I was officially in a crack house

[commander bunnypants]

I have been in them before. The thing is the residents were not even trying to hide it. Coworker and I were trying to engage someone in treatment.

Litlle baggies everywhere, plus glass pipes. It was pretty nasty..

DDQM

[ClintonTyree]

1. Were................

the Bush girls there?

[GOPisEvil]

2. My crack house story

I'm doing investigations in the area of food stamp and welfare fraud. I am heading to the house of someone suspected of not telling our dept. the truth. She lives in a duplex. I am not sure which unit she lives in because they aren't labeled. So I head over to the one on the left (with my partner).

First, the door has no knobs or locks - just holes where the knobs and locks WERE. I knock.

Disembodied voice - Put your money through the hole.
Me - Hunh?
DV - PUT YOUR MONEY THROUGH THE HOLE.
Me - Uh, um, no - I'm looking for (name of individual).
DV - Ohhh - she lives next door.
Me - Oh, do you have a minute to answer a quick question or two. I'm from the food stamp office (shows badge to hole in door).
*sounds of 3 or 4 locks*
DV (now embodied) - Yeah, what do you want to know.

We have a pleasant chat, and I leave for the unit next door. The lady isn't home. Since there's a big shade tree out front of the house across the street, my partner and I do some paperwork. We notice cars coming up to the first unit, the transaction, and then they leave. Gee, I wonder what was going on THERE! :D

[slutticus]

8. "Put your money through the hole"

LOL... Next time someone knocks on my door, I'm going to say that!

[jukes]

9. GOPisEvi

back in the day, i did some foodstamp stings in the st. louis/east st. louis area. effing combat zone!

are you certified/do you strap? be careful friend, that can be bigbux & bad dudes!

[GOPisEvil]

10. Our investigators are not peace officers.

So, no weapons. I don't do field work anymore, thank goodness.

My dad's hometown is E. St. Louis. I know how bad that place can be.

[jukes]

13. GOPisEvil

you got brass 1's, my friend. glad you're safe.

i was on loan to DAG, @ the time. my supe's were always trying to get rid of my liberal, shitstirring self!

[GOPisEvil]

14. Sometimes, if we get the sense there might be trouble,

we ask the local constabulary to escort us, but we really don't have too much trouble. I never had a physical confrontation , but plenty of verbal ones.

Yeah, this is a liberal agency overall, but this section is pretty conservative. :evilfrown:

[commander bunnypants]

16. that is what we doo.

for any sense of trouble

DDQM

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

17. East St Louis - home of......................................wait for it..

MILES DAVIS


ok - go back to you're story, I'm listening

[jukes]

18. Not to forget

Ike Turner. met him when i was a bouncer in a local club one night. was very polite, & his b'guard was a cool dude.

[GOPisEvil]

20. If you're into sports...

...also the home Jackie Joyner Kersee and Brian Cox (former NFL linebacker).

[demnan]

3. Well that is nasty

but you know there are probably many houses around that are housing crack addicts in every neighborhood, and you wouldn't even know it!

[Richardo]

5. My folks used to live next door to one...

...the neighborhood we grew up in really took a turn for the worse, and during the last two years the house next door looked pretty much normal, except there was a large but constantly shifting group of cars in the driveway at all hours (hm - what's going on?). On New year's Eve the subdivision sounded like an Iraqi wedding with all the auto weapons fire.

I was VERY happy when they finally moved - childhood memories be damned!

[jukes]

11. apsitively!

think a nearby trailer is a methlab. cdnt care less anymore, i just want to be left alone. J/O is a "drummer" though, & practices outside mostly. been there a year & has zero rhythm. chez annoying.

local yokel deputydawgs will NOT intercede; even had a very condescending return call from the "shurf". must be connected.

if it doesn't stop soon, i might have to dust off the old creeper/stakeout techniques & turn him in to GBI, just to get some quiet.

or blow the place...:evilgrin: :bounce: :evilgrin:


CAVEAT: joking! wd never post anything illegal on this fine board. all posts of illegal activities are for boasting/jesting purp's only.

*OR*, am i a Dept. of Vaderland Sekurity plant?

[havocmom]

4. Keep fighting the good fight, kid. You will make a difference

some of the time. Not everybody wants to be helped. Those you touch who do get better will remember you long after their faces blur in your memory.

You are a brave and decent man. The world is better for your being.

hm

[jukes]

6. crack wasn't around

when i was a narc, thank yahweh. never tried it, never will. i actually had to 'turkey from coke when i broke cover. cdnt tell any1, or i'd have lost my job.

'swhy i moonlighted as an intern w/ a rehab unit when i got cleaned up.
scary, painful shit.

[LynneSin]

7. I was actually at a crack trailer once

Not kidding - little miss Lynne associating herself with drug dealers.

I dated this guy from Central PA who's father was a big shot in a major corporation in the area. The guy was just drop dead gorgeous with a great tan, cute dimples and super rich.

Of course he was pretty bored with life and had a major coke habit too. I wouldn't really say he was a serious boyfriend but someone who I'd hang out with and drink at the local bar. The guy was super intelligent and had everything going for him but was just way too much into the drugs.

Last time we hung out I was driving and he had to make a stop - to the local crack trailer. Well, on the way home I berated him to death, even when we got back to his place (get your minds out of the gutter -nothing happened). That was our last night together for awhile since I really was creeped out about that experience.

I didn't see him again until 2-3 years latter at a bar in Philly. It was his last night before heading to court order rehab. He was also in the middle of a messy divorce from some crack whore he married for some reason. Said he regretted losing me because I was the one person who gave him shit about him ruining his life where every other girl just indulged him.

Haven't heard from him since - I hope he's ok. He was just another rich kid who screwed up his life but he could have done anything out there if he just put his mind to it.

Edit Note: the trailer was a freaking pigstyle. I really didn't want to sit down anywhere but just sit and wait in the car instead. And the place just smelled plus I just missed stepping in dog crap

[Susang]

12. "A Crack Trailer" - That's so perfect

Our neighborhood is crack and smack central, though due to gentrification its starting to clean up somewhat. Its a mixed blessing, as now, instead of crack hos (of both genders) and dealers along with the rest of us poor folk, we have wealthy white carpetbaggers with tiny dogs and expensive foreign SUVs. I'm having a really hard time figuring out which is worse. :shrug:

[Wcross]

15. I'll take suv's and tiny dogs over gunplay in the street any day n/t

[jukes]

19. Wcross

not nearly as common as the media wd sugg. bad for biz, & brings the law around. not that these cat's aren't serious trouble, but the media wants us to think the streets are full of full-auto gangsters, good for ratings. they indiscriminately use "automatic weapon" when they shd say "semi-auto sat'night special that jammed after 3 rounds".

just isn't true. if it was, cops wd be wearing full body armour & carrying mp5's.

[Wcross]

21. I know it...

But having a crack house on the block does attract the criminal element. Yuppies are far preferable.A good buddy of mine bought a house in Rochester, N.Y. a few years back in a "rough" neighborhood. I tried to talk sense into him and maybe look at other properties. He is the type you can't reason with, the more you debate it the more determined he gets. He bought the first cheap place a realtor showed him and paid 35,000 for it. I have visited a couple of times and you can't walk the streets after dark, he complains about the crack dealers hanging out on the sidewalk and he has had a couple of murders in the hood over the years. The house has lost value to the point he is upside down in it and can't move. I just don't have the heart to say "I told you so".