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"Coke or heroin, free samples," a Nassau, Bahamas street call Monday January 28, 2008 | 16:39:30 247 words, 82 views Win a free golf book!

Travel enough and you’ll come across your share of shady places. I’ve been in a bar in Mexico where the roaches scurrying across the table are bigger than the beer bottles and you have to be drunker than you’ve ever been to stomach it.

I’ve been chased by a group of would-be muggers through the narrow streets of the French Quarter long before Hurricane Katrina. I’ve been in Texas border towns where you wonder if the Constitution still applies. Heck, I’ve just walked around South Beach late at night - by far the seediest tourist spot of all.

South Beach can make Mexico (where the supposed seediness is usually vastly overblown and often downright untrue) look like Disney World.

Still in all my travels, I’ve never been approached on the street in the middle of the day and offered drugs. Until I visited the Bahamas.

There, strolling through the streets of downtown Nassau, near where the unbelievably massive cruise ships dock (including Disney cruises), a guy called out to tourists who passed close by, “Coke or heroin, free samples.”

Now, I admit I don’t have TravelGolf.com Tim McDonald’s speed-popping construction work experience (or his beating up surfers experience for that matter), but who’s taking “free samples” of cocaine or heroin from some street pusher? Especially the same week that Heath Ledger may have wittingly or unwittingly did himself in on drugs.

And aren’t free samples supposed to be limited to stuff like dishwashing detergent?

Ah, the Bahamas.

hmmm....
could it be a poorly organized undercover...reverse sting operation...

Do Bahamians really use/deal Heroin? That is a surprise to me.

Do Bahamians really use/deal Heroin? That is a surprise to me.

yes, my best friend on eleuthera growing up passed away from AIDS in 1991 courtesy of a bad needle.

hmmm....
could it be a poorly organized undercover...reverse sting operation...

perhaps the hawker thought he was being funny :hammer:?

If he has never been offered drugs in daytime in his travels he hasnt been many places. And south beach is the furthest thing away from being the seediest tourist destination. This guy lacks credibility IMHO

Do Bahamians really use/deal Heroin? That is a surprise to me.

I forgot that you live on a Family Island. But, they even deal there on the islands. The fact that you're shocked is a blessing though.

Do Bahamians really use/deal Heroin? That is a surprise to me.


some of the "samples" are baking soda or powder.:shaky:

I forgot that you live on a Family Island. But, they even deal there on the islands. The fact that you're shocked is a blessing though.
I have never heard of or come across heroin use over here, although maybe it does exist.

I honestly thought most Bahamians were too scared of needles to mess with the big H. I know they like to stuff things up their noses or inhale things into their lungs, but the needle is a route that I didn't think many took.

:jawdroop: Comment below from site.
Comment from: Kiel Christianson [Visitor]
Try Jamaica. Even worse.
2008-01-28 @ 20:48

Bahamians generally dont use any other drugs other than alcohol and mary-J
We either too afraid to use it or scared what people reaction would be if they knew we on dat shirt

http://www.travelgolf.com/blogs/chris.baldwin/2008/01/28/coke_or_heroin_free_samples_a_nassau_bah
"Coke or heroin, free samples," a Nassau, Bahamas street call Monday January 28, 2008 | 16:39:30 247 words, 82 views Win a free golf book!
Travel enough and you’ll come across your share of shady places. I’ve been in a bar in Mexico where the roaches scurrying across the table are bigger than the beer bottles and you have to be drunker than you’ve ever been to stomach it.
I’ve been chased by a group of would-be muggers through the narrow streets of the French Quarter long before Hurricane Katrina. I’ve been in Texas border towns where you wonder if the Constitution still applies. Heck, I’ve just walked around South Beach late at night - by far the seediest tourist spot of all.
South Beach can make Mexico (where the supposed seediness is usually vastly overblown and often downright untrue) look like Disney World.
Still in all my travels, I’ve never been approached on the street in the middle of the day and offered drugs. Until I visited the Bahamas.
There, strolling through the streets of downtown Nassau, near where the unbelievably massive cruise ships dock (including Disney cruises), a guy called out to tourists who passed close by, “Coke or heroin, free samples.”
Now, I admit I don’t have TravelGolf.com Tim McDonald’s speed-popping construction work experience (or his beating up surfers experience for that matter), but who’s taking “free samples” of cocaine or heroin from some street pusher? Especially the same week that Heath Ledger may have wittingly or unwittingly did himself in on drugs.
And aren’t free samples supposed to be limited to stuff like dishwashing detergent?
Ah, the Bahamas.


This piece made the news tonight. Zns attempted to interview a "straw"vendor in the market. She was asked if she had ever seen drugs being offered for sale. You can tell she lives in the hood. She say " no no chile, I een know nutting bout no drugs, my eyes see but my mouth does stay close, chile I carn answer dat, I gat children ya know, uh uh I een see nuttin." :shaky:

This piece made the news tonight. Zns attempted to interview a "straw"vendor in the market. She was asked if she had ever seen drugs being offered for sale. You can tell she lives in the hood. She say " no no chile, I een know nutting bout no drugs, my eyes see but my mouth does stay close, chile I carn answer dat, I gat children ya know, uh uh I een see nuttin." :shaky:

delroy should get a cut from the national news directors making their pay grade by surfing the bahamas issues site :hammer: ... bahamas issues should at least get attribution, eh :cutie:?

some of the "samples" are baking soda or powder.:shaky:

Dey better be careful..... remember ANTHRAX :hammer::hammer: :shaky:

I read today that California is starting to distrubute THC(herb) through vending machines for those with a doctors note. This guy has never been to a major city i would assume, drugs are everywhere!