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Originally Posted by shermanator
Interesting experience this morning on the bus.
Taking the 13 into work when a meth head carrying a big bag of bottles jumps onto 14th street trying to get on to the bus. Bus slows down and swerves around him but he lunges into the side of the bus and gets hit. Bus pulls over as they have to get police involved. Meth head then walks back up to the bus and bangs on the door trying to get in. Everyone gets off and walks to the next stop to catch the 7 or 22. Meth head then walks up to the stop we're now all waiting at and starts talking about how now we all know how long he's been waiting for the bus.
One pissed off person starts talking about how we're too lenient on drugs and telling his 3 year old what a meth head is. 3 year old then starts asking if other people on the bus are meth heads. 22 comes. A few of us jump on the bus and the meth head then cuts everyone else off arguing with the bus driver to get on the bus with his big bag of bottles, while the man with the 3 year old yells at him.
Nothing more than a 20 minute delay getting in to work and annoying a bunch of people but a first on my route.
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This story is a prime example of what some people who take a much more "lenient" approach to this problem never understand. These people who have serious addiction, mental health and other issues are also scary, threatening and a serious annoyance on regular people going about their lives. No doubt about it that the driver of the bus and a lot of passengers as well were also quite scared by the situation.
The people who are always demanding safe supply, safe injection sites, decriminalization etc never have an answer for how we reduce social disorder. How do we reduce that fear, annoyance and general decline of the area and of society in this regard?
For a lot of people, people who usually are not directly affected by these situations, it's always the same talking points Living in suburban homes, on quite, safe streets and nitpicking 30 km/h speed limit's to keep the area safe but are completely ok with the worst of the worst enacting carnage on the downtown streets and for residents, visitors and business owners to literally and figuratively deal with the sh**.