A Cautionary Tale: Spying on the Unchristian Linden Ave “Crack House”
With a little investigative work of my own, I located the infamous Linden Ave “crack house” of Daily Sun fame — the one that got raided by a busful of 10 heroin-seeking SWAT guys last Sunday night. Cam-phone in hand, I approached what I hoped to be a cesspool of drugs, squalor, and lawlessness. As I steadied my trigger finger, I was pleasantly surprised to note that the “drug den” in question looked like most other shitty slumlord-owned basement apartments in Collegetown — random crap littered about, musty blankets stuffed against the window so as to shield passers-by from inside activities, paint chipping off a poor excuse for “siding.” So much for a cautionary tale… or was it?
Determined to fulfill the conventional narrative about drugs, dealers, and their places of residence, I ventured closer and inspected the door. I staggered backward as I drank in the mark of the devil — the circled upside down star symbol that identifies the haunts of satanists, anarchists, and angsty tweens on MySpace!
Horrified, but all the more entranced, I drew ever nearer, close enough now to read the notice posted on their door. Finally, my worst fears were confirmed: the 220-ish block of Linden Avenue plays host to not only goat-sacrificing black magacians but also to BIG BROTHER!!!!!!!
With no millisecond to spare, I collected myself and ran off, while my head swirled with dreams of blogging a cautionary tale of drugs, squalor, and lawlessness.
P.S.: Newsy narrative aside, all signs point to the fact that no drugs were found in the raid and that the “older townie junkies” (as some neighbors described him) either hid their shit really well or were merely casual consumers who’d just run out of smack. The Sun article notes that no arrests were made, and some lady at the investigations office of the Ithaca Police Department said that none have been made over the course of the week and no new information is available to the press. Maybe the Po found some paraphernalia that justified keeping 24/7 surveillance on the house? My take: Someone who didn’t like the “junkies” tipped off the IthPo, who jumped at the chance to break out their bad-ass SWAT-mobile. And can you really blame them? Oh, Po just-ta wanna have fun.
Tags: crackhouse, Daily Sun, drugs, linden ave
