# Scariest, Most Dangerous Place To Be Alone **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 23, 2008, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521 "2008-04-23T09:15:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/1 "2008-04-23T09:15:22Z")
I have this weird fascination with real places that would be the scariest, most dangerous places to suddenly wake up in - in the middle of the night - and be alone. Not the obvious places like “anywhere in Iraq” or “at my mother-in-law’s house”… I am thinking the Cabrini-Green housing project in Chicago, or in the ghettos of Rio in Brazil, or parts of South Central LA…places with high crime/murder rates and bleak surroundings. Nominees? ---
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/2 "2008-04-23T09:40:28Z")
The moon Reminds me of the Larson cartoon - “Frank, where were you? We waited and waited…” Grim ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/3 "2008-04-23T10:13:16Z")
A barn full of four-hundred-pound, man-eating boars. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/4 "2008-04-23T10:30:36Z")
On this guy’s corner.[Moderator note]link NSFW, broken by Mod[/Moderator note] ---
**Author:** ![phall0106](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phall0106/32/5934_2.png) [@phall0106](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phall0106)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/5 "2008-04-23T12:24:02Z")
[QUOTE=Koxinga] On [this guy’s corner.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N6Cssdrouo) [/QUOTE] Well, that’s not work safe (language). ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/6 "2008-04-23T12:30:36Z")
Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/7 "2008-04-23T13:21:43Z")
That is probably the most disturbing video I’ve seen in a while. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/8 "2008-04-23T14:00:43Z")
Antarctica? A mile above the Earth, in free fall? At one of Fred Phelps’ sermons? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/9 "2008-04-23T14:14:48Z")
[QUOTE=Koxinga] Sorry. [/QUOTE] Sometimes you’ve got to fix things by breaking them. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/10 "2008-04-23T15:04:36Z")
Alone, in the bottom of a mine. And something just cut all the lights. Stuck in a water-tight compartment in a sunken ship or sub. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Mike\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Fun)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/11 "2008-04-23T15:08:18Z")
The middle of the [Hoosac Tunnel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoosac_Tunnel) without a light, and a train is passing through. I haven’t walked through it yet, but I know people who have. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/12 "2008-04-23T15:12:29Z")
[QUOTE=Gala Matrix Fire] A barn full of four-hundred-pound, man-eating boars. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I was going to say in a tiger cage, next to a waking tiger. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/13 "2008-04-23T15:26:40Z")
Somewhere in the arctic circle, during a whiteout blizzard. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/14 "2008-04-23T15:27:02Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Alone, in the bottom of a mine. And something just cut all the lights. [/QUOTE] Winner. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/15 "2008-04-23T15:27:22Z")
I’d probably skip Lagos, Mogadishu or Tijuana. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/16 "2008-04-23T16:27:13Z")
According to Chris Rock Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. - Anytown, USA ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/17 "2008-04-23T17:22:26Z")
On the White House lawn during a security lockdown. In Osama bin Laden’s cave. In the middle of a Middle East anti-American demonstration. In some of the South African townships. On the bottom of the Marianas Trench, in any year and for _any_ amount of time. Between Donald Trump and a TV camera. Between Elizabeth Taylor and a buffet table. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/18 "2008-04-23T19:15:50Z")
Sealed in a coffin, underground. Sealed in a coffin, on a conveyor belt. Condemned cell, about 4 in the morning with a couple of hours to go. ---
**Author:** ![Blather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5a626/32.png) [@Blather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blather)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/19 "2008-04-23T19:59:54Z")
In a cheap hotel room across from a strip club in Tijuana, discovering your wallet and passport are missing. It is only my imagination of course. This has never happened. I repeat… Erm. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-most-dangerous-place-to-be-alone/446521/20 "2008-04-23T20:35:53Z")
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