He hits the nail on the head as far as Portland, but he left out the fourth kind. I guess technically they aren't homeless but they pretend to be.
'Local grifters.' Minority housewife takes her two young kids and drives to a rich suburb to hold up a sign and pretend to be homeless to milk the dumb rich liberals in the suburbs before going home each day.
I did a shift at a homeless shelter a while back, and that's how I learned that the beggars out on the streets are often grifters. They leave the shelter every morning to go out and mooch with the signs they use on the streets, and they return in the evening with those signs to do it again the next day. They are technically homeless since they're living in shelters, but they have a roof over their head and free meals. Anyone giving to them isn't helping them survive, they're helping them buy booze and drugs. One guy I worked with told me that one of the regulars straight up refused to get a (very easily obtainable) job because he had all his needs provided for. There are also more more beds than homeless people in many cities. They stay out in the street because they're more interested in drinking and shooting up than getting shelter.
Aren't they gonna call the cops and get rid of them Martha's vineyard style? Considering it's the rich liberals I would expect the popo to come running quicker than for a normal person calling them. But yeah, I don't even feel and shred of sympathy for those people, hope they have entire homeless camps in their nice and rich neighbourhoods as they wanted this.
No, the locals that TerpenoidTester describes are the $1 millionaires. The "I'll call the cops to remove you" types are the $100-$1,000 millionaires. There's rich and then there's rich.
Well, that's good then! They voted for this so it's good they now have to also feel the consequences....I only feel for the sane people who have to suffer through this sadly.
The entire metro I live in is packed with them on any day where the weather is decent. It's amazing how they all disappear as soon as it gets cold out.
Nah. Not even laced drugs. Just give them all the drugs they want, they will OD in a week.
Install a vending machine that sells doses of fentanyl for $1. Make it a little baggie with measured, high but safe dose (given some assumptions about body weight).
For the regular users one dose won't get them high, so they will take two. Even if they get the math right that time, they will fuck it up before the month is out.
If they break the vending machine, replace it with an honesty box.
He hits the nail on the head as far as Portland, but he left out the fourth kind. I guess technically they aren't homeless but they pretend to be.
'Local grifters.' Minority housewife takes her two young kids and drives to a rich suburb to hold up a sign and pretend to be homeless to milk the dumb rich liberals in the suburbs before going home each day.
I did a shift at a homeless shelter a while back, and that's how I learned that the beggars out on the streets are often grifters. They leave the shelter every morning to go out and mooch with the signs they use on the streets, and they return in the evening with those signs to do it again the next day. They are technically homeless since they're living in shelters, but they have a roof over their head and free meals. Anyone giving to them isn't helping them survive, they're helping them buy booze and drugs. One guy I worked with told me that one of the regulars straight up refused to get a (very easily obtainable) job because he had all his needs provided for. There are also more more beds than homeless people in many cities. They stay out in the street because they're more interested in drinking and shooting up than getting shelter.
The pattern I learned was: "I'll buy you a lunch, how about that?"
If they are genuinely hungry, they'll be happy as all hell. If they are a grifter: they'll actually be quite annoyed.
There's also the few times, where the dude is wearing nicer clothes than me. That's normally a dead giveaway.
Now connect the dots and do people on food stamps who take drugs.
The argument on Reddit went:
"Think of the Children; you can't take their food away just because their parent (mother) tests positive for drugs."
If they are not feeding their kids, and they are buying drugs, then they are an addict.
Subsidizing drug use with government money is fucking stupid.
Aren't they gonna call the cops and get rid of them Martha's vineyard style? Considering it's the rich liberals I would expect the popo to come running quicker than for a normal person calling them. But yeah, I don't even feel and shred of sympathy for those people, hope they have entire homeless camps in their nice and rich neighbourhoods as they wanted this.
No, the locals that TerpenoidTester describes are the $1 millionaires. The "I'll call the cops to remove you" types are the $100-$1,000 millionaires. There's rich and then there's rich.
Well, that's good then! They voted for this so it's good they now have to also feel the consequences....I only feel for the sane people who have to suffer through this sadly.
The entire metro I live in is packed with them on any day where the weather is decent. It's amazing how they all disappear as soon as it gets cold out.
Those are the types who should be given laced drugs. get rid of the leeches, not like anyone would care.
Nah. Not even laced drugs. Just give them all the drugs they want, they will OD in a week.
Install a vending machine that sells doses of fentanyl for $1. Make it a little baggie with measured, high but safe dose (given some assumptions about body weight).
For the regular users one dose won't get them high, so they will take two. Even if they get the math right that time, they will fuck it up before the month is out.
If they break the vending machine, replace it with an honesty box.