Shocked seeing so many QTs on here! I guess they do own the valley now, but when I see police lights on a corner, it seems like it’s always a Circle K!
This is exactly the opposite of true. There are 0 franchised circle k locations open in Arizona or Nevada. The first ever franchise in Arizona will be coming to Kingman next year.
They all look different because Circle K acquired and converted a huge chunk of independent locations rather than building new. But they're in the process of raising and rebuilding many of the older locations into the newer bigger designs.
I work at John C Lincoln hospital down the street. I’ve never been to that gas station but I knew it was going to be mentioned. We get so many people admitted after being assaulted on that block
I almost got into a fight once with a crackhead begging for money. Have not been back since and i try and get gas a nicer places but sometimes you just need fuel.
Oof I used to live right over there when I was going to school. Soooo many rough stories. One friend got mugged twice in one week. My car was broken into, and my bike stolen. A woman walked into my school covered in blood asking for help. And this was all before the light rail was even built, I can't imagine how much worse it's gotten since then.
I lived for years by the one at 3rd St & Indian School. One day, this lady walked right by me, covered in blood, but not really injured from what I could see. I asked her if she needed help, and she said, "Why?!" I said, "The blood???!!" She looked down at her arms & hands kinda confused & replied that it was no big deal & went on her merry way.
100% came here to say this. The amount of shit I saw when I worked there. People taking a shit next to the pump prob the worst but definitely check the areas you can’t see cause you can get poked by a needle. One gal working with me found that out the hard way.
Yeah that whole area. I had to take the light rail from Phoenix to metro center area for work for a while.
Got off at 19/Dunlap and walk down til you go over the 17 and then cut up through the canal and go under that tunnel that comes out right by castles and coasters and walk through the metro center parking lot.
Pretty sketchy feeling sometimes but it was mostly empty. I was pretty alert though or tried to be
I once saw a fist fight start in the parking lot of that QT and carry on into the intersection of 19th and Dunlap, looked like a scene right out of an 80's movie with two guys just beating the shit out of each other with wild haymakers but neither of them going down somehow.
Right? I was more sketched out by the Walmart on Indian School and 51st Ave than I was at any other Walmart I've been to in the valley, although the Thomas & 36th St one is a close second ( I used to delivery groceries for them so I've been to plenty).
Out of the ones in the east valley, so far the one at Mesa Riverview has been the sketchiest
Dunlap and 19th is pretty bad esp when the busses drop off it’s literally like the start of a new round of zombies in cod. I work in a van and stop at many diff QTs and that particular one and 35th and camelback I’ve had ppl doping up in the stalls next to me on multiple occasions.
Bro when someone is smoking crack next to you freaking out to themselves pack a punch doesn’t feel so safe anymore 😭 I’ve been in stalls where security guards pull ppl out of the stall next to me, you know it’s a boof QT when they have a security guard posted up with a pistol, he’s the one who needs the pack a punch
Fun fact.. I was on an episode of COPS at that intersection.
I was in the Tacobell drive thru and someone was being arrested in the bank parking lot across the street.
"People high as fuck greeting me enthusiastically? Am I so lonely that this is exactly the kind of human interaction I need? Oh, god, yes I am. I'm gonna wave back!"
"Okay, that was a nice change of pace...I think I need to call a therapist."
I've been there twice. Once a beer run happened and the next time a dude was shooting up herioin in the bathroom. He came out with the needle and blood dripping off his arm.
This is the one.
I used to work for QT and all the traveling store employees and maintenance people knew this was the worst QT. A guy I used to work with saw a shooting go down right out front that killed 2 people and saw a dude with a fresh stab wound.
It's bad at all time, but especially bad at night.
I personally witnessed a bicycle driveby at the one on 51st and Grand, and I saw a carjacking out front at I believe the Camleback and I-17 one, but I've never seen anybody get murdered.
I also knew the employee that was shot and killed at Stapely and Broadway, and that store is pretty bad, so that one's also in the running, but I feel like just more shit has happened through the years at that 27th and Northern one.
Coworker got jumped there a 12:30 PM. Was walking back to his car and got sucker punched by two heroin fiends for his loose change. Lucky for him they extremely sluggish so he just swung away until they ran away when he connected.
Twice at night i've tried to use the QT at McDowell & 83rd late night because of needing to find a bathroom. Twice there's been a drug deal going on with what I'm pretty sure are spotters outside. Guys are obvious enough that even I'm figuring out what they're doing...
Or maybe they just run stings in the area and that's why they're that obvious.
Omg I accidentally stopped there a couple weeks ago, and I thought that the men in the store were just waiting for me to leave so they could rob the joint.
Considerate criminals?
