How old were you and what do you remember about the 1992 LA riots?
Posted by WoodenWeather5931@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 140 comments
Posted by WoodenWeather5931@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 140 comments
doorman666@reddit
My main memory is the Rodney King quote "Can't we all just get along?".
BlacksmithThink9494@reddit
Between that and "no new taxes", the beginning of the 90s was off to a very rocky start.
Munk45@reddit
Such an intense time in SoCal
PoisonIvy724@reddit
Yes! This is why when people are like “the 90s were the best, no issues at all” I’m like, dude, NO. A lot of terrible stuff happened and the racial tensions were palpable.
BlacksmithThink9494@reddit
LITERALLY THIS. So many people just dont remember the crazy stuff that went down.
BlacksmithThink9494@reddit
This is how I remember it. My middle school yearbook even highlighted the riots (LA county)
ScooterWorm@reddit
Reginald Denny scene was wild! Still haunts me.
coloradotaxguy@reddit
Can't we all just get along?
BlacksmithThink9494@reddit
Apparently we cant! :(
General-Reserve9349@reddit
Not yet
djsynrgy@reddit
This is the piece I remember enduring , in terms of cultural zeitgeist.
Not the actual quote from the actual event, but the reenacted sketch comedy versions from shows like In Living Color and Saturday Night Live.
But I was on the opposite coast, and barely 12 years old, so my experience of the event was disconnected at best.
PoisonIvy724@reddit
I was 9. And I remember the curfews. It was scary.
legal_bagel@reddit
7th grade. They canceled classes and sent us home early because "rioters'" were nearby. My friend's parents both worked so we all went there to raid the liquor cabinet.
AwkwardlyTwisted@reddit
I was 8 so I don't remember much. I do remember that school was closed for a week and I wasn't allowed to go outside and play for a little while. Everything else I learned as I got older.
Tdk1984@reddit
I was 7. I remember the news coverage, and coming back home in the evenings from school and my parents’ work, and all the restaurants being closed because they couldn’t get food deliveries (I lived an hour or so east of LA)
207Menace@reddit
I was 9 i remember seeing the cops beat him on the news but I didn't know why they were beating him back then. This was the first news story I really remember.
AdhesivenessWeary377@reddit
That is now called LAPD rule in the poker game. 4 clubs beat a king.
iphoenixrising@reddit
r/angryupvote
Beneficial_Potato_85@reddit
I sad groaned.
SpaceAdventures3D@reddit
I didnt know either. Was years later that I looked up why he was initially pulled ober. DUI. But ultimately doesn't excuse what happened.
207Menace@reddit
And a 117 mph car chase. But still, beating him like that was nuts.
nochumplovesucka__@reddit
Well what I can tell you is this....
April 26th, 1992 There was a riot on the streets, tell me, where were you? You were sitting home watching your TV While I was participatin' in some anarchy The first spot we hit it was my liquor store I finally got all that alcohol I can't afford With red lights flashing, time to retire And then we turned that liquor store into a structure fire Next stop we hit it was the music shop It only took one brick to make that window drop Finally, we got our own P.A Where do you think I got this guitar that you're hearing today?
Adventurous-State940@reddit
Exactly what went through my head.
BrainFartTheFirst@reddit
The joke's on you. Sublime got the date wrong. The riot started on April 29th.
ocvagabond@reddit
Came here for this. I distinctly remember the real date due to a family event (not the riots). So it was always funny to me that the song got the date wrong.
BrainFartTheFirst@reddit
Ironically the correct date is in the name of the song but they still got the lyrics wrong.
ocvagabond@reddit
Isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think.
BrainFartTheFirst@reddit
It's like rain on your wedding day
Economy-Mango7875@reddit
I had that song playing in my head. Thanks ADHD!
Got_no_pants@reddit
sanedragon@reddit
I was grabbing some peppers
jesusmansuperpowers@reddit
All my first thoughts
Top_Perspective2926@reddit
imagine how glorifying chaos makes theft look ok
nochumplovesucka__@reddit
I dont have to imagine. Sublime did it for me.
WhatTheCluck802@reddit
Let it burn.
HotBBQ@reddit
Wanna let it burn.
WhatTheCluck802@reddit
Wanna let it burn.
bangobot46@reddit
This. This is the only thing I know about the LA Riots. I was 11 and lived 2 thousand miles away.
