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Drugs, Prostitution, Violence Plague Oil Boom Towns Gone Bust
With crude prices reeling from the effects of geopolitical wrangling and surging production, it’s a tough time to be a resident of an oil boom town. Although drilling in areas like North Dakota’s Bakken oil patch has generated hefty revenues for once quiet communities, it’s also led to an increase in crime. As the Washington Post noted last year, “the arrival of highly paid oil workers living in sprawling ‘man camps’ with limited spending opportunities has led to a crime wave -- including murders, aggravated assaults, rapes, human trafficking and robberies -- fueled by a huge market for illegal drugs, primarily heroin and methamphetamine.”
While this would be a rather undesirable situation under any circumstances, collapsing crude prices are beginning to leave some towns cash-strapped, which means less resources to dedicate to things like deterring crime. Meanwhile, production isn’t slowing down, which means boom town populations aren’t declining alongside revenues. According to NPR, this dynamic is leaving some communities with a combination of decaying infrastructure, less money for public schools, and inadequate manpower to combat sharply higher crime rates. This comes as monthly expenses like rent skyrocket in the face of surging demand.
Via NPR:
What happens when the price of oil tanks and suddenly you're faced with a whole lot less money to deal with your town's explosive growth?
If you're 52-year-old Rick Norby, you lose a lot of sleep.
"I haven't slept since I became mayor," he says. "I really ain't kidding you."
When Norby became mayor of Sidney, Mont., oil prices were about $100 a barrel. A year later, they've fallen to roughly half that. Yet oil production has continued to churn right along.
"All the action is still happening," says Norby, who has lived here all his life. "We haven't seen a slowdown one bit in anything."
The problem is Norby figures he'll get about $600,000 less in tax revenue from oil production to deal with all this. That's a big deal when your whole budget is $11 million and your town now has a major highway running right through it…
The money coming from the oil boom pays for fundamental services that are stretched thin. Sidney is looking for $30 million to build a new truck bypass. A new $70 million water treatment plant is also needed.
Around town, there are little one-bedroom houses with a half dozen oil workers living in them. The population has nearly doubled since 2010. The police department struggles to keep pace with even routine patrols. Since 2010 when the oil boom began in earnest, DUI arrests are up 300 percent. Felony assaults are up twice that much…
One teacher quoted by NPR says he “never considered” oil would fall below $70 barrel. He’s probably not alone there, as it seems likely that quite a lot of people (and E&P executives) didn’t think such a thing could happen either, that is until the bankruptcies started to pile up and until shale companies began to stage Movie Gallery encores, defaulting on their debt before making a single payment. In any event, crude did indeed fall below $70 and then it fell some more, and now, as we explained Tuesday, prices may head still lower in June when a lack of storage capacity forces each incremental barrel straight to market.
So what does this mean for America’s oil boom towns? Assuming Sidney, Montana is a good analog for what’s playing out across the country’s top oil producing communities, nothing good, as the follow graphic from NPR vividly illustrates:
Sydney is just 45 miles south of Bainville, Montana, the subject of a National Geographic piece which told a similar story:
"If you wish for this oil, be careful what you wish for, because life as you know it is done," said Ken Norgaard, road department supervisor for Roosevelt County, the vast and sparsely populated county of rolling farmland that includes Bainville…
The K-12 Bainville School faces similar challenges. The influx of oil workers has pushed rent for run-down mobile homes to upwards of $2,500 a month. Teachers, whose salaries start at $33,000, can't afford housing. At the same time, student enrollment has more than doubled to 165 since 2009.
"We have had to get creative," said school superintendent Renee Rasmussen, who graduated from the school in 1973, one of a class of ten. In the past few years, Rasmussen said, the school bought 13 homes to house many of its teachers...
Bainville's population has doubled since 2010 to about 450, and will likely double again in the next couple of years…
Among the changes in Bainville, none has locals on edge like the increase in crime. In 2012, two Colorado men looking for work in the oil field allegedly killed a popular math teacher in nearby Sidney, Montana, and buried her body along a highway outside Williston. Soon after, Roosevelt County bought a new file cabinet to store the rush of concealed-weapon applications…
The FBI has warned that Mexican drug cartels are trafficking drugs to the area, targeting the large paychecks of the mostly young men who work in the Bakken. Felony drug arrests in Roosevelt County rose from 4 to 28 from 2008 to 2012, according to Sheriff Freedom Crawford. Crawford said methamphetamine is the biggest drug problem the county faces, followed by illegal painkillers. But a bigger problem, he said, is the increase in alcohol-fueled fistfights. From 2008 to 2012, assault arrests nearly doubled, to 173.
