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Friend of the family was on her way to her HS Prom at City Hall at night with a few friends. Dressed to the nines, going to have a great time under the rotunda

Friend of the family was on her way to her HS Prom at City Hall at night with a few friends. Dressed to the nines, going to have a great time under the rotunda with her class. A homeless guy came up to her and put something wet on her arm, directly in front of city hall. It was a lot of acid. She spent the next few days in the hospital recovering/surviving a very bad trip. She still deals with flashbacks, years later and doesn't go out at night. It was an assault, not violent, but much worse all the same. It used to be just a 'don't go out after sundown' thing in SF. But now it's pretty much all hours of the day anywhere near Civic Center for women.

filoleg 5y ago
This sounds so implausible, I don't even know where to start. First, LSD isn't the kind of a drug homeless people usually do. It has no addictive potential, and it doesn't give you a high. It isn't a "fun" drug, as opposed to the typical heroin/meth/etc. stuff those people do. Second, LSD is usually distributed in the form of paper tabs. Why would they be wet? Third, getting high from just skin contact, especially on your arm, is something I cannot find as possible after some googling. The only skin-contact-related use case I've found online is some people putting it on their eyes for faster absorption, but it is not the same as arm skin at all. I am not accusing you of lying, I honestly believe that you are telling the story you were told by the friend of the family exactly as is. But I have a feeling that the reality was a bit different from what you have described, and I bet I can guess what it was. My theory: she went to prom, did acid for the first time with her friends there, it ended up being too much and too intense, she got hospitalized, and then she made up that story for her parents. After all, who is gonna be able to track down and find a random non-descript homeless person?
- Balgair 5y ago
  > This sounds so implausible, I don't even know where to start. Perhaps you should not have then. I'm not lying, she's not either. Comments like these are why women find it hard talk about their assaults; they are not believed, mostly just accused. Thanks for the comment.
  - MrRiddle 5y ago
    > Comments like these Like what? Questioning very hard to believe story?
    - Balgair 5y ago
      Despite your incredulousness, I maintain my account's truthfulness. Thank you for your comment.
  - filoleg 5y ago
    >Comments like these are why women find it hard talk about their assaults How does it have anything to do with women? My arguments would stay exactly the same, regardless if the person in question was a man or a woman or neither. In my eyes it isn't about women lying, it is about high schoolers making up excuses in front of their parents to get out of consequences of irresponsible drug/alcohol usage. And I even explicitly said that I don't think you were lying, you were truthfully retelling a story you were told. I just doubt the source. I have explicitly listed factual problems I see with this story. None of which had anything to do with the person in question, but rather the physical properties of the drug and the fact that LSD isn't the kind of a drug that homeless people typically use. I am addressing factual things, while you simply snark me and segway into a "believe female survivors of sexual assault" argument. Quite literally nothing is similar about those two things, and conflating them as even remotely similar only does injustice to assault survivors and their traumatic experiences.
- morberg 5y ago
  This was a very good analysis. A fourth point is that drug users rarely give away their hard earned drugs to strangers.
- hycaria 5y ago
  Op is so ridiculous. At start I thought it was burning acid so yeah that would be pretty bad. But your comment made me understand it was about lsd and lol no way this is true.

filoleg 5y ago

This sounds so implausible, I don't even know where to start. First, LSD isn't the kind of a drug homeless people usually do. It has no addictive potential, and it doesn't give you a high. It isn't a "fun" drug, as opposed to the typical heroin/meth/etc. stuff those people do. Second, LSD is usually distributed in the form of paper tabs. Why would they be wet? Third, getting high from just skin contact, especially on your arm, is something I cannot find as possible after some googling. The only skin-contact-related use case I've found online is some people putting it on their eyes for faster absorption, but it is not the same as arm skin at all. I am not accusing you of lying, I honestly believe that you are telling the story you were told by the friend of the family exactly as is. But I have a feeling that the reality was a bit different from what you have described, and I bet I can guess what it was. My theory: she went to prom, did acid for the first time with her friends there, it ended up being too much and too intense, she got hospitalized, and then she made up that story for her parents. After all, who is gonna be able to track down and find a random non-descript homeless person?

Balgair 5y ago
> This sounds so implausible, I don't even know where to start. Perhaps you should not have then. I'm not lying, she's not either. Comments like these are why women find it hard talk about their assaults; they are not believed, mostly just accused. Thanks for the comment.
- MrRiddle 5y ago
  > Comments like these Like what? Questioning very hard to believe story?
  - Balgair 5y ago
    Despite your incredulousness, I maintain my account's truthfulness. Thank you for your comment.
- filoleg 5y ago
  >Comments like these are why women find it hard talk about their assaults How does it have anything to do with women? My arguments would stay exactly the same, regardless if the person in question was a man or a woman or neither. In my eyes it isn't about women lying, it is about high schoolers making up excuses in front of their parents to get out of consequences of irresponsible drug/alcohol usage. And I even explicitly said that I don't think you were lying, you were truthfully retelling a story you were told. I just doubt the source. I have explicitly listed factual problems I see with this story. None of which had anything to do with the person in question, but rather the physical properties of the drug and the fact that LSD isn't the kind of a drug that homeless people typically use. I am addressing factual things, while you simply snark me and segway into a "believe female survivors of sexual assault" argument. Quite literally nothing is similar about those two things, and conflating them as even remotely similar only does injustice to assault survivors and their traumatic experiences.
morberg 5y ago
This was a very good analysis. A fourth point is that drug users rarely give away their hard earned drugs to strangers.
hycaria 5y ago
Op is so ridiculous. At start I thought it was burning acid so yeah that would be pretty bad. But your comment made me understand it was about lsd and lol no way this is true.