Californians discover homelessness is a problem

[actaeon277]

[video=youtube;flodqE3sJew]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flodqE3sJew[/video]

 

[DoggyDaddy]

There were several "Camps" in indy some years back.

Still are. I take West St. when I go to my doctor over your way, and there's one under one of the bridges by the river.

 

[churchmouse]

Still are. I take West St. when I go to my doctor over your way, and there's one under one of the bridges by the river.

State and Wash. St. East behind the old Washington auto parts. There was a serious camp there by the tracks. I had to deal with those bags a lot. We had 2 customers in that area. The old A&P warehouse was 1. They would break into the machine room in the winter. Break up skids and do barrel fires in there to stay warm. I could care but they would shut off the compressors because of the noise. That would set off the system alarms and we would get called out at midnight:30. I would roll in to find the door busted and 10 of these stink bags huddled by the barrels. Called LEO and sometimes they would come. Sometimes not. I would start turning on the compressors and showing them the door. Armed of course. I hate bums. They are bat crazy and they stink.

 

[KMaC]

Indy homeless get treated pretty well. I used to work downtown. I remember a confrontation that escalated just below an exchange of blows ...
BETWEEN TWO COMPETING CHARITY LADIES handing out brown bag lunches to the pan handlers.
"Take my lunch."
"No take mine, its better."
I frequently saw the lunch bags thrown on the sidewalk barely touched because you can't be bothered to stand up and walk 3 feet to the trash barrel to get rid of the lunch(es) you didn't pay for anyway.

 

[IndyGal65]

I work downtown 2 days a week and a person cannot walk more than 1 block without being asked for money. Gone are the days of jiggling the change cup, now it's outright in your face wanting money. And not a damn thing is being done about it.

EDIT: Well, they are extending the hours to charge people at the meters. I'm sure that will help.

 

[actaeon277]

I work downtown 2 days a week and a person cannot walk more than 1 block without being asked for money. Gone are the days of jiggling the change cup, now it's outright in your face wanting money. And not a damn thing is being done about it.

EDIT: Well, they are extending the hours to charge people at the meters. I'm sure that will help.

I guess walking around with pistol in hand is frowned upon.

 

[bgcatty]

What can you say? Libtards are hypocrites when their liberal Bravo Sierra bites them on the butt!

 

[sht4brnz]

[video=youtube_share;IccmGczmiPU]https://youtu.be/IccmGczmiPU[/video]

 

[actaeon277]

[video=youtube;b9pgh5EO6lw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9pgh5EO6lw[/video]

 

[Expat]

There is a homeless camp in Goshen, so I would assume there are ones in other towns in Indiana.

 

[churchmouse]

There is a homeless camp in Goshen, so I would assume there are ones in other towns in Indiana.

I knew of some years ago. They seem to have been cleaned out or just moved.

 

[churchmouse]

I work downtown 2 days a week and a person cannot walk more than 1 block without being asked for money. Gone are the days of jiggling the change cup, now it's outright in your face wanting money. And not a damn thing is being done about it.

EDIT: Well, they are extending the hours to charge people at the meters. I'm sure that will help.

This has been the norm for a long time. Try working in the buildings from th docks in the alleys where these dirt bags sleep.

 

[ghuns]

There is a homeless camp in Goshen, so I would assume there are ones in other towns in Indiana.

Doesn't surprise me. Goshen is a little liberal enclave in a very conservative area.

Homeless, used needles in the public parks, "undocumented" immigrants, LGBTQRST pride, etc, etc.

 

[Expat]

Doesn't surprise me. Goshen is a little liberal enclave in a very conservative area.

Homeless, used needles in the public parks, "undocumented" immigrants, LGBTQRST pride, etc, etc.

Very true, the Goshen College Mennonites run the town and stink of hard core leftism.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I knew of some years ago. They seem to have been cleaned out or just moved.

There are several in Indy. Have a friend that works outreach for them. Also donated some blankets to a gal on the Nextdoor app that distributed them to some of the homeless in the camps.

 

[ghuns]

Very true, the Goshen College Mennonites run the town and stink of hard core leftism.

I've always found it extremely curious that one of the most conservative denominations of Protestantism could have such a flaming liberal streak.

 

[Mongo59]

I used to work in Louisville, Ky. One day on lunch break i was walking down the sidewalk and a homeless guy rides up on a bike, slides to a stop in front of me and announces, "Hey, I am making a beer run, are you in or what?"

 

[littletommy]

There was a homeless camp just west of my house a few years ago, it was on the riverside of the floodwall, in a little patch of woods. After it came to the attention of town leaders, they started sending the cops down there every few weeks to run the bums off, but they kept coming back, then, one day, some heavy eguipment was brought in, seems the towns storm water plan needed a new retention pond. The little patch of woods is now under water.

 

[ATOMonkey]

In my experience, here in Indy, people sleep on the street because that is the choice they made. They enjoy the transient lifestyle, and have no intention of ever getting a job and a residence.

The people pan handling are either doing so for drugs, (because like it was pointed out earlier, the homeless eat pretty well), or they're scamming and pan handling can pay better than a construction job for a lot less work.

Here is America, there is no reason for anyone to be homeless who sincerely doesn't want to be. We give them houses, food, job training, cell phones, probably transportation. Then there are private charities on top of that who are willing to help the homeless as well.

There really is only one logical conclusion that can be made.

 

[ghuns]

In my limited experience with homeless people, the two most common denominators are mental illness and addiction. Most couldn't hold a job or keep a house if you gave them both.

The population of able bodied, willing to work hard, just down on their luck types is a TINY subset of the homeless population.