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| Convention Planning Team To Seattle: City's Homeless Problem ‘Has Gotten Out Of Control' |
| 2018-06-16 |
| [Hot Air] The American Pharmacists Association was planning a large convention for early next year, one that would require a site capable of hosting up to 6,000 attendees. One of the places it considered holding the convention was Seattle, so it sent an advanced planning team to the city to scout the area. But the homeless problem the planning team encountered on Seattle’s streets led them to write a letter to Seattle’s tourism bureau saying they might have to rule Seattle out for future consideration. It’s not just the sights and smells that are off-putting to tourists, it’s the danger of being around people with serious mental problems. Case in point, today Seattle news outlets are reporting an incident which happened earlier this month: A tourist who went downtown to see Seattle’s famous Space Needle with his family was attacked by a homeless man with a rope. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 I'm really not going to recommend Iowa, because they think they are something special come election time. Had a very nice time in Dallas at the NRA convention, town whas cleanes I can ever remember seeing it. It's been a while, but the nicest people I ever met in my life were in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-06-16 15:26 |
| #5 ...must have confused the convention for a government contract back at the prep site. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-16 15:21 |
| #4 My last visit to SF, a city I used to love showing off to Bay Area visitors, was for a national convention. So many homeless to deal with, crapping on the sidewalks, drug use in the doorways left a very bad impression on me. In addition, our once proud industry event had "lunch" at the Moscone Center... a box lunch of the most horrible lowest quality ingredients I have ever been served. People were tossing out everything except the chips. Attendees were all complaining loudly. I happen to know the event organizer, and I went to give her a heads up that pitchforks were coming out. She turned to me, knowing she could trust me, and said "we are never coming back here... that box lunch cost us $58 per person!... I worked a couple of hundred trade events in my life and that ranked one of the worst. |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2018-06-16 14:27 |
| #3 They can always go to San Fran. I hear the dispensed needles have a lovely reflection in the sunset light. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-16 09:23 |
| #2 Trenchant observation of the week, at least, B. To be fair, the pill counters are the pipeline, not the wellhead. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-06-16 04:21 |
| #1 So 'Big Pharma' is reluctant to convention in cities their product lines have helped to destroy ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-06-16 02:28 |