Drugs in Arlington

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Well aren't you funny.

I am currently waiting to attend a repass after this morning's funeral and burial for a 27 year old who died last Monday of a heroin overdose. I have never seen a family so torn up as my friend, her husband and surviving kids are. But this will never happen to you , right ?

Nobody cares.

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Kids buy drugs from other teens and college kids they know, not weirdos lurking in parking lots. Life is not an after-school special. Users and dealers don't like transacting with the unknown.

It is only when people are using hard stuff and their regular dude is a no-show that will they start going to known drug hoods to cop. And that's for heroin and crack...not to buy a quarter of weed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Well aren't you funny.

I am currently waiting to attend a repass after this morning's funeral and burial for a 27 year old who died last Monday of a heroin overdose. I have never seen a family so torn up as my friend, her husband and surviving kids are. But this will never happen to you , right ?

Nobody cares.

Perhaps you don't care, and that is a big part of the problem. PP explained that the 27 year old got hooked following a sports injury and multiple surgeries leading to over medication on opiates.

As long as people view incidents like this as just the death of another junkie, the more action will not be taken to keep these tragedies from happening. And the more commonplace they will become given how cheap and available heroin has become.

No one will be able to feel safe that such a thing would never happen to their child.

[Anonymous]

Yes, but this thread is about phantom drug dealers in the Harris-Teeter parking lot, not 27-year-old H addicts.

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Anonymous wrote:Many heroin dealers deliver. And they'll come by your house at three in the morning while you and the rest of the neighborhood is asleep.

Sweet. I'll leave the light on.

Well aren't you funny.

I am currently waiting to attend a repass after this morning's funeral and burial for a 27 year old who died last Monday of a heroin overdose. I have never seen a family so torn up as my friend, her husband and surviving kids are. But this will never happen to you , right ?

It's a shame someone forced that adult to take heroin.

More likely it's a shame that some doctor prescribed opiates for a sports injury or that the adult had undiagnosed mental health problems.

No, what's most likely is that he was friends with the type of people who like to use heroin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids buy drugs from other teens and college kids they know, not weirdos lurking in parking lots. Life is not an after-school special. Users and dealers don't like transacting with the unknown.

It is only when people are using hard stuff and their regular dude is a no-show that will they start going to known drug hoods to cop. And that's for heroin and crack...not to buy a quarter of weed.

Yup.
Signed,
Another Former Bad Kid

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Anonymous wrote:I am regularly in both places on Friday afternoons, and have never noticed people loitering around there.

You really think they'd be that obvious? If so, I guess we're all safe. Wrap. Next story...

Where exactly do you think they're going to hang out near the martial arts studio without anyone noticing them? There are classes going on all afternoon after school gets out, there are lots of parents walking through the halls, and waiting outside while their kids take classes. Constantly people going up and down the stairs, and in and out of the bathrooms.

As for the parking garage, it's entirely possible they're hanging out in cars waiting for customers and I haven't noticed them for that reason. But if that's what's going on, it means they're not randomly soliciting your kid who's just there to buy some Yoo-hoo. Your kid would need to be actively seeking it out and know where to find them. And if your kid is sufficiently into it that he knows how to find the dealer, simply getting the dealer out of the parking garage isn't going to solve your problem.

Does this even happen? Many drug dealers are dumb but few are this dumb.

In the town I grew up in, this happened a lot. even maybe 10 years ago people might mutter "marijuana?" as you walk by. (Haven't noticed it the last few visits. Maybe I'm too old, or the town became too yuppy/health-foodish.) I can picture kids offering drugs to other random kids at malls. Most of them aren't going to go straight to the cops, nor would much happen if they did, I'm guessing. Probably more likely if the sellers are black in a white neighborhood.

Are you familiar with the Lee-Harrison shopping center? Given that DWB is still kind of a thing in North Arlington, I doubt a black guy loitering around L-H is going to last very long before someone is asking questions.

Who said anything about a black guy? Most drug dealers are white.

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ah yes, the mean streets of north Arlington. I once saw two forty-ish moms almost come to blows over a table in one of the dining establishments there. Badass.

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Anonymous wrote:I am regularly in both places on Friday afternoons, and have never noticed people loitering around there.

You really think they'd be that obvious? If so, I guess we're all safe. Wrap. Next story...

Where exactly do you think they're going to hang out near the martial arts studio without anyone noticing them? There are classes going on all afternoon after school gets out, there are lots of parents walking through the halls, and waiting outside while their kids take classes. Constantly people going up and down the stairs, and in and out of the bathrooms.

As for the parking garage, it's entirely possible they're hanging out in cars waiting for customers and I haven't noticed them for that reason. But if that's what's going on, it means they're not randomly soliciting your kid who's just there to buy some Yoo-hoo. Your kid would need to be actively seeking it out and know where to find them. And if your kid is sufficiently into it that he knows how to find the dealer, simply getting the dealer out of the parking garage isn't going to solve your problem.

Does this even happen? Many drug dealers are dumb but few are this dumb.

In the town I grew up in, this happened a lot. even maybe 10 years ago people might mutter "marijuana?" as you walk by. (Haven't noticed it the last few visits. Maybe I'm too old, or the town became too yuppy/health-foodish.) I can picture kids offering drugs to other random kids at malls. Most of them aren't going to go straight to the cops, nor would much happen if they did, I'm guessing. Probably more likely if the sellers are black in a white neighborhood.

Are you familiar with the Lee-Harrison shopping center? Given that DWB is still kind of a thing in North Arlington, I doubt a black guy loitering around L-H is going to last very long before someone is asking questions.

Who said anything about a black guy? Most drug dealers are white.

I misread the pp's comment about sellers being black. Sorry about that.

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Anonymous wrote:Many heroin dealers deliver. And they'll come by your house at three in the morning while you and the rest of the neighborhood is asleep.

Sweet. I'll leave the light on.

Well aren't you funny.

I am currently waiting to attend a repass after this morning's funeral and burial for a 27 year old who died last Monday of a heroin overdose. I have never seen a family so torn up as my friend, her husband and surviving kids are. But this will never happen to you , right ?

It's a shame someone forced that adult to take heroin.

More likely it's a shame that some doctor prescribed opiates for a sports injury or that the adult had undiagnosed mental health problems.

No, what's most likely is that he was friends with the type of people who like to use heroin.

PP stated that the 27 year old in question was prescribed opiates to deal with a sports injury and multiple surgeries following that. In recent years this has been an all too common route to heroin addiction because at a certain point doctors stop prescribing the opiates but the patients are already dependent.

Don't make the mistake of thinking your kids are safe from this scourge because you think they are hanging only with good kids.

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We frequently shop and eat at this shopping center. I would not be surprised if scrupulous activities of any sort were occurring during off hours in the underground area the OP describes. We have been down there several times during off hours to retrieve forgotten mittens, dropped toys, etc. after leaving and then coming back later to retrieve the items. It can get incredibly dark in certain areas, and is amazingly quiet and lacking in foot traffic.

This thread has gotten me to wondering if there are any known areas in North Arlington where drug activity would not be expected by parents but our tweens might be allowed to go, ie certain parks, areas in Clarendon, etc?