October 30, 2007
Blogger Records Public Crack-for-Sex Exchange
DISCLAIMER: PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE FOLLOWING LINK IS INCREDIBLY NSFW. Please do not follow it if you are squeamish, are in a public place, or have any other reservations about seeing graphic photos of public sex and drug use.
D.C. resident Kevin Keith Eby, of the blog Knee Deep in Mud, recently came home to a rather rude surprise in the alley that faces his kitchen window: two individuals engaging in sex acts and smoking crack, in plain view. The resulting blog post is incredibly graphic, upsetting, and sad.
Whether you feel publishing something like this ends up only serving to humiliate publicly individuals who are clearly in a very bad place in their lives, or could also serve to shame public officials into acting both to help keep this kind of behavior off of our streets and help people with serious drug problems -- well, surely you'll let us know what you think if you choose to look at it.
We disagree with many of the stereotypes presented in Eby's account, but we also think that the fact that it is now out there on the Internet for anyone to see is news -- one that suggests the power of digital images readily able to capture criminal acts and immediately publish them to the web.
Again, THIS LINK IS NSFW. Please consider yourselves warned. Go here to see the story.
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I'm absolutely appalled, horrified, even saddened that monkeyrotica hasn't commented on this story yet.
Damn. That black dude has some handsome thighs.
I wonder, though. Is this how Marion Barry had to pay for his crack? That'd explain a lot.
Oh, Heavens to Betsy, I did not need to see that...
That really looks like a guy... in a diaper.
I disabled images in my browser since i'm at work, so haven't seen them; nor have I read the linked blog entry. But I don't really see how this is at all newsworthy.
Sex has been traded for drugs since the dawn of...well, drugs, and that DC has high rates of drug use is well-known to everyone in the universe.
So, what's the point here?
I wouldn't say both of these guys are 'clearly in a bad place in their lives'.
The guy dealing the coke looks like he's having a pretty good time. And nobody is forcing him to deal crack, are they?
Yeah - not sure what makes this particularly newsworthy. Not sure why dcist felt the need to report on it.
Gbert, I'm right there with you. The only news here is that some people found this amusing instead of sad and horrible and didn't call the cops.
Like, I imagine them laughing their asses off at the end of Requiem For A Dream and thinking how funny it was that someone had to prostitute themselves for junk.
Yeah, that's pretty lolzy all right.
Jesus, Rusty. Grow a sense of humor already. Or at least loosen up on your tight-ass moralizing.
It's possible to both see this as sad (from the point of view of the user, not the dealer), and funny at the same time.
Yes, it's sad that people trade sex for drugs. Or at least we're assuming it's sad - maybe the participants don't think so.... who knows...
But guys fucking in diapers in broad daylight is funny. Laughing at the humorous aspects doesn't make you a bad person.
What is sad is that it's unprotected anal gay sex in a drug environment. That's just not good.
"Drugs exchanged for sex in urban alley" is not news. However "broad access to digital cameras and blogging software allow residents to record and publicize evidence of street crime" is, in fact, news.
Yeah...the he/she definitely lives in my apartment building. Never really gave him/her a second thought, but now I'm creeped out beyond belief and fear the next time I see him/her, since I don't know what my reaction will be or if I'll be able to hold it in...
I can say nothing about this that hasn't been said infinitely better by Arthur Rimbaud in his seminal work Un Saisson L'enfer, and I quote:
"Feed me hash oil as you slowly f**k me in the ass."
I think we have an entry for "Elsewhere in the Ist-a-verse" right here.
Sommer: Which stereotype do you disagree with?
"the black guy always has the crack"....ah, to be so confident with one's assessments of the entire friggin world...
I pretty much ignored the words. Who cares what this random blogger says and how he feels? It's really wild he got those pictures. The pictures speak for themselves. That's some disturbing shite right there. I wonder how the owners of those million dollar homes feel that this stuff is going on in their back yards during the day.
Ew.
No moralizing, pontificating, or discussion necessary. Just ew.
i'm with rusty . . . this made me sad
Apropos of not much, does anyone else read "he/she" as "hesher"?
I'm not sure why you guys posted this. I'm even less sure why so many people have recommended it.
I'm not sure why you guys posted this. I'm even less sure why so many people have recommended it.
Your answer is right there: traffic.