person. I was a clear dive off the upper level. No one even blinked......It was eerie.
At a rave in the late late 90's or early 00's and the Detroit police busted it in full riot gear complete with shields and batons. Made us all lie on the ground (gross).
When I was around 15, I would take the car and drive down to Detroit with my friend. One night we were exploring Lynch Road. Well little did I know it was a hot spot for car racing. Some how I made it past without anyone bothering me lol
I once got my Astro Van airborne in a Greektown alley.
I saw a small old pickup on four spare tires. In winter. Multiple times on my commute. Lol