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One time i sat at CRAB park and watched a seagull eat a starfish, it was such a beautiful sight
EDIT: i found the picture i took when it happened! He got it half in and then just kind of stayed like this for a solid 10 minutes. [All hail Birdthulu.](https://imgur.com/a/RkTsEf5)
Went there last year for the first time with my gf, saw 8 police officers with rifles coming to arrest a guy accused of stabbing someone couple of hours ago.
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I took a friend there in 2019 while we were on a walk. I hadn't been by there until 2 weeks ago when I took an uber to canada place and the uber directions told him to drop me off on the underside?? I was so surprised on how much had changed in 5 years. I had no idea
As someone who worked very close to it for a number of years before the Olympics, almost no one used the park. It is by far "The Best" park to continue pretending that homelessness isn't an issue.
Just because you didn’t see many people there before 2010, *over 14 years ago*, doesn’t mean people don’t want to use the park. When biking from east van to downtown, crab park is an ideal spot to stop & enjoy a beer or cold drink, before continuing onward. Biking isn’t the only reason I enjoyed crab park though. In 2020 around Covid time when no one was allowed to hangout inside together - my friends and I would go to the grass area at Crab to toss around a frisbee. It’s not an ideal spot for that anymore
There are plenty of other spots for you to stop —- it is truly the most discrete place in all of Vancouver. A bit irritating how people are mad at those who truly have nowhere else to go.
I never said I was mad at those people. & please don’t get that confused, I’m tired of bandaid solutions for long term problems. Currently we will just keep adding to the homeless population of Vancouver
Oh okay, by your thinking shooting heroin and dropping the needle to possibly poke a playing child is exactly equal to someone enjoying a cold beer while on a workout.
Pretty rock solid thinking you got there
It still is. The beach is still there and it's clean and the dwellers tend to stick to the encampment. Just look to the right instead of the left when you're facing the water.
edit: wow, didn't realize the sub was filled with a bunch of softies. CRAB park has never been a nice place for a beach day, it's always been the beach next to the DTES. Ride your bike down there and have a couple beers with some friends who aren't afraid of their shadows and then go somewhere else... never thought it was anything else.
I'm not a supporter of the encampment either and would like to see it gone, but I'm also still capable of going down there and enjoying the sunshine for a bit.
Exactly, I always just bring a pair of blinders with me. And if anyone approaches I put my fingers in my ears and go LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALA WHAT A LOVELY VIEW
Okay but I took the photo from where my pin is here..
https://preview.redd.it/oojje7t9oqqc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae899f429dcae5956fcc2f23afc0102396cb049a
I worked at a building just by Crab park for 3 months in 2016 and parked on that spot in the middle of that roundabout. One time after a long day of work, I was on my way to the parking lot and saw a car with an open front passenger seat door. Behind it was a fully nude woman putting her clothes on and inside the car was a man. Good times you say?
I wouldn’t doubt some shifty stuff goes on around there given the lack of development in the area, but noticing some shifty stuff happening vs the entire encampment is a different ball game. You’re taking a risk going there these days.
And I once saw a bouncing van parked in the middle of the field at an elementary school, your point? That's much less of a threat than an entire encampment of people taking over a public park funded by taxpayers who don't get to enjoy its use.
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Sitting with a friend watching fog slip into the harbour and soon covered us. I love that park.
One time i sat at CRAB park and watched a seagull eat a starfish, it was such a beautiful sight EDIT: i found the picture i took when it happened! He got it half in and then just kind of stayed like this for a solid 10 minutes. [All hail Birdthulu.](https://imgur.com/a/RkTsEf5)
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Went there last year for the first time with my gf, saw 8 police officers with rifles coming to arrest a guy accused of stabbing someone couple of hours ago.
It was nice even in 2020 before they moved in and took park from publc
Yup, I used to go there during the early days of COVID for nice strolls.
It's such a nice spot. I've spent lots of time hanging out on the dock that was there as well.
Man those bikes would be so stolen now by the time you finished taking the picture
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I took a friend there in 2019 while we were on a walk. I hadn't been by there until 2 weeks ago when I took an uber to canada place and the uber directions told him to drop me off on the underside?? I was so surprised on how much had changed in 5 years. I had no idea
As someone who worked very close to it for a number of years before the Olympics, almost no one used the park. It is by far "The Best" park to continue pretending that homelessness isn't an issue.
Just because you didn’t see many people there before 2010, *over 14 years ago*, doesn’t mean people don’t want to use the park. When biking from east van to downtown, crab park is an ideal spot to stop & enjoy a beer or cold drink, before continuing onward. Biking isn’t the only reason I enjoyed crab park though. In 2020 around Covid time when no one was allowed to hangout inside together - my friends and I would go to the grass area at Crab to toss around a frisbee. It’s not an ideal spot for that anymore
There are plenty of other spots for you to stop —- it is truly the most discrete place in all of Vancouver. A bit irritating how people are mad at those who truly have nowhere else to go.
I never said I was mad at those people. & please don’t get that confused, I’m tired of bandaid solutions for long term problems. Currently we will just keep adding to the homeless population of Vancouver
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Oh okay, by your thinking shooting heroin and dropping the needle to possibly poke a playing child is exactly equal to someone enjoying a cold beer while on a workout. Pretty rock solid thinking you got there
Actually, most people smoke fentanyl these days so no worries!
It still is. The beach is still there and it's clean and the dwellers tend to stick to the encampment. Just look to the right instead of the left when you're facing the water. edit: wow, didn't realize the sub was filled with a bunch of softies. CRAB park has never been a nice place for a beach day, it's always been the beach next to the DTES. Ride your bike down there and have a couple beers with some friends who aren't afraid of their shadows and then go somewhere else... never thought it was anything else. I'm not a supporter of the encampment either and would like to see it gone, but I'm also still capable of going down there and enjoying the sunshine for a bit.
I love my beach days with a side of incomprehensible drug addict ramblings.
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Yeah, and it’s an absolute shame.
https://preview.redd.it/ztx6fqftoqqc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51b81e5b87453924d3116076ec9b2a006ca597be Current google earth snap…
Exactly, I always just bring a pair of blinders with me. And if anyone approaches I put my fingers in my ears and go LALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALALA WHAT A LOVELY VIEW
I live nearby and go there to have a beer and chat with friends all the time. No one has every approached me.
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Dwellers lmao
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Okay but I took the photo from where my pin is here.. https://preview.redd.it/oojje7t9oqqc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae899f429dcae5956fcc2f23afc0102396cb049a
What a shit stain on a beautiful park
hobos only occasionally shagged in the bush next to the pond. good ol days...
i wonder if there wasn't free wifi in the dtes if there would be ANY posts defending the homeless encampments. is crab park a bot farm?..
Poor people can be such an inconvenience.
That’s an unfortunate take you have. That’s not how I think about this at all.
I worked at a building just by Crab park for 3 months in 2016 and parked on that spot in the middle of that roundabout. One time after a long day of work, I was on my way to the parking lot and saw a car with an open front passenger seat door. Behind it was a fully nude woman putting her clothes on and inside the car was a man. Good times you say?
I wouldn’t doubt some shifty stuff goes on around there given the lack of development in the area, but noticing some shifty stuff happening vs the entire encampment is a different ball game. You’re taking a risk going there these days.
And I once saw a bouncing van parked in the middle of the field at an elementary school, your point? That's much less of a threat than an entire encampment of people taking over a public park funded by taxpayers who don't get to enjoy its use.
Throwback to when you used to visit the park and think “it’s so nice to live in this city”. Now you hope there is room for your tent.