Comments on: Red bus, red bus, red bus

By: bunbohue

bunbohue — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:16:52 +0000

Mushtimusta — You are probably right, I am just voicing the concerns of other local residents who are rightly concerned at the lack of public consultation & who also feel that the needle/rehab centre in their midst does little to help( or indeed make worse)an already endemic
drug problem in SE5 & indeed Southwark generally.

By: Mushtimushta

Mushtimushta — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:45:57 +0000

@ bunbohue — if it’s any consolation, I’d be surprised if the needle exchange programme that you’ve discovered serves a catchment area much wider than SE5/17/15, because there are quite a few around. There’s one in Blackfriars Rd for the north of the borough and I’m sure there are others.
It does seem sensible to site these in hospitals (though I’m not sure that one located in a police station would be particularly well attended — given that most if not all injectable drugs are still illegal in the UK). Perhaps there have been problems when these have been based in hospital complexes, I don’t know.

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:56:35 +0000

Well done, bunbohue, nice reaction. You’d think a needle exhange’d be placed somewhere else, like in a police station or hospital. The Magistrates Court seems quite quiet and orderly with lots of room and good security. A small caravan outside it would do.

By: bunbohue

bunbohue — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:13:48 +0000

Back to an old subject…
had a run in with a junkie on Church st yesterday
asked for change, grabbed some & ran away, i chased after him & knocked him flying before realising that he might be packing a blade, oh shit !
he was too stoned and was only concerned that i’d knocked his weed all over the pavement, I backed off pretty quick realising that he was just a fuck wit.
Still these people rely on the fact that they can steal etc & the victims are too scared to do anything about it. I just did an automatic response ( that i regret as i may have been stabbed as a result) may be he’ll think twice before trying it again.
Apparently there is a needle exchange/methadone opened on the Grove, the community was given two weeks notice & no consultation. The council & police borough commander have planned it for a year but kept it a secret from the community.
Blairs Britain ? — the exchange attracts ex-con junkies from all over London, and is ajacent to a housing estate & two schools — nice one you fuck heads

By: Mel R

Mel R — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:44:21 +0000

Any further news on the boy who was knocked down on Monday. When I came home much later the same night (11.30pm or something) there were lots of police and it looked like there had been an accident inthe middle of Camberwell Green junction. Was it the same incident?

Anyway — I came to take back my previous comment (2) that I hadn’t experienced any hold-ups on Walworth Road. I was over half an hour late for work this morning. Quelle horreur!

By: copeywolf

copeywolf — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:54:34 +0000

@ Lucas. A little Hispanic boy was knocked down quite badly by a car. Poor chap was still unconscious when they took him to A&E. Some relatives were on the scene but couldn’t speak English which complicated things a bit. Agreed, there was police everywhere which seemed strange. No idea why.

Rang King’s to try and find out how he was but couldn’t because I wasn’t related. Pediatric neurosurgery hadn’t taken him in though, which hopefully is a good sign.

By: bukowski333

bukowski333 — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:25:56 +0000

Drew -
I’ve not read any of his other books but that was a great read.

I took some pictures outside the bingo hall last night. There was a heavy police presence if it was an accident.

By: Mumu

Mumu — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:16:24 +0000

Yes I think it was an accident so all the buses were diverted via Camberwell New Road and Wyndham Road. Watch out for the end of the week editions of the South London Press and Southwark News…

By: Drew Mishmash

Drew Mishmash — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:28:40 +0000

@Bukowski333 — very much so; unfortunately the other biskind titles are a disappointment, simply because the characters in it aren’t as fascinasting or as macchiavellian as Easy Riders Raging Bulls. Used to sell piles of it in my bookshop…he said wistfully.

Be Happy

Drew mishmash

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:09:51 +0000

I think it was an accident; when I went past the street was empty apart from loads of police, an empty car, a suitcase, and a blanket and pillow.