I was lookin at a thread on here that started out bein about camden, but ended up discussin coppin in the hood, and one post caught my eye. I meant to make a lil comment and go on to the other threads, but all a sudden Im droppin dopehead knowledge n writin up a storm. Shit, it may not get me high, speedy, or nothin even close to buzzed but when it comes to creativity this fuckin adderall script really gets me writin.
anyways, I kno lots of "beginners" to the dope game reads my posts or blogs here and there, and i also kno from my comments on here that i got a lil audience of professional and/or retired dope shooters like my self. So, Ima repost my "lil comment" that ended up somethin like a "final thesis" on copping in here for yalls entertainment. (shit, not that im conceited enough to think the bullshit i write entertains any of yall,....but it sounds better than "for yalls boredom and time-killing-reading.")
Anyways....the story begins with my jersey boy jake99 joinin our conversation about "safe" ways to cop, and he says, "seems like the chances of gettin caught are low, but im probably wrong". and that opened the flood gates, hope u enjoy it.
Ahhh, famous last words: "seems like the chances of gettin caught are low". :D good one jake99!
I kno you put a disclaimer afterwards, so Im just clownin on u a lil, its all good, but you aint the only one whose said the same shit and posted in Legal Discussion askin about first time offender sentencing for heroin possession 6 months later.
So, Ima take this opportunity to quote the scientific laws of "Nothin Lasts Forever" and "All Good Luck Runs Out Eventually" and say that jake99 infact, u are wrong lol.
Right here n now, A lil "Guide to Coppin, Cops, Luck, and Not Gettin Fucked: Odds of Survivin' In, At, & Around the Dope Spot" is comin yalls way, for every one who aint 100% on how shit goes down. I got the time the experience and the give-a-shitness (just barely) to lay it out for the rest of my feens, so listen close cuz on a different day Id prolly just let you figure it out for yourself the hard way. but today the methadones flowin, the adderalls buzzin around my brain, the coffees hot in my cup and I got a bad case of "the back in the day's" for when I used to run the blocks so here you go.
We've all heard it before from ridin partners, drivers, friends introducin us to their spot when ours is down n out for the day -- "Naah man, theres a whole city out there n like, how many cops on patrol at once? Fuck, theres like, wat, 40 dope spots and iunno, wat, 15 cops on shift? and thats counting traffic duty, house calls, the ones eatin donuts at the Dunkin drive thru, shit yo, you trippin. They aint even got enough cops to watch a THIRD of the spots, and those piggies got tons of other shit to do anyways! How likely do you REALLY think it is that the ONE spot we at, for like, 3 minutes, is gonna be the spot that a cop is at? Come in dude! The odds of us bein the ones they get is like, nothin yo!"
I think we all know somebody whose said those words before...and i think we probably all have believed them too at some point in our dopehead carreers. Whether it was half heartedly or totally...whether we were tryna convince ourselves that it was true so we would have the balls to just do it on the first time....or tryna get ourselves psyched up after a close call a few days earlier to "get back on the horse that threw us"....or just straight up really & truly believing in our own naieve ideas of it bein all good.
And u kno wat, It aint all doom and certain trouble. I aint tryna make it sound like some kinda dangerous battlefield where you might as well just not go near it becuz you WILL get caught. becuz we all know that just aint true, and my purpose here is bein real about the risks and possibilities, not sensationalizing shit and bein over dramatic, cuz life aint black and white, and the ins n outs of the dope game/junkie life is probably one of the grayest areas that has ever existed. It might not be ABC, 1-2-3, walk up to the counter, get rung up, pay, and go home with a brick in your "thank you come again" bag type of experience, but it also aint a death trap or the go-to-jail-NOW space on the Monopoly board of life (most of the time.)
So, Ima put it like this.....EACH TIME you go, on a individual basis, maybe the risk of gettin caught is relatively low - DEPENDING ON : where ur coppin at, time of day, how many ppl been caught already that day, time of week/month, and the amount of violence that been in that hood lately, aswell as tons of other little variables.
BUT, as the number of those individual successful runs without a problem starts goin up, its pretty much destined that the chances of that trouble finally findin you is gonna get higher too. and thats the shit that gets alot of people, cuz when they get into that territory of the "We have had 459 straight successful dope runs!" signs like the ones OSHA posts at warehouse jobs,
alot of people start to get cocky, and think its all good, and they let their guard down. bad move....
Anyways, when u read bluelight, and opiophile, or watever the hell u read that has threads about "do's and dont's of copping" and suggestions for avoidin arrests, etc, they always got these "rules" that people read and take to mean that if they do all those things, they aint gonna get in trouble. "Yo, u should be careful, I heard its hot out there today, maybe u should wait a hour or two to go becuz the TNT is always out between 2 and 3 in the afternoon." "Na yo, dont worry, I got it on lock, no problem. I kno wat to do. I got a extra $20 too so if they pull me over i can just be like, oh i didnt cop yet! AND I got a kickass stash spot, nobody will ever find my shit there. I use one of those fake Pringles cans, and i keep it in the bag of garbage from my car! And Ill just tell them my cousin lives in one of the houses on the block Im copping on, i mean, they cant tell me that theres no black people in my family!"
