Saturday, September 4, 2021

A disquieting text about weekend urban safety...

...from my one professor friend who studies (modern) (Czech) literature (she later clarified that this occurred at around 11am):

[...] Was downtown yesterday waiting for the [bus line] at [major, typically safe intersection right in the heart of downtown]. It's scary there. Homeless and mentally ill living in park, drug sales, young scaries on [bike share bikes]. So weird and post apocalyptic. I stood almost in the street with back to traffic.  On guard.

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[...] Lots of tourists sort of find themselves there because of the [major street] hotels. [...] Everyone is sizing tourists up for how easily they can accost them.

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