calling police on drug addicts using in your place of work: c/d

Yes.

http://www.tees4cops.com/TeesContent/Library/Images/Products/Full/NarcT.jpg

Working in a white-collar cubicle-infested office with at-will employment and a badge system to even enter the building, this would be a pretty crazy occurrence. It'd sure beat normal office gossip!

a puddle of weed?

Last week a guy tried to flush his weed down the toilet before the cops busted in.

This being the Doubletree Club, the toilet was clogged.

When they came in, the floor was covered in water, shit, and weed.

@s1ocki

MTV ILM make me want to smoke crack

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, October 21, 2007 8:21 PM (Sunday, October 21, 2007 8:21 PM) Bookmark Link

you're calling the cops on people smoking bud in a hotel? no you're not doing the right thing.

I'm pretty sure dude was using heroin, Chaki.

heroin weed.

seriously though, with a name like the doubletree club, i mean you might as well be inviting them in for tea.

i dont understand.

They found a spoon & lighter in his hoodie pocket. I saw the eyes when I gave him the trespass bullshit.

maybe he was making hot cereal.

how did you know he was using?

WWALD?
http://www.alleba.com/blog/wp-content/photos/abraham_lincoln.jpg

btw guy with the weed on the floor from last week was a dealer. He tried to sell to our security guard, who made the call. He was trying to break up & flush a brick.

xpost to chak: he asked for a lighter, locked himself in the bathroom for half an hour (during which time i heard a number of lighter flicks), and he was found with a hot spoon in his hoodie pocket. i'm not sure, and he wasn't found with anything on him. because he had nothing on him, he was removed, not arrested. he'll be arrested if he shows up again.

hoos i <3 u but i think you need to put up a post-it next to ur computer that says "do not start ILX threads about kicking people out of my hotel"

and fwiw yeah you were doing your job

tru dat xpost

fwiw i did consider reviving an old cop thread, but nothing seemed to fit.

I'm out for a bit while I make the commute home. Don't everybody shit on me while I'm away or anything.

why would you even post about this?

Didn't HOOS kick Lupe Fiasco out of his hotel once?

what other kinds of people can HOOS kick out of his hotel?

HOOS have you ever caught people having sex in a public area? I did once, but i just pretended like i didn't see them.

also, i didn't start a thread about it.

only once?? i have totally overestimated hawaii

actually it was in chicago.

i have underestimated chicago

when i was a bartender at a pub in manchester one night these kids we'd never seen before came in and ordered pints of water for the whole group, then proceeded to set up shop at a table in the corner and start divvying up assorted powders. we were offended because a.) they ordered water (drug dealers: at least buy a drink, and also tip your bartenders), and b.) we already had a resident drug dealer (who bought drinks and tipped well) and he didn't appreciate these club kids on his turf. but of course when the assistant manager called the cops, by the time they showed up the club kids (who were white) had already fucked off (sensing the lack of welcome in the atmosphere), so the cops from three squad cars that roared into the parking lot 25 minutes late just grabbed the first black guys they saw and started shaking them down. and of course those black guys were associates of our resident drug dealer, and they got incensed (thinking someone had called cops on them) and started massing outside the front door, threatening to burn the place down. the assistant manager intervened (the manager being drunk and absent, as per usual), convinced the cops to leave, invited the guys massed outside in for a free round, and everything eventually calmed down.

but yeah, i'd say on balance calling the cops probably doesn't work out too well.

The only reason HOOS should be giving the boot to drug-usin' folks is if'n they be makin' his job and his life harder. If not, leave 'em alone. If so, boot 'em a goatse.

manchester pub =| austin corporate hotel

Yes, TX fucked-up factor must be divided out, troo.

what other kinds of people can HOOS kick out of his hotel?

