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[A Girl is No one]

This describes almost everyone of my trips downtown for the past two years (yes before COVID). Unused to LOVE downtown. Now I avoid it.

[mbjj]

Been downtown a couple of times recently. Sooo many weirdos down there, not a pleasant experience. 

[JimV]

They’re everywhere.  Here’s another one, same day.  On Friday evening we were walking down Toronto street to a restaurant.  Near the intersection at Menzies was some street guy standing in the street.  He was holding a guitar and speaking loudly to apparently nobody.  He also had a cart full of the usual junk.  He looked harmless and we continued on.

 

An hour and a half later we walked back up Toronto.  At mid block, before Government, were three police cars and two ambulances.  The street guy was sitting down leaning against a tree.  His face seemed to be stained red.  At first I thought they had wiped blood off his face, but it later occurred to me that it might have been pepper spray.

 

There was no sense of urgency at the scene.  No one else was around except a couple of bystanders.  The police were calm and speaking politely to him.  I didn’t see  either an assailant or a victim.  Seemed odd, given such a large response.  I don’t know what happened but clearly this was another guy who shouldn’t have been out on the streets.

 

We also saw the commotion around the attempted car jacking on Douglas.  We were in a bank lineup when people started shouting and pointing.  I couldn’t actually see the details from where I was standing.

 

So that’s three incidents in two weeks, two on the same day.  And that’s just my wife and I.  Makes you wonder how many others are going down every day.

Edited by JimV, 12 June 2021 - 07:08 AM.

[Mike K.]

Well, it looks like another new arrival has made a grand entrance.

Police say an Edmonton man smashed out the window of a vehicle on Pembroke Street with a hammer yesterday while a woman and her dog were inside. The dog ran away and is missing. The man smashed out a window of an adjacent vehicle prior to targeting the one with the occupant, police allege.

More details over in the crime thread.

[Victoria Watcher]

that dog is going to need a stern talking to.

You can lead a dog to water, but you can’t make it learn new tricks.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 June 2021 - 08:53 AM.

[A Girl is No one]

OMG!

[Barrrister]

Cannot imagine why my wife refuses to shop downtown.

[Mike K.]

It sort of dispels the narrative of pit bulls being ferocious dogs when one runs away from its owner in a precarious situation.

[kitty surprise]

Should we start our very own "peopleofvictoia" thread/site? If sane Americans can take pics of omg-worthy Walmart shoppers in the US, I'm sure we can do same, only they're not contained to just Walmart here.

Edited by kitty surprise, 12 June 2021 - 11:36 AM.

[pennymurphy2000]

Should we start our very own "peopleofvictoia" thread/site? If sane Americans can take pics of omg-worthy Walmart shoppers in the US, I'm sure we can do same, only they're not contained to just Walmart here.

No one would believe it. The sheer number of mentally ill people wandering around town causing mayhem is unprecedented given the actual population of Victoria. It is so nuts downtown now. I don't even feel safe driving though town anymore, let alone getting out of the car. 

[Tom Braybrook]

Free Housing!

Free Food!

Free Drugs!

and now...

 

We will even do your laundry for you!

 

https://www.martlet....-laundrolounge/

[Nparker]

...Each week we have approximately $500 in expenses on just coin operated laundry and $150 for food...

People need to be fed while they do their laundry?

...SOLID, AVI, and PEERS outreach workers are at the site most weeks — handing out safe supplies of cigarettes and joints...

And they need "safe" cigarettes & joints?

[Mike K.]

Safe cigarettes and joints.

We’ve officially ...I don’t even know any more.

[Victoria Watcher]

Free Housing!

Free Food!

Free Drugs!

and now...

 

We will even do your laundry for you!

 

https://www.martlet....-laundrolounge/

 

 

SOLID, AVI, and PEERS outreach workers are at the site most weeks — handing out safe supplies of cigarettes and joints, as well as food and information about available resources.

 

 

[kitty surprise]

For us non-smokers, can they please instead provide safe plane tickets to Hawaii? Maui preferred.

[Matt R.]

Oh nice. What’s the address?

Matt.

[spanky123]

Safe cigarettes and joints.

We’ve officially ...I don’t even know any more.

 

There is no motivation (or profit) in helping people transition to healthy productive lifestyles. Keep them high and stupid and the money will keep flowing in.

[A Girl is No one]

Does that mean they get to take a markup on the cigarettes and pot they provide? They probably do on injection needles.

That would be quite questionable, from an ethical perspective… if they had any ethics.

[Sparky]

I don’t understand the “safe” cigarette reference.

Are these cancer free?

[kitty surprise]

For a socialist government, the irony in doling out free items (drugs, bus fare, cigs, etc) to just be resold is too delicious to ignore.

 

In other words, our socialist government is now actively encouraging the growth and entrenchment of the evil Gig Economy.

 

Take that, Unions!