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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve lived in cities for about 30 years.  The proportionate of visible street homeless (differentiating them from other homeless, who usually are less visible and crash with friends, live in cars, etc.) that are very mentally ill seems to have increased dramatically.  Is it fentanyl and other synthetic drugs?  The other day a man was screaming obscenities st me and an elderly woman because he was trying t give us some rocks and dried up tissues—I couldn’t even understand what he was saying about them but he clearly thought they were something else.   Last month, I was walking and turned me head to look at a store window and a man started screaming at me about looking away from him and something about my ass.  Last year, a woman out of nowhere ran up and tried to punch me—-but was so out of it that her swing missed me by about a foot and she fell over.  
This seems to me way worse than the crack epidemic of the 90s.  These people have brains that are just fried.  I don’t know that there’s a solution for that.  I now avoid the homeless encampment near my office, whereas before I just walked through it with no real worries.[/quote]

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