North Surrey, more like North Scurvy or Slurry.

[Masozi]

To start with I want to say that I'm VERY pissed off as I am writing this, so much so that I am not able to sleep even though its 5 in the morning. I also want to say that I apologize to any of you who live in North Surrey but after last night  I will now be referring to it as "North Scurvy or Slurry".  I went to hang out with Emcew, Chris. Lenare and Shim for the evening and left to come home at midnight. It's possible that some of you will say that I probably shouldn't have been walking from 96th Ave and 128th to King George Blvd. so late at night, well you are right and I'm not likely doing it again.  I had to do so to catch the bus home and I had to get to KGB in time to take the southbound tuna can back home or I would have been stuck there for a long time. In the past year I have had 3 other drive by incidents like the one below but not as bad as this 4th one, this was a whole new level of suck!

I admit to making one key mistake in my haste to get to the bus stop, I walked with the traffic coming up behind me on the geographic south side of 96th. I should have walked on the geographic north side looking at oncoming traffic. However, based on how determined these cowardly little needle dicked bug fucking social germs were to start trouble with anyone they saw walking I don't think it would have made much of a difference.
I made a tactical error in not keeping my enemy in sight and being on the side of the road that is more difficult for them to attack me from. . .  I would have seen approaching trouble more easily. 

Long story short, I was walking east on 96th from 132nd when a light tan 4 door with two females and a male drove by shouting at me,   "Look at the fuckin loser walking, you fuckin fag"  Then they laughed and sped away as I replied with a "Screw off you lousy jerks!". A couple of minutes later after circling around the block they returned and threw several rocks and eggs at me, only one egg caught my backpack and got on my jacket. I shouted a rather angry 4 letter retort to their cowardly attack and the car slowed almost to a crawl. A female and a male on the passenger side of the vehicle were babbling excitedly to the driver as the male partially opened his door, maybe he was getting out?. I noticed that he was smaller and thinner than I as I took off my backpack, stood in a fighting stance and shouted at him to "come get some you fucks!". The female from the back seat window, the male from the front threw what looked like a couple of small rocks at me, he closed the passenger side door and the car sped away eastbound until turning south on King George.  All I got from the license plate were the letters "VS" as I was in a fury, I could not catch them and there were no witnesses as the avenue was empty.   I believe that the male was going to come out and fight until he saw how big I was and decided against it. These guys were out looking for trouble, honestly, who drives around North Surrey at midnight with eggs and rocks in their car? 

Here are two images that go with this incident.

Image 1 Description - This small map has a red X showing the exact location of the incident mentioned in this journal entry.

Image 1 - http://pics.livejournal.com/lope/pic/0007sxt2/g9

Image 2 Description - This is a picture of the back part of my jacket showing the egg stain and the corner of my backpack which was where the egg hit.

Image 2 - http://pics.livejournal.com/lope/pic/0007r8ta/g9

[Renwaldo]

We refer to Surrey Central and North Surrey as New Delhi due to its obvious cultural affiliations. Like New Delhi, in many ways North Surrey is also a cesspit of all forms of human waste.  :-\

It's a shame you couldn't get the license number.

[Vanilla Skunk]

Dude.  I used to live right where you got egged!

But yeah, that place is pretty bad.  The only place in my entire life where I had a close call being hit by a car, is right there.

I lived in Vancouver, I lived in New West, I lived in Coquitlam, and now I live in Langley.  Anywhere near the heart of Slurrey is bad news.  Even the landlords suck.

[zenia]

So glad I don't live in Surrey anymore. My family moved right before it started going bad.

[Sikkab]

Wow, Lope. That's horrible. I hope you're ok. It's really too bad you didn't catch their license plate number. I'd love to see the justice hammer brought down upon them.

[Tony Greyfox]

It's stuff like this that is why I pay a premium to rent in Vancouver. I could save a couple, three hundred bucks a month if I wanted to rent in Surrey, but then I'd be paying more to get to work and I'd have to deal with that kind of worry. Sure, it doesn't happen every day, but it happens enough. Sorry to hear you had to deal with that. =/

[mediar]

I used to live in Whalley (136st and Whalley Ring), and saw some scary shit. Lucky I never got jumped or assaulted, but that really sucks to hear man. I live on 84th and King George, if you need a lift or think you do, message me on here. Rather spend the gas picking someone up then see this shit.

[Masozi]

Answers to replies below...

Renwaldo - I wished I had manged to get the license plate, if I had done so then I would have called the police and had something they could have put into their computer to find out who they were and deal with them.

Felix McKline - Now I have some understanding as to why you probably didn't stay in Slurry for too long, bad neighborhood thats for sure! I'm fairly sure if I had been on a bike they would probably have tried to run into me.