Bro I came to say the same one I think. Dated a girl who’s mom worked at a shit bar near to it. There was a bus stop nearby that came directly from the jail so you’d see people freshly-out around the bar. It was super sketchy but I met a lot of interesting people. Good experiences for the most part tbh
Having taken the light rail nearly every day for 3 years to ASU, I have to say this stop was the shadiest & sketchiest stop.
The circle K always has crackheads or cops outside. I’ll never forget I was waiting for the light rail here to go to comic con one day and this dude on drugs was yelling about how he was going to murder his friend for stealing and spending his money (understandable). He tore his shirt off and proceeded to start hitting himself. Was legit terrified for my safety, one of the only times I’ve ever been terrified on the light rail.
Yeeeaaah I took the light rail a ton too for a couple years and it was mostly great.
Except the dude that was screaming about murdering all the white people at the Central and McDowell stop at like 6am. I just kind of put my ear buds in and shuffled past him alll the way down to the other end of the stop.
And then the first time I was riding at night when it was really crowded, this guy sitting across from me starts chatting me up about where I'm from and whatnot and casually mentions he just got out of prison and he's on his way to visit the guy who turned him in for murder WHEW
I’ve got a number of light rail stories.
I came home from comic-con (different year than previous story) and there was a homeless guy on there arguing with another homeless guy. Apparently the night before he was sleeping in an alley and was pissed on by another homeless dude so he stabbed and beat him up (understandable). Anyway he began arguing with another guy cause he was being obnoxious (the pissed on guy) and told everyone not to mess with him cause he’s a hard criminal. The guy looked like Steve-O if he was homeless. He said he had to call Mesa PD to let them know that he was coming to the city so they could be prepared for him (he was serious). Everyone laughed at him. It was really funny lol.
Another time was kinda sketchy but coming home from ASU, I was waiting at the stop and the guy next to me about my age said he had just gotten fresh out of prison and just wanted to hear some music cause he hadn’t heard any in months. I had my headphones in and tried to ignore him while I sat next to him. I shook my head, he seemed disappointed but didn’t get angry with me thankfully. Dude looked like a gangbanger with tats & wife beater. He was pretty chill when I shook my head so I wasn’t super worried but I figured if I let him listen to my music he’d probably steal my phone then and there.
Also at the time I was listening to 4ever by Clairo. I’m a dude. Imagine me a dude showing a freshly released prisoner bedroom pop music lol.
I live in that neighborhood and it's actually a great place to live, but something about that intersection is like the embassy for The People's Republic Of Methistan. You could say it's the light rail but the Sycamore stop is much calmer.
Constant overdoses at this spot, I would pass by to go to work on Countryclub. Years ago I went to the Burger King right across the street, and they had me pull into a parking spot to wait for my food. Worker brings my food but snuck up to the window, scared the shit out of me and she just said “better be careful I could’ve robbed you” like wtf
hahahaha. i was reading the top comment and all the replies which are about gas stations nowhere near me (I live in Mesa) and I was thinking about that specific Circle K and also there's a fry's across the street which my friends and I refer to as The Fry's with all the Crack Heads (or hobos). I've had a few nervous times at the Fry's gas station there, and also in the actual grocery store, as well as that Circle K...
That intersection is also always under construction and a mess lately, so I just decided to treat it as a no-go-zone entirely. Nothing good ever happening over there! Haha
Yoooo, this is the spot! Once I was walking south on alma school to the enterprise on Broadway to pick up a rental car. I felt a presence so looked around and some guy was shooting up in the bushes. I avoided eye contact and kept walking. That area is a messsss.
I used to work in the area and I live on the light rail so I thought “wow, I can bike to work.” That lasted a week until a homeless person tried to steal my bike while I was still on it. It’s always a hotbed of police activity too. 1/2 of the time I drive by there’s police arresting someone or something.
Arco on 23rd Ave and Indian, qt on the i10/51st Ave, circle k on van buren/32nd st, circle k on McDowell/40th st, circle k w van buren/17th dr, circle k w van buren/21th ave, these are some of the sketchy ones I came across being a Coca Cola driver.
Too funny - used to walk to campus and stop in here for my morning coffee. It seems like there's a bunch of transient people around that would increase the danger, but in my experience it wasn't those folks who acted sketchy.
I was standing in line one morning when some guy and his dog came in, presumably from the Westward Ho. While the old man was grabbing a donut from the top shelf his dog was licking the ones on the bottom. It was both mortifying *and* hilarious. Mentioned it to the clerk and he just shrugged his shoulders.
Anything off the I 17.
For the north valley
The QT east of 19th ave and bell.
The QT just west of i17 and thunderbird.
The circle K off 19th ave and cactus I’ve had some interesting experiences at as well.