According to the Montana Board of Crime Control, “offenses [in the Primary Bakken Region] were up 84%, arrestees were up 90%, and incidents increased 76% in 2012 compared to 2009,” and while these numbers looked a bit better in 2013, “the five-year trend shows an overall increase of offenses (29%), incidents (19%), and arrestees (58%).”
Similarly, an academic study conducted by researchers from the University of North Dakota shows that in the oil producing counties of Montana and North Dakota, both violent crime and property crime rose in the post-boom years while crime fell markedly in non-producing counties:
…and here’s what the change in offenses looks like graphically…
From the report:
Prior research has demonstrated that calls for service, arrests, and traffic accidents increased substantially between 2005 and 2011 in oil producing counties in the Bakken region. Interviews with police officers and sheriff’s deputies in these counties revealed that they are overworked and stretched thin which is similar to the findings reported in Canadian boomtown research. Those perceptions about crime and disorder are shared by the staff members of human service agencies who are often tasked with responding to those who were victimized and the media has echoed these perceptions. The analyses conducted in this study revealed that UCR index crimes increased between 2006 and 2012 in oil impacted Montana and North Dakota counties, while in the matching sample of counties the number of crimes decreased during the same era.
Meanwhile, things have gotten bad enough in Williston, North Dakota that the FBI has moved to town.
Via The Hill:
The FBI said it will establish an office in North Dakota’s oil country to address an uptick in criminal activity related to the dramatically increased oil production of recent years.
The Williston, N.D., office will be a “resident agency” of the FBI’s Minneapolis division when it is fully staffed later this year, the bureau said Thursday
Local officials and North Dakota’s congressional delegation have been asking for more than a year for the FBI to establish a presence in Williston to respond to the spike in crimes like drug and human trafficking that has accompanied the thousands of new workers related to the Bakken oil shale region.
“The office in Williston is a welcomed addition to our presence in North Dakota,” Richard Thornton, special agent in charge of the Minneapolis division that oversees the Williston office, said in a statement.
“The opening of this office is in response to the unprecedented growth in population and economic activity associated with the oil exploration and production in the Bakken region and the corresponding increase in criminal activity,” he said. “The FBI will be in a better position to effectively address these issues in this region of North Dakota through this new office.”
And so while crime in the region has been on the rise for some time, coping with slumping oil revenue is a relatively new development. In the end, the Mayor Norbys of the world are unfortunately dealing with powers well beyond their control, what with all of the “ancillary diplomatic benefits” that can accrue from ensuring that oil prices stay low for as long as is necessary to achieve one’s geopolitical agenda. We can only hope that the disparity between the resources needed to ensure stability in the nation's boom towns and the revenues that are available in the wake of sliding crude prices doesn't become so vast as to transform these areas into the new Wild West.
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Wait, you mean to tell me that North Dakota and Montana can have crime problems, too? I don't believe it. Can't be so.
MOAR proof that low oil prices are Baaaad.......
Crime should be no more costly than the price of a bus ticket to Washington DC.
Prostitution and drugs are NOT crimes. They are things the government manipulates in order to extract money out of the population. End of story.
That's a very good point.
Wild west? Go long boot hills.
I saw the headline withi "Drugs, Prostitution, Violence" and instantly assumed Washington, DC. Glad I read the article now.
It's simply not a drug and violence problem if the cops don't arrest the partiers or the guys blowing off some steam in the bars then driving their pickups home drunk across the frozen farm fields....
Check this out... Britain's TOP ECONOMIC ADVISER was photographed in a crackhouse smoking crack.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2974029/Top-economist-advised-Ge...
See? No arrest = no problem...
Blackmail baby!!! Best way to keep the goose-steppers in line.....
Prostitution and drugs are NOT crimes
But killing an innocent math teacher is. Fucking bastards.
Sidney, is that french for New Pithole?
"Rough necks" are a different breed no doubt about it..
BUT WAIT, oil IS a drug that is only obtained through violence and prostitution. fuck i'm confused
What? Gonna turn these places into the "Wild West".
I got news for ya. It is the "Wild West".
Just like Alaska oil of the 70's, or Wyoming oil in the 80's.
It's just another big oil patch in the U.S.A.
All men with big balls, strong backs, and lots of cash from the hard work.
Been there, done that!
poor man made out of muscle and blood
muscle and blood, skin and bone,
a mind that's weak and a back that's strong.
There is no such thing as an "innocent math teather".
Math is dangerous.
When you actually read the article the "problem" is drugs, prostitution and bar fights. All of these are consensual adult behavior. Just legalize it or let it go. Let the cops worry about the occasional murder or armed robbery and they now have plenty of manpower.
Treat em just like illegals here in Maryland.
Step 1: Catch
Step 2: Release
Coming soon: Fuck it.
