It was like a scene from an episode of The Walking Dead. But it wasn't zombies who could barely stand, it was New Yorkers. And it wasn't an apocalyptic infection they were suffering from - but the same bad batch of bad drugs.
Thirty-three people were hospitalized for a possible overdose on K2, a type of synthetic marijuana, in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning.
Witnesses reported seeing more than a dozen people passing out, vomiting, urinating and twitching in the middle of the street around 9.30am in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
They reportedly reacted to the drug almost simultaneously near Broadway and Myrtle Ave, an intersection that has become known as 'ground zero' for K2 addicts in the city.
Lindsay Foehrenbach, a resident of the neighborhood for the last 11 years, described the 'appalling' scene to Daily Mail Online.
'People just kept showing up and then quickly dropping to the ground, flopping over hoods of cars, or crumpling onto the sidewalk,' she said.
'They all seemed oblivious to their surroundings and just couldn't stay on their feet. I saw four ambulances show up and more entering the intersection as I was leaving.'
Foehrenbach said one man was spread eagle and lying face down on the ground. Another man laid down in the street between two parked cars. His shoes were off and he was unresponsive.
Resident Brian Arthur likewise witnessed the 'horrible' scene.
'Some of them were motionless. This is nothing you'd want your kids to see,' he told the New York Daily News.
Arthur, 38, filmed the incredible scene and posted it on his Facebook, showing people who couldn't stand up straight and had to be held up by officers as they waited for a stretcher.
'This is no joke over here right now, this is tragic,' Arthur says as his camera moves from one passed-out New Yorker to the next.
'This is crazy. Tell your kids, tell your family, stay off of that man.'
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Poster Comment:
This coincidentally pops up the day after I tried smoking an old joint I bought for a friend who died. Stuff seems to lose all its moxie after 6 years! Old familiar smell was nice. But does this story add up all those people on one street? Distribution must be very regularized there.