-- gr8080, Sunday, October 21, 2007 9:09 PM

^^^^^^ the poll that had to be made

i remember once when i was in my v early 20s and on mushrooms in downtown vanc0uver we were walking around late-ish at night and decided to go to the h0tel vanc0uver to use the bathroom. so i'm standing there washing my hands and talking/laughing to a friend of mine (we had just had hotel-lobby-carpet-pattern adventure) and we hear this voice come from one of the fancy stalls, which were away from the sinks, sort of in a corridor to themselves, asking us how we're doing. and of course for a minute we're like whoa where who what how and then we say 'we're good we're fine how are you?' and this wavey, gravelly long-voweled voice answers 'gooood goood y'knowww just in here chaasin the draagon.' which i at the time did not really understand except that i knew it had to do with non-hippyass drugs and that she was hardcore abt it. then she asked us where we were going and if maybe she could come. it seemed like she was very very far away. i think i said 'we're looking at things!' and she said 'thaaat's coool' and we heard her sort of shuffling to get up and then sit back down again. my friend said 'we have to go now!' and the woman in the stall said something like 'haaang on' and then we could no longer deal with the situation and left to look at concrete waterfalls.
so young

so high

great story

ohhhhhh i thought he was calling the cops on the hotel guests. this guy was using the public bathroom?? then yah fuck him. also why would you post about this?

http://depts.washington.edu/conserv/web-content/Press/Hound%20has%20a%20nose%20for%20south%20end%20of%20a%20northbound%20whale_files/orca-scat-0522.gif

i will wager 1000 dollars to anyone willing to take the bet that and what is asleep right now

big hoos, earlier today
http://www.radioiowa.com/resource/image_librarian/20070606/081615/drugdog07.jpg

i will wager 1000 dollars to anyone willing to take the bet that and what is asleep passed out right now

dubious memories of stumbling across junkies shooting up in restaurant bathrooms, public library, park benches, the vestibule of my apt building etc etc "just let me finish and you'll never see me again"

good ol' nyc in the 80s actually it was totally disgusting but fuck calling the cops, kick em out yrself.

i think it would depend where you worked and what they were using? if i work at a record store i'm sure as hell not going to call the cops on someone burning a j in the alley. but if i'm a school bus driver i might drop a dime on some dipshit shooting skag before making his afternoon run.

some bird-watcher caught me burning one in the woods once and called the park rangers -- bastard

this supercilious guy i knew years ago tried to defend minor drug charges in court by saying he was a good citizen who had even once performed a citizen's arrest on a shoplifter, and the judge said that if he was so keen on others obeying the law then he should try doing it himself, and he threw the book at him.

good for the judge. if you're guilty then you're guilty, accept the punishment.

he was mad but everyone else was filled with jubilant scorn to learn about the historic pious citizen's arrest.

ok guys i won't start threads about shit that goes down at work anymore. promises. i should know better by now. move to ITR before ethan & jon wake up plz.

lets be honest tho what really made the last thread special was surmounter

big hoos i love you but you're bringing me down.

anyone dumb enough to go into a hotel's public bathroom to use deserves to have the cops called on them tho.

Uh no, Hoos, aren't you legally obliged to call the cops? I mean, shit, I probably/maybe wouldn't haven't - but that's cause I doubt it would ever happen in my shop - but still I don't think you did anything wrong. On the contrary. A laissez faire attitude isn't what you would want at work, no? I doubt your boss would appreciate you ignoring said situation, no?

Actually we did have one guy ask to use our toilet once and he did some coke. And then one shot up, I think, but not sure about that one. We pretended nothing happened and let'em go.

even though it wasn't a place of work: when i was doing a summer abroad in france 12 years ago, one of our group found a junkie shooting up in the shower of our dormitory. i don't think that the cops were called, but i don't know how they got rid of the junkie. the dorm was in a pretty sketchy neighborhood (by french standards, anyway -- as sketchy as it got, it didn't hold a candle to anything in the states).

