r/Glasgow Tools

Ah, cool.

> Imagine Glasgow having a yearly homicide rate of about 900.

Dude, the *stories* I've got of my year there, honestly.

In January 2014 they had a murder for every day, including seemingly innocuous middle-aged folk in their homes. They reckoned it was a new dealer going around doing in his rival's customers.

My flatmate's pal shooed away some burglars one night, and a year later to the day they came back and murdered her.

The day my GF came to visit, we got on the bus and a woman pulled out a gun on the driver. Then we got the train and a woman in front of us was leaving a voicemail for her pal: 'hey X, hope you're well. I'm having a bad week, my nephew was found with a bullet in his head in a burned out car. Anyway ttyl!'

I went and viewed a flat, which I didn't get. About 6 months later, their dog ran out and died of 'heat stroke'. Fine, until they got the autopsy and it turned out the cop that found him and just outright murdered the poor thing. Big news story at the time.

(I've *way* more).

Fucking *mental*. Give me Sauchihall street at 3am any day over Baltimore, man.

On the bright side: Americans are just big golden retrievers and were unbelievably welcoming and interested in who I was and where I was from. I viewed a flat, which again I didn't get, and they were like 'you're not right for this flat but come to the pub with us, it must be hard being new in town'. I got invited to a thanksgiving and it was great: basically christmas without gifts. Great idea.