The Level 2019
A Drug Lark's Adventures
The Level
Its home to a great many of Brighton's druggys and drunks because they are inherently unstable and so don't like walking up hills because coming off the level ground makes them fall over.
They may however occasionally make it to the lower slopes of Albion Hill, Southover St or by the old Free Butt, where the local drug dealer, as a good capitalist should, will make sure that demand meets supply.
All year round tourists can come and see people shoplifting to buy drugs and drink and then arguing about whatever it is that drunks and druggys argue about, Brexit probably, after all they are human like the rest of us.
Sometimes in response to this the police park a van on the level. There's no one in the van, its just parked there for a week or two. This has the effect of moving all the druggys and drunks into the nearby children's playground.
Anyone who walks through the area knows it requires the standard urban survival skill set of being situationally aware at all times and DIY, Don't Involve Yourself.
For the Police it seems to be a case of FIDO, Fuck It Drive On as they look out of the windows of their patrol cars and so the community on the Level is left to self regulate in very much the fashion that the Levellers (the political movement not the band) championed all those years ago.
Looking towards the North end of the Level, where most of the Drug Larking finds happen.
13/7/2019
So we started out behind the cafe but had no joy until crossing over to the North East side of the Level
Half a dozen bags almost straight away! Encouraged, we carried on to the North end of the Level.
Outstanding! Can you see how many bags and drug related stuff there is in this picture?
Here's a close up.
Well, that wraps up the first Drug Larking trip round the level. Not too bad, some 20 or so bags and bits and pieces.
16/7/2019
Different day, same shit. Round the Level again, few minor finds on the North East leg.
North end. First of the classics today, the four circle space thingy bag.
Finishing off down the North East side heading down to towards the sea.
Looking back from where we have just come.
Result! Last find of the day, second classic of the day, the naked lady bag! First seen in Alabama in 1973 as a design on the mud flap of a pick up truck. Who knows how it found its way onto a zip lock bag.
11/08/2019 A quick loop round, notable for the return of the mud flap lady and red racist bags!
Same distinctive print registration mark on both bags and same method of sealing round the edges, looks to be manufactured by the same company.
17/8/2019 Open plan living room
29/08/2019 Proper sorry frown.
For a while now the drug using community's unthinking utilisation of single use plastics has been making me do a Thunberg frown. Its as if they have no thought for the long term consequences of their actions. So I was pleased to see a recycled and recyclable pack making a come back. Hope those inks are biodegradable! Im sure they are.
A world seemingly unbothered by casual racial stereotypes. Slightly weird reference to a 70s superstar hand puppet fused with the cultural appropriation of the poor old first nation's legendary peace pipes.
Again, same print registration mark, same method of sealing the sides of the bag that we have seen before.
Chop Socky! Oh dear now I'm doing it.
31/08/2019 Head shop hit
If you go down to the woods today....getting a last few Polish bears, sorry beers in before Brexit. Ive no idea why these toys were there, apart from party hard, obviously.
4/9/2019 Taking drugs with your mum? Taking drugs while thinking of your mum? Its ok if I take drugs with your mum or think of your mum while taking drugs but a bit weird when you do it.
6/9/2019 Bumber crop! Some signs of class A usage which is no surprise
How many bags can you see?
7/9/2019 With the circus in town the druggies seem to have taken flight, slim pickens
13/09/2019 If you like to gamble, I tell you I'm your man, You win some, lose some, all the same to me
The pleasure is to play, it makes no difference what you say!
I don't share your greed, the only card I need is the Ace of Spades. The Ace of Spades! Best. Song. Ever.
Old Red's in town. And sitting late at night he doesn't make a sound. Just adding to the wrinkles on his deathly frown.
Listen up Old Red. You never listened to a word the doctor said. He told you if you drank another you'd be dead.
Crouching tiger hidden dragon
Some norms
I pulled out the queen, smiling beguiling
16/09/2019 Indisputable evidence of a link between drugs and crime. I was so close to getting a SHAG too.
They told me no one dies and no one gets left behind but here I am dying and all alone.
The slightly turned in upper paw is a strong indication of disapproval or perhaps an indication of strong disapproval, possibly both. Ill ask.
As is the angle of this foot
These two
Some just need to be binned
A few randoms to finish the day
19/09/2019 Just a few more
Bit of a trend to rip the bags apart at the moment, patience is a virtue and all that
21/09/2019 A quick pass round, more for the bin
9/10/2019 Sweet home Alabama! Mud flap lady is back.
Circlely space thingy is back too
Route one advertising, does what it says on the tin
Saucy! A world untroubled by thoughts of political correctness, a simpler more innocent world in many ways.
04/10/2019 Classic smileys, very popular at the moment. Three in short order.
5/10/2019 Another one for the bin. People don't always carry knives with them of course, sometimes they stash them for when they need them. This one has gone for good.
With the good weather having gone there's not so much going on down the Level so here is a round up of several trips over the last month or so. We start with the fight back against single use plastics.
A bunch of standard bags, prescription drugs and stuff
Best design for a while
Looking towards the sunset from behind a druggy hotspot.
Not from the level but after several months absence, red is back!
29/12/2019 Four bags of something that looks class A like left in the middle of the Level. Stay classy! I don't really care what you shove up your nose or in a vein, let he who is without sin and all that, but it does piss me off to see bags of class A discarded where children or pets can easily get hold of them.
31/12/2019 The following three bags were actually found on Bond St within a minute of each other but I'm including them here because the bags with the green stripe are identical to the bag with the green stripe above in terms of construction, size and gloss finish plus they all had some white powder in them.
That is the finish for 2019. See you on the 2020 thread for more of the same.