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Message Board > General Chitchat > Open letter to the Crackhead thief |
laprider User Info... | well happy canada day to you too CRACK WHORE. I'm at the park this afternoon with my daughter, playing having a good time. My kid falls and scrapes her knee so I go over to check on her and you decide to grab my bag and run...thanks I appreciate that a lot!!!. duh sure leave my kid crying and chase after you, you rock bitch...I will see you around... I really didn't need my digital camera, I only use it to take pics of my family I really didn't need my sidekick, I'll just quickly run back to the states to replace it. I hope you like the tunes on my kids IPOD, probably not quite your taste unless you like the wiggles. Good luck with my bank card, i sure wouldn't need to get out any cash on a long weekend with a kid at home! And most of all thanks for getting my weed you BIATCH, that was the last of it too. So you did well, shit I hope you get at least an 8 ball, I paid 1200 for the camera alone! Crackheads....shit I have way more empathy then most for addicts, I never stole when I was fucked up...this city is gotta get some social programs together we are starting to lose it folks. now someone please doobie me!!!!! - Sun, 1 Jul 2007 4:54pm | ||
inhalien User Info... | Sorry to hear that, Lap. I applaud you looking out for your daughter though and taking care of whats important. I do believe in karmaic incidents. The one time in my life I bought something "hot" it was stolen from me 5 days later and the thief caused more damage than it was worth. They will get theirs. Cheers - Sun, 1 Jul 2007 5:33pm | ||
Chopper User Info... | That royally sucks Steve. I'd doobie ya, but I didn't get to my connection before he took off for the weekend. inhalien's right, karma's a real bitch. Hopefully she OD's on that 8-ball. - Sun, 1 Jul 2007 5:42pm | ||
_Griphin_ User Info... | Wow, they stole a sidekick, does it have GPS?!? - Sun, 1 Jul 2007 6:47pm | ||
Matteus User Info... | did you have serial numbers for them? alot of the time the police get this stuff and people give up on it. Sorry to hear about your loss dude. - Sun, 1 Jul 2007 7:00pm | ||
laprider User Info... | thanks folks, yeh I have numbers, I'll be checking the pawnshops for my camera. The sidekick was locked and is on an american plan, good thing theres some pretty funny numbers in that baby. The Ipod I will kiss goodbye. The weed was, green, stinky, NYC diesel...that I'll miss the most as apparently every weed dealer has left town....arghhhh!!!! - Sun, 1 Jul 2007 7:04pm | ||
trevor corey User Info... | Did you have insurance? As far as karma goes, she' already living it. .....there might be one or two still in town. - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:46am Edited: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 1:23am | ||
dumpstermesh User Info... | Fuck Laprider that really sucks. She will get her karma, but I know that doesn't replace your camera. If you email me I'll hook you up with a dealer that might even deliver to your door!! He's the best, and still in town! - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 2:24am | ||
trevor corey User Info... | Haha. That's high praise. I think we might know the same "dealer". - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 2:34am | ||
dumpstermesh User Info... | Shhh...I'm going for subtlety here! - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 3:00am | ||
SickFuk User Info... | k, I'm gonna make a big fucking block of hash and making you smoke the whole damned thing... Thats pretty brutal of someone to take advantage like that... Honestly can't say I'm surprised, but still it's brutal... Gimme a call man, I'll bake you like a potatoe... 'ere - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 7:56am | ||
laprider User Info... | Thanks again.....I'll survive, just realising now how the banks really have us by the balls with their bank cards, if I learned something I guess it was to always leave at least $100 in cash laying around the house. Cash advances on the old credit card is something I ain't gonna do EVER! I guess what gets me the most is really in a way how the social problems in Victoria really are getting a little out of hand. Can a person now not go anywhere in this city without seeing the results of meth/ crack....thats my rant I'd like to think going a day or so without weed won't kill me, but thanks for the offers... Sickfuck....hash eh? ding dang you know where I live! - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 8:28am | ||
