Originally Posted by
Apollo
Neighborhood watch is now "Neighborhood support" and I'm certain when I was a kid it was neighborhood watch. Can't have civilians watching things. Practically vigilantism.
I'm watching a kid I know vanish in front of my eyes from P. Awesome young guy. I imagine he will die in a police chase. He was always a speed junkie, but it used to be things with wheels not crystal meth. He told me once "you know what a gateway drug is? Its alcohol, when its 3am and your dead tired and someone says "here, this will get you going". They all start off functional. Some chase the dragon, others are "fine" for years, telling everyone only weak people become junkies. People look at these functional smokers as examples of why "its not as bad as everyone says". Then said functional user loses their job, dog dies, whatever. The chemicals that are happiness in their head go down and instead of going for a run and eating better, their brain says "those chemicals are found in crystal form" and bingo. Junkie time.
Someone mentioned zombies. This is what crack creates. Literal zombies. Shuffling along, flesh hanging off, literally dead walking. Think of every Zombie movie you ever saw. There is always that scene where little Suzie has to shoot her beloved Granny in the face, because Granny is a flesh eating zombie with superhuman strength and nothing in her head but ferverous hunger. Crackhead 101, playing out all over NZ right now. I look at this young guy and I can see he is gone. You know what happens next right?
Maybe no need to torture these kiwi kids who made one dumb mistake, not knowing they would be better off playing Russian roulette with an auto loader.
Now the dealers on the other hand. Think what is actually happening here. Crack and chemical ingredients come into the country, along with automatic weapons etc etc. Slaves and cash go out. You think a young kiwi girl who gets given a plane ticket by her dealer says no? This is an international corporation. This will lay waste to this country.