Scariest Place in the World

At night in a tent with food inside anywhere in the East or South African bush with a giant bushpig or carnivore sniffing aroundoutside.
Colon in Panama at night. Muggers in the shadows
Washington DC crack heads near greyhound bus station
Some places in Northern Myanmar no electricity pitch black and stoned 15-year old kids with AK-47S pointing at you
Southern Iraq and Baghdad

What about most conducive to being eaten? I'm not easily scared but it certainly put the wind up me when I went looking for tigers on foot in Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal and found them. The 5'2' guide with a twig for protection didn't increase my confidence, especially when he revealed his sister had been eaten by a tiger! It was a truly stunning place and a fantastic experience but it felt great to get out of there.
Agree with Port Authority Bus Terminal, NY in the early hours. Think Star Wars bar...

The Philippines in 1985 right before a revolution... everyone had automatic weapons and it felt like the shooting was going to start at any moment...

Kano, Nigeria coming back drunk from a bar on a pitch black street, hearing voices following you, your boyfriend giving you both money belts and telling you to run like hell if you're attacked and he would fend them off....

Camping in east Africa, on guard duty, seeing eyes glow in the darkness, hearing grunting, growling, snuffling noises from just outside the circle of firelight, remembering reading about how stealthy leopards are when hunting at night, climbing to the top of the truck for safety and realizing it wouldn't do a snippet of good... but still one of the greatest moments of being in east Africa and would be right back there in second if I could...

Flying Garuda Airlines (Indonesia)...

Well, it was pretty scary at the time. We were in China, and had gone to Cheng De. We went out in the evening to look round the market, and found a department store. It was fascinating, and we spent a long time in there. Unfortunately, when we came out it was by a different door to the one we had gone in. We thought we were going in the right direction, but got further and further away from base. We didn't speak any Chinese (apart from Hello and Thank you, which didn't help) and couldn't find anyone who spoke English. We had also neglected the Golden Rule - 'never go anywhere without the name of your hotel written in Chinese.' It got darker and darker, and it started to pour with rain. In desperation I went into a shop, begged a piece of paper and a pencil, and drew a sketch of the surroundings of our hotel - a railway bridge, clock tower, etc. The shopkeeper indicated that she recognised this (hooray!) and wrote a number, pointing outside the shop, and I gathered this was a bus route. We waited in the rain and after a while a minibus with the appropriate number appeared. I showed the driver my soggy piece of rice-paper with my drawing on, and he nodded and smiled. I paid the fare and hoped for the best. After a long drive round dingy, wet back streets, the driver stopped the bus and indicated we should get off. I looked round sceptically, seeing nothing that I recognised. The driver pointed round the corner, and there was the clock tower of my sketch! I could have kissed him. We laugh about it now, but scary? At the time, you bet!

Tigers, kids with AK-47's, military coups. Try Newcastle on a Saturday night, even the birds wanna kick your head in!!!

I have been to Morocco several times, and had tough times, but hell they are poor and want your bucks, hard to blame them, they are poor. I have been to Afghanistan but it was a long time ago and I had a great time. To tell the truth not much has happend to me traveling that I can call real bad, stolen money yes, ruined life, not even close. I hitched-hiked across N Africa and Europe and Asia with my wife 35 years ago and we had mostly great times, like on top of big trucks in India, with the drivers willing to share meals etc.
The only country I am scared to visit is the USA, because over half of the people believe that Irak was involved with 9/11 and continue to support a coup d'etat by BUSH and crew who have traded our American freedoms and the bill of rights for an illusion to keep us all safe from terrorism.
For over half of the American people to believe the lies and have the so called journalists to accept the lies without any questions show us all what things have come to.
When I travel in the USA I for one am tired of having my suitcase locks broken into by the TSA in the name of safety, what a joke. The USA used to be considered a bastion of freedom and democracy, by most people in the world, but I don't think you want to ask or know what the world thinks of America today, many consider us equal to Al-Qaeda in the threat to peace around the world.
What happened to America? Do we really want to be dragged down to the level of terrorist to preserve our way of life even if doing so shatters the reasons that made America different and special in the world?
I have not been back to the states in a few years, I have no plans to visit ever again, unless the government changes priorities in a radical way, like supporting personal freedoms. America has forgotten what is important and traded it for an illusion.

Well, here's my bit ...

- Most conducive to being shot
Has to be South Africa - I was dragged off my bike in the middle of the day in Cape Town at gunpoint by a gang of seven not very diplomatic blokes. They got my backpack which had several pairs of shorts / t-shirts etc. as I was cycling over to Stellenbosch to visit a friend. No matter what you hear about SA, I was mightily impressed by the reaction of ordinary South Africans who came to my rescue in droves and the police who got them but alas ... not my shorts and t-shirts etc. Also, Palestine ... I was there recently when several hundred Palestinians appeared on the streets and started firing off AK47s into the air - the bullets have got to drop somewhere. This happened again the next day.

- Easiest place to be mugged
Liverpool: I was born there and it is so common - I've only been hit once but know too many people who have also been done too. But it is not the easiest, somewhere like Africa or Asia or Latin America has to be the easiest just because of colour of skin (and the bloody big backpack we carry) - I have just passed through Burundi and was the only white face on the street but nobody really even stared very much, so that throws that theory up in flames.

- Most terrorists
Got to be the current US government ... the Clinton admin wasn't too bad ... before that Bush Senior administration ... before that Reagan ... Carter wasn't too bad ... Ford wasn't there long enough ... Nixon ... Johnson ... just a question of which one was the biggest terrorist and had the most terrorists in their support team? I personally have an intense dislike for Paul Wolfowitz, if ever a more despicable man (Margaret Thatcher was a woman) was put on the planet ... yes, I know people like Saddam, Pol Pot, Hitler existed but none of these people ever really tried to mask their intentions the way the Americans do.

- Most openly corrupt
Liverpool City Council under Derek Hatton, only joking! Probably take your pick of African countries, depending on your experience. I worked in Mozambique a few years back and as a keen cyclist I took my bike with me. In Moz, everybody needs to pay about $5 a year to register their bikes (you do get stopped by police and asked for your bike license and happily fined without a receipt if you are not carrying it) so when I went along to pay for a second one as I'd lost the first one I showed the guy at the municipality my receipt for the previous one ... he did the paperwork, wrote down the equivalent of $5, gave me a receipt and then asked me for $10! I kid you not!!

JB