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Originally Posted by GreenTeaFrapp
I'm not making it out to be anything. I'm quoting people, who are a lot more qualified than your or I, who are talking about the problems there. I'm not the one calling the place an epidemic, the World Health Organization is.
Maybe you should talk a walk along there, step on an AIDS needle and see how safe you feel then!
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I think the point he's trying to make is that you are unlikely to be attacked on Vancouver's downtown east side. I agree with him. Yes, there is a horrific drug problem down there. But you are very unlikely to get shot or even mugged if you walk through that stretch of blocks. Unlike some American ghettos where at least a robbery would be highly likely.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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