Don’t worry everyone, I’m sure someone somewhere is worse and that makes this okay somehow.

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    7 months ago

    Because it’s quite likely that the people who run the store also own the building or something?

    Not a chance. This building (and the windowsill and spike strip) are owned by some real estate company and the shop owner (who owns the sticker) is a renter.

    Be pissed off at the wealthy elite that’s shooing off the homeless, not the shop owner. Totally different people.

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      7 months ago

      This doesn’t even have anything to do with homeless people. Homeless people don’t sleep on a window sill.

      I personally know a few places in my city where people have resorted to putting spikes on their window sills like that. It has everything to do with anti-social people who think someone else’s window sill is a perfectly good place to sit around all night, make noise, drink alcohol, do drugs, leave their garbage, damage the property, …

      The spikes are put there out of desperation when talking to people and talking to the police hasn’t helped.

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      7 months ago

      Not to interrupt your hate parade against the wealthy, fully on board with that, but most store owners also absolutely hate homeless people around their stores. For somewhat understandable reasons but still.

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        7 months ago

        I mean the reason is that most people will be a bit sketched out by homeless people hanging around your establishment. I’ve run into quite a few homeless people when living in the city and more times than not they are pretty sketchy individuals, not all but most.

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          7 months ago

          There is a big correlation between homelessness and mental illness, personality disorder, addiction or a combination thereof. So yeah, excuse me if I don’t want to deal with the paranoid schizophrenic hobo who’s high on god knows what.

          I can’t speak for the US here, but in most civilized countries there is actually help available for homeless people and enough social systems to ensure that well adjusted people don’t end up homeless in the first place. With the homeless that we do have, the difficulty usually lies in reaching them, getting them to accept the help that is available and having them durably make the necessary changes to their life to escape homelessness.

          Accepting some of their anti-social behaviors is actually enabling it, and not helping them at all.