Crack Pipe - Detroit

[Cebu_4_2]

Man smokes crack pipe on DDOT bus; drivers want cleaner, safer buses



Video (http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/detroit-bus-drivers-want-frequent-passenger-attacks-to-end?asdf#88134332-1)


DETROIT (WXYZ) - An upset passenger on a Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT) bus posted a video to YouTube of a fellow passenger pulling out and lighting a crack pipe in the middle of the day.

At one point, another passenger asks him to put out the crack pipe. After yelling back at the passenger, the man continues smoking the pipe.

Eventually, the bus driver stops the bus and tells him to get off. When the man refuses, the bus driver calls for help. The man smoking the crack pipe eventually steps off the bus in exchange for a cigarette from another rider.

Bus union leaders at AFL – CIO Local 26 told 7 Action News the bus driver handled the situation the best way he could.
This incident is not shocking to the union however. Detroit city buses are a battle zone for operators.

Union President Fred Westbrook said in the past 10 month, eight bus drivers have been hospitalized and many others have been assaulted.
7 Action News placed several calls to the city and our calls were not returned. DDOT said they can’t make any comments unless the city approves it.

Detroit Police Commissioner Jerome Warfield told 7 Action News he was strongly behind a recent millage that was turned down which would have put officers on buses.

Bus drivers are currently in the process of planning a rally. They believe the lack of bus service is driving a lot of the assaults.
They want the attacks to stop as well as cleaner and safer buses for the passengers and drivers.

[Hitch]

You can legally buy crack pipes. Go into any corner market in the ghetto, and right on the counter, you'll see small glass cylinders containing an "emergency cigarette", or a small paper rose. People don't buy them for the stale old smoke or stupid rose, crackheads bust the end of the glass off and use them for pipes.

Also, you can spot a crackhead because they have burnt lips. The glass heats up and burns them when they smoke. They don't even notice, or care.

[Horn]

Nancy Reagan is directly responsible for all crack users.

[Cebu_4_2]

I think all public buses should have a bulletproof chamber around the drivers, to protect both ways. Most folks using public transportation use it for a reason and can't afford to carry their own protection. It really needs a vigilante cleanup.

[Hitch]

I think all public buses should have a bulletproof chamber around the drivers, to protect both ways. Most folks using public transportation use it for a reason and can't afford to carry their own protection. It really needs a vigilante cleanup.

I like the way you think.

To add to the bullet proof glass design...the driver should be able to flood the whole bus with pepper spray, or maybe tear gas would be better. That would stop a fight and clear the whole bus too. If the animals have enough energy to fight, they should have enough energy to walk home. Off the bus.

Just have folks sign a disclaimer with their ticket purchase.

[ximmy]

I think all public buses should have a bulletproof chamber around the drivers, to protect both ways. Most folks using public transportation use it for a reason and can't afford to carry their own protection. It really needs a vigilante cleanup.

This doesn't fix any problems. People used to take personal interest in the welfare of their fellow neighbors. If that were still true, the crack user would never venture to smoke in public, homos would be invited back into their closets, corrupt politicians would be voted out, etc...

[Horn]

People used to take personal interest in the welfare of their fellow neighbors.

I'm pretty sure, you're making this stuff up.

[gunDriller]

once i was at a dinner party in Mendocino where a guy
used a glass tube and a blow-torch to smoke his pot.

he would put the pot in the middle of the glass tube,
and heat it up from the outside. then inhale the smoke.

it was pretty hard core. i felt sorry for his throat.

[Hypertiger]

you all crack me up how ignorant of economics you all are.

you all have a child like mentality.

Detroit has been collapsing to oblivion for 6 decades.

and the population is totally ignorant of what is going on.

You all think you have rights to something?

Well when the gold mines run dry...Your GOD given rights are cut off.

like chopping down trees faster than they regrow to sustain your GOD given right to be ignorant...

works great until the trees run out.

unions?

To do what? get better compensation from Satan.

Yes Satan I will be an obedient servant but I need X amount of compensation.

what do you want me to do?

chop down trees faster than they regrow to supply power to you to fight GOD for me and protect me from GOD?

just sign on the dotted line to have all your dreams come true.

until of course the trees run out.

then Satan has no more use for you.

Except consuming your rotting corpse.

All the public servants are like the goof balls working on the titanic to keep the lights on and the boilers stoked as It sank.

just little brainwashed drones following the program to the logical conclusion...payday.

a payday that will ultimately never come in the end.

[Horn]

Your in the wrong thread HT, but its O.K.

[Gold Rules]

you all crack me up how ignorant of economics you all are.

you all have a child like mentality.

Detroit has been collapsing to oblivion for 6 decades.

and the population is totally ignorant of what is going on.

You all think you have rights to something?

Well when the gold mines run dry...Your GOD given rights are cut off.

like chopping down trees faster than they regrow to sustain your GOD given right to be ignorant...

works great until the trees run out.

unions?

To do what? get better compensation from Satan.

Yes Satan I will be an obedient servant but I need X amount of compensation.

what do you want me to do?

chop down trees faster than they regrow to supply power to you to fight GOD for me and protect me from GOD?

just sign on the dotted line to have all your dreams come true.

until of course the trees run out.

then Satan has no more use for you.

Except consuming your rotting corpse.

All the public servants are like the goof balls working on the titanic to keep the lights on and the boilers stoked as It sank.

just little brainwashed drones following the program to the logical conclusion...payday.

a payday that will ultimately never come in the end.

My family having run a business in De-Toilet untill I closed it down some years ago I understand compleatly

Spot on HT

[Neuro]

Nancy Reagan is directly responsible for all crack users.
How did she convince everyone to crack up?

[Horn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQXgVM30mIY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_epidemic