Spring Garden Rd. seems to be worse than usual lately for depressing the hell out of people. The daily freakshow seems to be getting more and more out of control as time goes on. I honestly think, especially in light of a sex offender recently on the loose, that some of these halfway houses need to be moved to the outskirts somewhere to cut down on these psychos roaming free in the streets. Its only a matter of time before something terrible is going to happen. No one feels safe in this area anymore. Its starting to become the new Gottingen St,
–Stu Cook (bassist for CCR)
This article appears in Jan 21-27, 2010.
credence clearwater revival ?
BS… this guy is not the bassist for CCR. Anyway, CCR is John Fogerty only. The rest of the members didn’t matter.
I don’t think buddy from earlier this week should have been in a halfway house in the first place considering his escapes before and his high risk to re-offend. But the general purpose of a halfway house is not to learn to mingle with moose and bears, but to help reintegrate people into society.
spring garden road is like rodeo drive compared to some of the shit hole neighbourhoods in canada ie: jane-finch corridor; vancouvers hastings st.; etc. the scope of the problem is minor in the big picture
Right on, BRoc, you’re absolutely right about Fogerty. Most of CCR were just session musicians before Fogerty.
About the bitch: I think it should read: Barrington St.= Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.
I can handle Hare Krishnas and the homeless, but now that the Sam’s sign is down and half of the store fronts are either boarded up or papered up, I get so sad. Geez, 10 years ago, the street was busier than all of SGR put together.
The Hrm Police site posts pictures of recently releases sex offender that are high risk . As so the government justice site . Check them often so you know who to scare out of town .I haven’t been home or on SPR GDN RD since last summer . But all I usually see if wanna be punk asses that can easy be scared off with a good left to the mouth .
Yes I agree martym – recent park – jane and finch – north end Winnipeg – east side Edmonton . People ever traveled around them , they would walk Sp Gdn Rd feeling pretty safe . Them streets you and I mentioned are – whom ever shots first wins !!East side Vancouver won the most dangerous area in Canada two years running !!!
yea i’m not overly proud to say a did a stint in the downtown eastside of van. it did wake my ass up though and motivated me did get going; you stay in that world too long and basically you’re gonna die one way or another
Me and some friends went to van recently from Calgary . We toured around there to see was up – I admire you Martym for the balls to live around there ! Wow – I gotta say – i don’t fear much – but there? Fuck that – I wouldn’t get out the car without a gun and three clips !!! And to think a couple punks with baggy pants and a hat sideways scares people on Sp Gdn Rd !!!!!I don’t care what people see on the news about east Van – but it has to be seen !!
well as much as i’d like to take some street cred. tough guy props for living there; i didn’t exactly say to myself hmm… crack den welfare hotel or a nice cedar shake bungalow in kitsalano 🙂 but it was interesting and shit i can tell the kids someday
It takes a smart one to circumvent them streets and not get messed up – I will say that . I’ve lived in some shady areas in some tough cities – thou I have some street smarts – either way – your right !! Got some stories to tell the kids forsure !!!
I just find it , after all my travels in canadian cities , funny they think one rapist going ape shit on SP gdn Rd is a total downfall and now suddenly dangerous . When in other cities I lived in you need to duck for cover when the gun battles go on . When the whole neighborhood is crackers and dealers and they all are looking to rip you off and will – no question .
I think theres nothing wrong with Sp Gdn Rd in that fashion . Theres nothing on that street a good punch in the head won’t get rid of . Do walk through north end Winnipeg for example as a lone white guy and see if you think SGR is that bad . Be lucky to sustain only one shotgun blast towards you – and just have your car and wallet jacked . Thats the least . theres other cities we mentioned that are nasty and you just don’t walk down it . Unless your strapped yourself and are willing to have a gun battle for your shit .
Winnipeg…..ouch. No thanks (at least not alone). Same with lower-east Vancouver. And I may even move to Vancouver someday…
Spring Garden is harmless. The police presence is highly visible and security patrol the streets as well. Plus there is enough human traffic to feel safe anywheres; surely someone who witnesses an attack will call 9-1-1 or a group will assist.
Personally I feel safest on Spring Garden Road. Nobody’s ever hassled me walking the block in night or even day. The panhandlers are also harmless and are merely annoying.
And hog’s got a point about the punch to the head. Its okay to defend yourself, folks. Anybody who takes a swing or lunges at me has more than just one punch to the head to worry about. In my near 7 years of living in le metro, I’ve never been assaulted and may have had two or three run-ins with these so-called psychotics.
Barrington, like the Dr. said, is probably the best street of broken dreams. No more Sams, Dooleys or Hortons make it look drab. And get off the Gottingen dick. To paint all of Gottingen St. with the same brush is the MO of people from butt-fuck-nowhere NS or kids who move in from out-of-province. Seems that a lot of NB and Ont. kids like to think they know HRM like the back of their hands and can only talk about the so-called dangerous spots.
