# Ithaca is a "Jungle" **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 5, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ithaca-is-a-jungle/1414297 "2023-10-05T12:38:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bakes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bakes/32/7469_2.png) [@Bakes](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bakes)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ithaca-is-a-jungle/1414297/1 "2023-10-05T12:38:23Z")
Ithaca is a “different” type of place but it seems now the city is essentially sanctioning what for the past 30+ years has been known as “The Jungle”. In that 30yrs, well of course comes expansion. Of course being in Ithaca, you have your super crunchy lefties shouting " you must not have anything better to do than complain, it doesn’t affect you" well it does when crime spills out into the city and resources need to be used to literally put out fires at this place. > **[Jungle Walkthrough Offers Glimpse Into Drug Encampments - Ithaca Crime](https://ithacacrime.com/jungle-walkthrough-offers-glimpse-into-drug-encampments/)** > > Photos from a walkthrough of portions of the "Jungle" drug encampments in Ithaca's West End show burned out camps, vast amounts of trash, discarded hypodermic syringes & hundreds of shopping carts littering city land. Dozens of expended propane... > **[Tompkins County forms its own working group on homeless encampments issue -...](https://ithacavoice.org/2023/09/tompkins-county-forms-its-own-working-group-on-homeless-encampments-issue/)** > > TOMPKINS COUNTY, N.Y.—Tompkins County is wading into the fight over how to address issues in the large homeless encampment in Ithaca’s West End known as “the Jungle.” For months, a \[…\] ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 12:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ithaca-is-a-jungle/1414297/2 "2023-10-05T12:44:30Z")
Where ever liberals congregate this nonsense is found. ---
**Author:** ![Bakes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bakes/32/7469_2.png) [@Bakes](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bakes)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ithaca-is-a-jungle/1414297/3 "2023-10-05T13:08:34Z")
I’m sure that’s not by coincidence… ---
**Author:** ![Bakes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bakes/32/7469_2.png) [@Bakes](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bakes)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ithaca-is-a-jungle/1414297/4 "2023-10-05T13:13:13Z")
Down here, it’s either shootings or machete attacks. I think we have had at least 3 machete incidents within the past year. > **[Ithaca man found and arrested after incident involving machetes](https://www.mytwintiers.com/crime/ithaca-man-found-and-arrested-after-incident-involving-machetes/)** > > ITHACA, N.Y. (WETM) – Police have located and arrested a man that was armed with two machetes in Ithaca on Monday, following a separate incident that occurred the next day. On Tuesday, Aug. 15, aro… ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2023, 2:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ithaca-is-a-jungle/1414297/5 "2023-10-06T02:23:22Z")
Damn, they’re going to leave a perfectly good pasta maker to sit there and rot. 🍝