# I think there's a drug dealer in my apartment building **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 9, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976 "2015-10-09T00:13:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/21 "2015-10-09T20:26:55Z")
I smell a skunk! ---
**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2015, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/22 "2015-10-09T22:27:51Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’ve never seen any of these people cause any trouble. I have lived here for 3 1/2 years Oh, well then. If they haven’t caused any trouble for you then you had better hurry up and cause trouble for you both. God knows there isn’t enough trouble in the world. ---
**Author:** ![IDtenT\_Error](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@IDtenT\_Error](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IDtenT_Error)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/23 "2015-10-10T02:07:06Z")
> [@TheSpeculationElucidation](#): > > Someone would have to be pretty stupid to deal drugs out of there. Drug dealers are not generally looked up to as ‘High IQ’ types. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/24 "2015-10-10T18:15:10Z")
> [@PatriotGrrrl](#): > > Oh, well then. If they haven’t caused any trouble for you then you had better hurry up and cause trouble for you both. God knows there isn’t enough trouble in the world. The people I suspect are dealing moved in earlier this year. People are always moving in and out, as is the nature of rental properties, and I’m the longest-lived, if you will, tenant in this building. ---
**Author:** ![TheSpeculationElucidation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@TheSpeculationElucidation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSpeculationElucidation)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/25 "2015-10-11T08:50:46Z")
> [@IDtenT\_Error](#): > > Drug dealers are not generally looked up to as ‘High IQ’ types. How many drug dealers do you know? 😛 The ones I’ve met aren’t stupid. Smart enough to know not to deal out of a middle class building that homes a local public figure, I’d think. ---
**Author:** ![IDtenT\_Error](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@IDtenT\_Error](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IDtenT_Error)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/26 "2015-10-11T12:16:17Z")
> [@TheSpeculationElucidation](#): > > How many drug dealers do you know? 😛 > The ones I’ve met aren’t stupid. > Smart enough to know not to deal out of a middle class building that homes a local public figure, I’d think. A few. While some were smart (generally the ones that didn’t get caught), a rather large percentage were, shall we say, not exactly Mensa candidates. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/27 "2015-10-11T12:39:03Z")
There was a previous thread where a member lived next door to a hash slinger. He knew it and mentioned that he didn’t want his children- as they got older- to have to deal with it. Drug dealer agreed and it turned out fine when the said drug dealer overdosed with narcotics and with rum (guess it didn’t turn out all that well for him). ---
**Author:** ![bb49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@bb49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bb49)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/28 "2015-10-12T01:32:32Z")
Guaranteed, there are drug dealings going on. I would bet my first born son on it, simply because I know what I’m talking about. As for drug dealer intelligence, they are all over the board, but they all have the same dumb thoughts: “ **I’ll never get caught** ”. Will shit happen with this drug dealer. Absolutely, maybe not today, but it will happen. Some buyer will feel ripped off and will return looking for his money back, or… This dealer may be small time but he is working for someone else. They all are. One day, another gang will try to take over this territory, and ever city is divided up by various gangs, and one of these new guys will come over and have a talk with this two-bit dealer. He will either switch allegiance, or… You can either sit tight and ignore what is going on, and hope nothing bad comes of it, and nothing may come of it. Or, you can make note of licence plate numbers, if there are some regulars, including the name and number of the presumed dealer, and pay a visit to the local police station/drug squad. Your choice. ---
**Author:** ![TheSpeculationElucidation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@TheSpeculationElucidation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSpeculationElucidation)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/29 "2015-10-12T06:18:41Z")
> [@IDtenT\_Error](#): > > A few. While some were smart (generally the ones that didn’t get caught), a rather large percentage were, shall we say, not exactly Mensa candidates. Haha! That’s true. ---
**Author:** ![nicky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f0a364/32.png) [@nicky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nicky)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/30 "2015-10-12T07:24:45Z")
Surely the issue what drugs they are selling. If its just weed, meh. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/31 "2015-10-13T19:21:09Z")
