Tuesday 30 July 2013

A town devided, for the sake of what?

I've made it no secret to say that i live in a town called Skelmersdale. A breif history would tell you that the town was majorly built up in the 60's / 70's as extra housing was needed because of an overflow problem in Liverpool.

These days, the town might aswel sit abandoned for all is has to offer the majority of people in the area. A shopping centre that's half closed, a supermarket shop which is fastly out-pricing itself from what the locals can afford and.... no wait, that's it.

Unless you like to drink petrol or go and walk for miles looking at the same tree's day and in and day out, then this town has little to offer you, so of course people will try new things, including drugs.

As i've also said before, i'm pro choice when it comes to drugs. I would like to see nothing more than all drugs made legal, leaving people to try them if they wanted to.

Recently, this town has been turned upside down and the police operate one of their new missions to try and tackle people growing drugs and supplying them. While the police can rub their hands together with glee that their new mission has been sucsessful and how they'll do the same again in future, they neglect to give a shit about what the rest of the town think.

Firsty, i'd like to ask what i think is a simple question here.... when on earth do you need a helicopter to do a drugs raid on a house? That's what alot of the town were left asking when for 30 mins to an hour, the town was woken up to the sound of police helicopters in the sky, at about 1am.

This, after a day of seeing police crawling all over the town in riot vans, cars and on horse back. Again, later that night my friend told me of how she'd seen more riot vans pulled up on a local car park and thought it was an odd sight. When she leaves she text's to say about the amount of police she's seen on her way home and then.... well then we got the helicopter out and facebook starts to fill up with reports of roads being closed off and police breaking into houses, waking up local residents etc.

This of course is not like me you may be asking, normally i'm supportive of the police and don't get me wrong, i still am, i just feel that if you're going to do a drugs raid around houses where small children are trying to sleep, then probably, 1am isn't your best time to strike. Yes i understand there's got to be the element of suprise, but really, 1am? and you want residents to be fine with this?

Since then of course, there's been more drama where the police have gone and i cant expain my joy about having to walk around big piles of horse shit thats left all over the path ways.... did i say joy? I meant utter disgust.

See, usually, be it that i don't live in the best area of the town, i do still feel fine when walking around at night, but yet now, i don't, funnily enough. Sure there's riot vans and police cars driving around and during the day theres all these horses and such, but it seems alot of people are on edge about the recent action.... why?

There's a company called dial-a-crate which operates in the area, so if you're having a drink at home and you run of out vodka or wine, you can call up dial-a-crate and they'll bring you what you need. They a few times have had problems with the police recently, police are stopping random cars and wanting to carry out searches etc, to the point that dial-a-crate actually stopped operating one night because it was happening that often.

This town isn't great at the best of times, but with the actions carried out by the police recently, it's felt worse. I personally wouldn't have minded if one of my neighbours were growing drugs, what harm would it have been doing to neighbours?

Only problem is now though, is that because several canabis farms have closed... more will open in their place....

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