Here's an alternative, since they have managed to solve this same problem in certain other oil boom towns (and particularly well in KSA)
1) Establish a tee-totaling Bible beating Lutheran-Catholic theocracy in North Dakota, complete with religious police and exemplary public executions
2) Tell the roughnecks, they are free to grab cheap flights to nearby party towns where they can fuck, fight and generally rage with the locals and fit right in while doing so (Chicago can't be that long a flight, especially compared to something like Riyadh-Beirut)
But NO, the State actually wants the bars and hookers and the crime that goes along with it ... after all... only children (and bankers) think they can have things both ways and get shit for free with no strings attached.
speaking of children and banksters:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/06/britain-s-horrific-vip-...
Not to mention when such business is transacted between two (or more) consenting adults there is NO VICTIM......
Sir, you are, indeed, victimizing the IRS, not to mentions state revenue departments.
:)
I can only hope it's white on white crime or Holder will be coming to town
Yes, I'd be very interested in seeing the racial stats. Only, no fair counting browns as whites.
Wait a minute…..
I was told that we will be the next Saudi Arabia…. Energy for 100 years
That I should heavily invest my savings, alongside Americans 401’s, in the most powerful commodity of America (shale oil). That, shale oil is the safest financial instruments to have.
So, now, you are telling me that I should stop listening to Wall Street financial advisors and pay attention to the canaries—the prostitutes—before shale blows up?
Yep, victimless crimes... the number one reason of incarceration in the Stasi States of Amerika... I want to slap everyone who believes this "Land of the Free" bullshit
land of , the free bullshit
it's all about the punctuation ...
that that is is that that is not is not
have at it
that that is is that that is not is not
Good. I will take a crack at it...and muss it up.
That; that is; is that; that is not; is not.
That, that is, is. That, that is not, is not.
Thanks. Live and learn. (I told you that I'd muss it up.)
To the junker...Did you even have the balls to try it? You certainly lack the balls to respond.
it's all about the punctuation ...
...because poor punctuation is really important to those who cannot produce any valid counterpoint to a rational argument.
Let's eat grandma!
Let's eat, grandma!
Punctuation saves lives.
Miffed;-)
At the current rate of decay Grandma may become some youngster's main serving in the near future.
After all what do you do with the old bag's carcass after she is thrown under the bus???
Or over a cliff as one of my elderly friends was, after she developed Alzheimer's. and her daughter wanted the entire estate rather than use her mother's money to pay for the proper care for her mother.
You may have read or heard about that "freak accident" in Jamul. $4 Million was a good enoungh incetive for her.
You can sell your mother,
Then go buy another...
10cc Wall Street Shuffle
https://youtu.be/hjz1A3UELhs?t=1m43s
Bon appetite???
"lunatic", i like your style; "doing lines off 10 inch dicks", sexual acts involving " 2 or more persons" , " taking a crap on a nun"... I wanna live in your world.
Another piece of genius reporting from NPR.
"One teacher quoted by NPR says he “never considered” oil would fall below $70 barrel."
A teacher. Teacher? Since when did fucking teachers become financial, economic and oil specialists well versed in geopolitical intrigue and energy price manipulations?
A teacher.
This is another reason why NPR is like listening to MSNBC. The delivery is more polished (less offensive) but still makes no sense.
ummmuuummmmmmuggahahhrrrrraaggagahhhhhhh
The teacher probably couldn't teach statistical analysis if her life depended on it either.
Teacher: Listen up class, last year we had zero prostitues caught here in Po Dunk, this year we have two! How much has prostitution gone up? You, Johnny, in the back..."
Johnny: My ole man says fiddy bucks!
Teacher: Thats right! Very good Johnny!
Good grief.
Kind of like someone who doesn't understand the significance of the equation for free fall speed.
Oh thats right, you're in the "teaching profession" aren't you, English Lit if I recall correctly. Are the students and staff of that fine institution aware that you have taken exactly zero steps to treat your Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
This guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo&t=1m01s
Knuks - My buddy had a meeting at the school today between the principal and some other wanker (think it was a teacher) regarding a project which I can’t identify to protect my buddy’s biz.
These two wankers readily admitted that they weren’t for the project but wanted my buddy to provide sources for our competitors so they could get the required 3 quotes for the project (max cost about $30k for fuck sakes! - and it’s my fucking money they spend!!!!).
So… a High School Principal is either too fucking lazy to do his own 5 minute Google search or he is retarded himself. I provide links to other websites for this moron but he has to do the leg work for the other 2 quotes anyway, yet they want us to provide something AGAINST our own business to save them 5 FUCKING MINUTES ON GOOGLE!
