• snooggums@midwest.social
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    There are plenty of drug dealers who keep their house and car in conditions from spotless to 30 minutes from clean like everyone else. There are plenty of non-drug dealers who have trashed homes and vehicles too.

    You only notice the ones that are making poor choices or have some mental health issues. Sometimes they also sell drugs.

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    Do they? Or is that just the picture the media presents?

    The drug dealer at our high school had a suped up ricer and they lived in the richest neighborhood in town.

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    i go to the store to buy my drugs now. vote this november for legalization in your state!

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      I would like to vote but most states require you to spend at least six months in the state and as a traveling nurse who usually signs three month contracts its kind of a bitch. But I always harp on my brothers and mother to vote.

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      Huh. Didn’t know that entirely ending the war on drugs was on the ballot anywhere.

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    The house behind my parents has had a string of terrible tenants. Loud assholes, people who let their dogs run loose, people with unruly kids, etc.

    Otherwise a pretty decent neighborhood.

    There was a younger dude living there for a while, kept kind of weird hours, but my parents never thought much of that, figured he was going to school, working night shift somewhere, etc. Mostly kept to himself, never bothered my parents in any way, always dressed professionally, etc.

    He was probably the best neighbor my parents ever had in that house.

    Then one day cops raided the place, turns out he’d been dealing a lot of drugs out of there and had a punch bowl full of cocaine sitting out on the kitchen counter.

    Some of the other neighbors apparently had noticed some pretty sketchy characters coming and going from the house, they must have entered from the front door though, because my parents never really noticed anyone.

    My parents would still take the drug dealer over pretty much anyone else that’s lived there.

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    You have sub quality drug dealers. My dude flips cars on the side of his hustle so he always has something nice to drive. He’s a fan of rare models, so his latest is a Saab something or other with all the goodies including 4wd and a ls9 under the hood.

    Other than that he’s got a nice little house in the burbs. Nothing big or fancy. Just a normal 2 bedroom place with a small yard.

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    I think you have to ask: why are people dealing drugs?

    Some people sell drugs because they are desperate. These people are dealing with extreme poverty, trauma, mental and physical health issues, etc. Their cars are messy.

    Other people sell drugs because of the economic opportunity. In my experience, these people pride themselves on cleanliness, timeliness, and customer service. They have clean cars.

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            When I started dealing drugs, I did it because my friends and I were smoking trash weed and we wanted to secure a good supply of quality product. It worked out well. My car was clean. I didn’t sell much.

            A few years later when I turned 23 I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. My life fell apart, I was bedridden, I went through a medical bankruptcy. That is when I began to deal drugs to survive. For a few years I paid my bills by selling weed, ecstasy, adderall, mushrooms, acid from the bed where I spent 95% of my time. My car was dirty.

            Was I just a regular person? I dont know

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    I knew a drug dealer back in the day, he was dealing a lot, I was always amazed he didn’t get busted. He drove a pimped out car with a badass system in it, rims, tinted windows, and lowered. A bunch of police officers would hang out where I worked (an auto shop) and dude would drive by and the cops all said they KNOW he’s dealing they just can’t bust him, every time they stop him, he’s clean. I told him about it and he said "Pfft those idiots think I’m dumb enough to deal in this??? Shit, I have a normal car in a rented for cash garage across town I use.

    It was plain jane as it gets, not trashed, and not clean. He’d put some shit in it from his mom, some work cloths, and a worn out pair of boots I’m pretty sure he got from somebody else.

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      No need to answer but where was this at? Cause I had my dealer at the time on speed dial and he would do the exact same thing so just curious. My guy was named Don…and no he wasn’t in the mob just a big pothead.

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          That sounds about how it went with the guy at my HS in Canada. Guy had an illegal exhaust and would get pulled over all the time, but if he had another car like that, that makes perfect friggen sense. The rumour was dad was mafia related.

          Wouldn’t work with surveillance nowadays, but in the 00s yeah.

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    I knew several living in regularly middle class neighborhoods with regular clean houses. One, in a gated community.

    I think it’s just as equal chance as anyone else having a messy house. The news rather shows sensation, so I think they would be less likely to give a tour of the drug dealers house if it looked like it could be your neighbor.

    Also a lot of times people who deal drugs do it as a last resort. People who are already down and out. So poverty to begin with and everything that goes with it.

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    My drug delivery drivers only have very clean and expensive high end cars because those are much less likley to get pulled over and searched.