They've found a bum at the top of my street!
 

What a way to greet the day, with the discovery that there's an unemployed German from WWII at the top of my street.

Discuss.

i thought it was one of these

Yeah, but those are rather commonplace around here. Nobody gets excited.

A bum at the end of your street? Well, that's modern art for you.

hippie burnout bums pepper san francisco like chocolate chips in cookie dough

My bum is on the end of the streets, my bum s at the end...

corruption boils over like an angry sludge...

You must spread blah blah blah, for bringing in a t.v. commercial ad.

there's a bum that comes to crash at the semi-abandoned building's entrance next to where i live.

My girlfriend says I have a luvverly bum.

You guys should move to New York! One day we had some guy sleeping under our stairs in the hall. I'd be a bit forgiving but if you give the skummers an inch they take a mile and before you know they're shitting in the stairwell and smoking crack and robbing you. Without exception. But I gave him an hour before I called the cops and then he was gone.

I don't know about how it is in New York but I can nver understand why people don't leave them alone. Why can't they sleep in shop doorways, what harm are they doing? I don't understand why the police keep moving the poor sods. And people why claim thay buy nice apartments in nice areas and dont wanna wake up to see homeless people outside deserve everything they get. Pompous cunts. Granted its different if they are actually in your hallway.

I agree.

What I can't stand though are the "disabled vets" who sit on the downtown street corners with cardboard signs asking for spare change. They are there every day from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. The thing is, they don't look so disabled. I always suspect a scam--not so much them individually, but that they're part of somebody else's plan to make a few bucks. Put a few "homeless" or "disabled" people out there to collect money, get them lunch and a small percentage of their take... The cardboard signs all look like they're written in the same hand. It's weird.

theres a guy down our local chip shop swears he's Elvis.

I don't know why homeless people flock to lousy downtown areas. If I was homeless, I'd find me a nice suburb with woods and clean streams to bathe in and snooze....nice, clean sidewalks to beg on.

And I wouldn't hold a sign saying 'spare change?', I'd be honest and say "I'm honest, I want beer ! Can you help a poor guy out ?" :D

If you were in a suburb, in five minutes that you get there, you are tossed back to the downtown area.

Hmmmm....bummer.

I'm just glad i'm not too short....then it'd be,

Dwarf Tossing. Not cool. :(

I think its because they just move in, leave their trash around, its not fun having to negotiate around drunken mentally ill people. I hate to sound so unsympathetic, especially when the military dumps its mentally ill out on the street without any assistance.

I'm very disturbed by the homeless elderly. Saturday, I saw this old guy, had to be in his 70's, in the W 4th St station with his bags combing his hair with a plastic fork. Over and over and over. Monday night this fat rolly polly guy I've seen around in midtown was sitting against a building with his hand down his pants doing something over and over and over. I really don't have an answer for this problem other than throwing a lot of money at it. I imagine the hundreds of billions Bush has poured into Iraq could have made an impact on the housing situation here in the US.

There is a current situation in POrtsmouth NH with the homeless/mentally ill...the cops raided a homeless camp down by the train tracks - filthy, drug addled etc. But judges are finding them incompentent to stand trial and then just release them back on the street and they continue to harrass people in town, invade businesses, conduct petty vandalism. The civilain population does have some right to be safe from this stuff.

I can understand the problems of having a drunk in your hallway and i don't think its unreasonable to called the cops then. Its just I don't understand why when they are peacefully sleeping in a shop doorway (as thay usually are) why the police keep having to move them along. Its really one of the sad things about society that if we have a problem we move it along out of the middle classes' sight.

In Cardiff I have never been harressed by the homeless, they have always been genuinely very nice. They certainly don't seem like mentally ill drunks. My heart really does go out to them. I get harressed more by christians and accident-claim people, get them off the streets they are far more irritating.

 

ECS '73

Allen “Bum” Minckler was a talented student athlete who excelled in soccer, basketball and baseball while in high school.




....he's come a long way.