Robbers, and Stoners, and Bikes! Oh My!!!!

JESUS HELP AMSTERDAM!!!!!!! I'd already been to Amsterdam once before and had a great experience so I figured the same would happen this time around. Well, everything went well and we had a great time, but it was a lot different than the first time. Whilst walking through the red light district and watching the many oversized women thrust their hips in my direction our group was approached by the most cracked out people on the face of this Earth. Soooo many people just begging for money in what was probably English but too jumbled together to understand. As if they need another joint! Get a job! It seems like a very unproductive city. So many people just smoke all day until there isn't anything left. They say Americans are too rushed and too obsessed with work, but jeez thez just don't do anything at all. Aside from the one guy touching Shannon the bums did us no harm. After constantly warning everyone about the bikes we still almost managed to get run over a few times. The bikers must have their own subcultural normalities because apparently the law doesn't apply to them. They stop when they want (which is never), turn when they want, and despite the fact they have bells they find it necessary to yell weird things at you to get you to move. Lastly, I managed to stop a robbery today on the train. Although I didn't actually apprehend the robber I was able to see him take something that didn't belong to him and yell madly that he had done so. The police were already on the lookout for him so he was captured below the platform. Exciting!! Those people are just so inconsiderate. They don't care what is in the bag, they are just hoping it's money. What if there were medications in there that needed to be administered? What if someone died because of what they had done. They just don't have any compassion and they definitely don't think about the devastation they cause to their victims. I second Ted Nugent's belief that guns were made to shoot these kind of people. Over and out!!