Shocking video shows zombie-like addicts at ‘ground zero’ of Philadelphia’s ‘tranq’ epidemic
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2023
- Distressing new video shows addicts stumbling in a trance-like state along sidewalks strewn with burning trash heaps at the epicenter of Philadelphia’s “tranq” drug epidemic.
The Kensington neighborhood in northeast Philadelphia, which has become notorious for its open-air drug market, is seen crowded with hordes of drug-addled people - many of them sprawled barefoot on the filthy ground, or slumped over in the video posted on TikTok by thebizzleeffect.
Some of the addicts appear to have no control over their bodies as they are seen hunched over and struggling to remain on their feet.
Others are seen passed out on random stoops, or in one of the many makeshift homeless encampments dotting the crime-ridden neighborhood.
Piles of garbage - some engulfed in flames - are seen littering the streets of Kensington, where men and women living with crippling drug addiction fight to survive.
Most of Kensington’s zombie-like inhabitants do not have tents and sleep directly on the ground amid clumps of refuse, with their meager possessions stuffed into plastic bags, shopping carts, backpacks or laundry baskets.
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As someone who was born and raised in Philadelphia. I promise you I was not allowed in the section of the city called Kensington or Allegheny (K and A) as a child / teenage. it has been called zombie land as long as I can remember and I'm 32 years old.
Is that bad?
Wow. Thankyou for your insight
É fácil acabar com isso, é só usar o método Chinês ou Árabe
Its stretches way further now.
me either, on the playground was where I spent most of my days
3 years clean! I was homeless in kensington for 8 yrs. Now i travel the east coast as a learning development specialist for CRS training.
What is a possible solution to this?
hope you go back there, and be homeless again
Congratulations, you did great!
Я за Вас очень рада! Молодец!!!
❤super ,pozdrawiam z Polski
This is why Singapore has the death penalty for drug dealers.
most of south east asian do. and they should enforce it more
Absolutely correct 👍👍👍
I doubt if the US government would impose such consequences on themselves, as they are the main drug dealers behind it all.
Problem arises when the West, who are having these drug problems themselves, try to teach Singapore how to handle these drug dealers.
Funny though, drug dealers never force drug addicts to take drugs
I could only imagine what the forefathers would think if they seen this version of 21st century Philadelphia.
They had dead people all along the roads... so .. I think it's not much difference.
We gave them hundreds plus years head start and this is what happened?
@@EbsSeven They warned of constantly growing central government, poor monetary policies, open borders and multiculturalism, and none of the idiots in Philly listened to them.
Also, what the forefathers would feel if they knew that their country already owes $33 trillion and keeps borrowing...
they'd probably think "why aren't these slaves out picking cotton?"
City should be ashamed of its self for allowing this to continue. When you’re now known for the largest open air drug market where it’s a practical free for all there’s an issue.
It’s been like that for about 35 years
It was their idea!
@@gilliscolgan4356 well it’s gotta be somewhere
This is the democrat way
city ? just city ? Ive seen also about 10mins video, I think it was San Francisco, and there were hundreds homeless people on the streets, some of them with tents, some just with duvet...US crazy country, u have so big problems there, still your fcking politicians have interest in Europe, in Ukraine proxy war what US created...its crazy, and u even want to vote old Biden, and not Republicans...I give u advice: Solve your own problems there
This has been going on for years, hundreds of thousand dead from drugs, and now you get to reap the benefits of no action
This is absolutely heartbreaking.
No, it's not. They chose that lifestyle.
No sympathy.
@@beastfromtheabyss666 if you don’t believe this will personally affect you, you’re sadly mistaken
Slava Ukraine tho ..........facepalm .
Liberal Utopia
You are sadly mistaken......I am not heartbroken. @@easter_sunday
Put them In forced rehab. Just as you would arrest someone for public intoxication, these people are a danger to themselves and others.
