Anodyne
Sunday, August 13, 2006
 

Stolen pickup, 8th and Main. Piloted up Main at better than 70 miles an hour, narrowly missing a pedestrian I had been talking to less than five minutes before, and rammed into the decorative chain fence outside Architectural Antiques. Junkie Thief the driver and Junkie Thief Jr. the passenger leapt out, grabbed all their stolen loot from the cab, and ran like hell down 8th Avenue and into the alley behind the Lee Building, where they were boxed in by the VPD and numerous irate neighbors.

Anyone tempted to romanticize or dismiss Vancouver's totally out-of-control drug problem is welcome to work a shift at either shop, where you will repeatedly encounter obnoxious crackhead thieves, harmless but disfunctional crackheads and meth heads, and self-righteous long term heroin addicts as a basic part of your 8-hour day.
- posted by cjb @ 9:30 PM


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