People, if you have kids in any public school in any part of the world be afraid for your children.
In the USA, public high school principals consider themselves akin to God and they rarely get called out on it in my experience. They have their own little fiefdom they rule as a Lord. Watching the local one impose the government decrees was quite sickening. Caused us to spend a fortune in private school but it was worth it.
5 min on Google would soil their lily white hands Angus.
Miffed;-)
Miffed - Think of it this way. I now know the personal contact info for this wanker. If he ever gets a God thought in his head I will show him who the Devil is.
Luv ya babe! Many interesting things happening up here lately.
I hope you are surviving it. I've had a few interesting conversations. Sounds like Canada wants some bragging rights to idiocy we Americans thought we had ownership. But they will never suck out your soul my dear. Of that I'm sure. I'm planning on watching from high ground when it all burns down and hopefully won't get singed.
Miss you my dear! Stay cool.
Miffed;-)
Indeed! Most of the so called crime is social crime. I take a pain pill, the government calls this a crime. I pay a chick to sleep with me, feels good, but government call it a crime. Add up social acts that cause nobody a loss or a harm, and 70% of crime goes away. Does government want crime? Yes! It justifies thousands of highly paid government jobs.
What makes me sick is when I see a video of a dozen big bad cops busting some kid for a few pills and hauling him away like he is a major murderer. It's a fucking joke. Fuckers are being paid big money to arrest for personal choices that cause no third party a harm. But the cops get high paying jobs. It's government making everything illegal so they can enforce their will on all. Cunts!
State Trooper, 26 years old, driving to shift change;
85 miles an hour
Talking on a cell phone
Typing on a Cray NSA ( with Intel, dum,da,da, dum, inside)
Good chance Roided up.
All things we mere civilians would be hammered for.
Seems like local police only hire psychos these days JB.
I do not live in the US. But if I did I would be moving further and further away from "police". Urban police and even envious little town police, I truly feel fear for you.
"Cunts!" is right, because prostitution and hard drugs (heroin, cocaine, meth, etc.) were legal almost everywhere until women were given the right to vote. Women pass laws that men are tasked with enforcing.
Men don't all love hookers and blow, but laws were created to put nooses around the necks of violent scumbags, not to police people's bad habits.
ive used all three you mentioned recreationally, akways had fun, but could take 'em or leave 'em. alcohol, though, well i had to give that shit up.
it;s funny how people seem to have specific weaknesses. i;ve known tweekers and junkies who had no problems with alcohol. and then you have people like me that can handle "hard drugs" but not alcohol
You gave up meth? How?
How could you not give that up?
Who, in their right mind, will want a chemically induced delusional state, with concurrent paranoia, of Manic Depressive Psychological Disorder and risking being addicted, arrested, caged, and losing everything which they own?
Who in their right mind will want that? Nobody.
That is why the abuse of methamphetamine is restricted to those who are chronically mentally ill. And they are most definitely NOT in their right mind to begin with.
BTW...SmackDaddy does not sound as if he is abusing Meth.
"SmackDaddy does not sound as if he is abusing Meth."
My thought exactly. How often is abuse?
Define "hard drugs". Most people consider "hard drugs" based on the sideline effects of cost.
Thus I consider a Lamborghini a "hard car". If you can't afford the maintenance, you shouldn't have bought the car. Most of the bad name for "hard drugs" comes from people with zero networth and zero cash flow deciding to pick up an expensive habit.
I have been doing "hard drugs" for years... but with my cash flow it is on par with buying a pack of cigarettes (also considered a "hard drug" by some).
All of my sales people are on "hard drugs" (cocaine/meth) and I will state that I far prefer "hard drug" users than "soft drug" users (weed, booze, junk food, etc.) because they are motivated and are not stupified all day long.
Jack: Stop watching vids and just fucking pull the pin on your miserable life.
We've got room for you... minus the bitching about shit you can never change in the slave-o-sphere.
Do you have any skills that pertain to actually surviving on this planet or are you a paper tiger?
Serious, not fucking with you.
"Prostitution and drugs are NOT crimes. They are things the government manipulates in order to..."
"... satisfy hypocritical Bible Thumpers -- who are the ones who have branded it as 'immoral' or 'sinful', and to whom politicians have caved".
(Is how I'd end that sentence).
During the Asian opium wars, for example, the Chinese did not consider Opium usage or brothels as immoral, or 'sinful' (Sin is a unique Jewish invention that Christians inherited). Nor do the Asians have the shaming associated with body parts or body functions, that the Protestants have.
In other words there is nothing wrong with snorting a huge line of coke off a ten inch cock and then taking a crap on a nun. (do be sure to invite her to the after party)......