If they were to really do some research, the most dangerous spot tends to the South End with its sexual assaults/harrassments and fighting.
Besides, how can anybody feel unsafe with the dancing chicken outside of The Oasis? Maybe some folks watch way too much Family Guy and think that a giant chicken is out to get them.
Man NGF, Family Guy is all I think about when I see that chicken, no joke.
Spring Garden is becoming the new Gottingen? There aren’t any halfway houses or aid services on Spring Garden. Why the hell would you feel unsafe? It’s the busiest shopping street east of Montreal and it’s basically lined the whole way with upper-class shops…you’re an idiot.
The annoyance of the poor homeless. While I agree on some of the comments. I can’t help wonder if all these people would be left out to freeze to death, if it wasn’t for the Government’s cut-back on social housing ect.
The walking, begging mentally challenged people didn’t escape my notice in TO. The housing programs for the handi-capped in major metropolitan areas in Canada have been either eliminated or have been reduced to to accommodate just a small percentage. These people are not addicts, yet they’ve been left out in the cold by our better thinking bureaucrats.
Oh! Canada
Actually fat you are right – I have passed plenty times around gottigen st and behind on chreiten and area and never really encountered much for trouble . It’s all how you present yourself . If you look em the eye and don’t mouth off , but still make your presence known – they won’t bother you in 99% of the cases .
Now if you walk looking all scared and pissing yourself and looking all skecthy – yep – you LOOK like a victim . The look for the weak or weak looking or the scared . You face these people like a man – you get a free pass .
Yea and with you again fat – I don’t see why people are feeling scared on it . It MUST be hillbillies from bumfuck south shore or somewhere that have no idea !! It’s certainly not the new Gottigen street , thats forsure . And your right – really i am not promoting violence , but certainly fuckin stand up for yourself when under fire man !!! Don’t be waiting for someone to come help you – toss a few at whomevers heads and make it count .
they could always put two way locks on the fucking doors, and what if if were a murderer that walked off?
I’ve spent some time in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver too and agree that there is nowhere in Halifax that even comes close to what they have there. I haven’t even seen anywhere else in Canada quite like that place. It’s fucked! Seriously, 95% of the people you see are homeless, junkies, prostitutes, crackheads, etc. However, most people do more harm to themselves than anyone else. I’ve walked right down East Hastings at all hours of the day and night, from downtown Vancouver past the worst parts by Carrall and Columbia Streets to where I was staying at the Budget Inn Patricia (not a bad hotel, by the way), and haven’t had anything happen to me.
Even the sketchy parts I’ve been to in Toronto, Montreal, London, England, Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, do not compare. I actually found, ironically since the weather tends to be nicer, that there were far fewer homeless in major Australian cities compared to major Canadian cities. Sadly, much like in Canada, many of the homeless down there tend to be Aboriginal drug addicts with mental illnesses.
Anyway, Spring Garden Road does have a few panhandlers and losers hanging out there, but putting it into perspective, it’s really not that bad.
I have never had a problem walking around Spring Garden. I usually don’t have a problem walking around Gottingen either. I will say that North Street and Agricola (particularly near where they intersect) is an area where I’ve been harassed by druggies competing for money. The prostitutes begging for a smoke in the morning are also a bit of an embarrassment in that area too. Still, there are some nice folks there. And I agree, Barrington looks like a ghost town with a lot of cars going elsewhere.
Can’t we limit the people who walk on Spring Garden Road to people with a salary above $50k/year. That would get rid of a lot of the riff raff there. Can we deport the beggars to Cape Breton?
sebastian – I’m betting that half the so called bums clear $50K per year, tax free.
Wanted Man Arrested
January 22, 2010
Wanted Man Arrested by Police
Police have arrested a man wanted on a parole warrant.
Forty-two-year-old Joseph Jacko Obed was staying at a halfway house in Halifax. A warrant for his arrest was issued after he signed out of the halfway house and failed to return on Monday. As a result of information received, East Division Community Response Officers arrested him without incident today at 1:30 p.m. at a apartment on Primrose Street in Dartmouth. Charges are anticipated in this matter and the investigation is ongoing.
Halifax Regional Police would like to thank the public to their help in locating this individual.
Is this what the Op is going off on ? Fuck – parolees of all kinds decide for whatever reason to not return . Welcome to a world where theres a justice systems that doesn’t have a death penalty , Welcome to a world where we sentence people for crime that we have to release either outright or on mandatory conditions . Yep the streets are mighty dangerous these day ….LOL
thanks out-of-town batman
My own unscientific study has concluded that there wouldn’t be repeat offenders like Mr. Obe One Parolee if they were hung by the neck until dead.
Half way houses in the suburbs? Keep on rockin in the free world OP.
Does anyone know Junkie Keith