Bodies lying in the streets

[Dutch Masta]

There are tons of homeless people in the city.

Some of them are just wanderers. I met this guy that just wandered the city with his three dogs and his cart filled of stuff, just picking through the trash for food for him and his dogs to get by.

[orangeman]

Lol, New York has been one of the places that I have always wanted to go but over the years I rather stay away . I seen some one layed out in front of a corner store once but he was a bum drunk, thats about it though.

[jamstigator]

Heh, bet those guy's dogs didn't realize that they're his backup emergency food source.

[LIP]

Howdy BA,

I reckon that after awhile,city slickers git numb to seeing such a sight,but if it had been me in yer shoes,I would've found a cop and asked him to why the man was being ignored..I already know why,but I'd want to put the cop on the spot..and bring his humanity into question. Living in a big city,will slowly strip one's humanity away,huh ?

I know what it's like to live on the streets of Chicago,and it really sucked..folks just walk by like ya don't exist..and if ya ask for help,they act like yer going to rob em or something. I got so hungry,I ate a tube of toothpaste..at least my breath smelled good..I even thought of waiting on someone to come out of the Pizza Hut and snatch their pizza,but I couldn't bring myself to do it..so instead,I checked out the dumpster for decent throw-aways..which weren't too bad at all.

NoChowder says that he won't even sell a cig for 2 bucks,heck,I'd never dream of selling a cig,I'd just give it away..maybe even the whole pack..you see..but for the Grace of God..there go I.

Have a good one ...

I gave away a pack of my B&H cigs to a homeless guy when i was younger, a whole pack, i'd only just got em , and he was so gratefull, made him happy and made me feel good.

[Greenport]

im from medford ny and its pretty bad there too lol

[jamstigator]

I was in NYC for New Years Eve '98. Me and a friend fried on some shrooms and saw the Phish show (and the previous three days of shows too). After the show, we left Madison Square Garden and our hotel was only like two miles away so we decided to just walk there from MSG.

It was like 1:00 AM or 1:30 AM when we set out for the hotel. The first thing we noticed was, the whole city looked like the almost-deserted aftermath of a gigantic party (which is what it was, I guess). Just trash and party streamers and stuff everywhere, but very little traffic or people. Of the people that WERE around, about two thirds of them were people just passed out on the street, drunk bums, that kinda stuff. There were also some...scary-looking groups of people. We got paranoid seeing the scary folks, so when we saw this group of like 20 uniformed cops walking the same way we were, we walked faster to catch up to them, and just kinda followed in their wake. That was pretty bizarre, considering we were flying on shrooms and stoned out of our minds, walking with and BSing with a gang of cops, who were really cool and thought it was funny that we were latched onto them for safety.

In fact, for all the bad press NYC gets in regards to the rudeness of the people there, that wasn't our experience AT ALL. Everyone was super nice and helpful, especially the cops (not just those cops either, all of them). I still wouldn't want to live there (the traffic is just crazy, and that many people packed that close together makes me claustrophobic). But it seemed like a great place to visit!

[LIP]

^^ HaHa that sounds pretty good man lol.

When cops arnt constantly trying to nick you for every little thing they can think of its good, and some of them have some good jokes. Although i never meet nice coppers

[Dutch Masta]

New York City is the safest city in the United States, even with a population of over 8 million people.

[MastaChronic]

ive seen plenty if dead bodies, me and a friend used to hang out at the county morgue blitzed out of our minds, we'd go in there and we could look at all the "exhibits" cause his mom worked there