I don't imagine they'd watch. I imagine they'd walk straight on - it's easier that way.
Like I said, I'm from Vancouver. We have, probably, the biggest drug problem in the Western World. Our streets look like something out of some dystopian sci-fi film half the time.
It may sound insensitive but, a lot of the time, I find myself wishing, a la Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, for a "hard rain to wash all the scum off the streets."
Last time a hard rain washed off all the scum of the earth
there was only one family and a few animals left....
You are one sick f***.
I've been in a lot of West Coast skid rows, from Seattle to Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles back 35 years ago. Vancouver's Hastings Street was the worst back then, and my visit there 4 years ago leads me to believe it is still the worst, and much worse than before, although the scene has shifted a few blocks.