Neither-Principle139@reddit
Came here to say this!
avoozl42@reddit
When a couple of guys who were up to no good Started makin' trouble in my neighborhood I got in one little fight, and my mom got scared And said, "You're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air"
Baconoid_@reddit
Can I get an owner of ONS Junior Market? that's O-N-S. See if he wants to come down here and secure his property. It's flaming up pretty good.
ailish@reddit
I just listened to this song like 10 minutes ago.
mist_kaefer@reddit
HEY!
Defiant_Cookie_4963@reddit
CompletelyBedWasted@reddit
I lived in South Gate. I was 11. It was absolutely terrifying. But understandable.
SidFinch99@reddit
I was 11-12, I remember thar truck driver getting pulled out of his truck and beaten.
WillResuscForCookies@reddit
I was 9 years old, living in the Los Angeles Area, and my dad was an LAPD officer. I went to elementary school with a sibling of one of the officers who was involved in the Rodney King beating. Looking back… I don’t understand what was happening, just that my dad was gone for two weeks.
PuzzleheadedAbies678@reddit
Date was the 29th in 92, sublime messed up. Was a sophomore in high school and watched the verdict and subsequent riots in homeroom.
Jameson-Mc@reddit
April 29 1992 there was a riot on the streets tell me where were you
JuliusSeizuresalad@reddit
18 and it was pretty nuts
Economy-Mango7875@reddit
8 and didn't understand what was going on when I saw it on the news. If we had body cams back then I bet the officers would have not done it. The helicopter getting footage kept the beating from being swept under the rug. Did we, as a people, not learn from our mistakes?
Misfit_77@reddit
I was 14, in 9th grade and l lived in Riverside, CA. I remember when the Rodney King video was breaking news, the trial and subsequent acquittal of the 4 Officers accused of using excessive force. There was also another issue that contributed to the riots and the was the lenient sentencing of the convenience store owner who shot and killed her.
I remember watching the riots unfold on a tv screen while they were actually happening less than 60 miles away. There were arson fires in Riverside that were set during the unrest after the King verdict. Nothing close to where I lived though.
Pizzasaurus-Rex@reddit
I was 9 and I mostly remember the In Living Color bits.
ResponsibilityIcy187@reddit
9 and yes. I lived in LA . We got a few days off school during the riots .
augustwest30@reddit
I remember the Korean store owner protecting his shop up on his roof with a gun he wasn’t afraid to use.
5tealthNinjaWhattt@reddit
I lived in SoCal and my parents owned a store. It wasn’t in Los Angeles county so the rioting and looting wasn’t bad but my parents closed their store for a few days for their safety. Fortunately nothing happened to their business but the year after they decided to try a new business venture.
My dad was never strapped but he says he wished he had been.
randomhero1980@reddit
11, that truck driver taking a brick to the head.
Beneficial_Potato_85@reddit
Besides the random violence and fires, the one thing seared into my brain is that black woman that threw herself onto a white male truck driver. People from the riots had pulled him out of his truck and were beating him to death. She committed one of the most selfless acts ever recorded in the middle of a race riot. I was almost eight years old during the riots so I only remember so much. That will never leave my mind I don't think.
slappy_mcslapenstein@reddit
April 26, 1992 I was 9. I remember that the riots happened. That's about it. Obviously I know a lot more about them now but at the time all I knew was that Rodney King was beaten by the cops and people rioted because of it.
KopitarFan@reddit
I lived in Anaheim which is very far from LA. My dad was still worried that I would get caught up in the riots on my way home from school. I love him but he’s a freaking idiot sometimes
thirddownloud@reddit
I was 13, I remember seeing it on the news and seeing Reginald Denney get pulled out of his truck. Unfortunately, my 16 yo brother was killed in a car accident 11 days later, so most of my memories of that time are just thinking about how he was still alive then.
BrainFartTheFirst@reddit
I was seven. I remember seeing bits and pieces on the news including the Reginald Denny beating.
I have a friend who's in his 60s. He was actually in the national guard at the time and got deployed to LA.
feartheswans@reddit
ladyeclectic79@reddit
I remember watching it on TV in my Drama class. Not even sure WHY we watched it between talking about acting and theatre, but I remember seeing the whole Rodney King thing on tv in that class.