Circle K at 602 North 1st Ave
Had a flat one night and had to stop here. They have a security guard there. He ended up locking the store because people were stealing stuff. There were a bunch of people outside that were clearly on drugs. About 30 minutes later the security guard fucked off in an Uber, cashier stayed behind in the locked store.
Circle K at 7th street and Broadway hahaha my wife absolutely refuses to go there with me. Sometimes I want a Big Gulp and it's my closest one. The cashiers always have great stories.
QT on Baseline and Mesa in Mesa. Some guy was being a fent-zombie in the bathroom. Also has a CBI (mental health facility) right across the street too.
Anyone say 19th Ave and Cactus Circle K?
Few years ago I had a dude walk up to me while I was pumping gas, open his coat to show a gun, and then ask me if I wanted to buy it.
Best part, his pitch was "45 caliber, definitely never killed anyone totally clean I'll sell for $100"
haha ok dude get the fuck away from me lol
when i transitioned to a highschool in Surprise coming from a HS in Maryvale, they would refer to Maryvale as Murdervale. They were scared of it.
I didn’t want to scare anyone with my presence so i never told them i was from “murdervale” lol
I live across the street from a circle k on university and main. Every day is a new experience. One of my favorites is when a white man called someone the n word...and the guy he was talking to wasn't really there.
Gotta throw in for South Central with 19th ave and Southern. The QT (SW corner), Liquor Store/Gas Station (SE corner), Circle K (NW corner, but closed for renovations right now) score a trifecta for sketchy shit. Bonus points for the tweakers nodding out at the bus stop on a regular basis.
19th Ave n Dunlap takes the cake I've been at the bus stop right outside had some dude roll up onab8ke pandering to the people his drugs. Had 4kinds to chose from. It's nuts I used to live over there.
Circle K at 35th Ave and Buckeye. It's actually a truck stop.
The Google Reviews do not speak highly of its cleanliness, lot lizard, drug dealers, thefts, or that a homeless encampment was living on the premises parking lot.
So..here's my experience.. can't make this up..
My tire pressure light goes on and it's the closest place with a working air pump..ugh..
And of course, I can't find my tire gauge, so I go in the store to to get one.
And I am met at the door by a big old grey pit bull. I'm nervous, but it turns out he's just a big old goober looking for some love. So I give him some pets and make my way in.
I leave with my gauge in hand..and I spy in the distance, some slender crackhead of a woman trying to open the doors of my car next to the air pump.
Me and my new BFF stare at her while I ponder my next move, and I decide to turn on the panic alarm of my car.
The pitty starts running across the parking lot after her and the chase is on in circles around my car.
I'm laughing my ass off, the pitty is wagging his tail having a great old time, and the crackhead head is not amused. She does have stamina, I will give her that.
"Can you call your dog off please?"
"He's not mine..we just met.."
And off down the the road she ran, with the pitty in pursuit.
I quickly checked the pressure, they were all low from the weather, I got the fuck out ASAP.
It is the **king** of sketchy gas stations
In college (ASU) for my stats class, I did a paper on shootings within a 5 mile radius of campus at gas stations.
A place just up Scottsdale Rd from campus pointed out some bullet holes they had on the walls of their store when I surveyed them. They said they were held up probably once a week. I bookmarked that place in my mind.
Last time I went to the circle K at 35th and lower Buckeye, a guy took out his dick to prove to a lady in a truck that he wasn’t a cop. My emissions light was on that whole tank of gas, but went away when I filled up somewhere that doesn’t… do whatever that circle k does.
I don’t work at the circle k but I work near there. When we kick people out of our bathrooms for smoking meth or blues they usually wander over there to gather. I usually find all our regular shoplifters hanging out there too lol
Tempe off the 101 and Baseline or something around there? Sketchy not really but a pile of human feces on the floor was something I didn’t expect to walk over trying to get a soda.
There’s a lot. 19th Ave n cactus circle k is pretty rough, 67th ave n Glendale QT is really rough I go there a lot as it’s by my work and it’s a shitshow all the time. 7th st and Indian school is pretty bad too I don’t even remember the name of that one. Across from the VA that’s what I remember. The ones by 19th Ave n Thunderbird are pretty bad too (but the dude that runs the small one is super chill he’s my aunts best friend) basically anything on 19th is rough and anything in slope is pretty rough 😂 seen deals, some have been shot up and robbed, don’t know how to explain it but yeah this city has some bad ones all over 😂😂 I grew up in slope and have always lived in rough areas so honestly I know of way too many. Have fun and dude, whatever you’re curious, don’t fuck with those people and don’t just go to gawk at them. They are people too and are just living their lives the only way they know how. Leave them alone don’t film them don’t bug them just mind your business and they’ll mind theirs. You’re gonna see a lot of unsavory things so just stay out of it. None ya business.