Let them be dangerous for themselves but for the OTHERS!!! Absolutely horrible for us Europeons! 😱😱😱 Glad I' ve never been to the USA!!! What happens with children ( born drug addicts) these " people" make?!?! Are they growing in streets being little zombies?! 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
I agree. If someone attempts suicide and is reported to authorities, you’ll get locked up in a mental hospital for a mandatory period of time (typically 3-5 days) or until doctors feel u are no longer a threat to yourself. Taking these kind of drugs is equivalent to attempting suicide. The same approach should be taken.
@Jesussaves Listen to what you're saying. Now lets turn the table on you:
"Force them to worship Islam. Just as you would arrest someone for practicing Christianity. these people are a danger to themselves and others."
See how that's like? It's free will. You can't force somebody to do anything. Let them be..
That is a non sequitur. Try again.
@@Hmongboi228
You'll find you can force people to do a great many things in a great many circumstances. The issue is making sure that you legislate in a way that you only target people who need such an intervention and you don't really infringe on freedom.
I've assisted in getting my girlfriend at the time admitted by force, heck dragged her into the police car to do it.
She was in full psychosis and was constantly getting arrested for waving knives about, 7 arrests in 3 weeks at one point, in the US she'd have been shot by police. I knew for a fact she wouldn't actually attack anyone since it was fear that drove her to that, but you can't expect people to be subjected to that and gamble their life on the same.
It was beneficial to all. Her parents needed some rest and time to give attention to their other 2 daughters, I needed to get out since it wasn't a relationship any longer, she needed to be stabilised.
California- Hold my beer
it all started in red states
@@thewkovacs316 keep telling yourself that … nyc offers the homeless bus tickets to California.
California just pretends they aren’t there until they use them halfway thru their term for publicity.
@@MrBobbystyles ive seen red states dumping people on california...i know the truth....the "opiod crisis" started in red states....every doc on the crisis exposes this
go away druggie
@@thewkovacs316sorces
@@thewkovacs316 and the doodoo riddled streets of the blue states do it better, what now liberal
I seriously cried seeing this, so many people who have lost hope.
You can’t help someone who doesn’t want help….
Rationalizing B/S. By this definition, 99% of all mental healthcare (literally) could never work. Get a clue. Drugs are just a symptom of the real problem: Mental Healthcare Crisis, because we have NO Mental Health System whatsoever (thank you very much Ronnie Reagan).
Mais on peut mieux controler les frontieres contre la drogue.
Got to let natural selection
Jail? Asylums? Forced treatment? You can, just not without their consent
@@toolazyforadecentname8412 Things 'can' be different. One simply need look at other, 1st world nations in the EU for example.
The walking dead is no longer just a horror show.
In that one comment you saw, it said we could be helping these people. You can only help somebody who wants to help themselves.
💯
How do self medicating, addicted, mentally ill, homeless help themselves? The system is built to keep them on the street, not spend money on worthless walking dead. You will move on, they will die, and its free. You made this comment on a device made by slaves, you could care less.
👍👍👍. But if these zombies are GROWN like this, this is hardly their fault! This is the fault od the society!
@@alicekrausova2715 We have bigger fish need frying, its a small number of people and most will refuse help. Its been the same there since the 80s.
@@alicekrausova2715 didn’t they chose to take there drugs which eventually got them to where they are?
“Resident Evil is not based on a true story”
Emerging Threat? thats the understatement of the Century.
The Cartels most loyal customer base right here
Many of these people are regulars that you see every day. Many have been interviewed. Many have chosen to stay on the streets and not seek help. Many of them decide to not get clean. There are some that have been on Kensington for years. There was a couple there and the man decided to get clean and paid for his partner to go also and he did great and never went back. His partner did great but a few months later decided she missed the drugs and the street life and went back.
