Drunks! Advice needed

[spacemanspiff]

second the flashlight. a blast in the face from a surefire oughta do em good. may want to think about finding a place that isnt on that hellhole chugach street. i dont even use that street as a shortcut anymore.

 

[Cosmoline]

But where would I find my nightly entertainment then, Spiff?

 

[TallPine]

When I lived in the LOTMS, 4th Street was where the drunks hung out.

Did they clean up 4th Street and move the drunks to Spenard?

Or did they just start a new colony?

 

[Buzztail]

Doc Martins have worked for me in the past.

 

[spacemanspiff]

psshawww! we get all kinds of fun entertainment on my side of minnesota! didnt ya see them cordone off my street and send in SWAT to arrest one of my neighbors last week?

tallpine, no one hangs out on 4th anymore. i mean NO ONE. most of the drunks now stand on the streetcorners around midtown begging for change during the day and freeze themselves to the ground at night. but when they soil themselves during the night the ice melts and they live to beg another day.

aside from the drunks and the various armed muggers, anchorage has cleaned up a lot. seems the police are a lot quicker about arresting the streetwalking crackwhores.

 

[Spot77]

Can you get yourself deputized?

I'd think even the drunks would think twice about messing with The Man.

 

[Cosmoline]

There are no deputies in Alaska.

 

[strambo]

I think your dog looks pretty cute...I'd pet him...after a few drinks.

 

[IndianaDean]

I always liked the way Wyatt Earp handled drunks. (Smashing them on the noggin with the butt of his gun). I guess that would be politically incorrect now, though.

 

[rustymaggot]

I always liked the way Wyatt Earp handled drunks. (Smashing them on the noggin with the butt of his gun). I guess that would be politically incorrect now, though.

think about if the gun went off when you whack someone like that. poppin yourself in the bellybutton with your own gun doesnt sound like a good way to get rid of drunks, unless your the one drinking. years and years ago i read about a guy who was abusive to his girlfriend and he met his end by breaking out the girlfriend windshield by using a loaded shotgun like a club. moral here is........ use a gun, or use a club, but dont use your gun as a club.

people are telling you to use alcohol or to addantifreeze to the squirtgun. dont do it. very very illegal to spray someone in the face with flamamble liquid(alcohol) or poison(ethleen glycol). plain water and small amounts at that or the charge of trying to make them freeze to death might stick.


someone else had the idea of givin em another drink with somthin extra in it. same thing might apply to tricking them into drinking anything not usually found in the drink. what about this..... get a bottle of ippicac syrup and hand that to them. ippicac kinda looks like a airline size bottle of kahlua. tell the guy that if he leaves you doggie alone you will give him the little bottle . by the way, one bottle(1 oz) is like 5 doses of ippicac. he will be puking and poopin like theres no tomorrow. ippicac is a stomach pump in a bottle. sold in all supermarkets as a remedy for when someone drinks poison. since you gave them a sealed "un-tampered with" bottle then the drunk cannot sue you for poisoning him. ippicac is meant to be ingested so if he drinks it without reading the label carefully then its his fault. waive the little bottle at him and say 'you want another drink?" then toss it in a snowbank 10 feet away and you will have a clear path to your truck while hes groping in the snow for what he thinks is a small bottle of booze.

 

[XLMiguel]

How about an air horn, like what they have at the boating store? (You can get palm-sized ones at a bicycle shop) I've found a blast in the face from one of them puppies tends to get you some room right quick. I've even broken up a fight or two with one. Not too pleasant for you or the dog, but I bet it will get a drunk to move along pretty quickly. RE-apply as needed. The light in the face is merely annoying, the horn genuinely unpleasant. Good luck.

 

[rustymaggot]

How about an air horn, like what they have at the boating store? (You can get palm-sized ones at a bicycle shop) I've found a blast in the face from one of them puppies tends to get you some room right quick. I've even broken up a fight or two with one. Not too pleasant for you or the dog, but I bet it will get a drunk to move along pretty quickly. RE-apply as needed. The light in the face is merely annoying, the horn genuinely unpleasant. Good luck.

airhorn might disturb the dog. i thought of that and left that out because one of the points of this is to save the dog harassment.


now, lettin your dog poop all around your truck? that might give the drunks some fun steppin around. a sober person could dodge the doggie landmines with ease, but a drunk wont like fallin down in that snow.

 

[IndianaDean]

use a gun, or use a club, but dont use your gun as a club.

My post was meant to be light-humored. I would never (and I don't think most here on THR would either) use a gun as a club. It's dangerous, and I don't want to damage my gun.

Wyatt never shot himself doing it.

 

[carebear]

You live on Chugach Cos?

Do you own or rent? Cause I used to live just a short ways away (McCain Loop) and had 0 trouble. My street was stealthy.

I think that house is up for sale/rent.

 

[Rezin]

Could you become a reserve Deputy or something? If the town has a "problem" why not take it a step further?


Other than that, the water idea is pretty funny!

 

[Cosmoline]

I mean there are no sheriffs or deputies anywhere in Alaska. Anchorage has a pretty large police department, and a while back the muni set up the drunk patrol to deal with the problem. That's not a job I'd want!

 

[carebear]

We have city cops in the municipalities that can afford them (a dozen?) and State Troopers for the rest of the entire state. At times they've had villagers block runways to prevent them from landing and arresting a local for something. They do a lot of working alone, modern day Texas Rangers.

Some villages have VPSO's (village public safety officers) but they are unarmed.

 

[Cosmoline]

Some villages have VPSO's (village public safety officers) but they are unarmed.

Some have VPSO's, others have VSOP's

 

[Rem700SD]

Try a trip to the local feed store and see if they have the components for a cattle prod! Depending on the size of that stick, you could make an extension, w/ the charger in a fanny pack. A plug and a bit of electrical tape..voila! drunk prod!

 

[Trip20]

I made extra money on the weekends for years as a bouncer. You pretty much have three choices:

a) Put up with their drunk-speak as you sweet-talk them into whatever you want them to do.
b) Wait 'till they get bored or thirsty and wander off.

c) Wait 'till no one is looking and knock 'em out.

Biker

+1

I worked as a bouncer/bartender at a rowdy country music bar. Biker nailed it with his three choices. Bottom line is you're either going to have to talk them out of it, wait them out of it, or physically assault them out of it.

I was always good at "a"... was lucky enough to stumble into "b" a number of times... and unfortunately on a few occasions, "c" was the only option.

 

[Lucky]

Eh, just call the police, give em a description, an area, and where he's headed. Where I am there's a good-samaritan law, I think, so the right thing to do is call the police. Of course 'danger to themselves' has more meaning when it's actually lethal to pass out outdoors. But you're in Alaska, so you'd understand.

 

[hso]

rustymaggot,

Yes, ethylene glycol is poison. OTOH propylene glycol is used as a food additive and non-toxic antifreeze.

 

[spacemanspiff]

Some villages have VPSO's (village public safety officers) but they are unarmed

the VPSO program was a good idea, however villages are not very cooperative and often will harrass the safety officer until they leave. alaska natives are quite a bit like Ike in 'tombstone': "Law Dog, law dont go around here!"

carebear, whats that house renting for nowadays?

 

[parsec]

What about lying to him? Tell him there's a bar two blocks north, and three blocks east giving out free beer. The directions will probably be too complicated for him, and if he does figure them out he probably won't remember how do get back to where he was.

 

[carebear]

I'd have to check but I think it's about $1200/mo.