Wow.... apparently NONE of you have ever been to East St. Louis, especially Sauget, where the Wicked Wonka tour is supposedly going to be at (I think it will be at the Pageant in the regular STL since Bone played there last time). Sauget is 3 miles from St. Louis and is mainly an industrial area besides a truck stop/off-track betting/gas station, a couple of strip clubs, and Pop's. I have been over 20+ times to see concerts, a few of which have been Psychopathic concerts. There is usually no problems. They have guard towers and security and usually the police show up a couple hours before showtime.
Even if there were crackheads, gang members, thieves, etc. around the area.... do you really think they are going to mess with a bunch of teenagers to try to get money when they could go ask some rich, middle-age businessman coming out of the strip club thats 200 yards away?
Now, Im not saying that East St. Louis isnt a tough city.... but Sauget is not. Go about 5 minutes away from East St. Louis and there is nothing resembling it. Theres a water park, a car race track, a horse race track, a car museum, and some Indian burial grounds that you can climb up and walk on
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I would say North St. Louis, MO is worse than East St. Louis.
Oh yeah... Im a white guy.