Pee, Pot and Rats (U St and 14 St)

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Anonymous wrote:I live near 14th and U. OP is laser focused on one particularly bad - and notorious - corner of a single block and generalizing about the whole city on that basis. Pretty ridiculous.

No. The OP is asking how the city can allow such a bad situation to occur in that area. It’s a fair question.

It’s a big city. It’s one corner. It’s slated for massive redevelopment. How’s that for an answer?

It is emphatically not a big city. It’s a postage stamp. Yet even that can’t be managed.

Good luck with that “massive redevelopment.” Bowser just gave a speech imploring the Feds to come back full time or the city is going bankrupt. Also, I thought we were against massive redevelopment now? So confusing.

You have ZERO idea what you’re talking about. We’re not talking about downtown, we’re talking about 14th and U, and the Reeves Center will soon be demolished and massively redeveloped. The NAACP’s national office has already committed to moving there.

Just stick to the suburbs where you belong.

Why you so mad?

I suppose living amidst the constant stench of weed and uncollected garbage, teaching your toddler to watch out for heroin needles and broken glass at the park, and filing the monthly police report when your car windows get busted out has you on edge. Enjoy your hellscape.

Trust me, Karen, I am!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lived right near there for 10 years starting in 2007. It was like that then...

You should have seen the 1990's. 2007 was like Disneyland by comparison.

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Anonymous wrote:Try harder troll.

Yep, dollars to donuts the OP hasn't been anywhere near a real city in decades. His idea of urban is probably the county seat that's big enough to have a WalMart.

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Anonymous wrote:I live near 14th and U. OP is laser focused on one particularly bad - and notorious - corner of a single block and generalizing about the whole city on that basis. Pretty ridiculous.

No. The OP is asking how the city can allow such a bad situation to occur in that area. It’s a fair question.

It’s a big city. It’s one corner. It’s slated for massive redevelopment. How’s that for an answer?

It is emphatically not a big city. It’s a postage stamp. Yet even that can’t be managed.

Good luck with that “massive redevelopment.” Bowser just gave a speech imploring the Feds to come back full time or the city is going bankrupt. Also, I thought we were against massive redevelopment now? So confusing.

You have ZERO idea what you’re talking about. We’re not talking about downtown, we’re talking about 14th and U, and the Reeves Center will soon be demolished and massively redeveloped. The NAACP’s national office has already committed to moving there.

Just stick to the suburbs where you belong.

Why you so mad?

I suppose living amidst the constant stench of weed and uncollected garbage, teaching your toddler to watch out for heroin needles and broken glass at the park, and filing the monthly police report when your car windows get busted out has you on edge. Enjoy your hellscape.

Trust me, Karen, I am!

Also, very telling that when I called you out for your obvious ignorance about DC with your use of the wholly irrelevant Bowser quote you got nasty instead of admitting to your error.

[Anonymous]

The pot smell is pervasive everywhere in DC - we were in chinatown last week visiting the Portrait Gallery and it was rampant. That's what happens with legal pot.

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Anonymous wrote:The pot smell is pervasive everywhere in DC - we were in chinatown last week visiting the Portrait Gallery and it was rampant. That's what happens with legal pot.

It used to be like that with legal cigarettes, only inside too.

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Anonymous wrote:The pot smell is pervasive everywhere in DC - we were in chinatown last week visiting the Portrait Gallery and it was rampant. That's what happens with legal pot.

It used to be like that with legal cigarettes, only inside too.

While tobacco smells gross. The smell of skunks is absolutely disgusting, lingers longer and is much more pervasive.

You only smell cigarettes outdoors while people are actively smoking. You can smell weed in outdoor settings for extended periods of time while the smoker is long gone. Not only that, you can only smell cigarettes in your car if both you and a smoker have your windows down, they are next to you and traffic is stopped. I can drive at 30 MPH with windows up and still get skunk smell in my car.

It’s a major nuisance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The pot smell is pervasive everywhere in DC - we were in chinatown last week visiting the Portrait Gallery and it was rampant. That's what happens with legal pot.

Yep, and it smells great! I love it. The smell of freedom.

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Anonymous wrote:The pot smell is pervasive everywhere in DC - we were in chinatown last week visiting the Portrait Gallery and it was rampant. That's what happens with legal pot.

It used to be like that with legal cigarettes, only inside too.

While tobacco smells gross. The smell of skunks is absolutely disgusting, lingers longer and is much more pervasive.

You only smell cigarettes outdoors while people are actively smoking. You can smell weed in outdoor settings for extended periods of time while the smoker is long gone. Not only that, you can only smell cigarettes in your car if both you and a smoker have your windows down, they are next to you and traffic is stopped. I can drive at 30 MPH with windows up and still get skunk smell in my car.

It’s a major nuisance.

Ha yeah I’ve noticed that too (that I’ll be driving in DC with my windows up and suddenly my car smells like pot). It is rather gross.

I mean, something should really be done about the need for public restrooms. You’re not gonna stop people from needing to pee at random times so why not make it easier for them to go (especially women who can’t just whip it out).

