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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I think people often confuse uncomfortable with unsafe. This is probably especially true when someone isn't used to being around people with some pretty serious adverse life experiences.
Drug addicts and homeless people should really barely register on your danger meter. More dangerous than the average person? Possibly. The same as strolling through a gang neighbourhood? Not remotely.
Poverty and drug addiction are uncomfortable, yes, but likely the worst thing that will happen to you in DTES is getting talked to. The. Horror.
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Where do you live?
You're not completely wrong about the safety factor but you are diminishing the negative impacts to the regular people trying to build up the community in the area. The worse thing that happens is not "getting talked to". There is plenty of crime, disruption to businesses, and disruption to normal life. Some of it is unsafe. When you have clearly mentally ill people screaming at passers by, you have no idea what they could do.
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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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