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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
I would think getting jabbed with a needle randomly is a very low probability of occurrence unless it was provoked in an confrontation. Being nice and supportive to people who are injecting rarely ever results in this situation in a malicious manner.
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Well that's assuming rational behaviour, I'm guessing the person who did the needle stabbing wasn't acting all that rational. As someone who lives around this area these addicts are not rational actors, I see and hear them flip out about nothing regularly, especially at night. Example: Last month my car was parked outside and when I returned at 9pm someone had smashed my driver's side window and there was a linear smash to my windshield. When the vendor I was parked in front of pulled the video for the cops he told me a homeless/junky/whatever you want to call it guy came up to my car and took a baseball bat to my windshield and window and then just kept walking. He hit five other cars that night. These people are brain-limited, whether through mental illness or chemical dependencies or both. I don't think it's the ever-plummeting housing costs in Calgary causing this problem, and the cities that have tried to be the most progressive in letting people inject and have free reign (Vancouver, San Fran, LA) have seen the problem get worse and not better.