I began to wonder about this place a couple of months ago when I started getting multiple rides a day to this clinic at 2137 West Martin Luther King in Tampa from all the low end motels on Dale Mabry. It is called Total Imaging and all of the fares were from out of State and said they had come to Tampa for 'Pain Management.' They all looked like 'crack heads.' They were all young, and none of them walked with a limp.
I would pull into the parking area and take them to the back (that is were the entrance is). The crummy looking people hanging out in the parking lot all had tattoos and were smoking cigarettes and it looked like the waiting room at the methadone clinic,
I finally figured out what was going on when I started taking people to a pharmacy in Temple Terrace which was the only one in Tampa that, at the time, could dispense large, massive, obscene quantities of opium based drugs. These people from out of State were not in pain, they were dealers coming to Florida for a large supply to take back to Ohio (most seem to be from there) and sell them street level.
Some days, it gets to the point, when you get a call from the Days Inn Stadium, Howard Johnson's Stadium, Best Western South Dale Mabry, Tahitian Inn South Dale Mabry, you tell your dispatcher in advance where you will be vacating at even before you pick up! You just know they are going to Tampa's new, great, tourist attraction. That is now what we are becoming known for. To bad we don't have real tourist.
How can places like this keep operating?
I do like the business from the drug dealers, but this has got to stop. One night I took these guys there around midnight, and the place was still open! People in the parking lot were smoking dope and drinking beer. I say the Florida Department Of Law Enforcement is doing a great job when a Tampa Taxi Shots Cab driver can find out more then they can. Did I leave out the Tampa Police Department.
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