Rats are partly why I left DC 10 years ago, I have a terrible phobia.

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Anonymous wrote:I live near 14th and U. OP is laser focused on one particularly bad - and notorious - corner of a single block and generalizing about the whole city on that basis. Pretty ridiculous.

No. The OP is asking how the city can allow such a bad situation to occur in that area. It’s a fair question.

It’s a big city. It’s one corner. It’s slated for massive redevelopment. How’s that for an answer?

Why was it allowed to fester for years and why does it need to wait years to fix?

Blah blah blah. Just avoid the neighborhood if you can’t take the bad with the good. More room for the rest of us.

You know, I'm a DC native (EOTR), and I love the city. But damn if I don't hate the attitude that you're just supposed to put up with the bad parts.

No one is saying that. I’m just pointing out that OP literally fixated on the worst corner in the whole neighborhood, literally, and painted the whole city with her ridiculous observation. Yes, it’s a bad corner. That’s the only reason she was able to find a parking spot near there. And my point in response is that yes, it’s a bad corner, but they’re about to clean it up and turn it into a show piece.

PP's exact words:

Just avoid the neighborhood if you can’t take the bad with the good.

Certainly seems to imply you're just supposed to take it.

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Anonymous wrote:I live near 14th and U. OP is laser focused on one particularly bad - and notorious - corner of a single block and generalizing about the whole city on that basis. Pretty ridiculous.

No. The OP is asking how the city can allow such a bad situation to occur in that area. It’s a fair question.

It’s a big city. It’s one corner. It’s slated for massive redevelopment. How’s that for an answer?

Why was it allowed to fester for years and why does it need to wait years to fix?

Blah blah blah. Just avoid the neighborhood if you can’t take the bad with the good. More room for the rest of us.

You know, I'm a DC native (EOTR), and I love the city. But damn if I don't hate the attitude that you're just supposed to put up with the bad parts.

No one is saying that. I’m just pointing out that OP literally fixated on the worst corner in the whole neighborhood, literally, and painted the whole city with her ridiculous observation. Yes, it’s a bad corner. That’s the only reason she was able to find a parking spot near there. And my point in response is that yes, it’s a bad corner, but they’re about to clean it up and turn it into a show piece.

PP's exact words:

Just avoid the neighborhood if you can’t take the bad with the good.

Certainly seems to imply you're just supposed to take it.

They don’t live in the neighborhood. I do, and I like it. If they don’t like it, they don’t have to come. We don’t need them.

[Anonymous]

I live in the MD suburbs and we have pot smells wafting around, dog shit on sidewalks, trash, and even rats, but those hangout near restaurants and not the neighborhoods. I hate the pot smell and voted against legalizing it. Hate the dog shit but people suck. Can’t really control rats outside of trapping them. The unpleasantries are everywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:The pot smell is pervasive everywhere in DC - we were in chinatown last week visiting the Portrait Gallery and it was rampant. That's what happens with legal pot.

It used to be like that with legal cigarettes, only inside too.

While tobacco smells gross. The smell of skunks is absolutely disgusting, lingers longer and is much more pervasive.

You only smell cigarettes outdoors while people are actively smoking. You can smell weed in outdoor settings for extended periods of time while the smoker is long gone. Not only that, you can only smell cigarettes in your car if both you and a smoker have your windows down, they are next to you and traffic is stopped. I can drive at 30 MPH with windows up and still get skunk smell in my car.

It’s a major nuisance.

I disagree, I think cigarette smoke is as pervasive as pot smoke, and I personally find cigarette smoke to be much worse. If I had to smell one or the other, I'd rather smell pot smoke.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in the MD suburbs and we have pot smells wafting around, dog shit on sidewalks, trash, and even rats, but those hangout near restaurants and not the neighborhoods. I hate the pot smell and voted against legalizing it. Hate the dog shit but people suck. Can’t really control rats outside of trapping them. The unpleasantries are everywhere.

All these things are true, but it’s rare in the suburbs to have all of these things in the same place. The cumulative effect of having to deal with all of this at once can be overwhelming.

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Anonymous wrote:The pot smell is pervasive everywhere in DC - we were in chinatown last week visiting the Portrait Gallery and it was rampant. That's what happens with legal pot.

It used to be like that with legal cigarettes, only inside too.

While tobacco smells gross. The smell of skunks is absolutely disgusting, lingers longer and is much more pervasive.

You only smell cigarettes outdoors while people are actively smoking. You can smell weed in outdoor settings for extended periods of time while the smoker is long gone. Not only that, you can only smell cigarettes in your car if both you and a smoker have your windows down, they are next to you and traffic is stopped. I can drive at 30 MPH with windows up and still get skunk smell in my car.

It’s a major nuisance.

I disagree, I think cigarette smoke is as pervasive as pot smoke, and I personally find cigarette smoke to be much worse. If I had to smell one or the other, I'd rather smell pot smoke.

Sure you find it personally more disgusting. That’s a personal preference thing and subjective. What is objective is that the smell of skunk lingers in ways outdoors that cigarette smells do not.