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12 Apr 19, 07:58 PM |
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12 Apr 19, 08:03 PM |
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It’s generally not spice... which is shredded plant based and produces mind altering effects
The powerful opiate the post is referring to that makes users appear ‘dead’ is actually fentanyl. Which is seeing a rise in abuse due to the fact it is around 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. |
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12 Apr 19, 08:04 PM |
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13 Apr 19, 12:23 PM |
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Join Date: May 17
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Louis Theroux did a doc on it in the USA but we had a scandal here last year where someone in our town was getting fentanyl for his terminally ill mother and selling the (used) patches on to addicts who can somehow still use the substance. Disgusting and eye opening because I wasn’t aware fentanyl abuse was common in our area. Heroin and hash yes. We have a lakeside park in our town and when I go for an early walk before work there’s always a few guys passed out on the benches.
I just find it all so sad tbh. I think some “begging” isn’t begging it’s scams. Like in Paris where they show you a ring and ask if you dropped it. Someone well dressed with an iPhone approaching me with a sob story about a flat tyre is a scam imo and I firmly state not interested and keep going. We don’t give money to individuals but we donated all our leftover camping gear to a homeless outreach centre in California last year. Two exceptions - one was when we were eating pizza out on a patio and a woman in rags was going through the trash can down the path and trying to find something to eat. I grabbed two slices of our pizza and one of our sodas and gave them to her and it broke my heart to see her sitting on the path and wolfing them down. The second was staying at Caribbean Beach and there was an employee who swept the area outside the food court every morning. She was wearing shoes about 4 sizes too big with soles hanging off. I made some small talk and found out she a bit about her life. The morning we were leaving we had $80 and I handed it to her in an envelope. We would have just wasted it at the airport anyway. |
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13 Apr 19, 12:28 PM |
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13 Apr 19, 02:52 PM |
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The homeless in Las Vegas are something else. I had read about it but it doesn't hit you until you've seen it.
The daytime you dont see so much (its HOT) but once the sun comes out everyone comes out to play. We continuously saw this mixed race couple on the bridge between Caesars and the Bellagio with their possibly 4 or 5 year old twins. EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT Now that pulled on my heart strings but id. leave my kids with family members / friends if I were destitute. Now I obviously know that they take their kids out to help them make more money but is diabolical. |
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13 Apr 19, 03:51 PM |
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Join Date: May 10
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The problem is many people have run away from abusive family or lost all their friends due to life choices or unfortunate events.
They may literally have no one to leave their kids with, they may not be from anywhere near Las Vegas. Desperation is so very real for many, people are actually sending their children unaccompanied across borders in the USA as young as four years old . Using children to beg is not unusual but it is so very sad that desperation has got to this level. |
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13 Apr 19, 04:29 PM |
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There’s usually one in our local aldi’s car park. It’s always the same story. His girlfriend is in hospital about to give birth and his car has broken down so do I have any change to give him for the bus 🙄 Last time he asked me I said how many pregnant girlfriends have you got then as you asked me the same thing 2 weeks ago? He soon walked away! Annoys me though when I see people give him money. 😡
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13 Apr 19, 06:00 PM |
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Join Date: Dec 08
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I had yet again last night in Walmart on the 192, 4 times in 6 I’ve had them.
I just told him not interested but he still mumbled on so told him to pi@@ off, can’t be doing with them now. I’m with my wife and kids having a holiday and every time it feels like they’re praying us lol Feel sorry for the genuine ones who have issues but i was homeless at 17 and never once hung around car parks asking for hand outs, I got myself into a homeless place got a job and worked my way out! 20 odd years later I have my own home,car,van,family and my own business that I’ve built all through my own hard work! |
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21 Apr 19, 12:16 PM |
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