*To be that high and still have that balance!*
😢😢اجيال باكملها تذهب مع ادراج الرياح غي الوقت الذي يهتم رئيس الحروب بتشجيع الابادة الجماعية في الشرق الاوسط وغزة . لكن لمن تحكي انجيلك ؟
Sometimes dreams become nightmares
REALITY IS this is just one city. the idea that on the internet they have you believing that its just the cities when rural America is just as bad.
I live in rural america. We do not have zombies here. The true Rural america is farmland with houses that are miles apart. No zombies here.
@@dmgrider5479 they are there its just you wont see them the cop will mostly removed them or they live out in the woods, under bridges and off the rail road track.
I drove from Vancouver BC to LA, east to Austin, and South I to Mexico. The entire West Coast is like this, even small towns have some of this.
All liberal land.
Nobody needs to get that high
Well, what's the acceptable high do people need to be?
Helps with sleeping on cold concrete.
Drink whisky to keep warm on cold cement. 🍷
@@jimtalbott2894whiskey is better?
Creepy sound at the beginning 💀💀💀
I grew up around here and it’s getting worse. It’s lawless and the city does nothing about the crime that goes on
can not imagine place alike in russia
As an European, this is unbelivable
It's just as bad in Europe. Stop pretending you guys are some kind of utopia.
Don't do drugs. It's not cool
Well ya, look how long it took to get like this? They have open wounds and flies all over them. Bring back asylums for those that a harm to themselves.
How much money government cash can be made in the asylum business? I bet its a perfect tax dollar to private dollar conversion operation worth hundreds of billions. This can be sold in Washington with a few quiet meetings about contract health care. Worked like a charm for Obama care.
@@bodasactra group homes, whatever you want to call it. If you hand out cellphones to illegals yes there is money and professionals would work with them.
@@bodasactra St Jude hospital and others it’s all donation. People donate to places that help the less fortunate.
@@TheWorldisSoDivided What exactly is your point? People will crowd fund a viable mental health system? Puppies and cats maybe, not homeless junkies. Never ever going to happen.
@@bodasactra maggot filled Americans
Imagine the Founding Fathers came to the future and see the city they formed the country in, existing in such a state
What causes the users to bend forward and stay like that?
You know these people laying on the ground are going to die soon, they are unfortunately at the end. UNLESS, they Wake Up!
You can't make someone "wake-up."
Rather " fortunately"!!!! Because there ' s no hope for them and they are a big danger for the rest of the world!
@@alicekrausova2715 , I understand what you are writing, but you got to have compassion for them. They got caught up in a drug culture and it spiraled down for them.
is that your freedon ? 😂😂
My boss headed west going to see route 66, was on his bucket list, this video is exactly what he said is happening, said he was so scared to leave his wife alone to get gas or food, everytime these drug inspired zombies would come up to him and beg for change, he said you couldn't make a single word out they were saying, said it was last trip he will ever go west on
As someone who was born and raised in Philadelphia, I can tell ypu that tranq is not the case. everything was same even before 50 years.
I dont know why we never see this in Third world countries like Pakistan India Saudi. Only iN America
It definitely exists in third world countries. Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
That's why i moved out of the US and settled in Dubai. This sheit is not just limited to Philly.
dubai is an utter fkn kip by any metric... if that place is better i cant even imagane how dreadful of a place the major us cities are
Um, the vast majority of the US is a perfectly sane place. This is only a problem in a handful of big cities.
THANKS for this update....enjoyed
Doing a bang up job there city and state officials of PA and Philadelphia. Should all be proud of what you've done to the once great seat of liberty. Only one of the most historic cities in America that now looks like a third world country. Polices are working out great. How does any elected official in PA sleep at night knowing what a disgrace they are to humanity?
Страна 3 мира выглядит лучше😂
I couldn't have said it better myself. The funny thing is they will then turn around tell you what a great city they live in.
This is the new normal they want us to see
Wow , this is scary
Not trying to minimize this but I’ve lived in Philly for 46 yrs and I can tell you this is just 2-3 blocks under the el train. I’ve literally never had to ever need to be in that area and lived most of my life not even knowing it was there. Remember Phillys roughly the size of Brooklyn. So it would literally be like pointing out a few bad blocks in Brownsville.
