Junkies

Foxhound38 · 11-06-2012 01:17AM #1

Was walking through O'Connell Street last night (not late mind, around 8PM) and was hassled no less than 4 times in the space of as many minutes by the zombies - one of whom was so off his tits shuffling about the place I was seriously considering ringing an ambulance on him before he inched off into the Burger King where they can keep an eye.

To me, it's an annoyance but I'm about as used to it as anyone else at this stage. What really gets up my goat is when I see them hassling tourists, as I did last night. What sort of image does that send out about Ireland, at a time when we really need the tourism?

Is it just me, or has the problem gotten worse in the last 2 or so years - every city in the country just seems to be crawling with junkies and the gardai do nothing about it. What can be done about this? Obviously our current ways of managing the problem aren't working out...

mauzo · 11-06-2012 01:19AM

What is it with burger king?? There was 2 asleep on the table when I walked by a few days ago.....and this was all I could see from the street!

KKkitty · 11-06-2012 01:19AM

Junkies- great bunch of lads

Smidge · 11-06-2012 01:20AM

The problem has defo got worse over the last number of years.
Used to be that there were always the odd few scag heads rambling around, now the place is feckin crawling with them.

The King of Moo · 11-06-2012 01:20AM

You'd think they'd know better than to hassle tourists.
Do they not realise the image of Ireland they're sending out, and the damage to the economy through loss of tourist revenue their actions might cause?

Kylo Ren · 11-06-2012 01:21AM

You were looking for cheap oral sex weren't you OP!

Jester252 · 11-06-2012 01:22AM

syndeyfife wrote: »

What is it with burger king?? There was 2 asleep on the table when I walked by a few days ago.....and this was all I could see from the street!

no one else would eat in it

Scioch · 11-06-2012 01:22AM

Start giving them bad heroin instead of change. They will soon stop hasslin ya.

policarp · 11-06-2012 01:26AM

Not far removed from the scumbags on junkets.IMO. . .

mauzo · 11-06-2012 01:26AM

Jester252 wrote: »

no one else would eat in it

Ive never said no to a whopper....

Foxhound38 · 11-06-2012 01:26AM

Last time I was on the Red LUAS line, 2 of the boyos where shooting up down the back of it... at 4PM... with kids on the tram...

I always knew there was a heroin problem, but it just seems to be more pronounced of late...

Obviously the worst affected place for it is in Dublin, but I've noticed increases in Cork and Limerick too. What's the story here - why now?

mauzo · 11-06-2012 01:29AM

I lived in Cork for a few months in 2010, every day I walked through the city streets and holy moly the amount of junkies there compared to Dublin...

af_thefragile · 11-06-2012 01:30AM

Few days ago I came across these two junkies who were stopping and asking every person on the street for change. They also stopped this american looking couple for change and they refused. Then they headed off into Temple Bar crossing the road without waiting for the lights while the rest of us waited at the crossing for the pedestrian lights to go green. Then a soon I caught up with them in Temple Bar again as they were hassling more people to get some money. I stayed away from them and avoided them...

Then I came across this women near the quays with blood pouring from her face with two Garda talking to her, she too looked like she was off her face on heroin or meth or something and then was in a fight.

I really love Dublin!!

Awful_Bliss · 11-06-2012 01:36AM

A Portuguese friend of mine made a great point that O'Connell is the main drop off place for tourists coming into Dublin and one of the first images of Dublin they get is the scangers/junkies roaming up and down the street like lost causes. Thank God I haven't been hassled by any - they must read my mind and cop that I'm a brown belt in karate!

mauzo · 11-06-2012 01:38AM

Awful_Bliss wrote: »

A Portuguese friend of mine made a great point that O'Connell is the main drop off place for tourists coming into Dublin and one of the first images of Dublin they get is the scangers/junkies roaming up and down the street like lost causes. Thank God I haven't been hassled by any - they must read my mind and cop that I'm a brown belt in karate!

Either that or you look broke

big_heart_on · 11-06-2012 01:38AM

This is Ireland after all, so long as a problem can be ignored it will be, so nothing will happen until a tourist gets stabbed to death on O'Connell street.

af_thefragile · 11-06-2012 01:39AM

I guess looking like a broke student has its advantages as well...

sandmanporto · 11-06-2012 01:40AM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Was walking through O'Connell Street last night (not late mind, around 8PM) and was hassled no less than 4 times in the space of as many minutes by the zombies - one of whom was so off his tits shuffling about the place I was seriously considering ringing an ambulance on him before he inched off into the Burger King where they can keep an eye.

To me, it's an annoyance but I'm about as used to it as anyone else at this stage. What really gets up my goat is when I see them hassling tourists, as I did last night. What sort of image does that send out about Ireland, at a time when we really need the tourism?

Is it just me, or has the problem gotten worse in the last 2 or so years - every city in the country just seems to be crawling with junkies and the gardai do nothing about it. What can be done about this? Obviously our current ways of managing the problem aren't working out...

Well why do people turn to drugs? And why do people sell drugs? Why does a country let people ruin the streets because of their citizens dependence on drugs? What do you or anybody else reading do to ease the situation?

Smidge · 11-06-2012 01:41AM

syndeyfife wrote: »

Ive never said no to a whopper....

Bah dum bum bum
Thank you folks I'm here all week

mauzo · 11-06-2012 01:45AM

mishkalucy wrote: »

Bah dum bum bum
Thank you folks I'm here all week

Took longer than I thought:D

Foxhound38 · 11-06-2012 01:48AM

sandmanporto wrote: »

Well why do people turn to drugs? And why do people sell drugs? Why does a country let people ruin the streets because of their citizens dependence on drugs? What do you or anybody else reading do to ease the situation?

