A Bum In My Yard!!!

[CityChicker]

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Thank you, Ruth! I hope I can remember to live that way. It is definitely hard at times. I think I will read that every day.

 

[phoenixmama]

I don't feel terribly sorry for a lot of the homeless people, especially in larger metropolitan areas. There are places for them to go, there are ways for them to get money, food, and help...all they have to do is DO IT. God forbid they have to do anything for themselves!

My experience with "hobos"...

1) A man approached me outside my bank saying he was a cancer patient who just had surgery on his leg and started chemo. He asked me for money. I showed him my port, said that he's in trouble if a doctor did surgery and gave him chemo on the same day...suggested he get to a certain nearby hospital where the American Cancer Society support office is and gave him the name of the woman to talk to. He wasn't interested in help. He wanted money.

2) I was getting off a main highway in the Phoenix area, at the intersection was a man collecting money. He had his back turned to traffic, but I could see what he was doing. Counting his money. He had more money in his hands than I had in my bank account at the time. Shame on him.

3) I've been sworn at, flipped off, etc. when I haven't handed out cash to these people...because after all, I guess they are entitled to my money.

Help the helpless, not the lazy or the clueless.

 

[mmtillman]

My sister lives in Turlock CA and when I was out to visit her last year...she was giving me the grand tour of her yard and we came across a homeless family living in the bushes in the side of her yard...she has a very landscaped yard
and they were way back against the house where no one could see them unless you looked under the hedges....we calmly walked away and she called the law to come and remove them...it was sad but creepy too..this was right under her bedroom window where her son sleeps!!!!!

 

[Scoop]

I didn't read every post but I read enough. Thank God for what I got. I'll quit complaining now about all that firewood I hauled in today...

 

[rufus]

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I have met this guy. Sometimes he says he is a Viet Nam vet. He must have been about four years old when that war ended.

Rufus

 

[silkiechicken]

I've had a homeless person in our "yard"... quite a few actually. Every year or so we are told to bag up their stuff and toss it as per what the police say because there is nothing they can do about it if the person isn't there at the time. We usually leave notes on their stuff instead and don't touch it, since who knows what is hiding in the junk. The stuff just rots away over time. Once on a freezing, snowing, miserable day, we ended up calling the cops on a homeless man who was sleeping under one of our trees. The cops had a hard time waking the guy up but took him to a place about 3 blocks from home to have a warm night in a motel. There were a few other times where after we left a note on their stuff, they left a nasty human waste pile behind and vacated. Needless to say, we have spots of trash all over the edge of our property. Guess that is what you get for living in the city that grew up around what was once vacant farm land half a century past. Welcome to the club!