OK, I decided a couple of years ago that I would no longer yield to the druggies on the street that set up camps on the downtown sidewalks. I’d walk right through them.
Not This Time. As I walked up Main Street I could see, well, A Swarm of 12-15 unhoused citizens. This was not a good swarm, they were ALL worked up swarming, yelling, Pitbulls barking, people pushing each other, swearing… This was a Bad Deal, 30 feet in front of me, middle of the day right out in the open. I diverted and walked around a planter to stay out of the Swarm. I don’t often get that rattled but this was not good. On the way back from the store they had dispersed up and down Main Street but they were they were shooting up and still aggressive as he!!. I haven’t seen it that bad down here for a couple of years.
Right there between the planters and the DownUnder Bar
I sat them and asked them what I could do to make their lives better, gave them hugs, took away their hammers… They are all calm and rational now, no chance they’ll hurt themselves or others now that I recognized that they want to be violent, not commit violent acts. Thanks for the education @Robert1246…
Bob Dylan said in a song “when you’ve got nothin’ you’ve got nothin’ to lose.” This has stuck with me since I first heard it. They have nothing to lose, but you do. I can almost guarantee that if there was any form of altercation they’d find a way to pin it on you. I’m usually with you on not giving in on something I see as my right. But in this instance things can go South very quickly as we see on the news all too often. That’s why you need to think it through as you did, and although that call may P…you off, you went home in one piece, and I commend you for it.
OK, since there were 12-15 amped up drug using homeless men and women with pitbulls swarming around yelling, fighting and swearing out loud I thought to myself "Self, I strongly suspect this angry mob would get concerned and focus their obvious frustration on me if I yelled “SAY CHESSE” and took their pictures. So instead of being dumb I came home google mapped the area and used That Snip to show the area where it all happened, so that the members could get a feel for what the area looks like. Unfortunately the google maps image was taken about a year or so ago so the angry mob of which I speak hadn’t joined up and started yelling and shooting up yet.
So where did all the cops go in SLC? It used to be a super clean, well run city, years ago when I went there a few times. What happened?
At the risk of stereotyping a church and its people, I was very close friends with a few Mormon families over the years. They were, without exception, hard working, law and order, patriot conservative types. I had a very good friend in SLC, and my impression of the city was basically that it was run like a well organized conservative city with a strong religious influence. Is that not the case anymore? Is the church still a big presence there?
Sorry to hear that you have to deal with that, Mike.
I used to go to SLC/Utah 5-10 times per year, mostly mid-fall through early spring. A friend lived in Logan so would stay there most of the time. It was always beautiful and I never felt unsafe. Unfortunately, times have changed.
OK, I peed! Thank for the yucks!
Didja sing ‘Kumbaya!’, Smoke some ty-weed tigether?
Invite them all back to your place for a meal? Then you know you are
on the path toward Enlightment and Sainthood!
Saint Michael! Ohm! Ohm! Ohm!
For me? Albuquerque is LOST, Downtown is Over run and DANGEROUS (Anytime now)
The Rio Grande river separates us from Albuquerque. My side of the river is safe(r).
I shop, do my thing all North of the city now. I don’t/won’t poke the bear.
Situational Awareness is on always even though I feel safer, Safety these days
is an Illusion. You did well not tempting fate Mike, Cudo’s.
WWG1WGA
Hence, the 'S. Main Steet lettering on the street itself is self explanitory that it was a ‘Googly Maps’ image…sheesh-a-Meesh Robert.
Apologies Geno, I see you went there already ! Sympatico minds I guess!)
The Mayor Erin Mendenhall is a far left passive political hack, her solution is a half billion bucks in new homeless shelter, free clinics and soup kitchens. We have more meter maids in down town than we have cops. Not to mention there were 2 UTA (Transit Cops) standing 50 yards down doing nothing.
Yepper Bruh, Same same here! We have an Electronic Police Force now.
Traffic Camera’s (Ticket machines–pump out serious fines —starting @ 100 bucks!)
BLEED THE COMMON MAN AND WOMAN! The Socialist way!
God forbid they hire more Cops!.
Camera’s don’t bitch n moan, they don’t get killed, Ask for raises.
But hey we feed the Homeless MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN EVERY FORM WE CAN.
(do we get the crazies off the streets? Hell no!—but they’re well fed!—Twisted Sister logic bruh!)