Hoos is right but so's m coleman, it's sorta protocol to just say to a junkie on the premises "GTFO or I'm gonna kick your teeth out" and follow through if you have to. (This is a fucked up protocol but who needs junkies hanging around? srsly) The guy who came out and left when you asked him to? that's a guy who knows the drill. Junkies must not have etiquette these days. In my day we'd have let the hotel manager kick our asses before we left...and we'd have been GRATEFUL for it

otoh if there's any reason at all to suspect dude's carrying a weapon, it's better not to fuck with him, you're not getting paid enough for that, so yes cops

anyone dumb enough to go into a hotel's public bathroom to use deserves to have the cops called on them tho.

This. The rules for using drugs consist of "Don't Die" and "Don't Get Caught".

Hoos: so you work at the DoubleTree? Cookies YSI?

I don't see why HOOS shouldn't start a thread like this - it's as good a question as any. And I think you did the right thing. If this is a hotel then it's presumably used by lots of people including kids who may not be old anough to know not to pick up any old junk left around by the last person. I'm sure not a few of us have seen needles lying around public toilets (and car park stairwells for some reason), ffs that's just plain bad manners. As you can't be sure that these are not really considerate junkies who will clean up properly after themselves I think you've got to keep them out.

did the junkie use hate speech at any juncture, that's what i wanna know

xpost According to Chaki rules, you can only start threads about fake people.

I don't see why HOOS shouldn't start a thread like this - it's as good a question as any.

I think, along with HOOS' other thread like this, that it isn't the subject matter of the thread but the looking for kudos for doing your job way it is phrased - there are plenty of threads for having to do shitty and annoying things as part of your job without starting one whenever you do one. But, mostly, people be arseholes on ILX.

So, since we have a thread for this very thing now, yes, I've thrown a junkie out of the toilets in my work. We weren't even an office open to the public, she came up the stairs, pressed the buzzer, I let her in thinking she was delivering some papers from another office or something, no-one came through to the main office, so I went to see who had got to the door and she was sitting on the toilet floor out of her face, asking if I could let her boyfriend in as well. I just pointed her in the direction of the shopping centre across the road and told her if they wanted into a public toilet, go and use one rather than randomly bumbling into an office block and confusing a locked-to-the-general-public insurance company with a public toilet.

I didn't phone the police because (1) she was hardly trespassing because I let her in and (2) no-one's going to arrest someone for minor possession or you'd have half of Glasgow in jail.

some good stories here, tipsy which mcr pub was that?!

HOOS SO NOT A NARC

As was recommended, I tried to burn the full dose with a single toke. I succeeded, though not without some protests from my chest. There was the attendant coughing, watering of the eyes, and disorientation; this is where it kicked in. As I leaned my head back to take in air and recover from my coughing, my eyes fell on a painting on the wall. It was an image of some brush lining a winding path that lead over the top of a hill. Further back in the painting one could see hills further away, and at the farthest hill there was a house with some sheep.

I was immediately struck by the fact that the brush had taken on a three dimensional quality. It looked like it was protruding from the frame just enough that I could walk up and touch it. It felt fuzzy and organic, like a Chia pet.

I suddenly remembered "hey, I'm under the influence, I can do whatever I want here."

So I grabbed hold of the brush on either side of the "path" in the painting and pulled hard, which brought the image rushing at me. Then I was in it. In front of and all around me were the contents of the painting, I was in this dollar store decorative work. I looked behind me and saw, like looking out a massive picture window, the contents of my loft: my sober & serenely smiling friend, furniture, computer, and all. I felt completely safe, secure in the knowledge that I could go back any time I wanted to.

So I ran around in this idyllic vaugely Irish-looking setting for what felt like hours. I was able to leap from hill to hill, so I got to the house at the back of the painting rather quickly. I talked with the sheperd and ran around with the sheep. He offered me some tea but I told him I had to go, I had company waiting for me. I bounded back over the hills and used the brush to slingshot myself back out again. Then I laid down on the floor of my loft and let it wear off. Then I took a nap.

