‘Smoking crack cocaine on the Tube is unacceptable’, Transport Secretary says as shocking images surface

by tylerthe-theatre

36 comments

  1. First you can’t drink on the tube, now you can’t even have a little crack. Where will it end?

  2. So it’s doing it on the tube which is the unacceptable part?

  3. So will they change the message to “Mind The Crack” ?

  5. This is not really a transport issue, is it. It’s a drug abuse or law enforcement issue.

  7. I’m torn on this one. It was reported that he allowed the other passengers to disembark before rushing on to claim a seat.

  8. “Customers are reminded that smoking – including e-cigarettes, vapes, and crack – is not permitted on any London underground services.”

  9. Well, then our public transport needs proper policing. Crackheads will do what they can get away with. No police to stop them, so they’re going to do it on the trains. How’s about BTP take some of the multitude of BTP cops standing around Finsbury park station amd actually have them patrol the transport network? They used to do that back in the day, no excuses why they can’t now. We’ve got crackheads, people’s phones being snatched, women being assaulted and no police or station staff are ever present.

  10. The usual bunch of arseholes were waiting for their dealer again outside my flats, this is now a multiple times a day event. They piss and shit in the street and run about in traffic. ‘The Community team’ when I reported it ages ago said they couldn’t do anything and to dial 999 next time they turned up. Especially as were in sheltered housing and theres a primary school a couple of hundred yards away. Yesterday they were throwing beer cans at a dog and getting violent. I phoned 999 and got put on hold. They were only interested in the fact that I’d been threatened with having my legs broken a few weeks ago for just trying to get past them into our sheltered flats. Another bloke here in his 80s has been threatened and sworn at. Police didn’t turn up of course as they can’t be arsed/too busy. But they’rehappily making another report to the ‘ community team’ … To be honest smoking crack on a train is quite mild by todays standards- they just need to reintroduce ‘smoking carriages’ as ‘drug carriages’ Apart from talking absolute shit about it no-one is actually interested in doing anything about crime and disorder, especially in London.

  11. Shocking I say, it’s shocking !

    … aaaaand nothing will be done. “Carry on” and stuff…

  13. “See it, say it, snort it” or “See it, say it, smoke it” both seem appropriate these days on the Underground unfortunately.

  14. when your life has descended to a crack addiction, nothing matters to you.

  16. The inevitable result of the essential decriminalisation of ‘minor’ offences like shoplifting, fencing stolen goods, burglary and publicly smoking weed (and I get that it is a funding as well as policy issue).

    The line just gets pushed further.

  17. Have you really experienced London until you’ve seen someone freebasing in the tube?

  18. What’s the charge? Smoking crack? Succulent Chinese crack? 

  20. That’s from a post in this sub from a couple of days ago. I hate that nowadays ‘journalists’ just lurk on Reddit, find an interesting post and then make a story out of it for one of their articles.

    Do they even have permission to use those photos? Don’t they belong to the person who did the post?

    Buzzfeed does this all the time too – they’ll post fake questions to have something to put in one of their terrible little articles.

    I hate that Reddit is just full of people lurking to steal content because they’re not good enough to do their own job.

  21. The annoying thing is this also came up a few months ago and I remember seeing people attempting to justify it “he’s obviously vulnerable and having a bad day, he’s not harming anybody, you’re prejudiced if it makes you uncomfortable”.

    Excusing bad behaviour just makes things worse.

  22. So is stealing pictures from reddit without contacting the author LBC

  25. Do they have any other blindingly obvious shit to point out, or is that their quota for the day done?

  26. The thing is… The government is ignoring a true epidemic on the cusp of taking over certain communities. Meth is so prevalent in the gay community it’s shocking to see just how damaged lives have become of people from all walks of life.

    This happens in station toilets and everywhere else I’d you know what to look for.

    But the government doesn’t want to tackle drug use. The war on drugs has failed. Create a damn shopping list of legal highs and tax them.

  27. Haha does she need to come out an tell us this is unacceptable? Surely for all but the most free wheeling crack addict this is unacceptable?

  28. I bet the poster of that thread didn’t expect this 😅 I’ve seen that guy a few times myself and I remember another photo of someone else smoking crack on the tube years ago

  31. I believe that people stealing our phones is far more unacceptable than someone smoking crack.

    To be honest, this tube situation is completely messed up. I notice young kids passing through the gates while the tube workers don’t say a word. Should I really pay around £170 per month for the tube? I see no consequences for such bad behaviour anyway.

  32. I’m sure that will have the crack addicts quaking in their boots.

  33. It’s not common enough for me to worry about. An addict will do what they have to do to get through the day. I’d prefer they don’t do it in an enclosed space as it stinks, but it’s not harming anyone but themselves.

    If they’d concentrate on muggings, pickpocketing and robbery instead, I’d be happy.

  36. Oh well now she’s said it I guess everyone will stop.

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