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The original was posted on /r/edmonton by /u/Son_of_Plato on 2025-01-29 02:18:18+00:00.
Original Title: Just got physically attacked by a group of vagrant women at Century park after asking them to stop smoking and playing loud music. Our Transit system is basically owned by these scum and the city is blatantly letting it happen.
Of course since I'm a man I don't even feel like i'm allowed to defend myself against them and I got punched at least 20 times without returning a single one while they threatened to call their boys to come kill me. I'm sick and tired of these losers taking over the entire station and burning garbage, leaving needles behind and smoking the place up with illicit drugs. They smoke off of tinfoil sheets in the open and INSIDE the building. They immediately become violent if anyone confronts them, the security have absolutely 0 effect on them since they can't physically handle them. I'm fucking tired of feeling like a hostage in my own city and I'm sick and tired of being exposed to meth and fentanyl and crack and heroin on my commute.
Does anyone actually feel safe taking the train in this city? I can't imagine being an elder woman and having to commute. I think we might actually need a group of volunteers that will put themselves at risk to keep these people off the premises. I am considering myself to frequent Century park station with an air horn and clear them out whenever I see them.
I'm absolutely ashamed as an Edmontonian that we roll over and let our space be taken by criminals. The people that frequent the transit stations as drug dens and party houses ARE NOT the unfortunate, homeless drug addicts that need compassion. They are people with homes on the North Side that CHOOSE our clean and open space as a community center for fucking loser scum.