Now days, being homeless is more competitive than ever. Only the most clever and creative signs are going to get people to let go of their precious spare change. This makes for some pretty awesome homeless dude signage.
Not every homeless person is "too lazy to get a job" or just out to con people, a lot of them are seriously f*cked up. Many have serious and deadly drug problems and a lot more have severe mental disorders that hinder them getting a job, let alone keeping one or even taking care of themselves. Do you really honestly truly believe that people out there are just soooo lazy and scheming that they would rather sleep in garbage filled alleys and looked at as pathetic and lazy by most people out there, not have a family or kids or friends, not have enough food to eat everyday, or heavy clothes in the winter or a bed to sleep in, obviously not have a girl/boyfriend, smell and look like shit and go begging people they dont know and degrade themselves just for peoples spare change that the people give them because to them pennies, dimes and coins dont make a difference but to the homeless can make or break a chance to eat or stave off withdrawal for the night/day.....you think all of these people would go through this shit just so they dont have to work and be lazy? While chances are there might be some, it would clearly be a tiny amount or fraction of a small amount because any reasonable person out there who cares about their life wouldn't choose to go through that life of loneliness and despair. A lot of homeless people are assaulted ALL the time by sick people who figure nobody will give a shit. Some are even murdered. Another danger is from other homeless people who might steal what you have or fight you for it, homeless shelters are notorious for theft, at least where I live. Not to mention disease and lack of any money for medical care. But hey, they're just lazy right? Why don't they get a nice cozy job at McDonalds and make minimum wage that won't even allow them to afford any place to stay or car to buy, who the f*ck is going to hire a homeless man to begin with anyways? But like you guys say, they're just a bunch of lazy f*cks who just want an easy life of not working....c'mon gimme a f*ckn break.....
If they are out there 8 hours a day. 6 days a week pan handling . that is a job. the are self employeed. don't apy taxes, low over head costs. and if they are hungry they can get food. They show they are cleaver, smart, and intresting people. they just like all of us make the world turn and in some caes make it interesting. So do i feel sorry for these guy. HMMMM? not really. A man has to do what a man has to do.
Yea, there's this guy in Logansport, IN who acts like he's homeless. My mom, when she was younger, use to work at Papa John's and said the fucker ordered a pizza every night and had one of the largest houses in town, but he drives around in an electric wheel chair and asks for change.
SparkyOreilly is probably a Bill O'Reilly fan. Get a job... What an idiotic statement. That's something a Republican would say without understanding how hard it is to actually find a job. And I'm talking about those WITH a roof over their heads, phone numbers to call, a change of clothes, and a shower. Numbnuts.
Maybe they're hiring in Canada. I applied at 15 places in a day, including both of those, and got one call back out of 15. And I have two prior management conditions and a college degree going for me. Try getting a job when you don't have a phone they can call you back on, and tell me how that goes.
There's a BIG difference between "taking applications" and "hiring". Sure, just about any place will let you fill out an app, but when 200 other people have also filled out one that same week...good luck!
tell you what dont let em fool ya some of these people got more money than you. for example, im from IL and when i was a teen there was this guy they called jr you would see him riding around at all times of the day on this 40 year old bicycle collecting cans thats all he did dug through trash lived in the park everyone assumed he just used his can money to get a little food to survive,when they found his body,they also found in one of his bags they also found $125000 i guess aluminum pays off
Why thanks egizzit.
Your unsupported, unverifiable, antectdotal claim has convinced me that despite obvious appearances, all homeless people are actually wealthy aristocrats who are simply out to con people out of their pocket change while laughing all the way to the bank. I certainly hope you are a sociologist because they world needs your profound research and analysis in order to make sense of this imaginary 'homeless problem'. Someone give this man a PhD, QUICK!
If you offer them a job of real labor watch them squirm out of it..... I have a bad back, uh leg, uh arm, uh heart. You get the idea. I have seen in California the guy with several hundred dollars walk around the corner and get into his brand new truck and drive away. Thanks guys for giving him the money to make a truck payment....