Selling illegal drugs is *NOT* a victimless crime!!!
Just send the video to Joe and tell him it,s Ukraine you,ll get all the help you need!
So you’re o.k. with pootin killing thousands of innocent people?
Please Dear Lord help them ❤
Why does the government do nothing in your country to get rid of the drugs? Are the government blind ? It can happen to your children too. Seeing many people just walking by. So remember, it can affect your children and young people too. 😢
They have convinced themselves that it is a disease, not an addiction, a behavior or personal shortcoming. They view them all as victims and let them continue on that path until they either OD or choose to leave that life and get clean. It is insane, but a lot of what govts do is.
It's because of democrats
Isn’t that the San Francisco or Philadelphia city council?
Drugs are fun! Let’s party!
ITS NOTHING..
JUST DEMOCRATS DESTROYING ANOTHER CITY
I thought we get a post like this when this is just a look at A city this crisis is country wide. the only things is in rural america red states their is no access to treatment centers unless you are of wealth. Its harder to find help or life saving treatments if you over dose....see thats the difference. You need to be ashamed of yourself for blaming addiction on democrats which is absolute nonsense you have been brain washed.
@@My2CentsYall we have these things in English called "commas" and "periods" and "apostrophes", you should give 'em a try some day.
"Brainwash", "overdose" and "countrywide", are all one word, not two.
Learn the difference between *there* , *they're* and *their* . Until you do, I'm not taking one word you write seriously.
There are 9 year-olds in Finland who write better English than you do.
Maybe don’t criticize a person’s grammar when you don’t even have a capital letter at the beginning of your name or at the start of your comment, ‘sean’?
I’d recommend leaving being this petty to the professionals.
@@Johnny_Is_Dead I’m glad to see you’re fine with ignorance.
@@Johnny_Is_Dead Haters gonna hate its what they do, sadly it does not stop the truth.
"an emerging threat", yet whats being done about the problem there to begin with? Nothing.
Philly is just an absolute dump now. I dread when my job sends me there. Same with Portland and SF, there's not even anything you can do to help anymore, its going to take years to fix.
At least the're not causing any trouble
Too weak to pull the trigger
Too slow to loot shopping mall
Most peaceful street in USA
Most positive comment yet👍🏻
🙋🏼
They are there because of the endless amounts of abandoned industrial complexes in the area. They live in them stripping metals by night, cashing them in in the morning, and getting high all day. Where is the story about gutting the U.S. industrial base to 3rd world global labor pools who work at near slavery levels? That is the real story.
They just chilling. Living in the moment.
I wonder what's going on in their minds? What visions are they seeing? Can anyone who has done this stuff tell us?
They just sleep
They just feel like a million bucks. They don't focus on anything other than that feeling and their problems just melt away
The experience of these drugs are great! You don’t worry about food or rent, you don’t feel anything you don’t experience anything.
You just exist without worries, it’s like heaven on earth.
@@makedredd299They must be some of the most unstressed people in America today then.
lol
"We could be helping these people"
Well, go help them..
Most of them don’t want help.
If they did, they’d hold a job and work for a living like the rest of us.
What they desire is for the government to continue to fund their drug high-based lifestyle off the taxpayer’s dime, so they can continue to get hits and remain in a stupor instead of finally cleaning up and facing reality.
Wow! I thought maybe it just got like that when the last year .. always been like this? It looks like it must have been a thriving community at one time. Shame on the city council and all government of Pennsylvania
In the richest country in the world lol and we have the audacity to tell people how to live 😂
Life is all about choices. Looks like these folks made some bad ones.
that aint true at all. a kid has no choice in life if you as a parent traumatize him really bad from 0 to 6.
I respectfully disagree. Not all traumatized kids turn to drugs and alcohol.@@InTrumpITrust
@@InTrumpITrustbut these aren't kids.
