A Bum In My Yard!!!

[Chicky Tocks]

I don't have to worry about these things because I have two little weiner schnappers and all my property belongs to them. They make little security runs everyday all day. No bum would stand a chance!

 

[NoseyChickens]

That would totally freak me out! Maybe I don't want to move back to civilzation when my husband retires from the military. The middle of nowhere kind of suits me just fine.

 

[Chicken Boo]

Thank you for reminding me that I am lucky to have a roof over my head, a warm bed, and food to eat.

 

[Judy]

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Yes, this was my thought.

 

[deb1]

Do the homeless people have somewhere to go in your area? Do they have homeless shelters?

 

[NoelTate]

1. Get a dog.
2. Install sprinklers or just turn the hose on the nut.

 

[DianeB]

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Yes, this was my thought.

My first thought is how sad. Most of the cronic homeless have literally no place to go. The more recent victims of the recession have forced them out of shelters. On top of that, they can't even camp out in no residental places. In Sacramento, they just evicted a group of homeless living on a parcel of land in a industrial zone. Even though they were paying a dollar a week for rent to the landowner - so they were technically tenants - they were kicked out due to one house in the area.

I personally would have not hosed her. I would have just talked to her and tried to get her help.

When I took the bus to the county bus to campus as an undergrad, I had the opportunity to meet quite a few homeless. They are people just like everyone else. They are not crazy and they definately do not deserve to be abused. Please, have humanity and treat them with respect. You maybe in their situation one day.

Diane

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

*insert "head-scratching" smiley here*

Wow....what a neat pet to find!

 

[raroo]

Something similar happened to my hubbie's dad a couple years ago. They found a make-shift camp in the woods behind his dad's industrial type property, complete with climbing steps up a look-out tree that when climbed, viewed directly into the property's yard.
Later that winter the house on the property got broken into and trashed several times as the tenants had moved out, and they also tried to break into the shop. They gutted the walls and ceilings in the house to steal copper piping. My husband also got his work truck broken into and all of the tools he had in there were stolen.
We went traipsing through the property the morning after one of the break-ins, and we found a gas station sandwich, a coleman stove, cigarette butts and footprints. It was soooo creepy, and my hubbie walked around with a big crow bar that he found, belonging to one of the thieves. The police wouldn't even come by to check out the place for themselves, just took a statement over the phone.

 

[JewellFarm]

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Yes, thank you for reminding me also. Sometimes we need to remember how fortunate we are. That could just as easily be any of us. I find it very sad.