@ thatgal, thatdude and Canadian:
It's true that there are those who abuse people's generosity by panhandling when they don't need to. Also, some have just fallen into bad times and need a leg up. But a lot of these people are mentally ill (though not necessarily dangerous) and couldn't hold down a job if they tried. Just because they're clever doesn't mean they don't need help.
To Canadian: Where in Canada to you live?! In a small town? *rolls eyes*
It's just as hard in Canada to get a job. The major cities are terrible for finding jobs AND finding a place to live that doesn't cost some ridiculous price.
Most people who live in my city need two, sometimes THREE jobs to afford APARTMENTS. (unless they have a very high paying job.)
Getting a job at some McDonald's place wouldn't even pay enough money for someone needing a place to stay.
Financial aid organizations like the low-income housing in my city are very hard to get put on their lists, and even if you DO get on the list, you have a 4 year wait to get a place to live.
Getting on a disability pension is a good idea.(which is how I pay for my home), (Now don't read me wrong, if you are a lazy ass, then you deserve what you get. But if you are in a condition where you CAN'T work, or are severely disabled and need this then this is totally acceptable and the best thing to do.
But this can be VERY difficult to get on here, even if you have a life debilitating chronic illness, and for some people, take a long time for paperwork to come through.
There are TONS of other reasons than this that cause homelessness. Many that the person CANNOT CONTROL.
YES some homeless people are doing NOTHING for their situation.
But A LOT OF THEM CAN'T do anything. They need SOMEONE ELSE to help them.
I was homeless once, but because of help and support from some people along they way I am now paying for my own home, have a education in medicine, and despite now having developed an illness that is going to KILL me, I am not a lazy person who is just letting others serve me. I have never intended to become someone like that, even when I was homeless.
Yes I needed help when I had no home, and I did beg for money but I needed to do this to get the money I needed to help myself get by. All this time though, I was looking for a way to get an income, I had contacted places to see if I could get help for my situation and eventually --it worked.)
There ARE more people out there who COULD do something for themselves if they are given the help they need to get out of the situation they're in....maybe you can't do that exactly, but you could at least give them the change if they need it.
Those of you who say, "Oh, they're going to use it for dope, booze, etc."
That is their fucking business, you have no clue what they've seen in their lives that most people couldn't fathom.
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Lmfao, this post was awesome. I loved the signs! (I'd like to see more.
Those of you who say, "Oh, they're going to use it for dope, booze, etc." That is their fucking business"
Really? Their fucking business, you say? Well then it must their fucking problem too, so they can just fucking sack up and deal with it, right?
"Beggars can't be choosers" -- ring a bell?
Anyone begging for MY help in the form of MY money or MY time or MY spare clothes is making their problem MY business. They can squander whatever money they already have on whatever drugs or booze they want, but they damn sure aren't going to do it with money I worked my ass off to earn.
never thought it'd happen to me. Work'd all my life, taught my kids to feed animals before breakfast. Dug my own garden, have overcome death, over come tragedies so many times, educated, more than one career, yada yada....
you never know....
and I'm gorgeous and not yet fifty
slept out doors, am 'happy' to be in my motel room for 2 years.
sorry, I never wanted to be a cynic either.
I fed the homeless years ago. Just to be Christian. took my 3 youngest kids, did meals on wheels...
I think Forest said it best...
"shit Happens"
and get off these peoples backs. at least they are 'handling' it, some just lay down and die. check your statistics in America.
compare that to the last 100 years on a progressive scale.
Oh yea, thats exactly what we need, more religious bigots and fundamentalist fuckwits. Like the ones currently lobbing artillery at each other in the Middle East over who has the biggest, bestest baddest god of all and thus possesses the One True Faith. Always been a big help to everyone, back in the days of the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, Salem trials, etc. Muslim extremists aren't any worse than Christian extremists; they're equally gullible, equally stupid, equally convinced of their righteousness, and equally determined to wipe each other off the planet. I just wish they'd hurry it up.
