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RE: Tales of the Urban Explorer: The New Inn
The locals have a habit of swinging at you if scrutinised.
Lol, such a tribal world we live in today.
It's kind of sad seeing this place in such a dilapidated state. Ironically some of the wooden beams appear to be in ok shape. That's a little strange.
About the shoes.. That is kind of weird too, especially because some of those shoes seem kind of new. In New York, shoes are often thrown over power lines as a "sign".. It's to indicate a drug area to other drug addicts. I don't know if there is any similarity there or not, but it's the first thing that came to mind when I saw the shoes.
Nice photographs, of a rather depressing scene.
He really did warn me about the locale. I mean it's not LA South Central.., but you need to keep your wits about you.
There are many addicts in this city. i was surprised by the lack of needles. Other paces they're plentiful. You may be on to something, but I don't know the 'code'.
I wasn't doubting it @slobberchops. The town I live in has a raging drug problem, and many many dilapidated structures.
Three years ago I was a raging crack head alcoholic, and that shoe thing is definitely a code (at least here). Locals in this area like to ignore/pretend there isn't some major issues taking place. I guess I'm fortunate to have lived the life of a drug addict in some ways, because it opened my eyes a bit more to how people operate/perceive.
Having lived the life of a respected military man, and later a homeless person in addiction, I can tell you that I met many druggies that once lived respectable lives, and society frowns hard upon the fallen ones.
There's not a good excuse for vandalism and the moral destitute state of addicts, but I also don't think it's appropriate for society to turn a blind eye to fellow human beings in such a state. What is the reasoning behind it? Well I think fear is the reason people shun and turn a blind eye, but I think I might have digressed a bit. These are observational opinions based on experience is all.
It's good that you're watchful of needles, the last thing you need is to prick yourself and contract something nasty.
Keep up the great work mate.
Woah.. that's interesting!, I have done stuff myself but never to the needles extent. We came across some dudes shooting up months back who looked terrified. It's in an old post I did.
They were concerned about our perception about them. @goblinknackers gave them a couple of quid for some food. Not sure what they did with it.
Now that place was FULL of needles. I mean hundreds of them. As I said.. i have been laid down not knowing where the fuck I am before.., it's not something I have no experience of.
I shot heroin one time in my life (with a brand new needle that I removed from the package.) That of course was when I was in addiction and pretty much would do any drug available. I consider myself fortunate that I didn't get hooked on the drug, because I can tell you... Heroin is quite the serene feeling, but I guess luckily?.. I was more into the cocaine..
I'm always hooking up homeless people with a dollar or two when I see them panhandling. I don't really care if they use it for drugs, because I know they are going to get the drug one way or another if that is their objective. (it could be seen as enabling, but I would rather enable than have some old lady get robbed for her purse.)
A guy once asked me to spare 5 dollars because he needed to get some food. I looked at him and said "That is pretty bold to ask for 5 dollars when you are obviously an addict looking to get high or drunk." He insisted that he really was going to spend the money for food so I said "Well, I don't believe you, but here you go, do what ever you're going to do, but I would prefer you just keep shit real." Well.. 10 minutes later I saw the dude walking with a sub sandwich.. I called him over and he was smiling and said "See! I wasn't fucking lying!!" I laughed and said "Here man, and gave him another 5 bucks and wished him well." He took the 5 and said "Now I'm gonna go get some beer and get fucked up with my sandwich!"
Lol, I'll never forget that. Even having lived in his shoes, I still doubted the man was being honest because most addicts will bullshit if they think that will get them some money.
Well I'm glad you know where you are today mate! Sometimes I think I traded addiction for Steem addiction, and you know.. I'm ok with that :)
A friend of mine described Heroin as 'boring', he smoked it though.. his barrier was needles.
Tried it once.., got the 'jaw' and that was it. Did I get crap stuff? it was expensive too, I felt ripped.
Yeah it was crap lol.