@@BaDazai but they were kids once who got damaged. if you never experienced trauma as a youth you would not understand.
@@InTrumpITrust I wouldn't understand? And how do you know? Billions of kids have traumatic childhooods, why are there not billions of addicts on the street then? Are they underground in the sewers? Where are they? It's almost as if trauma doesn't turn you into an addict, otherwise they'd be a whole lot more people in streets right now.
How horrible!
And should this be the American model to be exported all over the world?
CIVILIZED WORLD
Just waiting for the Night King to come along and add them to his army
LOL!
How sad is this😢
I cant believe nobody thinks "hey, maybe one way to mitigate the problem of pharmaceuticals destroying the world would be to hold the pharmaceutical companies responsible for their over-distribution of them." We require multiple peer reviews in order to publish an article right? Why dont we require multiple peer reviews to prescribe fentanyl? There should be a ten doctor fentanyl prescribing board governed by the attorney general. NOBODY is prescribed fentanyl unless it is approved by the board. And the pharmaceutical companies shouldn't be allowed to make any more than is necessary for the prescriptions unless they are distributing it in vial form to the hospitals.
Почему с людьми никто не работает социальные службы, помыть,передеть, оказать мед. помощь
Sad but you can't help people that doesn't want to be helped. Sometimes in life, THIS IS THE WAY.
Reality looking more a more like a zombie film. Crazy. I hope things get better for these people!
This not aloud in my neither liter they bussing everyone to jail for public intoxication there be a fine and judge order them to rehab .
If you never seen it its all across America, especially big cities, rough part of cities , drug odds every nite along with the murders
Those are people that need help.
Don't want help
Blue states are such a great place!!
Da democrats are responsible for everything bad jedediah
If they weren't then they would lose population. Nothing stops people in America from moving from one city or state to another. In red states there are no jobs, because there is no development, no factories, no money. You don't have traffic jams in red cities either. Problems associated with big cities, are found in big cities surprisingly enough!
Ironically Pennsylvania is a largely Republican state. It's just that the big cities like Philly overwhelmingly vote Democrat.
Do you believe comments like yours or like: "Red states are such a great place!!" are helpful for anyone in any way?
Not a blue state. A large, red state with populous blue pimples that unfortunately vote.
What a Horror
Worst than the war !
These are the kind of people to be put first for help along with homeless instead of spending billions of weapons so many us citizen need help.
That one guy has on a Adidas shirt. That means he is professional athlete stock. He is going to get buff and beat up all the drug dealers.
I'm not sure I see what the problem is. All these people seem to have same level of alertness and vigor as our great and honorable commander in chief.
And higher IQ than the previous one.
Of course you are "not sure" what the problem is: It is people like YOU! The problem is the MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS that has been gripping our nation for DECADES. It was horrible in the 80s BEFORE the GOP dismantled the ENTIRE mental healthcare system in the nation (all of it! -- yes look it up as I am sure you don't "see that" either). Drugs are a SYMPTOM of the larger problem: Wake up already!
@@user-gc2jx4gj2qgood one 😂
@@user-gc2jx4gj2q Yeah, they definitely look like they could simultaneously run several large corporations at the same time. Speaking of which, don't you have your drive-through job to get to?
@@kommisar. They definitely look like they could bankrupt several companies mooch off daddy's millions, beg for donations to pay off legal fees, sleep with prostitutes and get the vote of brain-dead people.
Those people can’t be helped, it’s know coming back from that.
Disgusting what drugs do to a life.
“Prayers for them all”…in other words, Who Cares.
Decisive action by adults living in the real world to get these people to not use drugs is the only way.
The state can provide all the assistance required, but until the addict decides to stop, it’s all for nothing.
Do they eat the drug on purpose or it was in food
Tranq is injected or inhaled. So. Not consumed like food
I once heard... "The American Dream"
All by design.
The only way to help these people is to let them experience the consequences of their actions. "Saving" addicts who OD simply enables more and more ODs.
