Way OT; from Consumer Safety org.
On 2021-05-13 1:45 p.m., bruce bowser wrote:
> On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 3:44:12 PM UTC-4, bruce bowser wrote:
>> On Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 3:11:10 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2021-05-13 1:32 p.m., Mike Duffy wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 13 May 2021 09:32:39 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2021-05-13 4:17 a.m., Sqwertz wrote:
>>> laska (they huff it).
>>>>
>>>>> It seems to be very popular in some communities.
>>>>> [...] there were people passed out on the sidewalk.
>>>>
>>>> In their defence I need to point out a tangential situation wherein I
>>>> called an ambulance for a kid that had passed out and hit his head on the
>>>> sidewalk from being drunk & sleep-deprived in a below-freezing line-up
>>>> for tickets to see The Boss. All his friends could not wake him up. I had
>>>> one of those at-the-time ostentatious cell phones, and offered to call an
>>>> ambulance. His only friend who said anything was not to call, that they
>>>> knew he was passed-out just because of how much alcohol he had consumed.
>>>>
>>>> So I asked her how long they were planning to leave him lying on the
>>>> sidewalk before dying of hypothermia / exposure, especially considering
>>>> how much alcohol he had consumed.
>>>>
>>>> While she was coming up with an estimate, I dialed 911.
>>>>
>>>> He woke while they were picking him up, but so drunk he couldn't
>>>> understand anything. They checked his head for marks / bumps but they
>>>> still needed him to sign a waiver. It was on a clipboard, so they just
>>>> stuck a pen in his hand and then moved the clipboard around like spinning
>>>> a cat's-cradle to make him sign a perfectly neat "X" on the form.
>>>>
>>> Well yeah, That is really in their defense. Unfortunately, it is a
>>> community with high rates of substance abuse. They like to blame
>>> colonialization and residential schools, but the fact is that it started
>>> with their first contact with alcohol. Those who whine about us not
>>> hnouring treaties should have a look at some of the numbered treaties
>>> with the tribes in the west. They forbid the sale and consumption of
>>> alcohol to and by the Indians because it had wreaked havoc on them.
>> Its the poverty whenever you see run-down places. Because there is drinking, gun fascination and and drug use among teens in all communities. There is no way to stop it. That's why legalization is gaining steam.
>>
>> If all that stuff is legal (like in many places in Europe) it actually goes out of style.
>
> In Amsterdam and Zurich, drugs and guns are legal. Nobody gives a damn.
>
The Dutch are saved by being dammed.
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