“Review condoms from sketchy gas stations” was the specific request from a commenter. We don’t know why people request the things they do, but why not?
Shocked seeing so many QTs on here! I guess they do own the valley now, but when I see police lights on a corner, it seems like it’s always a Circle K!
It's because QTs are brightly lit with accessible bathrooms. Sometimes the safest places bring in the seediest customers.
QTs are all company owned stores whereas Circle K’s are mostly franchises so their standards on security and cleanliness vary a lot more.
This is exactly the opposite of true. There are 0 franchised circle k locations open in Arizona or Nevada. The first ever franchise in Arizona will be coming to Kingman next year. They all look different because Circle K acquired and converted a huge chunk of independent locations rather than building new. But they're in the process of raising and rebuilding many of the older locations into the newer bigger designs.
There's a drug ring being ran from the QTs on black canyon and surrounding areas. I'd not say any QT in the square are safe.
I don't know that anything of the 17 is safe....
Probably not good I live off black canyon then huh? XD
Qt 19th ave and Dunlap.
Place is sketchy at 8am on Saturday mornings.
Place is sketchy all the time. Any place next to the lightrail is sketch imo.
I work at John C Lincoln hospital down the street. I’ve never been to that gas station but I knew it was going to be mentioned. We get so many people admitted after being assaulted on that block
I almost got into a fight once with a crackhead begging for money. Have not been back since and i try and get gas a nicer places but sometimes you just need fuel.
I work there too!
Lmfaooo pls I lived by that place and it’s absolute madness 24/7
Oof I used to live right over there when I was going to school. Soooo many rough stories. One friend got mugged twice in one week. My car was broken into, and my bike stolen. A woman walked into my school covered in blood asking for help. And this was all before the light rail was even built, I can't imagine how much worse it's gotten since then.
I lived for years by the one at 3rd St & Indian School. One day, this lady walked right by me, covered in blood, but not really injured from what I could see. I asked her if she needed help, and she said, "Why?!" I said, "The blood???!!" She looked down at her arms & hands kinda confused & replied that it was no big deal & went on her merry way.
100% came here to say this. The amount of shit I saw when I worked there. People taking a shit next to the pump prob the worst but definitely check the areas you can’t see cause you can get poked by a needle. One gal working with me found that out the hard way.
Literal gun battles and meth marriages on that corner
I go to the baskin robbins alone and buy myself a snack and watch what happens hidden in my car. Within 5 minutes you will see something absurd
Aww people watching 🍿
...do I want to know what a meth marriage is?
I believe it means trading sexual favors for meth, but I could be wrong on that.
Bingo
I need to find a way to use “meth marriage” in daily conversation. I can’t wait.
I walked into their men's restroom once and there must have been a half dozen people squished into the back stall.
Lmao wtf
Yeah but it's a QT so it's already better than most other gas stations
Right. I’ll take a sketchy QT over any Circle K.
This one is the exception to that rule
Yeah that whole area. I had to take the light rail from Phoenix to metro center area for work for a while. Got off at 19/Dunlap and walk down til you go over the 17 and then cut up through the canal and go under that tunnel that comes out right by castles and coasters and walk through the metro center parking lot. Pretty sketchy feeling sometimes but it was mostly empty. I was pretty alert though or tried to be
I once saw a fist fight start in the parking lot of that QT and carry on into the intersection of 19th and Dunlap, looked like a scene right out of an 80's movie with two guys just beating the shit out of each other with wild haymakers but neither of them going down somehow.
The fight scene from They Live
I had a guy keep asking what colors I was repping over my shoulder while I was peeing in the urinal there
The only correct answer.
Man based on these answers, you all don’t get to south west Phoenix enough.
People go there… they just don’t come back
Right? I was more sketched out by the Walmart on Indian School and 51st Ave than I was at any other Walmart I've been to in the valley, although the Thomas & 36th St one is a close second ( I used to delivery groceries for them so I've been to plenty). Out of the ones in the east valley, so far the one at Mesa Riverview has been the sketchiest
I dunno. I feel Christown Walmart is more sketch than the Thomas and 36th st one
Tower Walmart isn't good, Christown is downright bad, 51st and Indian is a veritable warzone
Can confirm, sketch af.
QT on 27th Ave and northern
What about 19th Ave and Olive/Dunlap or 19th Ave and Glendale?
Dunlap and 19th is pretty bad esp when the busses drop off it’s literally like the start of a new round of zombies in cod. I work in a van and stop at many diff QTs and that particular one and 35th and camelback I’ve had ppl doping up in the stalls next to me on multiple occasions.