Yea...great...but dont be so self assured. most of those tips n tricks are on point, pretty useful, and good to remember, becuz its better than not bein prepared at all. but , none of that shit is guaranteed protection, and believing that it will leave u worse off when some shit goes down, becuz instead of relying on ur quick thinking and ability to be cool n calm, you relied on a bunch of gimmicks without thinking of a Plan B in case they didnt work.
After you cop a couple times, get your confidence up, and school yourself on all the do's n dont's of the trade, Maybe you think its all laid out for you. like, do this, dont do that, do this, dont do that, and that if you just follow some COMMON SENSE rules, that you gonna get in, and out, quick easy and clean with your dope.
and sure, on paper it works like that. common sense and street smarts is great, its how people in the real , non school/corporate world survive.
And In THEORY, using common sense when you cop, should keep you in the clear. if you circle the block a couple times to make sure you dont see suspicious cars in the area, know your connect, have your car all maintained so you cant get stopped for "broken taillight" excuses, and have a extra $20 or $40 (the more the better) on you for if you do get pulled over...maybe if you do all those things youll be safe. Yea, it SHOULD work that way.
But the thing about the dope game is...It dont make sense. shit that should happen, dont happen, and shit that shouldnt happen , does, on the regular. and sometimes that works out good for you, but the flipside is of course, that it can also be for the worse. Good shit like, you shouldnt get a extra bag or two in the bundle that you were short 8 dollars for, but thanks to dealers who hook you up unexpectedly, cant count, move too quick, or just straight dont care, sometimes you do. And the balance to that is that you shouldnt have to wait on a hot ass block for 20 minutes when you so sick you doubled over in pain with your stomach exploding, but sometimes you do. Its the up and down roll wit the punches life that you live when you get into this shit....and part of that is always knowing that while shit might seem cool, that at ANY minute, pretty much anything could happen.
like....even tho you circled the block and didnt see nothing and the coast looked clear, you never know when theres gonna be undercover narcs a few blocks up watchin you with binoculars from their maroon 1996 Kia with tinted windows, who noticed you even more than they woulda, BECAUSE you circled the block to look out. (More famous last words: "yo, that car aint nothing to stress about, just relax homie. You so fuckin paranoid dude. Its a fuckin KIA! Cops dont drive kias, u only need to start worryin when you see a charger, or a crown vic, or the dreaded all black durango! lots of people down here have tints, it aint always the fuckin boys yo!")
--(Shit aint over til its over yo. KEEP READ'N... CONTINUED IN NEXT ENTRY)--
anyways, I kno lots of "beginners" to the dope game reads my posts or blogs here and there, and i also kno from my comments on here that i got a lil audience of professional and/or retired dope shooters like my self. So, Ima repost my "lil comment" that ended up somethin like a "final thesis" on copping in here for yalls entertainment. (shit, not that im conceited enough to think the bullshit i write entertains any of yall,....but it sounds better than "for yalls boredom and time-killing-reading.")
Anyways....the story begins with my jersey boy jake99 joinin our conversation about "safe" ways to cop, and he says, "seems like the chances of gettin caught are low, but im probably wrong". and that opened the flood gates, hope u enjoy it.
Ahhh, famous last words: "seems like the chances of gettin caught are low". :D good one jake99!
I kno you put a disclaimer afterwards, so Im just clownin on u a lil, its all good, but you aint the only one whose said the same shit and posted in Legal Discussion askin about first time offender sentencing for heroin possession 6 months later.So, Ima take this opportunity to quote the scientific laws of "Nothin Lasts Forever" and "All Good Luck Runs Out Eventually" and say that jake99 infact, u are wrong lol.
Right here n now, A lil "Guide to Coppin, Cops, Luck, and Not Gettin Fucked: Odds of Survivin' In, At, & Around the Dope Spot" is comin yalls way, for every one who aint 100% on how shit goes down. I got the time the experience and the give-a-shitness (just barely) to lay it out for the rest of my feens, so listen close cuz on a different day Id prolly just let you figure it out for yourself the hard way. but today the methadones flowin, the adderalls buzzin around my brain, the coffees hot in my cup and I got a bad case of "the back in the day's" for when I used to run the blocks so here you go.
We've all heard it before from ridin partners, drivers, friends introducin us to their spot when ours is down n out for the day -- "Naah man, theres a whole city out there n like, how many cops on patrol at once? Fuck, theres like, wat, 40 dope spots and iunno, wat, 15 cops on shift? and thats counting traffic duty, house calls, the ones eatin donuts at the Dunkin drive thru, shit yo, you trippin. They aint even got enough cops to watch a THIRD of the spots, and those piggies got tons of other shit to do anyways! How likely do you REALLY think it is that the ONE spot we at, for like, 3 minutes, is gonna be the spot that a cop is at? Come in dude! The odds of us bein the ones they get is like, nothin yo!"