Zenia - *Nods*  which is good because you don't have to deal with this kind of random stupid stuff anymore.

Sikkab - Im okay physically but it was suuuuper maddening to say the least, not just because of the incident but because I made a mistake during the situation that caused my attention to be diverted from not getting the LP number. 

Tony Greyfox - Thanks, its true that the extra expense of living where you do is like paying for piece of mind. I have been going in and out of that North Surrey neighborhood for several years now and it has only been in the past year to 18 months that bad things have been regularly happening when I am going there. 

Mediar - Thanks for the extra offer, I'll remember to keep that in mind the next time I find myself in the same situation. But there will be two people with cars there in the next couple of weeks so I should be good for now.

[Zen]

First off, sorry that this happened to you Lope.  People can be real assholes, and no one should have to deal with being harassed just because those assholes think they're hot shit cause they have a car.  I'm glad it was just an egg, though, and wasn't a lot worse!

96 and KGB is a shitty area to be any time of night.  Right in Whalley and a few blocks from the dangerous area.  (Was called Ring Road, but it's Whalley Blvd now I think?)  That's Slurrey and stupid teens in general.  I hate being in that area and trying to commute because it's just dangerous the closer you get to the Skytrain and KG.  One of the reasons I'm glad I live on Scott Road now, I don't have to deal with KG and Surrey Central.

[Renwaldo]

I volunteered at cinemazoo for few weeks when it was still in Whalley back in '07. By far the sleaziest neighbourhood I've ever seen.

I even got pickpocketed one night at the skytrain station there. Luckily at the time I was only carrying a couple bucks worth of change, and the only card I kept in there was my student id which is easily replaced. The thief was a big guy so I didn't pursue it.

Anyways, Whalley has always been a scary place. Though i've heard the local government there has given several developers permission to build there with the plan of raising the improving the micro-economy in Whalley. I don't know if it's working or if people are still building around there, last thing I heard was they were finishing a new set of townhouses a block from the sky train and the bank tower there. 

[mediar]

There is new development in Whalley, which is good... however it's causing all the undesirables to squeeze into a smaller area. Making the old bits of Whalley even nastier.

[Masozi]

Answers written below...

To Zen - Fortunately it was just an egg and not a knife, broken bottle or a Molotov cocktail, but my trust in the future of our civilization has dropped a bit as a result of this incident. If we are supposed to hand over the future of the planet to ignorant bigoted drugged up retards then we as a species will self destruct and probably in my lifetime. Scott Road is far enough from the main transit routes so that you don't have to deal with these trailer park rejects too often. From here on I will have a new policy of "gtfoasap" from now on.   

To Renwaldo - Whalley was a hell hole as bad as the downtown east side in the late 1990's up until recently buts its still got a long way to go to improve. The new towers going up around KG station to Gateway are part of the Surrey town center project. Even the Surrey RCMP headquarters is supposed to relocate from where it is now up to the new town center but the build up is a long term project. As for the pickpocket, if the guy is bigger then you then its probably not a good idea to take him on... thats why I don't carry cash when going through there anymore... panhandlers and thieves.

To mediar - Constable Farron told me a while back that the development thats going on in Whalley has pushed some of the drug dealers from there southward into the Newton area and further. Some of the drug dealers and dial a dope couriers that I have been seeing down here are probably displaced from the Newton to Panorama Ridge district. 

[AMZinthos]

Wow.. that really sucks -hugs lope-. I didn't think this kind of thing happened in Canada, I mean sure nothing's perfect but the image Canada has out there is this perfect nation where nothing goes wrong and everything is amazingly organized and safe... Why must there always be a group of assholes causing trouble  >:(

I'm glad you're ok and nothing too serious happened that's the most important part! Hopefully this never happens again  :-[

[Blue]

I live nearish 88th and KG... and now you have me real paranoid with walking on my own. darn..

[Zen]

@Lope: Unfortunately that's what I actually recommend to people.  Either go around to Scott Road, or GTFO fast.  Taxi, bus, ride, anything but walking near Whalley.  I spent a year commuting from downtown van to Newton.  Late nights at Surrey Central were very ... memorable ...

@Zinny: I've been yelled at and had things thrown at me in board daily light, simply because I was walking.  This mainly happened when I was in HS and the kids with cars would throw their empty McDicks garbage at us as they drove back to school.  We threw back occasionally, even got a half-empty pop container back in a window once!  But yeah, morons do this all the time, it's just a matter of how badly they want to cause a problem.

@Blue: I wouldn't go into Bear Creek in the middle of the night, but walking the street at night is no worse than other areas.  It's when you're closer to the transit hub ... amazing what a few blocks does in terms of safety.