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. Watch video after the cut
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.'
Arthur said it was mostly young, teenage boys who he saw overdosing in the street.
Police
first received a report of multiple people with an 'altered mental
status' outside a Brooklyn community garden on Stockton Street.
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