Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Life in "Progress" City - Detroit edition

At my crazy, Walmart store they cater to the gun clinging rednecks by selling guns, ammunition and Bibles.

What customers do "Progress" City stores attempt to attract........?

Be careful of what’s being sold under the counter.

Crack pipes are being sold at neighborhood stores from Detroit to the suburbs.

That’s according to former Detroit police officer David Mahalab, who says the pipes are disguised as novelties.

“To avoid police detection and to try to avoid the law, they put a pen insert – (in) a glass tube, and try to evade the law, which talks about paraphernalia and stuff that has a second use,” says Mahalab.

Mahalab says they’re also disguised as a ballpoint pen or small glass vases with a rose sticking out of them.

Mahalab says people may be surprised where the pipes are being sold.

“Dollar stores, gas stations, liquor stores, virtually every store in the 6th Precinct that I did enforcement with, were given a ticket and found guilty. I’ve seen them in Allen Park, Dearborn Heights and Garden City,” says Mahalab.

Mahalab says the pipe sales are lucrative, but bring crack addicts and crime to neighborhoods.


Now I'm thinking that at my local "Redville" gas stations by the flashing red lights they don't sell crack pipes because there's no demand.

Maybe the store's are going to their customers and not vice versa.......

More....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And probably every last one of those pipe buyers has received "help" from the "Great Society".

Funny how the geniuses in liberal town can detect the faintest of patterns linking my gas grill emissions to global warming catastrophe, but can't see the 100% correlation between their social policies and economic weakness.

The party of Smart People.