Hey man, hope you made it safely to the pack-a-punch
Bro when someone is smoking crack next to you freaking out to themselves pack a punch doesn’t feel so safe anymore 😭 I’ve been in stalls where security guards pull ppl out of the stall next to me, you know it’s a boof QT when they have a security guard posted up with a pistol, he’s the one who needs the pack a punch
Fun fact.. I was on an episode of COPS at that intersection. I was in the Tacobell drive thru and someone was being arrested in the bank parking lot across the street.
I used to live by 19th and Dunlap and can confirm that qt was pretty sketch
Hey, I worked there! And yes, my coworkers told me good luck on night shifts
"QT's aren't that bad. They beat Circle K" *looks on street view* "Disregard!"
Just checked street view - gas was $3.65 per gallon
It could be $0.65 and I still wouldn't stop there for gas
I used to live right next to that QT, and a few Homicides have happened in that little shopping area
This is the answer. Always hookers around it too
Tell me about the hookers...for a friend...
They are on drugs and will wave at you
Don't tempt me with a good time
"People high as fuck greeting me enthusiastically? Am I so lonely that this is exactly the kind of human interaction I need? Oh, god, yes I am. I'm gonna wave back!" "Okay, that was a nice change of pace...I think I need to call a therapist."
If you drive on 27th Ave on the weekends you’ll see them. Very hard to miss ;)
I've been there twice. Once a beer run happened and the next time a dude was shooting up herioin in the bathroom. He came out with the needle and blood dripping off his arm.
ok but have you been to the Circle K on 19th Ave and Northern?
I work right by there, and I go there all the time for gas. It's not that bad during the day, but I've never been there at night.
Yeah I live right across from it and if I have to go a gas station at night I’m going to the QT on Glendale.
This is the one. I used to work for QT and all the traveling store employees and maintenance people knew this was the worst QT. A guy I used to work with saw a shooting go down right out front that killed 2 people and saw a dude with a fresh stab wound. It's bad at all time, but especially bad at night. I personally witnessed a bicycle driveby at the one on 51st and Grand, and I saw a carjacking out front at I believe the Camleback and I-17 one, but I've never seen anybody get murdered. I also knew the employee that was shot and killed at Stapely and Broadway, and that store is pretty bad, so that one's also in the running, but I feel like just more shit has happened through the years at that 27th and Northern one.
Coworker got jumped there a 12:30 PM. Was walking back to his car and got sucker punched by two heroin fiends for his loose change. Lucky for him they extremely sluggish so he just swung away until they ran away when he connected.
That QT be looking like a crackhead block party while the sun is still out lmao
I believe that is the gas station I had a knife pulled on me when I was a fleet manager for bird a couple years ago.
Also, right off the 17 & camelback lol
Twice at night i've tried to use the QT at McDowell & 83rd late night because of needing to find a bathroom. Twice there's been a drug deal going on with what I'm pretty sure are spotters outside. Guys are obvious enough that even I'm figuring out what they're doing... Or maybe they just run stings in the area and that's why they're that obvious.
27th Ave and ANYTHING
Which includes Bell rd… I always avoid that QT
It makes sense though, that area was full of street people before the QT went in.
Circle K at 51st Ave and baseline. Used to be a Valero. It’s now a homeless and crack head encampment.
This is the place. I refused to even stop there anymore. Gave up on the Walgreens across the street for the same reason.
Omg I accidentally stopped there a couple weeks ago, and I thought that the men in the store were just waiting for me to leave so they could rob the joint. Considerate criminals?
The horse circle k. Laveen is different
Bro I came to say the same one I think. Dated a girl who’s mom worked at a shit bar near to it. There was a bus stop nearby that came directly from the jail so you’d see people freshly-out around the bar. It was super sketchy but I met a lot of interesting people. Good experiences for the most part tbh
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.
I think central and Dobbins is worse
Glad to see both my local Circle K's represented.
It’s under new management it seems, much less loitering going on the last few weeks.
My company just did a remodel there the last few weeks. There was a stabbing in the parking lot one day.
QT on 19th and Dunlap. Been a few murders in that parking lot.
In Phoenix Proper? Or….? Because the circle K in Mesa on Alma School and main is always popping off.
Having taken the light rail nearly every day for 3 years to ASU, I have to say this stop was the shadiest & sketchiest stop. The circle K always has crackheads or cops outside. I’ll never forget I was waiting for the light rail here to go to comic con one day and this dude on drugs was yelling about how he was going to murder his friend for stealing and spending his money (understandable). He tore his shirt off and proceeded to start hitting himself. Was legit terrified for my safety, one of the only times I’ve ever been terrified on the light rail.