Churches are corporate machines that use unproven and unprovable claims and fear of the unknown to impose arbitrary and frequently bizarre rules upon their congregations in order to control their minds and thus their wallets. Thanks to this clever strategy, the church now owns more land than any other corporate entity, period. It owns more valuable trinkets, more pieces of art, more historical artifacts, and takes in more money every year than all the banks in the world; billions and billions of dollars anually, worldwide. It pays NO TAX on any of it, and has almost no overhead as compared to it's income.
I just have one question. WHERE DOES IT ALL GO? If it's all going to "worthy causes", world hunger should have ended decades ago and "homeless" people should no longer exist. Even the ridiculous excesses of some so-called preachers with their personal jets and drug habits and hookers and mansions and cosmetic surgeries can't explain the disappearance of THAT much money. Presumably, then, there's a hell of a lot of dough stashed somewhere.
So, how about those pointy-hatted religious hypocrites get off their self-righteous asses, stop telling everyone to look after each other, and instead turn some of their millions of acres of land and billions of dollars of hoarded cash into homes for the homeless and kitchens for the hungry?
Failing that, lets start taxing churches. They're operated as businesses; why shouldn't they pay taxes like everyone else? With that much tax money we could eradicate homelessness and hunger, and elevate the piss-poor educational standards in this idiot-infested land to something closer to the European average.
Nah! Let's just keep up the infantile pretense that there's some omnipotent buffoon up there whose will can't be determined by mere mortals (except for a few in pointy hats) and who has a Grand Plan for everything and everyone, which involves great suffering and misery and occasional large-scale disasters -- all for our own good, because he "loves us", and all of which may be subject to random change by the power of "prayer" as long as you "have enough faith". Yep. That'll solve all our problems for sure.
!! i just wanna say this to cirujano:
you know how you said were does all that money go if there so rich? click on this link
http://sherritalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/priceless_atm.jpg
i dont know if that went through as a link but its a picture of an ATM thats probly were they keep there money!think about it if ur walkin down the road with 1000 dollars and ur homeless!
first of all 1000$ is not enough to get back on ur feet but thats an example. sence its very dangerouse being homeless y would u wanna carry around all that cash? u also cant keep it back at the alley you stay at because when you get back u might find the trash man threw out all ur stuff. or some other bum stole it. so most likely they put there money in the bank. at least the ones that have money and are just scamming you might. because just because ur homless dosent mean u cant have a bank account. im sure that alot of homeless people are scamming you but really you wont really know unless you see the guy 10 seconds l8r hoppin into a 2010 caddilac on 24"s and headin str8 to the bank. but i mean just if you see someone wearing average clothes o the corner begging dont mean they scammin you. some people are just really fucked up and they need help but some are scamming you. me personly i really dont pay them any attention some1 ax me 4 money they better fuck off (im bout to start censering in a sec. tryin ta keep it PG but its the truth) I mean its hard to get money nowwa days and sum dirty A** F*** wanna come and take that from me? then hop in your nice car and leave? F*** no! thats not gone happen im not gettin played by no homless person. because really i dont got money like that i just caint be givin every mutha F**KA a handout. its not like i dont care or anything but most of them are out there on there own damn faults they dont got no1 2 blame but themselfs and maby the government 4 lettin this S*** happen. now ME i live in AMERICA and america is on a crash course and im tellin people we need to get out while we can b4 each country goes n2 lockdown or sum S*** and nobody leaves & nobody kums. thats y me personally i say in 10 years i wanna be out of this country and im going to move to Saudi Arabia. now i know ur wondering y the fuck would (oops i ment y the F***) would i go and move to the middle east with all the violence and terrism? honestly i think it will be calmer over there then in america in 10 years.. i think it will be america that will have the violence bye then... but again i get off topic sometimes ADHD long story well maby not i guess those 4 letters just about sums up y i get off topic and y im not even bothering with my grammer in this LLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG A** comment. but anyways back to the homeless subject. i just really dont know how som1 can go on a day to day basis walking around town knowing u have nuthing... if i were homless i would try and stay at the big citys i know theres more crime but its better then being homless in the middle of F****IN nowhere were u dont got no chance of surviving. but really as im typing this and i know as ur reading this (reallly i woulda been gave up reading this lett alone type it if i was you. kudos : )) BUT its 1:05 A.M.
