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California has more "bums" or homeless people than anyplace I have ever been.
They are EVERYWHERE and thousands of mentally ill and drug addicts to boot.
NYC has NOTHING on them.
"Skid row" esp by the Nickel as they call it has a huge concentration of them. CA tends to be warmer also so more could stay outside vs. The Northeast in Winter. I saw a huge concentration of them in North Las Vegas as well during my trips.
What do u suggest happen? U arrest people for being annoying? That's too far
Something has got to give. Two women were recently raped and one of them being 70 plus years of age. Then we had that mentally ill man swinging a knife around on 42nd street. I'm gold that looney was gunned down.
No problem. I'll share another quick story. This one I wasn't directly involved with but non-the-less it was one of the more gross actions I witnessed from this homeless man.
I was at Wendy's with a friend of mine, the one on E. 14st a block or two away from Union Square and this bum comes in harassing everyone in the store asking them for change or for something to eat or even if he can get a bite of their meal (GROSS!). When each person refused, this guy would lash out verbally, then the last person he asked, he got rather physical. Not with them, but started banging the wall trying to be more threatening as if the person owed him something. Then proceeds to go in the garbage can and says to everyone "You see what I have to amount to! DO YOU SEE!?!? NO ONE WANTS TO HELP ME!!" or something to that degree. One of the workers comes out to address the issue he gets him out the place with relative ease and the guy surprisingly compliant and put up a peaceful resistance. Or so I thought.
This is very, very sad. I feel bad for him. Contrary to what everyone would like to "believe" there aren't too many places for these people to go to eat or get help.
Seeing him do that would have broke my heart.
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As other patrons start exiting the Wendy's, I hear gasp, screams of disgust, sounds of shock and people wanting to throw up. The homeless man took a massive diarrhea dump on the entrance door of the Wendy's then starts boasting about it. I don't remember but I think the guy was dealt with by the cops since I definitely didn't stick around as the smell and sight was repulsive but as I was leaving I think I remember seeing a cop car stopping in front of the Wendy's. Either way, that was totally disgusting.
There are no porta potties in the city. Where was he supposed to handle his business?
Yeah, it was "disgusting". Let's just hope this isn't YOU one day in the near future.
This is very, very sad. I feel bad for him. Contrary to what everyone would like to "believe" there aren't too many places for these people to go to eat or get help.
Seeing him do that would have broke my heart.
There are no porta potties in the city. Where was he supposed to handle his business?
Yeah, it was "disgusting". Let's just hope this isn't YOU one day in the near future.
There are public bathrooms in this city. Not many, but there are some. He BOASTED about crapping where people had to walk/enter the place. I was downwind on public transit when a guy decided to take a dump in public. Maybe if he hadn't acted up in Wendy's they would have let him use the bathroom.
While part of the problem is too few resources for the mentally ill, part of the problem is also you can't commit someone who obviously can't take care of themselves unless they are clearly a threat, which is very hard to prove legally
I just recently moved to NYC and I am really getting tired of all the schizophrenic hobos harassing people on the street and the subway. That is part of the reason I'm thinking of going to LA, where I can avoid public transportation and walking around on the streets filled with bums.
Because there are no bums in L.A.?
(Except the sweet kinds in tight jeans, obviously.)
This is very, very sad. I feel bad for him. Contrary to what everyone would like to "believe" there aren't too many places for these people to go to eat or get help.
Seeing him do that would have broke my heart.
There are no porta potties in the city. Where was he supposed to handle his business?
Yeah, it was "disgusting". Let's just hope this isn't YOU one day in the near future.
Oh puh-lease. Stop. And trust me, that WILL NOT be me in the future. And I don't feel bad for people who clearly want to cause harm to people who have done nothing to him/her.
If you feel so bad for these bums, you should house them and let them crap on your hands and smear it all over your face. Pacifist.
I think the amount of visible bums in NYC has been much less from the late 90's to now.
No more squeegie bums. I think Guiliani and Bloomberg locked all of them up somewhere.
I was recently visiting Seattle and Bums were literally everywhere, even begging inside resturants. NYC has much less bums per square feet than other major US cities.
I just recently moved to NYC and I am really getting tired of all the schizophrenic hobos harassing people on the street and the subway. That is part of the reason I'm thinking of going to LA, where I can avoid public transportation and walking around on the streets filled with bums.
Oh trust me, without a subway for them to go to, you'll see way more bums on LA's streets than here. DC is another place and I was actually surprised to see that with, you know, it being the nations capital and all.
To the post above, it's because of out 24/7 subway system and shelters.
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