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Originally Posted by Washing Machine
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.
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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.