These people need help. Whether you like it or not, they need assistance. Some might take it, and others might not. That’s their choice. But letting people die because society doesn’t want to admit that it’s flawed and had failed these folks is not okay. Someone is making $$$ from this. They’re the ones who need to face the consequences.
Gosh this mindset is why civilization is the way it is. Such a shame. We could be so great
The “greatest” country on earth, ladies and gentlemen.
Chiny musza stac sie pierwszym mocarstwem, albo taka kultura życia będzie eksportowana na cały świat
HELP KEEP AMERICA CLEAN
In this day national award in the next 2 years will increase by 3 times 400 dollars for the supply of food, keep in mind that food in the dark is also necessary
Jak někdo někde napsal na starej kůl, prostinkej nápis, Válka je Vůl.
These people use to be kiddos on their bikes playing whether they were rich or poor, something clearly happened something horrible. You’ve got to be in your depths of despair where the devil likes you the most so he can turn you into this. Please pray for these people. I can’t imagine the demonic attachments that are on them please please please pray for them.
i promise you, that most of those people did not begin their journey to kensington full-time homelessness in despair. Most started out younger, taking drugs for fun, and the devil is not involved in any way, this is also all part of the problem, society, which means the people in it, cannot blame "the devil" for ANYTHING. It's on US, what we do, and if you want to live in fantasyland where a figure from imagination controls the very will and lives of ordinary people, then you may as well go live in kensington, too, because you must be high or else youre just plain crazy, as are most of the drug addled brains in those walking corpses are. No offense, but get REAL
@@Jaanni.Lane.I mean, us Christians believe that all bad things were introduced by the Devil and his influence, even if indirectly. And no, we don’t mean that they are straight up possessed and he just makes people take drugs for fun. He slowly affects the world and people’s lives in negative ways until they get to this point. But I do understand that supernatural things in the media have made it look so goofy that it seems there’s no way that higher beings are real. Ya gotta love how apprehensive people get when Christian beliefs are mentioned on the Internet…
Come to San Diego!
This is horrible.
Shocking 😔🙏
Every time you escape from you life and tasks to do, you are in the same state as those people.
Since how long were you aimlessly scrolling the internet?
Ooh good one. I feel absolutely seen....
No, unlike these people, I can stop any time. Unlike these people, I go to work six days a week, pay my bills, attend appointments, check up on family members, etc. A little bit of internet scrolling is not a drug addiction.
These people ALL choose to use this drug. No sympathy
Agreed.
We don't need to worry: some idiots are praying
The reason this is happening to you in the first place is because you rejected tradition and embraced liberalism, and there is nothing more liberal than militant atheism. You are a part of the problem.
This threat is about as "emerging" as my type 1 hemorrhoids. It's been this bad for years, no president seems to to want to touch this, or care
Wow this is old news this is been going on for a couple years
If amc filmed The Walkind Dead here, they would save a tone of money in prodction costs, absolutley no need to hire extras or make up artists..
Ikr
All blue states have serious drug problems, so take a guess who the real drug pushers are , one guees, dems
Eua became a example of how a country can decline so fast culturaly
This is such a disaster, in so many 1st world countries
Help them asap!!! If not this is genocide!!!!
How, for both of those statements
Send more money to Ukraine
Ukraine can be and wants to be helped, but not these people.
"we could be helping these people" you won't do anything hahahaha
When I was 8 I passed through Kensington once and it made me fell sad.
Downtown Louisville ky is like that late at night
No different than when I was growing up in San Francisco 1950’s-1970’s. Except the choice was alcohol.
🙋🏼
Very different…. Alcohol doesn’t create big open wounds..
@@dacokc I've heard drug addicts say alcohol was harder to give up.
@@budte addictions are hard to give up
THIS IS THE RESULT OF MULTICULTURALISM AND DIVERSITY
Don’t you get it? These zombies don’t want help !