Andrew User Info... | yea i have no time for drug addicts i grew up around it all and i never fuckin touched hard drugs. - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 11:11am | ||
XY-SATAN User Info... | Hey Laprider , just be glad their not people ( crack/meth) you know man. But really where have you been man? It's been like this for years? I chased a tweak down a few months ago, after he punched and took a old woman’s purse just on the other side of Johnson street. She was over 90 and it was the second time in a year. Welcome to Victoria, we've officially become a big city . - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 5:14pm | ||
Matteus User Info... | Big city, small town cops still. Last week a 8 man team of police officers with the liquor inspector cracked down on PLAN B night club, trying to sting them with over capicity (on a THURSDAY). In the end, 1000's of dollars of man power yielded not ONE FINE. Where am I going with this? Why aren't the police dealing with granny's getting mugged and cracking down on the drugs? It's fucking gross on some of the streets now. Laprider, once again, sorry to hear about the loss. What kind of camera was it? - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 5:19pm Edited: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 5:20pm | ||
Bounce User Info... | what park did this happen at?...... geez she's a girl, she didn't have to do that.... she coulda just sold her crack ass.....that really sucks.... - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 5:56pm | ||
trevor corey User Info... | .....ass crack just ain't worth much. - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 6:04pm Edited: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 6:18pm | ||
_Griphin_ User Info... | Nice tatty!!! - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 6:56pm | ||
Anonymous User Info... | okay, WHAT? "geez she's a girl, she didn't have to do that.... she coulda just sold her crack ass.." is a HORRIBLE thing to say. though i think that what she did was a shitty shitty thing and shouldn't ahve, obviously, i wouldn't wish a life of prostitution upon anyone. - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 10:00pm | ||
trevor corey User Info... | Bounce is just soooooooo pimp! - Mon, 2 Jul 2007 10:07pm | ||
laprider User Info... | Hey Matteus...it was a virtually new Nikon D80 DSLR, thank god my wide angle wasn't on it! We were in the little park on Wark and Kings, yes its a hood but my kid likes the Monkey Bars, not many left in town. XY I hear you, but i of all ain't no fool. I guess what i have come to the conclusion is we have the most rude and fucked up Junkie population in all of canada. Now I know some shit about this, no shame..I been clean since 92....when I shot heroin, I payed for it with money from selling hash, out of my home, not on the street,I never once stole anything! Since January of this year I have been travelling a lot, I have been to near every major Canadian city and usually, especially when Playin my stuff, end up in the ghetto. Every city has a "red zone" of sorts and usually the sad shit goes down there, now I'm not a fool, I've found needle wrappers in the Uplands, so drugs are in every neighbourhood. Some how thanks to this cities complete denial of a long growing problem...I call it the " hey lets do the junkie shuffle" somehow our city has literally gotten out of control....Has anyone here walked past the needle exchange at 3 am on any morning...its like a fuckin warzone. I get offered crack when I walk my daughter down the street, WTF. Our Junkie population is lacking in what I would call " street etiquette" an example...when I n Calgary I often stay at the hostel at the end of 7th in town, anyone knowing Calgary knows that is their epi-center of shit. I can sit in the park next to the hostel read a book and not so much as get asked for a smoke by their street population, so one day I got talking to a guy, obviously strung out,...he told me that everyone there knew to not hassle people from the hostel, our any tourists for that matter because the cops would bust their balls...I'm telling you this was one scary motherfucker, but he was cool, I gave him a 20 figured I saved someones CD collection. Something absolutely has to be done.......like it will happen soon, but probably in our lifetimes... this is what I would do, now I am not going to get into rehab , because thats something entirely different then this point. Legalise and control prostitution as in Amsterdam, ZERO tolerance for street prostitution. Open " coffee shops and sell amounts of less then 7 grams of weed, tax it, pay for REHAB with funds. Hard Drugs....ABSOLUTE ZERO TOLERANCE, you sell you