"Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away ... the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!"Willa Cather
Dodge, when we lived there, had a large multi-ethnic population that choose up sides and tried to "rule" the town. The Vietnamese from the "south-side", Hispanics from the "East Side", whites and blacks co-mingled in smaller groups and they'd "rumble" all the time as they battled for the drug trade. This was in 86. A girl who worked for me (I was an ALCO manager for 10 years) came in all shaken because she was forced, at gun point (tell anyone and you die), to hide drugs in her school locker. Took me a bit to get the story out of her.
I called the cops after I sent her home (no way the poor dear could work all rattled and crying) and explained the situation on the Q. T. They did a full school sweep the next morning and arrested several people including my employee (had to keep it looking like she hadn't ratted out the real villain) and the "charges" against her were, mysteriously, never filed. I think the police may have talked to her parents in advance because she said it was odd that they weren't freaked out by her arrest, just came and picked her up with a lot of other parents.
We're having the same issues here with the bath salts and "spice". Also some mysterious substance that police think is a plant fertilizer that kids are smoking and going straight over the edge. Two kids wigged out in a parking lot and one asked the ambulance attendants if he could eat her socks while the other "petted" the ambulance and giggled about how soft and fuzzy it was. A few have had seizures and ended up in the hospital. Our state crime lab cannot determine exactly what this substance is and have sent it off to DC for analysis. "Spice" has been deemed illegal now by our local powers. I hate drugs almost as much as people who abuse children.
And feed lots and slaughter houses? That is what keeps Dodge afloat. 7-8 feed lots and 3 slaughter houses. I really don't miss that town at all.
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Date: 2011-03-12 06:15 pm (UTC)I called the cops after I sent her home (no way the poor dear could work all rattled and crying) and explained the situation on the Q. T. They did a full school sweep the next morning and arrested several people including my employee (had to keep it looking like she hadn't ratted out the real villain) and the "charges" against her were, mysteriously, never filed. I think the police may have talked to her parents in advance because she said it was odd that they weren't freaked out by her arrest, just came and picked her up with a lot of other parents.
We're having the same issues here with the bath salts and "spice". Also some mysterious substance that police think is a plant fertilizer that kids are smoking and going straight over the edge. Two kids wigged out in a parking lot and one asked the ambulance attendants if he could eat her socks while the other "petted" the ambulance and giggled about how soft and fuzzy it was. A few have had seizures and ended up in the hospital. Our state crime lab cannot determine exactly what this substance is and have sent it off to DC for analysis. "Spice" has been deemed illegal now by our local powers. I hate drugs almost as much as people who abuse children.
And feed lots and slaughter houses? That is what keeps Dodge afloat. 7-8 feed lots and 3 slaughter houses. I really don't miss that town at all.