We readily embrace our self destruction, yet revolt violently to those who would try to destroy us....unless they are simply selling us the means to self destruct.
And we wonder why liberty and freedom are not universally loved.
@ KIRK:
Ian Drury And The Blockheads, circa 1977. 'Sex, and Drugs, and Rock and Roll':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEUX9k0npgA
OF COURSE, the (SO-CALLED) 'OPIUM WARS' had NOTHING TO DO with the Rothschild banking cartel under the auspicise of HSBC funelling the wealth out of China via opium dens and prostitution rings. There WAS 'NO WAR', and the CHINESE had 'NOTHING AGAINST IT'. OPIUM DENS and PROSTITITION were all 'perfectly legal'. (YOUR ASS!)
It was JOOS and CHRISTIANS what done the CHINK OPIUM WAR shit (in your mind).
Your take on history is fucking PATHETIC.
The Chinese remember.
It's important for victims to keep records of the trail of destruction left by psychopaths. Makes it harder for them to cover their tracks - a good life lesson, especially in times such as these.
There are many reasons that different drugs are illegal, but I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the biggest reason why so many recreational drugs remain illegal: The government, the luciferian overlords, are the ones who run the drugs or are in league with those who do, and the proceeds often are the funds for important, black projects. The Hegelian (or as I call it, occultist) dialectic is hard at work here, creating the chaos and providing the resulting order, profiting from both ends, etc. But that stuff that HSBC launders goes to black projects, off the official books, very important funding.
NPR, SAME OLE SONG, HL Mencken had it all figured out. Scare the shit out of the people and send them to Uncle Sammy clamoring for protection.
NPR is proof that the Republicans are a bunch of spineless wimps. Our tax money going for that socialist tripe is galling.
Crime in contained areas is nothing more than a practise ground for the local military police. Kinda like a target range.
No they usually don't as they have been stable societies for many years. Your comment is smarmy and implies something that is untrue. Typical of your posts. It has nothing to do with North Dakota and Montana per se but the influx of rootless young men from ELSEWHERE. They're called "boom towns" just as the old gold rush towns were a couple centuries ago. These men are separated from their families and communities, bored and with a sudden influx of money.
Really an ignorant comment.
They are a society that allowed oil companies to come in and drill. They should have known the consequences. Notice how there was an article about NY state not allowing fracking. Still want to tell me it has nothing to do with ND, or Montana?
Even if those communities didn't want it, preventing the oil drilling on private land would be unconstitutional and illegal. Sheesh.
Sadly, when society wants a commodity (and I'm sure you don't drive or heat your home) and it's located somewhere, this is the result. Please get back to me when you stop using all commodities.
As for NY State, that was yet another "executive order" by a governor, following in the footsteps of "executive order" Obama. Then again, I imagine you're the type that prefers "enlightened" dictatorships.
LTER is the 'token' liberal here at the Hedge, just ignore their idiotic post[s], thats what I do. :)
"Even if those communities didn't want it, preventing the oil drilling on private land would be unconstitutional and illegal. Sheesh."
So states can't make laws restricting companies from drilling for oil? Are you stating that according to the constitution I can do whatever I want with my land and the state I live in can't stop me?
"What happens when the price of oil tanks and suddenly you're faced with a whole lot less money to deal with your town's explosive growth?
If you're 52-year-old Rick Norby, you lose a lot of sleep.
"I haven't slept since I became mayor," he says. "I really ain't kidding you."
When Norby became mayor of Sidney, Mont., oil prices were about $100 a barrel. A year later, they've fallen to roughly half that. Yet oil production has continued to churn right along.
"All the action is still happening," says Norby, who has lived here all his life. "We haven't seen a slowdown one bit in anything."
The problem is Norby figures he'll get about $600,000 less in tax revenue from oil production to deal with all this. That's a big deal when your whole budget is $11 million and your town now has a major highway running right through it…
The money coming from the oil boom pays for fundamental services that are stretched thin. Sidney is looking for $30 million to build a new truck bypass. A new $70 million water treatment plant is also needed."
So why is that clown of a mayor building a new truck bypass that will cost $30 million for a town with an annual budget of $11 million? Could it be to appease oil companies at the tax payer's expense?
Because oil companies are populated by what, parolees?
I guess Sheldon Silver former head of the New York Assembly doesn't count...yet anyways.
nmewn... easy old man... Sheldon is as innocent as any MD at Goldilocks.
Who runs BARTERTOWN?
Master Blaster run BarterTown.... can you believe theyre coming out with a new one of those? hah!
Lloyd run Bartertown!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_H2DePAZe2gA/S-mW5T8a2OI/AAAAAAAAMxI/KPNvsZp7E4...
Give the black hole of talent in the Industry, yes. Yes, I can believe that they'd actually come out with a new one of those.
