I’m honestly furious and heartbroken about what I witnessed today outside CastleCourt in Belfast. I took a photo that says it all – a group of homeless individuals openly taking drugs, right in front of volunteers who were on bikes just feet away, trying to raise money for charity next door.

It was shocking, disgusting, and sad all at once.

This isn’t just about drugs – it’s about the total lack of respect for the public, for people trying to do good, and for the city as a whole. I’m not blaming all homeless people – many are in awful situations through no fault of their own – but this level of public drug use, in broad daylight, with no consequences, is out of control.

Where are the police?

I know I'm not the only one who’s seen this happening more and more often around Belfast. It's not right, did I give money. No fucking way.

by Equivalent-Low2537

18 comments

  1. Chapel Lane is turning into a right no go area.

  2. I was walking down there one time and a clearly drunk guy had his dick out taking a piss in a corner in broad daylight. There was families walking around. It’s rediculous.

  4. I seen someone cooking H behind the hedge at the back of the reform club car park recently.

    Never seen that anywhere but on TV before.

  6. Fair play to you for giving a fuck. Most people don’t and haven’t done for some time, particularly those who should be doing something about it. Hence the slow slide to where we are now as a society.

    We are all to blame though in some ways for modern society and I don’t know how it can ever be fixed. There is no will to do it.

    A right cheery cunt me.

  7. Yeah, they should do it in their own homes if they are going to do it at all

  8. “total lack of respect for the public”

    The homeless are members of the public too, drug use or not. Addiction is a sickness and without safe places to use drugs, they are going to resort to the street – which is safer for them than some random alleyway.

    You might not like it, but this is just the outcome of years of terrible mental health services, and very little support for individuals in this situation.

    They are people too, have some empathy.

  9. You honestly wonder how bad it can possibly get. 

    Such a thing would have been unthinkable 20 years ago – now it’s the norm not only in our city, but most decently sized cities in the UK. Next will come the tent encampments which are now standard across America. 

  10. There is definitely a societal problem, The first being these people not having homes, The second is the scum pedaling the drugs continually getting away with it and the third being these addicts have the brazen balls to use that in full public without getting seriously hurt for doing so.

  11. Modern Caravaggio right there.

    Couldn’t agree more either mate.

  12. Belfast has got seriously disgusting since covid and you never see the police. I’m guessing it’s legal to shoot up and sleep in the steets. Horrible for them but it’s seriously destroying the city center.

  13. you’re all clutching your pearls with this one. pressure the government to fix the fucking housing and mental health crisis before complaining about unhoused folks with fuck all else to do but take drugs in public. weapons

  14. It honestly seems a decision has been taken somewhere along the line that they can’t win against the homeless and druggies in the city centre and so have just decided to turn it over to total lawlessness.

    What really drove it home to me was being around the city centre one sunny Friday afternoon and there being a whole crowd of ones sitting at the sculpture in the middle of corn Markey just openly having a piss up. Boxes of beer opened, bottles of spirits being passed round and of course all the associated rowdiness. I passed the place a number of times throughout that afternoon/early evening and they were there getting drunker and rowdier every time.

    How the fuck at that time in what is essentially one of the busiest parts of belfast and no police were available to move them on I do not know. I work in the city centre and so am about it often and its very rare to see any sort of patrol. Like it’s some sort of ‘if we don’t see them we don’t have to do anything about them’ approach.

  16. I moved here from Vancouver and all I can say is that this is nothing compared to how bad it can get.

    I used to regularly get threatened by crackheads with dirty needles every night when I locked up the bar, had to clear homeless out of our dumpsters every morning, and lots more. The amount of open drug deals and drug usage while the police sauntered by was absolutely insane.

    I was back last year and I saw more people fucked up on fentanyl than I did sober people.

    I hope Belfast doesn’t reach that level of fucked, but its also on us as citizens to do what we can to avoid further devolution.

  17. Camera isnt great. Is thon cunt in the mustard jacket injecting in board daylight? Only ever seen that once, in Glasgow, about 20 years ago.

  18. Saw a guy lying asleep in the pissing rain outside M and S today. It’s heartbreaking.

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