Helo7606@reddit
I was 14. Went to an almost all black school as a white kid. And got a LOT of threats for being in a city that's absolutely nowhere near LA. It was scary for me. And I. Extremely not racist at all.
Alice_600@reddit
I was 13 wishing I could throw a brick so I can finally throw the brick inside me.
CheesyRomantic@reddit
I was in the 7th or 8th grade. I remember feeling sick to my stomach for both Rodney King & the truck driver. Both people who didn't deserve what happened to them.
The riots pissed me off. The violence, the looting, the hate from all corners.
Did it resolve anything? Did it change anything for the positive?
I understand why people revolt. But to destroy innocent families businesses and to beat a man so badly his eye ball is danglung from where his cheek bone should be doesn't solve anything.
Violence and hate only breeds more violence and hate, and racist people, racist cops who abuse their power need to be held accountable.
WoodenWeather5931@reddit (OP)
Well said
CheesyRomantic@reddit
Thank you 😔
Mudcreek47@reddit
Spring of 8th grade.
We were all fascinated, yet strangely scared. And I went to school in rural North Georgia where literally nothing ever happened, much less race riots or looting.
GrandAffect@reddit
I was a few miles outside of Los Angeles proper, I was 9. I was terrified watching the news, but well out of range.
I now live in the heart of it all and pass by Florence and Normandy on the way to/ home from work.
Eastern-Joke-7537@reddit
I was living in Orange County watching the whole thing on TV. It was… surreal….
UnluckyCardiologist9@reddit
Me, too. I was in the SGV and still remember the smoke from the fires.
nicunta@reddit
I was 12. I remember watching on tv, and that poor semi driver being pulled from his truck. I understood that the riots were caused because of what the police did to Rodney, the cover-up, and the acquittal. It was crazy to watch, even from Michigan.
R0botDreamz@reddit
4th Grade. First time understanding cops can also be the bad guys after being indoctrinated to believe they are always there to help and protect you.
sageamericanidiot@reddit
11 or 12. I lived in the area, safely tucked away in my suburban corner, but you couldn't escape the news and we didn't travel much through the area for a while. It wasn't until late teens and into my 20s that I understood more about the what and why.
Inevitable_Bet4965@reddit
I will never get the image of them dragging a long-haired truck driver out of his rig and the savagery that followed.
Strict-Farmer904@reddit
I was about 8 and I don’t really remember much context for anything besides seeing the video of the Rodney king beating a lot a lot. I remember hearing the name “Reginald Denny,” a lot but there’s something visceral about the images of King and the phrase “Rodney King Beating,” that stuck with me. That and “Can’t we all just get along.”
The riots seemed like the thing that happened after all of that. I remember images of stuff on fire and shop owners on their roofs with shotguns.
Jclark36816@reddit
I was living in LA at the time. I only remember my school closed down for a few days but my parents were very secretive about why and didn’t watch the news in front of us. We moved to Colorado by that August.
tip0thehat@reddit
I remember watching Reginald Denny get dragged out of his truck and hit in the head with a fire extinguisher. I was pretty sure I had just watched a man get murdered on live TV.
RoundTheBend6@reddit
Being shocked that police would beat a man and seeing it on the news. My parent's didn't really care what I watched ever.
But I was still young and innocent thinking police were only good guys. Mind blown.
Bluevanonthestreet@reddit
Even at 13 I was pretty insulated in my southern middle class whiteness that I don’t really know much. I remember a man was beaten and there was a trial and then the riots. I didn’t really see any of the video footage. Most of the info I got was at school. My school was thankfully slightly diverse so I was exposed to more than people who were my clones like at church.
Now for OJ I remember watching the verdict on tv during math class. My mom was not happy about that.
LSATMaven@reddit
Same. I was 14 and it was a thing on the news, but not a thing that was really hitting home in any way.
phillysleuther@reddit
I was in 8th grade in a Philadelphia Catholic school. I had a nun for homeroom teacher. She had us praying for the people affected. I was worried that the violence of the riots would spread all the way to Philly. My father had died December 21, 1991 and it was just my mom, my 4th grade sister, 2 cats, and a toy poodle.
She also predicted 9/11 on our 8th grade trip to NYC a month later.
