NatGeo featuring Baltimore on Drugs Inc.

I was really starting to feel left out. I mean, you have the heroin and drug mecca here, it is a show goldmine.

The funny part is the backlash. Those numbers (the 60,000) users,. the heroin capital, the abandoned buildings (18,000 abandoned row homes in Baltimore due to the great white flight.

You always have the go to answer of Baltimorons. But we have Fells Point! We have the waterfront! Why aren't you worried about DC? Because DC cleaned up a lot of its problems. Despite DC having problems, it is still worlds above Baltimore. I don't' fear for my life walking around DC.

FACT: one when My car broke down, when I told AAA what street I was on and told them the Sun was going down, they were there in 18 minutes. Single women get priority. Single women in the hood get expedited attention.

Before I get on with the subject at hand, let me clarify something. I am not a big supporter of the war against drugs. I don't support it very much at all, quite frankly. But when a problem gets so out of control that deaths and gangs are a daily reality, then it is a problem. I think drugs should be treated like a white collar crime. Are any of the guys from BP spending time in jail?

I also have never seen the Wire. I have to work in this god forsaken shit hole, I don't want to watch a show about it, I get to see it live everyday.

So the back to the backlash. People are trying to find all sorts of excuses. NatGeo is owned by Fox and Murdoch. Those 60k numbers are old. They have never been confirmed. The Baltimore Sun is working real hard to run stories against this show. BaltSun is in the hands of the corrupt government, by the way. Bitch, have you been to Lexington Market? Do those numbers look fake to you?

(BTW Lexington Market has the best fried chicken, omgeeerd) 01

I have seen people deal drugs on the side of route 40 during rush hour traffic. my first thought was, who the hell is up for a drug deal at 8am?

I step over drug baggies on the way home from work, that is in front of government office buildings, and highly visible. You rarely see the same police officer twice because you get 6 months of experience here, you can get a job anywhere, because you have already seen and done it all I have taken pictures of these baggies btw, but I had to do a factory reset on the laptop. So I don't have it no more, but don't worry friends, there will be more.

So my answer to the apologists is: no, this city is one big ghetto, riddled with gangs and crime. No one Is exaggerating anything.

My first apartment was in Irvington. Beautiful neighborhood. Like so many parts of Bmore, was once a beautiful place to live till the city died. We had this huge, gorgeous townhouse that easily kept 4 of us. Or one of us and 3 slobs and a dog. One parent and five children, one with fur. We used to sit on the porch at night and play "name that gun shot" and then " how many cop cars are going to fly by?" I usually lost. Our very night we celebrated our move by grilling in the back postage stamp.
Deer meat in case you are wondering. You can take the girl out of the suburb but you can't take the suburb out of the girl.


A ping was heard and the griller slammed a door and was found lying in the basement. A stray bullet hit the wall about a foot and a half from his head.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/drugs-inc/episodes/the-high-wire/