I'm not defending any politicians in New York. I understand what politicians are. What I was saying is he stated it had nothing to do with the state where crimes were being committed. I was saying it does, because they allowed these companies into their town to drill.
Would you allow strangers into your house and allow them to invite whoever they wanted?
"What I was saying is he stated it had nothing to do with the state where crimes were being committed. I was saying it does, because they allowed these companies into their town to drill."
You're wanting to compare the crime rates of non-drilling New York to North Dakota or Montana are you? ;-)
Nope. I also understand NY has a worse crimerate.
I found it odd that he made it seem like the state itself was completely innocent and that young men with too much money were showing up and causing all the crime while ignoring why they were there.
Pretty sure he meant the locals.
And there is nothing wrong with extracting oil, the Russians do it, the Saudis do it, Iranians do it, the Venezuelans, the Chinese etc. Only in America it seems to me can people find the time and "energy" to critcize what benefits you, I just don't understand the mindset.
Is it because someone is making a profit?
Hookers go where the money is, so do crminals.
Even the locals can express that they do not want oil companies drilling in their towns. They can elect individuals that would not cater to these companies.
To me, I oppose the short sighted greed. You know these oil companies are going to come in and wreck the town. They want the highest profit possible. The town's interest is not really their highest priority. As it has been said on ZH multiple times, what happens when there is no more oil to extract?
Although this situation is even worse. They are keeping the miscreants and can no longer keep up with their budgets with the town population being so high.
Government budgets, I see, so you're beef is with them.
The state government is getting tax & royalty revenues, the local mayor isn't sitting out there on an island.
nmewn, you are correct.
This is just another of the typical horseshit articles which blame increased crime on high paying jobs and increased population. Notice how many of the quipsters claim to KNOW that the town officials are the real criminals?
The Mexican cartels and their DEA handlers go where the money is, Norby has no control over that. Mayor Norby is your typical corrupt small city mayor, just like the ones in Bell, California and Ferguson, Missouri. Throw in a bunch of thug cops with traffic ticket quotas and the only difference between Norby's crooked town and thousands of other organized crime run small cities are the fracking chemicals in the water supply.
Who'd a thunked? that this could happen? sheesh. Take away some folks jobs and they got too much time and frustration to abide.
So when you take away a fairly well paid job and throw people into the cesspool of unemployed? When you take oil rig guys fun/paychecks away do you honestly think that many will not behave badly?
Coming to a country-wide near you soon. What will happen when the Walmart greeters and Big Mac downsizes and these "folks" enter the unemployed. It is due to happen. These part-time service jobs will evaporate as well as demand and sales collapse. McDonalds sales are collapsing. Consumers are not spending. All these low paid service/retail jobs will start going down the tubes as well.
Cause we gotta give bonuses to some folksies. I personally am storing jet fuel for my private escape bird. And I think that is the bug out of the rich.
It says the biggest problem they have are "booze fueled fist fights". Not crime, mutual combat. In fact I can't think of a single thing they mentioned that is an actual crime.
"Plague"?
"We'll be big as San Fransisco in no time, and just as sophisticated"
"Very cosmopolitan"
Try to tax that shit, Kleptocrats.
True story. Local moron just got sentenced for his third cocaine trafficking conviction - 30 to life, plus a $500,000 dollar fine!
How much is that fool gonna make washing dishes in the big house?
More like, how much are you and I going to pay for that guy to be in prison for 30 years for selling a plant?
And how much is the company that operates the prison going to make.
Dick Dick Dick Dick Dick Dick Dick.... How many Dicks is that? A lot.
"It was that last goddamned dick!"
~ Sam Kinison
That also.
Crime only pays if you are high enough up on the totem pole.
Funny to read about the FBI fighting crime. Why doesn't the FBI arrest all the criminals in DC?
The smart thing for the government would be to Regulate & Tax most activities that fall under the "Vice" umbrella: Sex, Drugs and Gambling.
It would lower crime, lower prices, improve quality. They'd still make tons for DUI citations, because most morons would not stay put while under the influence (if it were legal).
This was bound to happen. I admit, I was more expecting a sudden bust rather than a slow longer bust.
Drill baby drill?
Prostitutes are apparently bartering for furs, which they trade for drugs only to get ripped off by criminal gangs of prarie dogs or sumpin.
Wait, drugs and prostitution are crimes?
Right?
Only if they occur outside of Manhattan or certain parts of DC.
"According to the Montana Board of Crime Control, “offenses [in the Primary Bakken Region] were up 84%, arrestees were up 90%, and incidents increased 76% in 2012 compared to 2009,”
Right...and the population of the Bakken region in 2009 was...?