WoodenWeather5931@reddit (OP)
I was living in the Southwest, and I also vividly remember being afraid that the riots were going to make it to my neighborhood
Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit
Black Xennial and L.A. Native here,...being 9 going 10 years old, living in Compton, Grandma living in Inglewood, so I was right in the epicenter of it. Seeing National Guard armored vans with armed soldiers rolling down Western Avenue, having a National Guardsman curse out my Mom at a checkpoint and stick a rifle in our car window as we were just trying to get home, and having to eat PB Sandwiches and Top Ramen for a week because the fires burned the powerlines in our neighborhood, I'd pinpoint that event as when I stopped feeling like a little kid and saw the world as it is. 🤷🏾♂️
WoodenWeather5931@reddit (OP)
Just curious… when that was all happening, did you, or your family seem to blame one side for what was happening? If so, which side?
Again, just curious. I’m white, from the southwest. We’re basically the same age, and I watched it unfold on the news
Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit
I couldn't understand why a Man got hurt, on video, and the people who did it didn't go to jail. My parents sat me down and explained (best they could to a 9-year old) racism and bias. They also said that the people in our neighborhoods who were tearing things up were doing so out of anger, frustration, and pain.
WoodenWeather5931@reddit (OP)
All of those points are correct. Corrupt System and racism let those cops off without punishment.
ObjectiveFlatworm645@reddit
luckily I lived about an hour outside of LA in a little desert town I clearly remember seeing the news seen the fires seeing Rodney King be beaten. I guess I was old enough to understand but not old enough to be afraid.
SewistDoc46@reddit
13, I remember hearing about the beating, and the trail from my dad. He explained what happened and how wrong it was that the Rodney was beaten and the miscarriages of justice that followed. Then I remember watching the riots on TV, and my dad saying in a horrified whisper that we were watching a history being made.
Living-Apartment-592@reddit
It fucked up Whitley and Dwayne Wayne’s honeymoon.
ZipperJJ@reddit
My cousin was born on April 26, 1992. I was just about to turn 13. So we were at home with the baby’s brother waiting for the good news.
Physical-Name4836@reddit
I saw that truckers take that brick to the head more times than I saw Rodney get hit that’s for sure
Chulasaurus@reddit
11 years old watching it on tv about an hour east in Riverside, CA. A memory stands out of eating at a pizza restaurant with my family after my 8yo brother’s little league game convinced that rioters were going to break in at any moment.
ItComeAFlood@reddit
6th grade. This was the year our school got TVs in the classroom with Channel One News. With the riots, Clarence Thomas hearings, Magic Johnson's HIV, my tiny town Alabama self learned a lot about the world.
ketamineburner@reddit
I remember being terrified. I am from southern California, and the town where Rodney King lived was 6 miles from my hometown.
The day the riots started, my sister's class was on a field trip at the Los Angeles Children's museum.
We watched the news on tv in our classroom. I remember watching it all day, but maybe that is not accurate.
Human-Put-6613@reddit
I remember getting a whole week off school even though we were 30 miles away in the SFV. Then, the following year, our elementary drama teacher made the riots the theme of the school musical.
DariosDentist@reddit
I was 13 and while it was going on, my environmental science class was tending to trails at a nature reserve on our school property and my friends and I decided it would be funny to reenact the riot with the tools we were given to clean up the trails and I hit one of my best friends in the head with a fire rake and he had to get stitches.
Sapphire-YLF@reddit
I would have been in the 1st grade. 7-year-old me wasn’t really paying any attention to the news.
Character_Bend_5824@reddit
I remember a skit with Roseanne and Tom Arnold getting lost in the looting. Seemed in poor taste.
Away-Quantity928@reddit
I was in 5th grade. Pretty much remember everything and talking about Reginald Denning getting his head smashed in class the next day.
texan01@reddit
I was watching it on tv while doing homework.
_Red_7_@reddit
I was 9, a couple months from turning 10.
Can't we all just get along?
