Is my neighborhood safe for exercise?

How can I convince my parents that it is safe to go running at the neighborhood track or ride my bike? I am overweight and I need exercise outside because that's just what I like to do. I hate using dumbbells and exercising indoors unless I'm on a treadmill WHICH I DON'T HAVE.

The neighborhood:
quiet
we don't have REAL gangs here, only fake ones, and they don't hang out in our neighborhood.
Nothing ever happens!

My dad and mom keep saying I'll be a target anyways. I HATE staying inside all day! It makes me feel even fatter! My brother was the only way I could go out, but he's an already skinny gamer DORK and doesn't want to do anything.

I have no friends.
I have no dog.
We don't clean our house because it's trapped in years of dirt and junk.

Bring your cell phone with you. Call your parents every 10 minutes so they know your okay. Get a buddy to go jogging. Go in broad daylight, around 12 in the afternoon(theres hardly any crime at that time of day). Write down where and when your going so your parents dont have to worry.

Use shunny's idea and get a buddy. The buddy system is safest for ANYone ANYwhere. I don;t care how quiet your neighborhood seems nor how safe you think it is...there is NOWHERE that safe.

I had the same problem. However, I found a jogging buddy and my parents let me jog so long as we're together.

I sooooo know what you mean. parents can be evil, right? this is how I won them over:

gain their trust by doing all of your chores on time. I know it sounds preachy, but it ALWAYS works for me. If you can, offer to walk the dog (if you have one, i dont have one personally...) and do more chores that make you walk out and around (like going to the recycling center). Then, you can re-try asking them, but ONLY if they are in a good mood.It always works! Make sure that if they say yes, you have an exact location in mind (like the park, or the end of Main Street) that you tell them, and dont stray from an already planned-out path that you have made with your parents. if one of your parents' birthdays are coming up, remember to make a card! be an angel, gain their trust, it works!
carry a cell phone with you if you can, and try to bring a friend.