I'm not sure what you are implying but violence is, and has been, nearly out of control on the east side on MT. And in my opinion, the violence is working its way back into the rest of the state, including NW Montana where I live. I NEVER used to see what I think of as "gangbangers" when I moved here in '02. Now I see them on a fairly regular basis. Robberies are up all over. Two of the gaming joints I work for have been robbed recently.
The shit's gettin' "real" out here. Make no mistake.
hairball
I'm not implying anything, I'm saying if a town (any town, pick one) goes from 100 people to 3000 people you're gonna have more crime.
Probably more car accidents, more jeans sold, more food, more...get my drift?
The article is bullshit.
know what "nmewn"? this thread seems to have attracted a whole lotta people who long for the good ole days...sounds like a bunch of old farts sitting on a porch at the retirement home, reminiscing...let them have the past....I guess reality is too much of a bitch for them to deal with...
Look at Table 1.
It makes me think that guys from the nonproducing counties are commuting to work, making some money, and some of them may be contributing to the crime stats in the producing counties where the drug dealers and traffickers have set up shop. Either that, or they are working hard, going home, and staying out of trouble. Maybe both. Something has caused the crime rates to fall in the nonproducing counties.
And they spend every nickle they make in the oil patch. I have friends who have been working over in the oil patch for years. They haven't saved anything and are in debt to their eyeballs....and now the layoffs are coming on strong. I see families moving in together now days to save on rent. This causes more domestic problems for the cops. I can't wait till this next downturn. It'll be blood in the streets.
Blood in the streets!
Yee haw!!!! Yippie-Kia-mudderfukkas!
Sad how the Company Store and the government always reaps the rewards.
Locally our meth problem is primarily associated with gangs in poor areas. Our county was meth capital and firefighters were wary entering a burning home.
So hard to quit that drug. It's a destroyer of lives and you'd see the same toothless people ODing over and over in the ER.
Miffed
The money coming from the oil boom pays for fundamental services that are stretched thin. Sidney is looking for $30 million to build a new truck bypass. A new $70 million water treatment plant is also needed.
A town of 6253 needs that kind of money for water treatment? What the fuck are they doing to their water?
Water treatment plants have to conform to a boatload of federal regulations. Most small communities suffer from the costs and mandates of federal water treatment regulations. It's a huge problem as the communities, especially when cited by the feds to take action, find themsselves against the wall as they can't afford the technology.
+1 JO
Bet there was lots of backslapping and grining in the council chambers when they voted for spending all that money they planned on getting.
@ justobserving Think about what's going on out here before you open up your stupid fucking yap.
Really, you think $11,200 per citizen is OK for water treatment? That is nearly $45,000 for a family of four. Who can afford that? And $19,000 for a family of four for the truck bypass. So that together is $64,000 for a family of four.
Simply too much money. Do you want to pay that in taxes?
And why exactly does the mayor need or want "water treatment"? Just because a mayor (government) wants it is no reason to allow it.
My septic tank works just fine, no chemicals added.
What the fuck are they doing to their water?
It's a proprietary trade secret.
What are they doing to the water? Fracking will mess up the water.
For 70 million, you could build a water tower, and fill it with trucked in water.
I'll take that contract.
Ahh Sidney left there in the 60's. Water had an oily sheen out of the tap, back in the oil boom of the '80's (had to visit the family now and then ya know.) Can't imagine it's better now.
It really is the same now as it was then. The more things change the more they stay the same.
Really not funny....I remember so many in boom times looking for financing with a GREAT biz plan, whether it was RV's for housing, Water filtration, hotels, cars, whatever and to think SD had a 4.2% unemployment with sooo much hope only to be Dashed...fucking Saudi's..
Look, whats the fucking problem, we have enough nat resources and sheeit to get by in this U.S. continent...methane hydrates, Nat gas, who is running this fucking show?....fucking PATHETIC....saw a guy today with a sign at a stop light, and you know what im talking about...gawd i hate this fucking LIFE..and all the idiots that run it...I should run it, elect me...i swear..lets meet at the Capitol....be advised. I live close to D.D.
Within two miles of the whitehouse their are armed guards with AK's....far cry from when daddy drove me in front of the white house circa 1966..
not in Kansas anymore...yet wtf...who are all these bald headed goans?
Many times, I had lunch with a date at the roof garden of the Hotel Washington, 8th floor I think, looking down on the White House, just across Penn Ave.
The security Dudes are not rocket scientists;),
DUDE...scariests vision EVER having lived here since 1965 is being downtown and the DARTH Vadar wagon train of GMC heavy armoured black vehicles with l lights and sirens screaming by...thinking to myself, "who the fuck is that important"? Good Lord...ridiculous but its true..
