My buddy was out trying to score the other day. When he showed up at his usual spot, there were two kids he didn't know there. This by and of itself is not that out of the ordinary. It was the spot he had been using for a little while, and he hadn;'t had any problems so far, but he hadn't been going there for long enough to conceivably know everybody involved, so he got out of the car and walked up to them. He said what he wanted, handed over the forty bucks, and the other one pulled a gun out. They started laughing at him and fucking with him. He was trying to argue with them about how forty bucks wasn't worth it, how they would make so much more from him just being fair in the long run, how sick and broke he was, etc... but they weren't having it, so he started to walk back to his car.
On the way back to the car he heard one of the kids say, "I'm gonna waste this whiteboy, I don't like the way he looking at us"(or something similar). So needless to say he got a little worried, but kept walking back to his car to not show he was scared or whatever. The other kid started trying to dissuade the one with the gun from shooting him, but for whatever reason he seemed really intent on it. He opened the door to his car and got in, as he leaned forward to put the keys in the ignition, he looked back at them to see the gun still outstretched in the kids hand, pointed right at him, and as he turned the car on, BANG! Luckily the other kid wasn't so intent on an accessory to murder rap and was sort of able to knock the kids hand as he pulled the trigger. But still, the bullet hit the piece of metal dividing the front window from the back window, and my friend slammed the car into gear and peeled out.
He's lucky he's not dead. It's fucked up how shit like this can happen so seemingly out of nowhere and how the littlest difference can mean the world. Like if he hadn't been leaning forward to turn the key in the ignition, he would have been sitting right where the bullet hole is(It's a huge hole too, I saw him at the clinic the other day, he gave me a ride. it looks really bad, a huge bullet hole right where the driver sits). And out of all the times he's gone down there, where he's spent thousands of dollars, sometimes five hundred or more at a time, they choose to try and shoot you for forty? There's just so much shit that's not in your control. It sucks to have to cop on the street...
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btw. lee harvey, you were in detox with a DEA agent? that's hilarious. i wonder if you're an undercover DEA(or any other undercover agent for that matter) and you get addicted, are you at all penalized for it, or do they just accept that it's a potential occupational hazard? I understand if you're undercover you're going to have to do drugs in front of people sometimes, but could that possibly be enough to get you a habit? I'd imagine you;d have to be doing it on your own some too... I don't know. I imagine they at least pay for it.