CAPE COD’S OUTPATIENT WARD: The way too common spectacle of intoxicated individuals being picked up off the ground in Hyannis [BRIEF VIDEO]
HN NOTE: I’ve lived all over this small planet. Guadalajara, Mexico… Bangkok, Thailand… New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Canada… and even Penikese Island. etc… and despite their own set of specifically unique problems, you didn’t see drug and alcohol addled adults laying about on the ground requiring emergency services on an hourly basis, or at least daily, like you see here in Hyannis..
In Hyannis, it’s a daily occurrence for HN to come across some poor soul overdosing, or otherwise completely intoxicated, laying about, requiring immediate emergency services… consisting of at least one police patrol car, Hyannis Rescue ambulance, not to mention hospital staff… and very often even more resources than that.
That is not normal.
All this in light of yesterday’s revealing report by the Cape Cod Times, which presented statistics saying that, per capita, Barnstable has been named one of the most dangerous places in the United States…
CLICK HERE TO SEE THAT REPORT…
Pile on top high rates of drug abuse…
… poverty…
… and it’s quite obvious that Hyannis (along with the greater Cape Cod area) has some very serious issues, to say the least.
HN typically doesn’t come close to always documenting the daily spectacles of intoxicated individuals being lifted up into ambulances. In fact, I tend to shy away from these common scenes… because they have become sort of normal and generally accepted around here.
Very often people shrug it off and say things like, “welcome to Hyannis” or “it’s everywhere,” etc…
I look at people who deny the problems in Hyannis and always ask myself, “and how are you benefiting from the suffering that has so conveniently been levied upon all of us living here?”
Not covering these daily scenes is perhaps a big mistake. These scenes should not be normalized in my opinion…
The following video, taken on Main Street shortly after 6:00PM yesterday, near family homes (kids growing up around here see this stuff all the time, by the way…), only briefly highlights what I’m talking about…
And I have to at least ask myself, ‘What, if anything, can be done to make things better in Hyannis?’
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