BinocularDisparity@reddit
I was 12… I remember Rodney King, the trucker that got beaten, lots of news. My family wasn’t glued to the TV, it was just something that was happening. Today it is significant enough to remember, just like I remember where I was when OJ was found not guilty, where I was in 9/11… hell, I remember where I was when the challenger exploded… just not a lot of details
RASKStudio3937@reddit
Same. The Rodney King beating was appalling, the trucker getting beaten was appalling but understandable on some level (not due to the trucker himself). The OJ verdict was appalling, the OJ car chase was wtfffff, 9/11 was shocking and appalling and traumatizing. But the rioting after corruption in the police force and violence and brutality against the black community is nothing new but is consistently appalling and always understandable that the community riots after an incident and this cycle repeats itself again and again, and will probably continue to do so until systematic racism is properly addressed in actual productive ways which effect policy and holds police accountable. Watts 1965, Harlem 1964, LA 1992, etc.
1980pzx@reddit
The beating of Reginald Denny was understandable? Wow, that’s some messed up shit to say tbh.
RASKStudio3937@reddit
I SO didn't say that AT ALL. Yr misunderstanding my point. And I 100% am not advocating violence on ANY person. Yr taking my comment at face value. What I'm saying is that the anger and frustration that marginalized ppl and often communities who experience violence and brutality from authorities on a regular basis can boil over into violence. That anger is valid. That doesn't mean I am saying it's okay. I am saying that that anger itself not the act is understandable and valid.
1980pzx@reddit
I see what you’re saying, I do but it definitely sounds bad reading it.
Purring4Krodos@reddit
I was a 12 year old lily white child of innocence living in the deep south. The LA Riots were one of my many, many moments of radicalization.
ailish@reddit
I don't give out my exact age on reddit but I was younger than 15. I lived in MD and there weren't really any riots there, so I didn't have any first hand experience with them, but I watched it on TV. My parents were and are very liberal and sided with the POC, and I did too as much as I was able to understand what was happening. It was scary times.
Just-a-Guy-4242@reddit
I was 10. I lived in San Diego, so not in the same area but close. There was a lot of tension. I remember watching it on the news… our teachers both trying to explain to us that what the police did was wrong… but we should always listen to and follow their orders, for “safety” but the thing that sticks out most in my head, was a Time Magazine cover with a burning Los Angeles skyline, and it said “Is the City of Angels, going to Hell?”
imhungry4321@reddit
I was 7. I remember seeing the fire on the news, and was scared that it would come to Miami (where I lived at the time).
There's an excellent documentary on YouTube called LA 92LA92 about the riots and what led up to it.
Harlockarcadia@reddit
I was also 7 and remember wondering what the heck was going on, I think my parents told me that people were very mad about how they were being treated, best way for a small kid to understand the situation
B0b_Howard@reddit
I wa 13 and in the UK.
It was weird to see what was going on in the country we all wanted to live in.
To quote Billy Idol:
It was a night
Hell of a night, L.A., it really was
Oh, what a riot
I said yeah, come on
It makes my life feel real
Fear police and civil corruption, oh yeah
Is there a man who would be king?
And the world stood still
Illustrious-Roll7737@reddit
I was 14 and I remember them clearly. Between that and growing up with Hip-hop as part of my music intake, the police brutality and mistreatment of minorities that came to light in the last 10 years on social media was not new information to me like it has seemed to be for so many caucasians.
aftherith@reddit
I was 14 and riding in the back of the family minivan headed to Disney world. We were fairly poor yankee country folks making our annual trip (much much cheaper back then). I was listening to my walkman radio. I loved to tune into local big city rock stations as we made our way south. We so happened to be in heavy highway traffic going through downtown Atlanta GA. The news broke in on the station I was listening to and I alerted my parents up front. Thankfully we had a decent amount of gasoline as I recall and we were able to get some distance before attempting a pitstop.
instant_ramen_chef@reddit
I was 11. I remember the helicopters flying non-stop. The smoke was visible. I remember seeing Reggie Denny get dragged out of his truck. I remember seeing his hair shake as the thrown brick connected with his head. I remember watching the people celebrate it.
I remember feeling like the cops were against us. They had escaped punishment for having done such awful things. I had experienced my first racism from a cop just a few months prior. All my childhood I was told that police were the good guys out there to protect us. But they were showing that they hated us. They were showing that we didnt matter. Only people with white skin get protected.
heresmytwopence@reddit
"Yo, straight puttin' it down
Gettin' my scoot on
It's jumpin' off in Compton
So I gots to get my loot on"
catsoncrack420@reddit
I was 14 working in my uncle's auto parts shop in Jamaica Queens a working class black neighborhood in NYC. I was cheering the Korean store owners uniting and armed. Lot of sacrifice in a small business and was hoping it wouldn't spill into other cities. We read the newspaper every day back then so we were watching with caution. I was a Latino child of immigrants and didn't fully understand the history with Blacks in America. Many years later I asked my parents why they always avoided the subject. They said they always thought the US was one of the greatest countries in the world but could never understand the social bullshiit. Like my grandmother has hazel eyes and blonde and my grandfather was real black. We're Caribbean. White, black, mulatto.
