The Tenderloin Trifecta

Today, in a ten minute period, I saw someone:

1) Buying crack
2) Smoking crack
3) Throwing up due to crack.

Okay, as to the third bit of evidence, I have no actual, hard and fast proof that it was crack that made him puke. There was no close visual inspection of said puke, nor did I send any samples back to the laboratory for analysis. But I’m not just working on pure intuition here—there was circumstantial evidence to back up my claim.

1) His demeanor
a. Though before today I would not have deemed myself an expert on crack/users of crack, I direct you back to numbers one and two in my Trifecta claim.
b. That being said, the guy looked like he was on crack.

2) His location
a. Though before today I would not have been able to tell you where a good place was to find crack/crack heads in the city, I again submit numbers one through two as evidence.
b. Now secure in my knowledge of places to purvey crack, I can attest that aforementioned gagging guy was in CLOSE PROXIMITY to crack smoking and dealing.

Thus, though I still cannot claim with 100% certainty that he had crack in his system, I believe I have proved, if not beyond a reasonable doubt, at least by a preponderance of the evidence, that sick boy was in fact sick due to crack.

That or booze. Come to think of it, there were a lot of drunk guys, too.

Still, I’m going with Trifecta.

(In case you’re curious, Law School is going great.)