Some pipes aren't all they're cracked up to be.
Posted on 06/06/2023 4:20:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
City officials’ new drug-themed vending machine is a huge hit with local addicts — who wasted no time cleaning it out overnight as they stocked up on its free crack pipes, lip balm and Narcan.
“Yes, I love it,” drug user Evelyn Williams told The Post while standing at the “public health” vending machine in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on Tuesday. “They put it in yesterday, and it’s empty already.
By 1 p.m., a drug-prevention-program worker was starting to restock the machine with more drug-test strips, Narcan and condoms — predicting the vending machine could need to be refilled “maybe twice a day, depending on which items go quite quickly.’’
“We have a lot of addicts and heroin users over here,” Williams said. “They should re-stock it immediately!”
Self-described crack smoker Minoshi Calpe, 56, had walked away with the second-to-last product in the vending machine — a fentanyl test strip — around 11 a.m. while sniffing that the glass used for the free pipes might not be up to her standards.
“I like the Pyrex because it’s a little thicker,’’ she said, also lamenting that “you can’t even sell that [vending stuff] because the programs give you all that stuff” already for free.
“The crack pipes are a little too thin now,” explained Calpe, who said she has six children and nine grandchildren. “And every time I pull on [the newer ones], it was burning my lips. I was like, ‘Hell, no! I like my lips too much for this.’
“I do my little crack here and there,” Caple said. “I smoke my pipe, and I smoke weed. I don’t lace none of my stuff with stuff.”
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Well, that was unexpected. /s
Who is the “connected” party for those machines?
You do not have to be a drug addict to like free stuff you can sell for cash.
I’ve given up hope of ever getting my free crack pipe. Joe lied. I cried.
Lip balm?
I know, right. So stupid. Who thinks of these things? Even if you were totally into harm reduction/mitigation as a drug policy - putting them in an oxymoronic “free vending” machine? Seriously?
Though I have often wondered... is it easier to get Fentanyl or Narcan? I should make a TikTok video to find out. I am not sure if getting Fentanyl is a crime anymore but it may be a crime to ask an EMT for a box of Narcan.
Another optimistic societal advance takes a header.
Crack pipes burn the lips when fired up.
Fine, now let’s work on free hookers and booze.
“”a drug-prevention-program worker was starting to restock the machine””
Drug prevention???????? Do they know the word “ironic” in NYC?
I thought that this HAD to be The Bee.
Unreal, what is real, these days.
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Some pipes aren't all they're cracked up to be.
Put drugs in an unattended box in a low-trust society that doesn’t prosecute criminals. See how long it lasts.
She's on crack. How would she know?
Add fentanyl pills to the machine and it will only run out once
Taxpayer funded enablers.
Government can’t even make a crackhead happy.
And people still trust the government.
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