Water sprinklers aren't a booby-trap
THIS is a booby trap!
Posted on 08/16/2023 10:18:24 PM PDT by Libloather
Philadelphia businesses are being forced to set up booby traps like hidden sprinkler systems to fend off drug users.
Local activist Frank Rodriguez has revealed that business owners in the Kensington area of the city are having to devise tricks to keep addicts off their stoops.
The neighborhood has become ground zero for the city's drug epidemic, and is frequently seen strewn with trash and addicts injecting drugs in the open.
Speaking to Fox News, Rodriguez said: 'Businesses end up throwing soapy water on the ground just so it is wet and it is not a comfortable place to sit down.
'There's businesses that set up sprinkler systems, they have to set up these crazy little hacks and booby traps just to keep people of their stoops.'
Rodriguez continued: 'The businesses don't last long. When they are put in the community, the community tends to tear them down. It's not a place for anything to thrive.'
Outside of Cantina La Martina, a James Beard Award-nominated Mexican restaurant in Kensington, Rodriguez said workers had come outside to clean up 'needles, vomit, feces and bodies'.
He continued: 'I couldn't imagine the customers to my business having to come through all this chaos just to support my business.'
'Who wants to come down to this neighborhood … to shop here? Who wants to do that? Nobody.'
The disaster in the neighborhood has been fueled by the rise of the drug Xylazine, known as 'tranq' - a lethal sedative that is used to enhance the effects of heroin, fentanyl and cocaine.
Philadelphia has become overwhelmed by drug-fueled crime under Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner, a self-described 'progressive prosecutor.'
His failure to crack down led to his impeachment in 2022 for 'dereliction of duty', however he remains in office after his trial was indefinitely postponed.
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The videos show zombies. Unreal.
Let it get like on the kids TV show Nickelodeon, where, if an adult contestant gives a ‘wrong’ answer to a question, he has thick, bright green goo poured all over his suit.
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.
I hope they suffer.
In Philadelphia in 2020 Biden 81%, Donald Trump 18%.
The Democrat presidential candidate carried the state of Pennsylvania in every election since 1992 except in 2016, when it was won by Donald Trump.
2020 result was Biden 50.0% to Trump 48.8%
Why don’t they put out speakers and play classical music; that seams to work.
Water sprinklers aren't a booby-trap
THIS is a booby trap!
Although I'll bet that store owners who try any of these tricks get arrested.
Play Christians worship music or someone reading Scripture.
What with the way people hate God, that will either clear them out or get them saved.
It’s a win either way.
This is not living. They need to be rehabilitated. It’s not compassionate to leave them on the streets like that. And it’s obviously not good for the community. What is wrong with the city fathers over there?
Just as with AA. Druggies have
to realize they want to make their
Ives better. They live in despair
that mimics our current political
atnosphere. They have zero self
worth.
Who yo daddy o’er de?
Who yo PA?
All a part of LBJ’s great new society. It shows the value of parenting. A full time fatherly figure is necessary for the progress of the balanced development of the children.
LBJ’s program also demonstrates failure in government intervention..... In trying to force a square peg into a round hole.
Purely a huge democrat fail!!!
There is a city worker whose sole job is to walk around with a long reach tool and a sharps bucket, to pick up the discarded needles. I saw him once and talked briefly with him. That’s all he does every day, walk the streets and allies , picking up discarded needles.
What is wrong with the city fathers over there?
They’re all leftist muthas...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaGXd0GzD5U Sad and disgusting.
So I do not understand. Mr. Rodriguez is an activist for who?
Any impacted business should just leave...like that restaurant: I would not wade through that human swamp for an enchilada.
Junkies picked their lifestyle. It wasn’t forced on them. It was their choice. They can’t be rehabilitated because they don’t WANT to be rehabilitated. So all the compassion in the world won’t change a thing. The best way to deal with them is to arrest them for their crimes and slap them in jail. Or alternatively let them OD and not waste any medical resources trying to save them. I don’t know about you, but I personally feel zero responsibility for their self inflicted plight. There are some people that are determined to be a drain on the rest of us and all the resources expended in trying to help them are just wasted.
Brought to you by Democrats, the supposedly smart people who know everything. Because of that attitude, the Democrats tell you everything you need to do.
There are still some sensible people in Pennsylvania, but maybe outnumbered slightly.
If Democrats win, you lose.
Pressure washers for the really stinky ones.
Krasner was re-elected in a landslide. The voters, living and dead, deserve what they get. All the handwringing won’t change a thing.
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