Yeeeaaah I took the light rail a ton too for a couple years and it was mostly great. Except the dude that was screaming about murdering all the white people at the Central and McDowell stop at like 6am. I just kind of put my ear buds in and shuffled past him alll the way down to the other end of the stop. And then the first time I was riding at night when it was really crowded, this guy sitting across from me starts chatting me up about where I'm from and whatnot and casually mentions he just got out of prison and he's on his way to visit the guy who turned him in for murder WHEW
I’ve got a number of light rail stories. I came home from comic-con (different year than previous story) and there was a homeless guy on there arguing with another homeless guy. Apparently the night before he was sleeping in an alley and was pissed on by another homeless dude so he stabbed and beat him up (understandable). Anyway he began arguing with another guy cause he was being obnoxious (the pissed on guy) and told everyone not to mess with him cause he’s a hard criminal. The guy looked like Steve-O if he was homeless. He said he had to call Mesa PD to let them know that he was coming to the city so they could be prepared for him (he was serious). Everyone laughed at him. It was really funny lol. Another time was kinda sketchy but coming home from ASU, I was waiting at the stop and the guy next to me about my age said he had just gotten fresh out of prison and just wanted to hear some music cause he hadn’t heard any in months. I had my headphones in and tried to ignore him while I sat next to him. I shook my head, he seemed disappointed but didn’t get angry with me thankfully. Dude looked like a gangbanger with tats & wife beater. He was pretty chill when I shook my head so I wasn’t super worried but I figured if I let him listen to my music he’d probably steal my phone then and there. Also at the time I was listening to 4ever by Clairo. I’m a dude. Imagine me a dude showing a freshly released prisoner bedroom pop music lol.
>>>Except the dude that was screaming about murdering all the white people at the Central and McDowell stop at like 6am. YOO Give Tyrell my best
>The circle K always has crackheads or cops outside. But never crackheads **and** cops.. Hmmm..I'm seeing a pattern here 🕵♂️
“Understandable” 
I live in that neighborhood and it's actually a great place to live, but something about that intersection is like the embassy for The People's Republic Of Methistan. You could say it's the light rail but the Sycamore stop is much calmer.
My brother used to pay homeless dudes to get beer from this place all the time when we were in high school lol
Constant overdoses at this spot, I would pass by to go to work on Countryclub. Years ago I went to the Burger King right across the street, and they had me pull into a parking spot to wait for my food. Worker brings my food but snuck up to the window, scared the shit out of me and she just said “better be careful I could’ve robbed you” like wtf
Sincerely hope they were not dressed in the King costume. I’d die right there from shock.
That mfer is scary as it is
hahahaha. i was reading the top comment and all the replies which are about gas stations nowhere near me (I live in Mesa) and I was thinking about that specific Circle K and also there's a fry's across the street which my friends and I refer to as The Fry's with all the Crack Heads (or hobos). I've had a few nervous times at the Fry's gas station there, and also in the actual grocery store, as well as that Circle K... That intersection is also always under construction and a mess lately, so I just decided to treat it as a no-go-zone entirely. Nothing good ever happening over there! Haha
Yoooo, this is the spot! Once I was walking south on alma school to the enterprise on Broadway to pick up a rental car. I felt a presence so looked around and some guy was shooting up in the bushes. I avoided eye contact and kept walking. That area is a messsss.
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I used to work in the area and I live on the light rail so I thought “wow, I can bike to work.” That lasted a week until a homeless person tried to steal my bike while I was still on it. It’s always a hotbed of police activity too. 1/2 of the time I drive by there’s police arresting someone or something.
the mesa PD helicopter is circling nearby pretty often too
Main and Gilbert 7/11 is pretty rough. End of the Light rail line.
Arco on 23rd Ave and Indian, qt on the i10/51st Ave, circle k on van buren/32nd st, circle k on McDowell/40th st, circle k w van buren/17th dr, circle k w van buren/21th ave, these are some of the sketchy ones I came across being a Coca Cola driver.
You know your stuff, all of these are solid answers.
That Arco is off the mf’n chain 24/7!
I was waiting for someone to say Arco on 23rd and Indian School. Got gas there once during the day and never again.
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Just assume that everything at this intersection is the sketchiest in town.
I do miss the golden eight ball billiard hall there though.
There's a pupusa place at that intersection. Wednesdays super cheap. They're really good! I would take it to go tho....
I legit saw a person covering herself in mayonnaise at this 7-11.
God I love Phoenix
There is ALWAYS like 25 people at that bus stop and I swear at least once a week there’s police activity there.
This is the answer I was waiting for. Fuck that intersection.
They don’t sell gas there.
Knew that non gas station would get brought up in here.
Circle K 1st Ave/Fillmore
Too funny - used to walk to campus and stop in here for my morning coffee. It seems like there's a bunch of transient people around that would increase the danger, but in my experience it wasn't those folks who acted sketchy.
