Hypodermic Needles

[EvianBaby]

Following another thread, I'm interested.

How many of you have ever come across hypodermic needles while out and about? (I'm not talking to those of you who spend your free time in drug dens).

I've never seen one. I must live in a reallllllyyyyy good area.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

I have, but not for many years and it was only the once.

[hc4361]

I don't live in a really good area, and I haven't seen any. I did see glue sniffing paraphernalia once.

[DENZIL88]

Unfortunately yes. Sweep them up from our back alley every weekend. Parks are littered with them.

[tinkerbell23]

I lived in a nice wee estate years ago but a shortcut ash path/lane we took to school had needles in, once found a box with a bent spoon aswell.....yuck.

My friend bless her...her bro was an addict. She took the nearest fleece on the coat stand to wear to the shop and when she put her hand in there was a needle!

Infact my aunt worked in a shop and was threatned with a dirty needle once xx

[paddywak]

I stopped walking Max round two sites because it was that bad, on one occassion I was still there when the law arrived, this police woman got out of her car and wandered round spraying the needles with bright pink paint. I asked if that was all she was going to do and she replied that was all they could do as they weren't allowed to handle them (S & H) and a dedicated unit would come and take them away. As I said I stopped using that site but one of the other regulars told me it was a fortnight before they were removed

[EvianBaby]

Maybe I just don't look hard enough.

I'll probably find one outside my front door when I get home now.

[firewatch]

I have in the woods where we walk our dogs with our toddler, and on the street where my sister lives, luckily my daughters never picked them up.

[ELVIS68]

There are quite a few on and near the railway lines in London.

[emmie]

our place was often awash with them, due to the druggies in the area, but seems to have stopped for now.

[Traci66]

When I lived in Liverpool, constantly. Where I live now, never.

[shoota]

Seen zillions in UK - not a single one in France.

[EvianBaby]

Don't get me wrong, where I live isn't a dump (well, some bits are) but it's not exactly Windsor high street.

[emmie]

perhaps those drug addicts do it out of sight of the populace. Ours used to use our doorways to take theirs and the prostitutes to bring their clients along, not nice at all.

[lcg]

yep...see 'em every day - i work in a rather unsavoury area of an inner city 'ghetto'. the lovely community (if that's what you can call it - they would sell their granny for a rock or two) seem perfectly happy to treat their local area like a dustbin, so i see pretty much everything. i've even been mugged twice when going to the local shop for my patients (i'm a psych nurse) as people recognise our badges/alarms/keys/crap and know we carry some money for that purpose.

i have never understood why they built a new hospital in that area and on the same site (given the problems of the old loony bin that was there before) and the drug/alcohol/crime problems of our clientele (sp.) persist to this day - even to the point of our patients being escorted on leave and making some unfortunate member of staff visit a drug den before they come back to the hospital. we have a huge problem with drugs on the ward at times (blatant use and sometimes dealing) and not even the local police are that interested in coming to assist us if we have called them.

i live a very short walk away from the hospital in a terraced house - mere streets away (but the same type of housing) - in a more civilised area and it is completely different. clean, tidy and neighbourly - but people who don't use drugs and have basic manners and morals. it is still a deprived area with lots of student accommodation, but the residents don't treat it like Sugar. i have never understood people who consciously make their own back (and front!) yards a complete and utter pig sty and continue to live in it.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Sounds to me like none of us should ever let our kids out ever again! ;)

[hc4361]

Beware the nasties lurking in the sand on the beach.

[firewatch]

This is what i dont get, a large sum of money was ploughed into the woodland and its now used to flytip regularly, hold raves, drink take drugs etc, and its meant to be enjoyed for everyone but u cannot do this with the crap everywhere!!!

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

@triggerhippy. I don't like any of 'em. I'm NOT jealous ;)