Originally Posted by Hooper (Post 510156)

Jon,I have hope for South Yarmouth on Rte 28, the new Shaw's has helped that area a lot, if only Job Lot were forced to improve that building as well...

But Big Fish is 100% right, it's all about drugs, period, end of story. I work as a patrolman in Yarmouth. All I do all day is pick up the pieces of what is left over when drugs take ahold of someone's life. Domestic? He's on Oxycontins, Your car got broken into? That herion addict knows that people on Cape are still foolish enough to leave their cars unlocked with money in them overnight!!! Your home got B&E'd while you were away? More drugs. Car crash on Buck Island road? Oh, wait, that person is only drunk, yeah, I know, it's 11am, but c'mon, a man's gotta relax right? People living in motels victimizing everyone? Drugs. Your tools got stolen from your jobsite? Drugs. Copper wire stolen? Drugs. 7-11 held up? Drugs, drugs, drugs.

The motels along Route 28 are another rant in and of themselves, yet they are almost as big a reason for the decline of Cape Cod as the drugs. They have mortgages, they need to pay the bills, so they rent to anyone! I spend so much time at motels it would make your head spin, and not to help tourists, but to arrest the criminals that call them home! And who is going to visit the Cape, rent a room that smells like someone has fried a steak in butter all winter while smoing three packs a day, and then return next summer? No wonder families go elsewhere....

I was born and raised here on the Cape. What is happening is very sad. It is turning into a cespool if you ask me. Drive into Hyannis if you dare, it's called "Brockton by the Sea" to those in the know, or sometimes, "Lil' Brockton".

This topic always brings me down, time to go tuna fishing!:kewl:

Alright, it's safe to come out, my rant is over, for now....