I think we all know somebody whose said those words before...and i think we probably all have believed them too at some point in our dopehead carreers. Whether it was half heartedly or totally...whether we were tryna convince ourselves that it was true so we would have the balls to just do it on the first time....or tryna get ourselves psyched up after a close call a few days earlier to "get back on the horse that threw us"....or just straight up really & truly believing in our own naieve ideas of it bein all good.
And u kno wat, It aint all doom and certain trouble. I aint tryna make it sound like some kinda dangerous battlefield where you might as well just not go near it becuz you WILL get caught. becuz we all know that just aint true, and my purpose here is bein real about the risks and possibilities, not sensationalizing shit and bein over dramatic, cuz life aint black and white, and the ins n outs of the dope game/junkie life is probably one of the grayest areas that has ever existed. It might not be ABC, 1-2-3, walk up to the counter, get rung up, pay, and go home with a brick in your "thank you come again" bag type of experience, but it also aint a death trap or the go-to-jail-NOW space on the Monopoly board of life (most of the time.)
So, Ima put it like this.....EACH TIME you go, on a individual basis, maybe the risk of gettin caught is relatively low - DEPENDING ON : where ur coppin at, time of day, how many ppl been caught already that day, time of week/month, and the amount of violence that been in that hood lately, aswell as tons of other little variables.
BUT, as the number of those individual successful runs without a problem starts goin up, its pretty much destined that the chances of that trouble finally findin you is gonna get higher too. and thats the shit that gets alot of people, cuz when they get into that territory of the "We have had 459 straight successful dope runs!" signs like the ones OSHA posts at warehouse jobs,
alot of people start to get cocky, and think its all good, and they let their guard down. bad move....
Anyways, when u read bluelight, and opiophile, or watever the hell u read that has threads about "do's and dont's of copping" and suggestions for avoidin arrests, etc, they always got these "rules" that people read and take to mean that if they do all those things, they aint gonna get in trouble. "Yo, u should be careful, I heard its hot out there today, maybe u should wait a hour or two to go becuz the TNT is always out between 2 and 3 in the afternoon." "Na yo, dont worry, I got it on lock, no problem. I kno wat to do. I got a extra $20 too so if they pull me over i can just be like, oh i didnt cop yet! AND I got a kickass stash spot, nobody will ever find my shit there. I use one of those fake Pringles cans, and i keep it in the bag of garbage from my car! And Ill just tell them my cousin lives in one of the houses on the block Im copping on, i mean, they cant tell me that theres no black people in my family!"
Yea...great...but dont be so self assured. most of those tips n tricks are on point, pretty useful, and good to remember, becuz its better than not bein prepared at all. but , none of that shit is guaranteed protection, and believing that it will leave u worse off when some shit goes down, becuz instead of relying on ur quick thinking and ability to be cool n calm, you relied on a bunch of gimmicks without thinking of a Plan B in case they didnt work.
After you cop a couple times, get your confidence up, and school yourself on all the do's n dont's of the trade, Maybe you think its all laid out for you. like, do this, dont do that, do this, dont do that, and that if you just follow some COMMON SENSE rules, that you gonna get in, and out, quick easy and clean with your dope.
and sure, on paper it works like that. common sense and street smarts is great, its how people in the real , non school/corporate world survive.
And In THEORY, using common sense when you cop, should keep you in the clear. if you circle the block a couple times to make sure you dont see suspicious cars in the area, know your connect, have your car all maintained so you cant get stopped for "broken taillight" excuses, and have a extra $20 or $40 (the more the better) on you for if you do get pulled over...maybe if you do all those things youll be safe. Yea, it SHOULD work that way.
But the thing about the dope game is...It dont make sense. shit that should happen, dont happen, and shit that shouldnt happen , does, on the regular. and sometimes that works out good for you, but the flipside is of course, that it can also be for the worse. Good shit like, you shouldnt get a extra bag or two in the bundle that you were short 8 dollars for, but thanks to dealers who hook you up unexpectedly, cant count, move too quick, or just straight dont care, sometimes you do. And the balance to that is that you shouldnt have to wait on a hot ass block for 20 minutes when you so sick you doubled over in pain with your stomach exploding, but sometimes you do. Its the up and down roll wit the punches life that you live when you get into this shit....and part of that is always knowing that while shit might seem cool, that at ANY minute, pretty much anything could happen.
like....even tho you circled the block and didnt see nothing and the coast looked clear, you never know when theres gonna be undercover narcs a few blocks up watchin you with binoculars from their maroon 1996 Kia with tinted windows, who noticed you even more than they woulda, BECAUSE you circled the block to look out. (More famous last words: "yo, that car aint nothing to stress about, just relax homie. You so fuckin paranoid dude. Its a fuckin KIA! Cops dont drive kias, u only need to start worryin when you see a charger, or a crown vic, or the dreaded all black durango! lots of people down here have tints, it aint always the fuckin boys yo!")
--(Shit aint over til its over yo. KEEP READ'N... CONTINUED IN NEXT ENTRY)--
