Give to the poor?

[Vasteel]

That's funny because the same shit happen to me, but a different story.

This shit happens a lot. It's even funnier when they try it on you twice in the same day.
I remember I was in Atlanta when someone hit me with the "my mama dyin" shit, and a year later when I was back in town he did the same shit at the same place. I told he needed to just go ahead and put her out of her misery if she'd been dying for that long.

[kedawa]

Hrere's a fun story.
Tonight, at around 8PM, I was walking to a restaurant near the intersection of Bloor and Spadina to go to a friends birthday dinner, and on the way I saw some crazy/cracked out guy, who I'm guessing was homeless, and I'm certain was poor, go completely fucking batshit in the middle of what is a fairly busy street. The guy was yelling some nonsense and throwing bottles of orange juice at random people at the entrance of a little food market when I first noticed him. Then he ran out and stopped traffic in the westbound lane, and started banging on the hood of some guys mini van. When the dude in the van tried to back up and drive around him, the bum ripped off the windshield wiper and started bashing the hood and windshield with it, still screaming gibberish at the top of his lungs.
By the time I got about 30 yards past the whole fiasco, the cops showed up and I'm assuming they hauled him off to spend the night in the drunk tank, which is about all the cops ever do to people like that up here.

I was in Hamilton this summer.

I walked downtown with my girlfriend and her kid. Driving in, it looked like a rough industrial town and some parts smelled like shit, but it felt pretty safe to me. There were old people at a bingo hall and I even went to a dive bar claiming to be the oldest establishment in all of Hamilton. I ordered a whiskey on the rocks. They said they had no ice and I felt like a sissy.

Delta Bingo FTW.
Hamilton is just a white trash, blue collar town for the most part, but the decrepit downtown core can be a pretty nasty place late at night. It certainly can't compare with somewhere like Detroit, but it's not the safest place either. There's very little gun crime, but there are a lot of assaults and petty crimes.

No you don't owe them a fucking thing. You don't have to flash a knife in someones face either.

If you're that intimidated by them, maybe you need to adjust your attitude.

Maybe I need to adjust your attitude. HAHA!
Seriously, though, I doubt I'm as tough as some of these bastards that have spent years at the edge of survival and are so used to getting the shit beat out of them that it would barely phase them. Because of the hours I worked, I spent a lot of time walking downtown at night, alone, on mostly empty streets, and I wasn't about to take any chances.

[icarusfall]

I lived in a warehouse in the worst part of S. Florida outside Miami, and I've found that it's all in how you carry yourself. It's not like I'm some huge intimidating guy, or some badass, I just know how to talk to people, and actually communicate with them.

Course I also was doing pharmaceutical deliveries before I moved to SC - mostly to ALF's. Some were county run, and was where all the crazies would go to get their meds and a place to sleep, so I became friends with some of them. If you know how to talk to them, it's an eye opening experience. Most people will never have to live with that kind of misery, and don't really understand it. I have a soft spot for people like that because I'm aware that I was a few unfortunate events from jumping off that deep end at one point in my life.

[kedawa]

Course I also was doing pharmaceutical deliveries before I moved to SC - mostly to ALF's.

'I lost my legs on Melmac. Help a brutha out?'

[Opaque]

Either your uncle is a liar or that guy was batshit insane.

It's a true story. My cousin is actually the one who told me about it.

He could have filled the cart up with a ton of expensive shit and then sold it or traded it for booze.

That's pretty much what I said. Later when I talked to my uncle about it he said that was the part which upset him most; the guy was so hard up for liquor right that minute that he wanted to sit at the corner and try to get a few bucks for one beer instead of getting an entire cart worth of groceries.

It's like masturbating an hour before you could have sex when you can't have both.

[arjue]

Fuck donating to animals. There are plenty of human causes worth donating to.

[adol]

Fuck the poor. Fuck the old and feeble too, while I'm at it.

[Vasteel]

Fuck donating to animals. There are plenty of human causes worth donating to.

I've never in my life seen any sort of evidence that humans are more worthy of compassion than animals are, particularly ones whose only crime was being the result of human irresponsibility.

[Saint of Killers]

You can choose to give them money or not, I really don't give a shit (and giving them money won't help them) but some of you guys are really dumb. "STUPID LAZY HOMELESS PEOPLE NEED TO GET A JOB". They're mostly insane. They can't get or hold a job. Most of them are drug addicts or alcoholics because without proper treatment most crazy people self medicate.

Edit: Stupid assholes trying to scam you for bus fare or whatever aren't homeless btw.

It's a true story. My cousin is actually the one who told me about it.



That's pretty much what I said. Later when I talked to my uncle about it he said that was the part which upset him most; the guy was so hard up for liquor right that minute that he wanted to sit at the corner and try to get a few bucks for one beer instead of getting an entire cart worth of groceries.

It's like masturbating an hour before you could have sex when you can't have both.

Then like I said, the guy was crazy, like most homeless people.

[Yoshi]

I've never in my life seen any sort of evidence that humans are more worthy of compassion than animals are, particularly ones whose only crime was being the result of human irresponsibility.

IBTN x 1000.