Works and Days » Welcome to the California Outback:
"But there are more serous miscreants who migrate outside the city to build drug labs, grow pot, run crack houses, or just visit at night to shoot up things, beat up their girlfriends without worry about the neighbors or to throw out fellow gang-bangers into peach orchards rather than lighted city street corners. Over the years, I have seen all of the above in these environs."