Kain347@reddit
Fellow Latino from NYC here; in retrospect, this might have been my hard intro to race in America. Latinxs are racially mixed and my family had all colors of the rainbow, so growing up, I never saw anyone as white, black, etc. I did kinda start putting 2 and 2 together after seeing the aftermath of the LA riots, plus what I saw growing up in the aftermath of the arson from '70s NYC
catsoncrack420@reddit
Uh, you seriously use that word Latinx? Never heard any Latino use that, weird.
Treadingresin@reddit
8th grade. Our science teacher rolled a TV into the room and turned on CNN. She was a black woman teaching science in the Midwest. I was a white girl with parents that said things like "Sure it wasn't right, but that Rodney guy isn't exactly a good guy." Even though i grew up in a highly diverse and integrated city, this was the first big race related event. Tensions were very high. Im sure some extra fights broke out.
Annhl8rX@reddit
I was 9, and all I remember are the jokes from In Living Color. I’ve learned a lot more about the whole thing in the years since, but at the time it was all just a punchline to me. I didn’t have a clue how serious the whole situation was.
sadegr@reddit
I was 11 or 12, we lived ~15 miles from the intersection where everything started.
They closed our school for a couple of days, I remember seeing a mall we went to fairly regularly being looted on the news.
I don't think I completely understood what was happening, just that it was CLOSE.
We were watching it all on cable (and local) news since the internet wasnt really a thing at that point.
queenofcaffeine76@reddit
I was 16. I didn't really pay that much attention to the news at that time but I remember the footage they would show on the news. It was terrifying. I remember thinking how ridiculous it was for adults to behave that way, but I didn't really understand what set it off back then either.
jachildress25@reddit
That was right in the middle of the era where sports fans would riot to celebrate their team winning the title, so the Rodney King riots didn’t seem any different than riots in Detroit or Chicago after the Pistons and Bulls won. 10 year old me wasn’t really dialed into racial issues.
Rivster79@reddit
I remember the lock downs and going out to my front lawn and being surrounded by columns of black smoke…everywhere.
IndependentLove2292@reddit
I remember this first spot i hit. It was my music shop.
psyclopsus@reddit
Only took one brick to make the window drop?
chawrawbeef@reddit
Finally I got my own PA
ADMotti@reddit
Where do you think I got this guitar that you’re hearin’ today
Glittering_Tea5502@reddit
I don’t remember that event even though I was 10 or 11 years old.
usernames_suck_ok@reddit
The video footage on TV over and over and over again.
1992? Probably 11. Math.
Alarming-Wonder5015@reddit
I remember the helicopter footage of the riots, being vaguely aware of what started it. I was 8
johntwilker@reddit
I remember my high school friend bringing cans of coke for lunch that were scorched. His parent’s store was burned.
SpaceAdventures3D@reddit
Saw it on CNN and I understood that someone was wrongly beaten. And that there was riots. I remember "can we get along", which unfortunately got turned into a joke phrase. I remember MAD Magazine satiring LAPD. But it was all very distant as I didnt live in LA or even in California.
maggie320@reddit
I was 8. I remember the Rodney King beating because earlier that day I went to a birthday party of a classmate at the Y. I was on the east coast and it just seemed like a world away.
Now the Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn was closer to home. There was also an incident in my city where a guy died surrounded by cops. Cops said he killed himself, but his family said the cops killed him. That sparked some rioting, but nothing crazy.
notoriousrdc@reddit
8th grade. Word about the verdict spread early in the day, and some students organized a walkout. We left at lunch and marched to city hall. I went home at my usual home from school time because I didn't want to worry my parents. I saw later on the news that riots had broken out, both in LA and the area of my city I'd been just a few hours earlier.
Mattimvs@reddit
Crossposting from r/askreddit is making this sub suck