I'm from the bay area,could not wait to leave the cold gray place,fog sucks

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran, deutschland deutschland uber alles uber alles in der welt

Flame Suit On:

I know a woman at my dog park who works at a shelter. You'd think she would have more sympathy, but not at all. Here's what she said me the other day:

Most homeless people in Southern California (85%) are addicts who move here to live outside, pan handle the bleeding hearts that live here, eat junk food, and shoot up.

The remaining 10% are people who need to be institutionalized for mental health issues and the remaining 5% are people truly down on their luck.

You'd be surprised how often homeless people turn down help. She goes to a lot of them, points them out to a shelter, and then they run away. The shelters have a no drugs/alcohol policy. The people who end up in these shelters are the ones who are down on their luck.

She's got a lot of stories like this and it frankly turned me from a ,"we need to help them" to, plow down the tents, stop reviving frequent ODers, and make up some BS safety law making loitering on off ramps illegal.

Help those who need real help and push out those who can't handle their drugs.

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-Typos courtesy of my mobile phone.

If you ever drive the bum bus in Winter when the City shelters open you'd know that you and she are not really very far off the mark .

That being said I don't think the solution is as simple as pushing them out into the cold .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Posting from the dog park, you ready for this? She just had a close call earlier today with someone who almost stabbed her with a used needle.

Thank goodness she is fine. She just said to me that the best solution to the addict problem is as easy as ski masks and baseball bats at night.

Absolutely crazy.

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-Typos courtesy of my mobile phone.

Crazy is right .

I live in South Central Los Angeles and few understand how it is : families mixed with crazies and druggies....

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

BTW : a cheap sprayer bottle filled with 80% Ammonia is handy for both aggressive dogs and any bum / weisenhiemer who gets too close.....

Go for the face , a squirt or two does the trick in both cases .

It's legal too .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

What, is it sort of like pepper spray?

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1999 w140, quit voting to old, and to old to fight, a god damned veteran, deutschland deutschland uber alles uber alles in der welt

Yes, sort of like pepper spray but legal .

It's handy for vicious dogs too, they hate it .

The lazy shirttail relative is gone ~ he said he wanted to go back to Oklahoma so I bought him a bus ticket and drove him to the Greyhound station .

I hope he makes out O.K., he had two cell 'phones, general relief, medical and dental coverage and was in line to get housing, tossed it all because we asked him to bathe and clean up after himself .

Like I keep saying : most bums want to be bums .

All that being said, I worry about him, he's 21 YO now and won't have an easy life on the streets .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Going back to my previous post re: panhandlers by Midway Airport. (RANT WARNING)

It happened again...Stuck in traffic at the intersection of Cicero Ave and I55/Stevenson Expy several cars back from the red light waiting to get on the freeway. 3 people wandering around the stopped traffic with squeegies and water in spray bottles. Spray first, beg for money, and maybe get the water squeegied off.

I didn't offer any money after getting the windshield sprayed and they didn't squeegie if off. So I hit the wipers/washers in the car and cleaned it off that way.

One of them got a little wet from the spray so he thumped my hood with an open palm and started yelling about "f'ing **** white guys". Great timing of the red light, as the arrow turned green and let about 10 of us through. I would have ran the arrow if it turned red before I got to turn.

SERIOUSLY???!!! I don't care if they were black, white, green, blue or purple, they weren't getting a dime. I'm almost sure these are the same people that have been there for a long time. And the same ones who have refused my offers in the past to get them food from one of the places nearby.

I have a front and rear dashcam now and as soon as I figure out how to cut/paste clips I'll have fun posting video of instances like this. Stay tuned!

Ok rant over. :-)

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Current:
11 MB S550 4Matic, 55k miles, Designo Black/Black
14 Ford F150 XLT Lariat Crew, 73k miles, 5.0
Coyote V8 4x4. Black/tan.
09 GMC Envoy Denali, 5.3 V8, 4x4 SWB. 38k miles,
Jewel Red/Med Gray.

Gone:
87 MB 300SDL, 320k miles, Astral Silver/Blue.
98 VW Jetta TDI, 488k miles, Classic Green/Gray.
85 Olds 98 Brougham FWD, 4.3 DIESEL V6, 80k
miles, 3x Gray.

MBCA Member, Chicago Region

Symptoms of a lax police department.

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Satan creates nothing: he only ruins everything. He does not invent: he tampers. And his followers are no different ~ Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigaṇ

They bring it upon themselves when they do this B.S. .

Any time I see a bum offering to wash the windows I holler at them to not touch my car and give them a dollar .

If they spray first they deserve a beat down or whatever happens .

OTOH, anyone who's actually trying to make an honest dollar deserves a dollar .

The Police have better things to do than patrol the bums, sad but true .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

This was Gulliani's claim to fame, get rid of the squeegee guys, life in NYC would improve.

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77 300D, 227k, station car
83 300CD 370k, body gone away to the rust gods, engine is in a Yota pickup, going strong
89 190E 2.6- 335k, no more
79 VW FI Bus- 154k summer driver
59 VW Beetle ragtop- 175k
12 VW Jetta- 250k
74 MG Midget-78k

I get off the freeway an hour ago and there's a kid, maybe 20 Y.O., clean and healthy, reading a book with a carefully lettered sign 'homeless, trying to get $ for dad's funeral, or anything, please help' .

Right across the street was a filling station in need of help, how easy a job do you want ? .

I nearly said something but decided he's just another wastrel who expects the world to take care of him instead of working .

Last night as we were coming home and exited the i105 freeway there was a Rastafaranian (SP) with one eye, juggling balls at the stop light ~ had I not been tapped out I'da given him some $ because t least he was trying to work for it .

I've been dead broke with no where to go, no one's fault but my own, I've never begged and hope I never will .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I always aspired to being a bum ... but everyone tells me I'd need 3 promotions to get there ....