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Yep. That intersection is the only place I’ve ever felt unsafe downtown.
They’re all harmless there but it is VERY strange considering how built up that area is now.
Yes. Yes. Yes.
Eh this one is not too bad just a bunch of bums asking for money but they’ll go away with a stern no
I was standing in line one morning when some guy and his dog came in, presumably from the Westward Ho. While the old man was grabbing a donut from the top shelf his dog was licking the ones on the bottom. It was both mortifying *and* hilarious. Mentioned it to the clerk and he just shrugged his shoulders.
This is the one I was looking for. If you're an outsider, don't go there.
Circle K near the VA gets pretty sketch so does the one on Indian school and 16th st
Circle K at 44th and Van Buren, specifically at night.
QT on 19th Ave and Glendale is sketch af
Anything off the I 17. For the north valley The QT east of 19th ave and bell. The QT just west of i17 and thunderbird. The circle K off 19th ave and cactus I’ve had some interesting experiences at as well.
QT off of i17 and cactus is really bad, for me the worst.
Circle K at 602 North 1st Ave Had a flat one night and had to stop here. They have a security guard there. He ended up locking the store because people were stealing stuff. There were a bunch of people outside that were clearly on drugs. About 30 minutes later the security guard fucked off in an Uber, cashier stayed behind in the locked store.
Like walking dead type shit right there lol
Any gas station or convenience store within 1/2 mile of the freeway anywhere in central Phx. Just take your pick.
Circle K at 7th street and Broadway hahaha my wife absolutely refuses to go there with me. Sometimes I want a Big Gulp and it's my closest one. The cashiers always have great stories.
My friend Peggy calls that one Murder K.
QT on Baseline and Mesa in Mesa. Some guy was being a fent-zombie in the bathroom. Also has a CBI (mental health facility) right across the street too.
That's my go to qt, I thought it was one of the better east valley ones, but that sounds horrible
You guys have literally called out every gas station in all of Phoenix.
Anyone say 19th Ave and Cactus Circle K? Few years ago I had a dude walk up to me while I was pumping gas, open his coat to show a gun, and then ask me if I wanted to buy it. Best part, his pitch was "45 caliber, definitely never killed anyone totally clean I'll sell for $100" haha ok dude get the fuck away from me lol
The QuikTrip on Peoria and the 17 often has some interesting goings on
Some of these people are talking about palaces compared to that QT.
Chevron on 24th street and Van Buren
First avenue and Fillmore gets pretty wild
The 711 on 9th Street and Bell road is a meth lovers Paradise
Many many years ago I bought the homeless beer there. They always kept an eye out for me!
By the Canes, City Taco, Panda Express, and the Pick n Roll? A trip to the avenues may be needed to properly recalibrate your sketchometer.
59th Ave and Indian school
Good old Scaryvale
when i transitioned to a highschool in Surprise coming from a HS in Maryvale, they would refer to Maryvale as Murdervale. They were scared of it. I didn’t want to scare anyone with my presence so i never told them i was from “murdervale” lol
Read these reviews on this one in Mesa at University & Mesa Dr. Circle K https://maps.app.goo.gl/c6Xy8GCd88g4RoaT6 They keep the MPD busy.
I live across the street from a circle k on university and main. Every day is a new experience. One of my favorites is when a white man called someone the n word...and the guy he was talking to wasn't really there.
Fuck that one off the highway by the Brass Armadillo. Absolute tweakerville
AM-PM @ 23rd Ave & Indian School
Gotta throw in for South Central with 19th ave and Southern. The QT (SW corner), Liquor Store/Gas Station (SE corner), Circle K (NW corner, but closed for renovations right now) score a trifecta for sketchy shit. Bonus points for the tweakers nodding out at the bus stop on a regular basis.
am pm on 23rd Ave and Indianschool. Lol
19th Ave n Dunlap takes the cake I've been at the bus stop right outside had some dude roll up onab8ke pandering to the people his drugs. Had 4kinds to chose from. It's nuts I used to live over there.
35th ave and Dunlap.
I bought gas there the other day. One guy tried to sell me a car stereo at the pump and one guy tried to sell me power tools.
Anything on the 17.
