10.22.07 VANCOUVER OLYMPICS TO BE JUNKIE-FREE
Vancouver's quadriplegic mayor, Sam Sullivan, faces a tough road before the city hosts the Winter Olympics in 2010. Aside from the usual construction and beautifying projects, Vancouver also has one of the worst slums in the world for an affluent city. In the Downtown Eastside neighborhood, approximately 5000 drug addicts live in a 16-block area. And Vancouver's new police chief has an idea for cleaning up the problem: deport them.
Chief Const. Jim Chu said the Vancouver police department is considering what he called a "home-for-the-holidays" program that partly uses donated travel miles from local businesses as a way to slash the escalating property-crime rate.
Yep, that's right: Chu wants to buy homeless junkies a one-way ticket out of town. All in all, it's a pretty fair proposal, at least compared to the Beijing Olympics. When asked to comment on the proposal, a homeless Chinese man said, "Help, I'm buried in a shallow mass grave!"

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VANCOUVER OLYMPICS TO BE JUNKIE-FREE
What about all the cans and bottles. Who the hell is going to take care of the cans and bottles?
I say have them pull rickshaws around the city. They do have intricate knowledge of the streets…
@ WAS: Have the rickshaw passengers carry a fishing pole with a syringe on the end of it. You won't have to pay them a cent.
There should be a way to change them into postal boxes or potted plants or something.
Maybe spraypaint?
That's the same place Axel Rose hid from the cops in the "Don't You Cry" music video. Anyone?
Wouldn't shooting them be the cheapest and easiest solution ?
UU the problem with that is that there's 5000 of 'em. You may get the first 1000 down but news travels fast in junkie land. The other ones would flee. Plus you got the problem of what to do with 5000 bodies.
It's a logistical nightmare.
Chicago will try the same thing with their homeless population should they snatch the 2016 Games; I suspect I'll be picking up Rex Grossman at Orlando International.
Send them all to Proctor and Gamble and other such companies. While you're at it, include US cities and all those folks on death row, too. Use them all to replace the animals in the product testing labs. Problem solved! Druggies gone, human vermin pay a real debt to society, and those PETA folks will be happy, too!
Wee, look at me! I'm a problem-solver!
On a lighter note, I see Sarah Spain's fantasygirl site folded already
Wow, think what you can do with 5,000 drug addicts!
Forget my earlier suggestion. I like RBD's idea. the only con is that the PETA folks might be happy.
It's a logistical nightmare
Stack and burn baby….Stack and burn! Or you can send them to Boston, fit right fucking in. Sorry…Still having issues…
Sarah's site didn't fold, she got a couple better offers from it.
Did said offers include a 5-picture deal? Cuz I would be down with that.
Bus 'em to Tijuana and let Mexico have 'em. Fair trade for all the hard-workin' Joses who want to make a better living for themseves bad enough to walk barefoot across the desert for it.
That being said, I like RBD's and Bloof's ideas better than mine.
@UU: The idea is that if they're happy, they'll go away. Everyone wins!
Soo.. um… where exactly is the one way ticket to? Cuz really, if all i gotta do is live on the streets for the next year and get a meth habit to send me to on some much needed Vacay, sign me up!
Maybe they could all come to my area and
be burned up infight brush fires.If they ship them down here, I'm going to kill Terrence and Phillip.
Send them to Detroit, we seem to be short on bums lately.
@ Merk, they could hide all the bodies at Stanley Park. That thing is freaking massive.
Considering how most of these bums were shipped here from Alberta during the Klein years, this shouldn't be all that expensive to ship these pieces of crap back to Alberta, preferably on Alberta's tax payer's dollar. It's not like they are in debt or anything. With how violent bums have been lately, and the constant "2010 riots" spray painted all over east hastings' buildings, I'd say most people would have no problem "relocating" these bums to Stanley Park.
I drive through that area every day on my way home from work, and just once, I'd like to run a few of them down. Just because you are homeless does not mean you do not have to pay attention to traffic lights. I propose that every driver be able to hit 2 bums a year, no questions asked.
In all seriousness though, the Olympics is the best thing to happen to these bums. People are now figuring out how to get them off the streets and not embarrass the city. It's win-win.
First we get the Eastern creeps and bums and now you want to send us yours?
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