Weed is a gateway sales opportunity. They get comfortable selling that, then they branch out to Amway, then weight loss belts and before long you have a used car salesman in the building ::shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/32 "2015-10-13T21:14:34Z")
They’re serving a market. Out one of them, and someone else will just come in and serve the same market. So, your options are to live in a world where people buy and sell the things they want, or go live in the desert or the woods or somewhere remote. If you’ve lived in an apartment complex before, or a subdivision, or a city block, or anywhere that more than one family lives, you’ve lived around and among drug dealers the whole time. And they didn’t have any reason to bother you. Start being a nosy snitch, however, and you’re flipping a coin. Will it be the laid back pot dealer who plays video games and says “dude” a lot? Or the violent, slightly insane meth head who makes Walter White look like Ward Cleaver? And when you out one of them, who takes their place? Post #2 was the right answer. I’m just elaborating here. No good can come of telling anybody anything unless you are actually threatened or harmed in some way. ---
**Author:** ![slash2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@slash2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slash2k)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/33 "2015-10-13T22:10:38Z")
If a violent, slightly insane meth head who makes Walter White look like Ward Cleaver is living in your building (or even merely visiting regularly), then it’s pretty much just a matter of time before Bad Shit happens. Maybe it’ll happen when you’re not there, or maybe it will happen when he’s somewhere else. Then again, maybe it will happen in the next apartment while you’re sitting down to dinner or asleep in bed. You probably need a little more information than just ‘drug dealer’ to decide what to do. A dude selling a bit of pot on the other side of the complex is a far different situation than a shake-and-bake meth lab in the apartment below yours. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/34 "2015-10-13T22:37:48Z")
Since I don’t know exactly who it is, and they aren’t bothering me, I’m going to take the advice of the people who said “don’t say anything”. I know enough about this kind of thing to know that there’s a very good chance I would be very surprised as to who it is. ---
**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/35 "2015-10-14T00:41:39Z")
> [@Doctor\_Jackson](#): > > Weed is a gateway sales opportunity. They get comfortable selling that, then they branch out to Amway, then weight loss belts and before long you have a used car salesman in the building ::shudder:: This thread was actually making me think of Amway. I think more of it’s done with direct shipping these days, but it used to be if you were somewhere in middle rungs of the pyramid you’d have piles and piles of “product” at your house that you would be constantly doling out in small quantities to your lower level distributors. Not at all unlike a mid-level drug dealer! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/36 "2015-10-14T01:26:28Z")
If she has an Amway dealer in her complex, then she has a whole lot worse problems than if they were just selling heroin. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/37 "2015-10-14T01:33:20Z")
She would know for sure ALREADY if there was an amway dealer in her complex. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/38 "2015-10-14T05:02:30Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > She would know for sure ALREADY if there was an amway dealer in her complex. That’s true! 😛 I’ve been approached several times about selling for them. In each case, that person never asked me again - and they never approached me about buying anything either, with one exception. That was on Facebook, and he unfriended me after the second attempt. No big deal - we don’t live in the same town, and I know his mom, not him. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/39 "2015-10-14T13:58:12Z")
If I called the police in my town and told them I had a neighbor who was dealing, they would say “So?, what do you want us to do about it?” ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976/40 "2015-10-15T01:46:39Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > There can be collateral damage when a drug deal goes bad. Or when a drug dealer makes a mistaken assumption — [http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1742-6-awful-things-i-learned-surviving-double-homicide.html](http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1742-6-awful-things-i-learned-surviving-double-homicide.html) > > It’s not like “mind your own business” will always protect you. There can be collateral damage if the police are called. MYOB. Wait till you \*know \*something. Then, do nothing. I’m also recalling the Whitey Bulger story right about now. Something about what happens to rats, cops on the take, FBI on the take. Also, thinking about the local lake… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-theres-a-drug-dealer-in-my-apartment-building/733976.md?page=3)