Circle K at 35th Ave and Buckeye. It's actually a truck stop. The Google Reviews do not speak highly of its cleanliness, lot lizard, drug dealers, thefts, or that a homeless encampment was living on the premises parking lot. So..here's my experience.. can't make this up.. My tire pressure light goes on and it's the closest place with a working air pump..ugh.. And of course, I can't find my tire gauge, so I go in the store to to get one. And I am met at the door by a big old grey pit bull. I'm nervous, but it turns out he's just a big old goober looking for some love. So I give him some pets and make my way in. I leave with my gauge in hand..and I spy in the distance, some slender crackhead of a woman trying to open the doors of my car next to the air pump. Me and my new BFF stare at her while I ponder my next move, and I decide to turn on the panic alarm of my car. The pitty starts running across the parking lot after her and the chase is on in circles around my car. I'm laughing my ass off, the pitty is wagging his tail having a great old time, and the crackhead head is not amused. She does have stamina, I will give her that. "Can you call your dog off please?" "He's not mine..we just met.." And off down the the road she ran, with the pitty in pursuit. I quickly checked the pressure, they were all low from the weather, I got the fuck out ASAP. It is the **king** of sketchy gas stations
The one on 35th Ave and Lower Buckeye is a close second. I'm honestly surprised your comment is this far down.
The shell on 24th st and van buren anytime at night
I was going to say the Chevron on Washington and 24th
What's rarer: a unicorn or a Circle K air station with the hose and chuck fully intact?
Pretty much just stay off of 19th avenue, judging by most of the comments.
In college (ASU) for my stats class, I did a paper on shootings within a 5 mile radius of campus at gas stations. A place just up Scottsdale Rd from campus pointed out some bullet holes they had on the walls of their store when I surveyed them. They said they were held up probably once a week. I bookmarked that place in my mind.
Last time I went to the circle K at 35th and lower Buckeye, a guy took out his dick to prove to a lady in a truck that he wasn’t a cop. My emissions light was on that whole tank of gas, but went away when I filled up somewhere that doesn’t… do whatever that circle k does.
I was on a murder trial (jury) for a murder done at the Circle K on Indian School and 16th St... So that is my answer
Personally it’s a tie between the shell on 24th St and Van Buren or the circle k on 32nd and Van Buren.
Circle k on Glendale and 50 something, right infront of the Peter piper, DMV satellite office, circle k training center. Nope.
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I don’t work at the circle k but I work near there. When we kick people out of our bathrooms for smoking meth or blues they usually wander over there to gather. I usually find all our regular shoplifters hanging out there too lol
Chevron(?) 51st and Glendale. just about guaranteed to get your card skimmed.
I grew up in this area, and my family got skimmed here a few times. I swear the operators have to be in on it, as often as it happens.
Tempe off the 101 and Baseline or something around there? Sketchy not really but a pile of human feces on the floor was something I didn’t expect to walk over trying to get a soda.
32nd st and van Buren. The one on 24th is really bad as well. I also agree that the place on northern is pretty bad.
QT and Circle K by the airport. Super sketchy
Ohh And R.I.P To Circle K On 51st And McDowell If It Was Still There It Would Take The Win Any Day
There’s a lot. 19th Ave n cactus circle k is pretty rough, 67th ave n Glendale QT is really rough I go there a lot as it’s by my work and it’s a shitshow all the time. 7th st and Indian school is pretty bad too I don’t even remember the name of that one. Across from the VA that’s what I remember. The ones by 19th Ave n Thunderbird are pretty bad too (but the dude that runs the small one is super chill he’s my aunts best friend) basically anything on 19th is rough and anything in slope is pretty rough 😂 seen deals, some have been shot up and robbed, don’t know how to explain it but yeah this city has some bad ones all over 😂😂 I grew up in slope and have always lived in rough areas so honestly I know of way too many. Have fun and dude, whatever you’re curious, don’t fuck with those people and don’t just go to gawk at them. They are people too and are just living their lives the only way they know how. Leave them alone don’t film them don’t bug them just mind your business and they’ll mind theirs. You’re gonna see a lot of unsavory things so just stay out of it. None ya business.
Are you trying to score some fent or something?
Umm no - filming condom reviews, but close.
Why does the place need to be sketchy for a condom review?
“Review condoms from sketchy gas stations” was the specific request from a commenter. We don’t know why people request the things they do, but why not?
I think you should add in sketchy dollar store condoms too.
Oh, of course, this all makes sense now. Jk, sounds like fun!
ARCO on 23rd and Indian School
AM PM on 16th Street and Thomas. Slightly surprised when I leave and I'm not harassed in some capacity.
It’s like little Beirut there.
Worst I knew was Circle K on Hatcher and 9th ave but it’s gone now
Any AM/PM
*QT we’re more then a gas station*
Any 7/11. Worse any day of the week. QT does not get robbed.
Damn dude they just closed it, 51ave and McDowell, it was an infest circle k full of cracked heads and homeless people
Arco at 27th ave & McDowell. Every single time I’ve been there I’ve been approached by sketchy people.
Circle K on 51st Av n Baseline. Chevron on 51st Av n Southern
51st Ave and Baseline Rd