I had this fucking clown pull me over when i brought visitors to D.C. was in the wrong lane behind the Supreme court...it was embarrasing to my guest...out of control..
"Do you know what you just did"..uh no Sir..."pull over"...my guest were shaking...sad as fuck.
Oh please "davidalan", AINT NOTHING FUNNY about the shit our overlords have thrown us into....so watcha gonna do....live in the past, "the good ole days" ?
I have news for you baby, THESE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS" !!
Cause it's probs gonna get a whole lot uglier soon enough.
wow, Vinidivinci...These are NOT the good ole days...Pardon me for remembering the good ole days..
but thanks for calling my weakness out...and when/if things get ugly.....thank the Lord, i can turn the TV and computer, off go out and meet my
neighbors and get back to basics...
and dont call me baby unless youre a woman and sexy as fuck..
These will be the good old days when the worse days come...and they are coming ! we're all fucked, no use in crying for the old days...that's how one gets found swinging from the end of a rope in their home...so chin up, mother fucker !
signed; sexy white chick (who happens to have a dick) ;)
These one-horse-town mayors should come to see the Jersey Shore towns on Memorial Day. They're well equipped with roided-up rentacops who 'tax' the Bennies and Shoobies with parking tickets, speeding tickets (26 in a 25 zone), smoking-on-the-boardwalk, littering, disturbing the peace and, after midnite, DWI which is good for thousands of dollars. One good season and the town's got hay the rest of the year. A couple of drug-money seizures and there's a new SUV with blinky red lites all over.
Fucking amateurs.
i figure somehow, someway, the rest. and bar owners must grease the skids when things are flush... when it tightens up you got cops all but rolling patrons as they come out the doors - seen it in Dallas years ago before I made my exit... good time to be enjoying the fire pit in back yard with friends, imaginary or otherwise :-) plus you can light up without gettin' all the grief from some snob, and you don't have to shower or put on smellums either
Long back yard fire pits.
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To hell with pussy....I'm still imagining "maaaaaannnnn caaaammmppps !!!
Niche markets such as your preferred "manginas" are excluded because of lack of a wide statistical sampling.
I'm not quite sure what you just said "bitchstar" but it sounded kinda anti fag...and how dare you make fun of my mangina...cunt !
Them 4 threads there - now that there's some pretty funny shit!
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$500.00 houses in The D.
I was told on Zero Hedge that poverty and loss of hope and opportunity have nothing to do with crime. Or does that only apply when it's black people?
Natch ! We whites are the chosen folks...(sarc)...get over yourself, will ya !
"There wil never ever be a nigger in SAE",, God Bless the young lads of OU
Didn't you hear? Poverty, lack of opportunity and loss of hope were done away with. Turn on the news and read some charts.......
Did someone say "man camps"...
To hell with Fire Island, I know where THIS fag is vacationing this year...
I was gonna say sumthin' about New Hope, PA, but you nailed Soddom and Gomorrah.
Welcome to Bartertown!
Oh man
Going latest first leaves me writing the same thing someone else did before I did.
I wrote BarterTown a little further above,
Or below...
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Marlboro's 25cents a pack 1966....jumped to .50cents summer of 1969 fuck me, petrol, .29 CENTS...lmao...no faggot bicycle helmets, no picking up your dog shit, no seat belts, no M.A.D.D. porn was black and white in back rooms, playboy was the bomb,....Miss those days..,,
I know, I know...irrelevant...wait, back in the day you could get a cash LOAN at the bank teller for $500...banks didnt have the two inch thick
bullet proof glass...take me back...
ok, enough...back to chess.com too much wine
and fuck you too
Fuck picking up dog shit. My cow dog shits where she likes, always has. I enjoy traveling out of "BFE" Texas, stop and let her cranky ass out. She rolls a Liberal Technocrat tootsie roll out right in front of idiots.......I giggle my ass off watching assholes who pick up dog their dog shit, they are just amazed the freshly grunted pile of shit is left to steam out. I spit a wad of Skoal on the ground, load up and haul ass off in my gas guzzler. Fuck y'all....
HOPE! HOPE and CHANGE!!!!!!
but seriously, maaaannnn caaaamps aside, why d'ya think they call them "boom towns" ? These places are out in bumfuck wherever!
Sure, lovely, sleepy, historic, quaint and sitting on mother loads of resources...and what happens when those resources run out or decline in demand, well, what, come on (I hear crickets)...all the prospectors leave!
Problem is, same shit is happening everywhere these days.
So these guys have no "next boom town" to fuck off to.
Just sayin'
in down turns it happens in tourist towns also---really big down turns can almost close a town up--ghost towns--
fuck off
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I am sticking with the Globe.