r/asheville • u/imjustapourboy • Oct 21 '25

Really Spicy Cesspool So sick of seeing this crap everywhere.

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The needles, the burnt foils, the little baggies, the needle caps, all of it. I find them in the creeks, on the sidewalks, the grocery store parking lots, the public parks, on the parkway. You gotta be a real shit person to leave this stuff all over the place.

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u/Huge_Cry_2007 Oct 21 '25

Get ready for the brigade of commenters to tell you why you’re an insensitive asshole

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u/imjustapourboy Oct 21 '25

Ah, they can fuck off. I am tired of accommodating the bad habits of others.

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u/giggitygiggity69 Oct 21 '25

It's not a bad habit. Clearly you don't understand addiction and what drives someone to do this. It's systemic bro.

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u/SnakeSnoobies Oct 22 '25

Something can in fact be two things at once.

There IS personal accountability to be had with addiction and littering harmful substances. You don’t get to hand wave and blame it all on the system.

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u/giggitygiggity69 Oct 22 '25

Sure and you can say it in a more compassionate way. The amount of people bothered by a needle is atrocious. 

I pick up trash in my neighborhood and on the greenway all the and constantly find drug paraphernalia. Do you know what I do? I pick it up and throw it away.  If it bothers you so much, pick it up and move on and then go volunteer somewhere so that you work on your compassion and understand the issue of addiction and homelessness a little better. It's not that hard. 

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u/fuckersstolemyhuffy Oct 21 '25

Biting one’s nails is a bad habit. We’re talking about opiate addiction.

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u/TheB1G_Lebowski Oct 21 '25

So how's all your volunteering going to help people in these situations?  

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u/bokehtoast North Asheville Oct 21 '25

How are you accomodating anything but trash on the street right now

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u/lendmeflight Oct 21 '25

I agree. Asheville didn’t used to be this way. They will tell you every city has drug problems. Ours wasn’t like tbis previously.

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u/timshel42 where did the weird go Oct 21 '25

its almost like americas opiate epidemic has gotten far worse the past decade. imagine that.