Even if the gardai could keep them coralled off the main streets and tourist sectors it would be a start. We don't have the luxery of allowing tourists to go home with a bad impression of our country anymore if we can help it at all, especially not if it's to appease the zombies on their quest to hassle people...

face1990 · 11-06-2012 01:50AM

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Perhaps we could round them all up and put them in camps?

Seriously though, why not turn somewhere like spike island into a big rehab centre where people are kept away from drugs for a good while, taught some skills and released when deemed appropriate? Methadone doesn't seem to do much good, neither does leaving addicts to roam the streets where they're surrounded by drugs even if they wanted to stop taking them.

southcentralts · 11-06-2012 01:50AM

And would you have them shuffled off to a more isolated area, with less (witnesses) tourists, to hassle other people, who are out there working to rebuild this country by doing their jobs?

Smidge · 11-06-2012 01:51AM

syndeyfife wrote: »

Took longer than I thought:D

Sorry, I was waiting on a bus :P

mickrock · 11-06-2012 01:52AM

Those junkies are right characters.

They're part of our culture and the tourists love them.

Foxhound38 · 11-06-2012 01:52AM

face1990 wrote: »

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Perhaps we could round them all up and put them in camps?

Seriously though, why not turn somewhere like spike island into a big rehab centre where people are kept away from drugs for a good while, taught some skills and released when deemed appropriate? Methadone doesn't seem to do much good, neither does leaving addicts to roam the streets where they're surrounded by drugs even if they wanted to stop taking them.

Methodone has turned into a black market of its own, and has fuelled a surge in Benzo abuse. Heroin truly was a curse unleashed on this country...

sandmanporto · 11-06-2012 01:55AM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Even if the gardai could keep them coralled off the main streets and tourist sectors it would be a start. We don't have the luxery of allowing tourists to go home with a bad impression of our country anymore if we can help it at all, especially not if it's to appease the zombies on their quest to hassle people...

You think Ireland relies on tourism? Dublin people are arrogant enough to think they are more Irish than the so called culchies! You find more junkies scangers in Dublin begging than any other place. The Pale population fail to realise that Cork and Kerry are more Irish and more Irish than the PALE! You don't see many heroin addicts begging in Kinsale or Clonakilty do you?
Gotta edit this.... People abroad are so biased as to think Dublin is the real Ireland. Dublin is the most British, metropolitan part of Ireland anybody could visit. Real Ireland is outside of Dublin. And a lot of dublin people have surnames not common in Ireland. So Don't use tourism as an excuse.

AdventRises · 11-06-2012 02:00AM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Was walking through O'Connell Street last night (not late mind, around 8PM) and was hassled no less than 4 times in the space of as many minutes by the zombies - one of whom was so off his tits shuffling about the place I was seriously considering ringing an ambulance on him before he inched off into the Burger King where they can keep an eye.

To me, it's an annoyance but I'm about as used to it as anyone else at this stage. What really gets up my goat is when I see them hassling tourists, as I did last night. What sort of image does that send out about Ireland, at a time when we really need the tourism?

Is it just me, or has the problem gotten worse in the last 2 or so years - every city in the country just seems to be crawling with junkies and the gardai do nothing about it. What can be done about this? Obviously our current ways of managing the problem aren't working out...

Allow me to translate the OPs post:

- I didnt give a f**k about the junkie.
- I am glad he went into burger king leaving me the f**k alone.
- I actually dont care about junkies bothering tourists. As the money isnt going to my pocket.
- why arent the gardai doing something about this? my taxes, my taxes, my taxes.
- I just dont want to be bothered by junkies.

I agree on the last bit op

I dont want to be bothered by junkies. However, I wouldnt of added the BS.

wilkie2006 · 11-06-2012 02:00AM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

I always knew there was a heroin problem, but it just seems to be more pronounced of late...

Obviously the worst affected place for it is in Dublin, but I've noticed increases in Cork and Limerick too. What's the story here - why now?

I'm not sure if you're being serious or not?

The recession has led to a huge amount of homelessness, which has in turn led to this. Yes, there's more to it than that but that's your broad answer.

wilmer mclean · 11-06-2012 02:00AM

sandmanporto wrote: »

You think Ireland relies on tourism? Dublin people are arrogant enough to think they are more Irish than the so called culchies! You find more junkies scangers in Dublin begging than any other place. The Pale population fail to realise that Cork and Kerry are more Irish and more Irish than the PALE! You don't see many heroin addicts begging in Kinsale or Clonakilty do you?

How can one place in Ireland be more or less Irish then another. How is being a junkie not Irish? How is being a junkie defined by any nationality?

face1990 · 11-06-2012 02:02AM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Methodone has turned into a black market of its own, and has fuelled a surge in Benzo abuse. Heroin truly was a curse unleashed on this country...

As far as I can tell, a lot of addicts will never successfully beat their addiction as long as they have access to the drug. Methadone becomes a crutch, or just a replacement for heroin. So heroin addicts are left having to beat the addiction by will-power alone. It's no wonder they stay on it.

Prisons have a plentiful supply of drugs too.
Is there anywhere addicts can go where they will be held, for a minimum period (and even against their will in my opinion. An addict may voluntarily enter rehab but not voluntarily stay once the withdrawals get bad enough) in a place where drugs are actually kept away from them?

sandmanporto wrote: »

You find more junkies scangers in Dublin begging than any other place. The Pale population fail to realise that Cork and Kerry are more Irish and more Irish than the PALE!

More addicts in Dublin is largely down to the larger population and greater availability of drugs.
As for being 'more Irish', I have no idea what you're on about or how it's in any way relevant to the issue being discussed.

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