A so-called "safe injected" site in Toronto, Canada, has recently received negative complaints from the community.
No, the complaints were not about all the drugged-up zombies hunched over, napping, and defecating around the neighborhood.
The complaints actually came after the site put up posters offering people free chocolate in exchange for dirty, used needles!
Got Sharps? Want Chocolate?
For every full sharps container you return to COUNTERfit, we'll give you a chocolate bar.
Did a pedophile come up with this marketing and promotion?
What's worse than "safe injection" sites?
Attracting children to those "safe injection" sites!
Hey kids, next time you see a used needle on the ground, make sure you pick it up! Collect all 1.4 Liters worth for the chance to win a free chocolate bar!
Since the community backlash over these posters, the site has taken them down and apologized.
Jason Altenberg, CEO of the South Riverdale Community Health Centre, told the National Post that they "apologize for any miscommunication."
In an exuberance to get used needles off the street one of our staff posted a sign that was never meant for the public. In no way, shape, or form was that communication meant for children.
Anyone with some common sense knows these drug construction sites are nowhere near as "safe" as the city would like you to believe.
Last month, a 44-year-old mother named Karolina Huebner-Makurat was shot dead just steps from this site. She was hit during a shooting spree between three suspects following a "verbal and physical altercation."
One man charged with the shooting was Damian Hudson, 32, who was out on bail at the time. A 23-year-old woman, Khalila Zara Mohammed, who worked at the site, was also arrested and charged. The third was 20-year-old Ahmed Mustafa Ibrahim, who was also arrested and charged with manslaughter, robbery, and failure to comply with probation.
Since that shooting, community members have started to speak out.
Over the past few months, residents have become more and more concerned for their children's safety... and that was before the site tried to lure in children by offering them free candy!
According to CTV News:
"One of the suspects they are looking for is almost certainly someone I've been watching for almost a year now," said Derek Finkle who has lived a few doors away from the health centre for the past 15 years and is a parent.
Finkle said he welcomed the site when it opened about six years ago. He said over the past six months the situation has reached a tipping point, with residents reaching out to politicians, and attending meetings with the health centre and police.
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Parent Ashley Kea also lives nearby and said drug paraphernalia on the streets is a problem. She recently took a picture near her home of small dishes used to cook drugs. CTV News walked down a nearby laneway and found a pipe, syringe caps and a needle.
In May, Kea's young son found a bag of fentanyl on the way Morse Street Junior Public School. It's 160 metres from the health centre. She said she shared her concerns at a health centre meeting three days before the shooting.
Residents are finally starting to say enough is enough.
Their children are seeing people overdose on the street, kids are watching dealers sell drugs, and they are even seeing people pull out guns.
Was the free chocolate the last straw?
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