This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that go on in and around my apartment complex in the past 23 years that we've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 23 years here in a weekly blog post.
I spotted another used syringe on the path where I walk Falcor. It was only a few feet from the trash can so I picked it up and threw it away. Someone asked the last time I found needles if this was the kind of needle that diabetics use and if the drug addicts use these for drugs. The answer is yes, they do.
There was a car speeding down my street and a cop quickly caught up with him and pulled him over.
I enlarged the picture so you could see. The speeder got a ticket. I hope more of the speeders get caught because there are a lot of people that like to speed down this street and take that corner really fast so I was glad to see the police around here getting them and giving out tickets.
So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.
The high this week was 116F. That's 46C for those not in the US.
Awful that you found another syringe.
ReplyDeleteAnd hooray for speedsters being given tickets. I hope it was expensive.
I hope the speeding cars run over the people who are leaving used syringes on the path.
DeleteI have no doubt it won't be the last syringe I find.
DeleteWay too hot.
ReplyDeleteEven if someone's a drug addict, there's no excuse for leaving used syringes lying around where somebody could step on them or otherwise get hurt.
I know. Especially when the syringe is dropped just mere feet from the garbage can but they don't care.
DeleteIt is way too hot.
Hi, Mary!
ReplyDeleteYesterday you invited us to look up and appreciate the beauty of nature, the flowering palms that dot your area. Today we looked down to view the ugly side of human nature, a used syringe tossed on your dog walking path and a speeder who raced down a residential street and endangered lives. I'm sorry you and your pooch, my good buddy Falcor, came across that spent needle on your walk. Seems to me the person who dropped it there could have taken a few extra steps to the trash receptacle and disposed of it properly.
I can't imagine what it's like to live on the street when the mercury rises to 116 F. Is that anywhere near the record high, or is it typical of Vegas in summer?
Thanks for the weekly report on apartment life. Enjoy your Sunday and have a good week, dear friend Mary!
117 is the record and we almost be it last week. The summers here are really hot. This is typical weather we're having right now.
DeleteI'm sure it won't be the last syringe I spot around here.
Ew Mary, that really sucks. 😏
ReplyDeleteI know. Maybe the homeless will leave this area and it won't happen as often.
DeleteUgh, used syringes are hideous things to see on the streets. I've only saw that once and it shocked me something fierce... I mean, if you're going to do drugs, at least clean up after yourself and don't risk other people getting pricked from your needles and the medical nightmare that would kick off. 😡
ReplyDeleteExactly. You would think they would put them in the trash but no.
DeleteEvery time I read of instances like this I keep going back to my apartment "community" maintenance days, where finds such as this were commonplace. Re: speeders- I'm hoping to get an Op Ed piece submitted to our local rag about the idiots that zoom through the back roads nearby. It's only a matter of time before someone gets injured or killed, though I will say a little herd-thinning won't be a bad thing.
ReplyDeleteI wish you luck on that.
DeleteI see a lot of syringes around here these days. I'm sure it won't be the last time.
Ugh on all of that!
ReplyDeleteI agree.
DeleteThat's just horrible that they just leave their syringes all over the place. I sure hope there aren't many kids around your area. Glad the cops are ticketing the speeders.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of kids around here. That's the main reason I throw them away when I see them.
DeleteYeah, I think a lot of the speeding is due to rage coming from one direction or another. In the future they'll have virtual rage so that you won't really be taking it to the road.
ReplyDeleteThat could be. lol
DeleteOh, the random syringe and one speed ticket. What a quiet week LOL.
ReplyDelete46C??? How come you haven't melted off yet???
It was kinda quiet. lol
DeleteI stay inside as much as I can during the really hot days.
Is that cop holding a gun on the speeder? It looks like he is. And, is it safe for you to pick up those needles? Are you wearing gloves?
ReplyDeleteNo, he's not. If you enlarge the picture by clicking on it you'll see he has his right arm on top of the door. The speeder was sitting in the passenger seat and they talked for a minute before he got a ticket.
DeleteI use a paper towel to pick up the needles I find. I always have one with me.
Yes, I see. It's the frame around the window that looks like a gun. You're brave to pick up, even with a paper towel. I'd have had to run back home for my reaching tool. LOL.
DeleteI've been picking the syringes up for years. There's just too many kids around here. I would hate for one of them to get poked with the things.
DeleteFinding used syringes is pretty yucky, but so in 116 degrees!
ReplyDeleteI agree about both.
DeleteGlad they are cracking down on speedsters. We have them too, they are usually young males, "boy racers". Finding used syringes is not good. I would die with temps that high. Stay cool!
ReplyDeleteI am doing my best to stay cool. I will be happy once it cools down again.
DeleteI often exceed the speed limit when it seems safe to do so - like when there's very little traffic about. But it's certainly not safe when motorists roar down our short stretch of road at 40 mph.
ReplyDeleteYeah, especially with all the kids around here who have little to no supervision.
DeleteMore needles. Yikes.
ReplyDeleteI know.
DeleteNeedles! People are so thoughtless! I'm not enjoying the early heatwave here in the West. Stay cool, Mary!
ReplyDeleteI sure will try.
DeleteI don't or can't think of reason to have needles mostly the injector type laying around.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
Because the drug addicts shoot up and leave the needles lying around.
DeleteNot cool for the serynge
ReplyDeleteNo, it's not.
Delete116 does not sound like a temperature I would like to be outside in.
ReplyDeleteI try to do any outside stuff early in the morning or after the sun goes down.
Delete46!? That is insane, how does one survive that?
ReplyDeletelol Lots of water. We have an AC so we stay inside as much as possible.
DeleteLeaving used syringes around on the ground is definitely dangerous for sure. Stay safe! Hugs, RO
ReplyDeleteYeah it really is.
DeleteNot good, not good at all. Be careful. 😑
ReplyDeleteI will try.
DeleteI'm just catching up with my Blog reads. With the temps and the visuals, I swear you could be living in Downtown Phoenix! We used to get a lot of discarded hype shit in the Historic Barrio I had the Old House in. Loved the House and my Neighbors, Hated the Urban Issues that came with the area, don't miss any of that even tho' we're back in the City, but a better area with less Crime and less Street People nearby. I wouldn't pick up the needles without a tool, but I understand why you do... Children could be harmed.
ReplyDeleteSo many neighborhoods around here are like this now. I'm careful when I pick them up. I wouldn't want a kid to get stuck.
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