do time!, you have a high impact presence on the street, you go to forced rehab. Doctor prescribed Heroin for Long time users. ( as in UK) So how do we make the change? goodbye ALAN LOWE, goodbye 70% of city council for that matter. Vote for Ben Issit next election. New Police Board that is not run by the Mayor; I actually think we have one of the most Liberal and straight Police chiefs around so he can stay ......so I've been thinking this for a wile...If one Canadian city, by Majority vote of its Population decided that in Unity it would simply Break or defy certain laws, could any ONE individual, or group of individuals actually be convicted....seriously,..charges would need to be laid by a local police force, A local Crown Attorney would need to proceed in a Local ( Albeit federal) court, and a local Judge would need to convict...I'd love to hear from any polisci students.....anyway thats it, I'm over it, I got a sac o weed and as I guess thats the lone monkey on my back, I'm, like I said over it. I will possibly get the camera back maybe not....again thanks for kind words and numerous offers of gratuitous bakedness! - Tue, 3 Jul 2007 2:16am | ||
Matteus User Info... | dude, that rant was sweet. You're right. LOWE MUST GO! Sorry to hear about the Nikon man. That's a sweet camera. Maybe you can fluke out that its so damn new that it's obvious it's hot... wish I could help ya out dude. check this out: http://www.usedvictoria.com/classified-ad/3420693&category=digital-film-cameras here;s something i found abou the "solution" http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/story.html?id=c7f1eeba-122f-4ddb-8db0-4c18b6133424&k=7888 - Tue, 3 Jul 2007 2:26am Edited: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 2:36am | ||
Tim-Bitchfork User Info... | Sorry to hear Steve, Our city and municipalities are stupid, they divert problems and never solve them. I do linux tech support for a job, I solve problems. If I don't solve problems and just divert them I get fired, why doesn't our city council? I wasn't voted into this job to do my job, and make the right decisions by the people. What I do doesn't affect (well kinda) 100,000s of people and the order of the atmosphere they live in, yet I can be fired! FUCK Sorry to hear again man, It's good to see you are over it, your daughter is OK so thats good. I would say I hope the thief finds happiness with what they stole, but they will most likely stay at the low level they are at after they shoot up with their new drugs. - Tue, 3 Jul 2007 9:47am | ||
Bounce User Info... | hey, its all good, we make choices in life, i'm sorry that my words are so harsh.... and yeah if my son grows up to be a drug addict maybe i'll change my tune, but for right now.... i am so against drugs that I can't feel sympathy for addicts, yeah i'm sure they had shitty childhoods and whatever other things made them not be able to cope with reality, well I didn't grow up in the best enviroment either and I chose to stay away from drugs and smoking....yeah what I said was rude and I applogise to all the prostitutes out there...... however I hate feeling unsafe in my own city, I have lived here for 30 years and I should feel comfortable to walk down the street or go to the park with my son and not be worried he is going to step on a needle like he did 4 years ago...... i have been harrassed by crackheads downtown for simply walking on her corner, like i'm gonna take her business away!!! well I would if I was a hooker....lol.....and laprider should not have had his bag stolen,,, the drug problem in this city is out of controll.....i'm angry...can you tell.... - Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:52am Edited: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:20am | ||
Kimberleykaos User Info... | Awwww...SickFuck, you are just the sweetest...offereing to smoke up the less fortunate (less fortunate in this case due to the obvious hands of ignorance) You're a king among men. Very very sick and twisted men, but the king none the less... - Thu, 5 Jul 2007 4:16pm | ||
Curmudgeon Rocker User Info... | "Legalise and control prostitution as in Amsterdam, ZERO tolerance for street prostitution. Open coffee shops and sell amounts of less then 7 grams of weed, tax it, pay for REHAB with funds. Hard Drugs....ABSOLUTE ZERO TOLERANCE, you sell you do time!, you have a high impact presence on the street, you go to forced rehab." Indeed, Laprider - three steps right there that would make a GARGANTUAN difference downtown. - Thu, 5 Jul 2007 6:04pm Edited: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 6:15pm | ||
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