Homeless people, what are your thoughts?

[brocktonblockbust]

Everyone in Britain drinks tea. Haha you just can't make this stuff up. Dude and you tell other people that they generalize?

[greynotsoold]

On my 23rd birthday I was in Las Vegas and got thrown, literally, out of a place called Pluto's. I was walking around downtown Vegas, back when it was a fun place and not the canopied police station it is now, and a homeless guy asked me to buy him a bottle. You could buy a bottle of Mad Dog, a bottle of Night Train and a half pint of vodka for less than five. We sat in an alley and drank and talked boxing; I woke up in the alley. Life was good, having no sense.

[brocktonblockbust]

on my 23rd birthday i was in las vegas and got thrown, literally, out of a place called pluto's. I was walking around downtown vegas, back when it was a fun place and not the canopied police station it is now, and a homeless guy asked me to buy him a bottle. You could buy a bottle of mad dog, a bottle of night train and a half pint of vodka for less than five. We sat in an alley and drank and talked boxing; i woke up in the alley. Life was good, having no sense.

md 20/20

[greynotsoold]

Today I was drinking a couple Beltian White Ales at the Metals Bank sports bar in Uptown Butte and trying to flirt with the bombshell bartender that is probably not quite 60 percent my age. Out the window I saw a guy in the middle of the intersection yelling and waving his arms, then he started throwing punches at a cop and got rolled up.

The rescue mission in town has been closed and it is about to be bitterly cold. I think that he was trying to get locked up to avoid the weather.

[brocktonblockbust]

I answered the phone last night and I was saying hello hello hello Joe hello Joe and you couldn't hear me so after 30 seconds I hung up

[Spicoli]

Today I was drinking a couple Beltian White Ales at the Metals Bank sports bar in Uptown Butte and trying to flirt with the bombshell bartender that is probably not quite 60 percent my age. Out the window I saw a guy in the middle of the intersection yelling and waving his arms, then he started throwing punches at a cop and got rolled up.

The rescue mission in town has been closed and it is about to be bitterly cold. I think that he was trying to get locked up to avoid the weather.

Why'd they close the Mission? Real shame around the holidays. Guess it depends where ya live, down here going into holding or a drunk tank you'll be lucky to come out with your shoes. But go in saying hey I slugged a copper you might get extra chalky cheese and grey meat on your jail sammich and get to keep your blanket. Btw did you get a number from the bombshell .

[greynotsoold]

I answered the phone last night and I was saying hello hello hello Joe hello Joe and you couldn't hear me so after 30 seconds I hung up

I'll call you later this week

[greynotsoold]

Today I was drinking a couple Beltian White Ales at the Metals Bank sports bar in Uptown Butte and trying to flirt with the bombshell bartender that is probably not quite 60 percent my age. Out the window I saw a guy in the middle of the intersection yelling and waving his arms, then he started throwing punches at a cop and got rolled up.

The rescue mission in town has been closed and it is about to be bitterly cold. I think that he was trying to get locked up to avoid the weather.

Why'd they close the Mission? Real shame around the holidays. Guess it depends where ya live, down here going into holding or a drunk tank you'll be lucky to come out with your shoes. But go in saying hey I slugged a copper you might get extra chalky cheese and grey meat on your jail sammich and get to keep your blanket. Btw did you get a number from the bombshell .

They got shut down over health code violations, which is hard to do here. There has been a couple efforts to open in a new spot but the people in those areas saw what happened in the original location and blocked it.
No, I did not, not yet. She would probably think I want it to set up a shuffleboard match with her father.

[walrus]

I answered the phone last night and I was saying hello hello hello Joe hello Joe and you couldn't hear me so after 30 seconds I hung up

I'll call you later this week

Don't do it grey, you will regret it

[X]

Actually, I heard that it's better to give homeless women feminine products instead of money, so I rushed off to buy some, put it in a paper bag (for privacy and dignity) and gave it to this homeless woman I saw in a shop doorway.

She gratefully took the bag and looked into it. There was a long pause and she looked into my eyes ...

"What the fuck am I going to do with an iron?"

[Freedom]

There are more homeless people here in Vancouver than ever before. Most of them are older men. I usually give them a little money and offer to buy them food.

There are a few younger people here who are professional panhandlers - I don't give to them.

[Alpha]

I think for many it's a lifestyle they choose. Obviously there are some truly sad stories but many I have known have screwed over everyone who cared or tried to help them, leaving them no one else to turn to or care. Some don't wish to work, want to drink and do drugs (I wish I could as well) but you need to step up and take some responsibility.

[brocktonblockbust]

2016 statistics for New York City just in we have 167,500 homeless people in New York City. The total number of beds in homeless shelters in New York City is 72,000.

That means there are 95,000 homeless people on the street who cannot get any beds in homeless shelters.

I step over literally 20 or 30 homeless people every day whether it's on the sidewalk or on the subway platforms or going up and down the stairs in the tunnels I literally step over 20 or 30 homeless people per day. Any of you people want to live a couple of years in New York City I do not believe you will give a rat's ass any longer about any homeless person.

@Beanz

[TitoFan]

You know Brock, you're bound to get criticized for this... but you make a good point. A person subjected to the same thing day in and day out... and in quantities... tend to get desensitized. Example: Here in P.R. we have stray dog issues. As is to be expected, you routinely see dead dogs on the road, victims of the obvious traffic that uses the roads. I've seen people from other places without stray dog issues be completely horrified at their first sight of a dead dog on the street. But years of living with these conditions tend to become immune to that. Same goes for crime-ridden neighbors anywhere in the world with high murder rates. Pretty sure at some point people accept it as part of daily life, and just keep on going about their business.

[brocktonblockbust]

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You know Brock, you're bound to get criticized for this... but you make a good point. A person subjected to the same thing day in and day out... and in quantities... tend to get desensitized. Example: Here in P.R. we have stray dog issues. As is to be expected, you routinely see dead dogs on the road, victims of the obvious traffic that uses the roads. I've seen people from other places without stray dog issues be completely horrified at their first sight of a dead dog on the street. But years of living with these conditions tend to become immune to that. Same goes for crime-ridden neighbors anywhere in the world with high murder rates. Pretty sure at some point people accept it as part of daily life, and just keep on going about their business.

You hit the nail on the head Tito. I have found that people who lead sheltered lives in little towns which are secluded from high population areas ...little towns in which there are absolutely no dangers or threats or challenges..... become very delicate and find things like homelessness Etc such a shocking thing. Unfortunately these are the people who are dictating public policy in the world ....people who live in Ivory Towers far away from everybody are the ones to tell the inner cities what they should do and what's horrifying and what's not horrifying. It's almost a passive-aggressive version of Let them eat cake. I personally have found nothing more grotesque than white rich people's horror at quite normal everyday things