My friend assured me later that I was standing in front of the painting staring at it for about 15 minutes.

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 28 July 2007 18:22 (2 months ago) Link

It'd be pretty intense if you were staring at a painting in a restroom for 15 minutes.

tipsy which mcr pub was that?!

it was called the grove, a big hulking thing at the intersection of upper chorlton rd. and seymour grove. i'm given to understand it has since been demolished. (i worked there ca. 1991.)

xxp: Why? Because it look interesting.

xpost According to Chaki rules, you can only start threads about fake people.

-- nathalie, Monday, October 22, 2007 5:21 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

preferably Jon Arbuckle or Sugar Bear.

can everyone stop misspelling the jaime spears email meme.

"why because it look intersting"

Hoos: so you work at the DoubleTree? Cookies YSI?

-- kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, October 22, 2007 10:09 AM

Once there was this soldier on leave who was staying with us. He came in drunk at 3 am and asked for a cookie. I gave him one. He saluted me and said I was a Great American.

Captain Save-a-HOOS

occasionally people come and use the bathroom in the bar i work at to smoke drugs, and i can fully understand big hoos dilemna. i wouldn't dream of calling the cops, i wouldn't fell comfortable snitching on someone, at the same time if they were to get caught while i was working i would most likely lose my job. furthermore, i don't get paid nearly enough to go into a bathroom and confront a junkie at my place of work. some bullshit internet hard mans on this thread.

Didn't HOOS kick Lupe Fiasco out of his hotel once?

-- The Reverend, Monday, October 22, 2007 4:05 AM

I totally forgot about this.

Didn't kick him out, he was just a dick to me.

ok guys i won't start threads about shit that goes down at work anymore. promises. i should know better by now. move to ITR before ethan & jon wake up plz.

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, October 22, 2007 2:52 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/images/superfriends/wonder-twins1.jpg

I totally forgot about this.

Didn't kick him out, he was just a dick to me.

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, October 22, 2007 9:53 AM (Monday, October 22, 2007 9:53 AM) Bookmark Link

Yeah, but it would have ten types of awesome if you had. Next time Lupe Fiasco is a dick to you, kick that motherfucker out.

wow tipsy which pub?

see above. it was called the grove. (had been the seymour grove before that. is now a parking lot.)

I gotta say that's kind of a decent move, driver of steen. One time at this shit motel this insaniac dumpling-woman had od'ed on the horse and came a-knockin' on my adjacent door. I had to drive her to the ER. You are sparing the other guests this inconvenience.

tru american hero

No good deed goes unpunished.

"dumpling-woman"?

Could you smell the chicken broth on her?

She was like maybe 5 feet tall and all bizarrely lumpy like a dumpling.

The Pillsbury Doughgirl OD'd, didn't she?

don't be so naive

waht?

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/761/halpww6.png

wau @ that

HAHAHAHAHA awesome! :D

Now you have to do one with me in a light blue Buick Le Sabre saying "BOXCAR!@!!&!"

You don't have to.

It would just be k-awesome.

http://i21.tinypic.com/11tofpt.png

There y'go.

I think I kinda missed the boxcar ILX meme, tho, other than that it's in some bad comic strip I can't remember.

true american hero

HOLY SHITTT RAD! Mega thanks! It's from a For Better or For Worse strip, I just know the meme from Comics Curmudgeon:

Margo!Boxcar!Saturn! is a Comics Curmudgeon commentor meme come to life. Apartment 3-G’s Margo is such a deliciously nasty lady that her name could easily substitute for any number of rude words; For Better Or For Worse’s post-stroke Grandpa Jim bellowed “Boxcar” when attempting to say something, presumably something rude, and when he did manage to cuss, a lovely little ringed Saturn appeared in his word balloon to let us know he’d gotten out a doozy.

Lupe Fiasco would make a great name for a ska-punk band.