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Philadelphia businesses are being forced to set up BOOBY TRAPS like hidden sprinklers as open-air drug markets take over the city and customers dwindle
Daily Mail ^ | 8/16/23 | Joe Hutchison

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: addicts; anarchotyranny; crime; customers; drugs; dystopia; kensington; krasner; paping; pennsylvania; philadelphia; sprinklers; tranq
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To: Libloather

Guy Installs Shower To Stop People From Peeing In His Alley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r77lEmGaCXI&ab_channel=viralboyviralsnow


21 posted on 08/17/2023 4:15:01 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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To: from occupied ga

“arrest them for their crimes and slap them in jail”

arrest them for their crimes and make them do hard agricultural labor....

They hate hard work—perhaps even more than they love their drugs.


22 posted on 08/17/2023 4:16:47 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Libloather

Memphis needs them. massive crowds of youth are doing smash and grabs and running away, scot-free. Jewelry, booze, etc, are not safe even in broad daylight. Don’t go down there unarmed.


23 posted on 08/17/2023 4:27:44 AM PDT by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks, Constitutional Conservative.)
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To: Libloather

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.
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What I don’t get is why it took this long.... One could name dozens of simple things that can be done that would make it so uncomfortable to be ‘on their stoops’ that they naturally would move along.


24 posted on 08/17/2023 4:35:34 AM PDT by hecticskeptic ( )
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To: PGR88

If our elites have their way in the war mongering department, that scenario may not be too far off. The good news is it would end the drug user nightmare.


25 posted on 08/17/2023 4:58:20 AM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: Libloather
I thought Roof-Top Koreans would be the first choice for this. It's also a surprise that nobody has put together the old protection racket: "For $X per week, we will clean the sidewalk in front of your business. Call us 24x7 if emergencies arise."

You know, the private enterprise solution to neighborhood issues.

26 posted on 08/17/2023 4:59:33 AM PDT by Bernard ("No matter where you go, there you are." (Buckaroo Banzai))
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To: Libloather

Every where this has been tried, the courts have ruled it is a violation of the civil rights of the homeless. Until the courts begin to say that there is no right to camp on the public streets, this will continue.


27 posted on 08/17/2023 5:10:18 AM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: cgbg

They hate hard work or any work for that matter, but I can’t imagine getting anything useful out of junkies short of chaining them to oars in a galley.


28 posted on 08/17/2023 5:13:25 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: KittyKares
They need to be rehabilitated.

The addict is the only one who can decide that. They don't want rehab or narcan. They want dope. They love that life, living in the street, stupid liberals giving them food and blankets, etc. It's all a scam.

They need to be arrested and put in a caged/fenced/tent city. Give them a pgj and bottle of water a day. Get them away from civilization. In the Mojave, maybe?

29 posted on 08/17/2023 5:20:39 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: Libloather

I was speaking with a woman who works for a company near Mass and Cass in Boston and this is exactly what he did.


30 posted on 08/17/2023 5:24:09 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Libloather

Totally agreed about the water cannons. They seem very effective where used.


31 posted on 08/17/2023 5:27:13 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: KittyKares

How do you rehabilitate someone who’s never been habilitated?


32 posted on 08/17/2023 5:40:53 AM PDT by cyclotic
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To: Libloather

I’d prefer to water canon Larry Krasner. He’s the problem.


33 posted on 08/17/2023 6:10:57 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Libloather

Any research I have done has indicated that booby traps are illegal- if you can imagine a world where that is true- particularly if you do so around your home- if criminals are injured due to your booby trap- you can be charged and sued. Upside down backwards world


34 posted on 08/17/2023 6:14:12 AM PDT by dkGba
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To: popdonnelly

Another of us behind enemy lines. Good fortune to you.


35 posted on 08/17/2023 11:51:53 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

Philly was one of the cities cited for the most egregious voter fraud.


36 posted on 08/18/2023 12:54:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Russ

You forgot “living, dead and fictitious”. Which makes “landslide” a cynical term here.


37 posted on 08/18/2023 1:11:57 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.


38 posted on 08/18/2023 9:10:04 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: oldtech

They use water cannon in Israel. WE need to use them in USA and just roll the trash down the streets because that is what so much of it is. Human Trash! If it was up to me we would make examples out of them and they would never be functional and destructive again..


39 posted on 08/19/2023 10:09:07 AM PDT by apoliticalone (We need real justice not fictitious SOCIAL JUSTICE & DEI that is politics & propaganda, not justice.)
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To: Libloather

“However he remains in office after his trial was indefinitely postponed.”

Unbelievable!


40 posted on 08/19/2023 10:14:27 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice: Psalm 130)
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