jan,2nd,2010 and im tired so im just gonna stop reading this... not reading im mean typing! see how tired i am i caint even type! but 4real no offense if i affended anyone. im not saying i dont care for homless but im saying most r out there because of them and if you were 1 of them that did somthing about it then good for you you want a cookie?? no im 4reall if u made it u can actually go to the store and by a cockie i mean cookie or a cockie cookie idontcare but yeah what im tryin ta say is u made it and now u can buy stuff now.... idk.
but if u made it hears what i h8 how 10 years l8r UR STILL FUCKIN PLLAYIN THE VIOLIN SOB STORRY ABOUT HARD TIMES! THEN U HOP IN UR MERCEDESE! (i know i spellt that wrong) but ok gnight yall nice typing to you.....
These signs were priceless! What I find funnier though is everyone bickering over the fact that they think 'every' homeless person is a lazy bastard who should be sent to Iraq, to earn their keep.
If they could do that-they would have been able to stay on their psych medications/in therapy, or not been alcoholics/drug addicts & kept their jobs & hopefully wouldn't have lost their homes & ended up in this predicament in the 1st place.
There was a mail order bride from Greece who wanted to STAY in Greece who was forced to move to Michigan-(basically sold by her parents to her American Husband)who happened to be a Schizophrenic who was so miserable in America & wanted to go HOME to Greece but her husband wouldn't let her-she kept running away..even after she gave birth to their children. She lived on the streets. She lived in Greek Town-the Detroit Police Department let her wash her clothing at the Police Station, sometimes she even dried her clothing outside-on a line there-they even gave her a nitestick so she could help protect herself from assailants-& the Greek Town Merchants would Feed her meals. She just died-they had a very larger turn out for her funeral too, she was a bit of a local celebrity in her own right-not that 'she' ever realized it.
So everyone can take their self righteous 'Street People' Bashing & Sanctimonious 'I would nevers' & stuff them, because if you've never known hardship, good for you. I hope you never have to tighten your wallet/purses. I hope your family/friends never lose their homes in a naturual disaster or foreclosure.
And I can understand thinking-I don't want someone to get stoned or drunk with my hard earned cash..that doesn't mean you can't come out of a restaraunt with a sandwich. Or give the person a juice box, or a piece of fruit. And use your brains, don't give them something that they need a can opener for, or that they need to cook-they don't have a microwave. They'll have to peel off the top of the ravioli's, so give them the plastic utinsils if you give them soup or something like that, and they're NOT animals, give them napkins. And some handiwipes. You'd reek too if you didn't have running water, or a commode. It's common sense...and No..our Soliders DON'T have it any damn better than a Homeless Person. They don't have effing Plumbing either--that's why it's called WAR--they need disposable wipes & ask for Depends a LOT of the times because they can't leave the Tank/Jeep and if they can't urinate in a bottle they'll piss/deficate their diaper & use wipes later. And don't get me started on how hard it is for female soldiers & the need for tampons & birth control (for either sex) & the need to send E.P.T. Kits. Yes that was a real request on stuff that was requested.
So back to Homeless People Posters that were here? They were a Riot. Everyone else...not so much.
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August 17th, 2009 at 04:54 pm
Awesome :D
August 19th, 2009 at 03:57 am
I second your thoughts!
September 4th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I BEG TO DIFFER EVER BEEN TO VICTORIA B.C. CANADA?
September 6th, 2009 at 07:12 am
Ever been downtown Toronto?
September 24th, 2009 at 09:47 am
OOH YEAH AAAH ROFL PWNED WHAHAA
September 26th, 2009 at 07:17 pm
Hi I'm Cherry please call me at 780 240-5926, I love to chat!!
October 25th, 2009 at 07:23 am
Send me back a note...maybe we'll chat? Got pics?
October 30th, 2009 at 07:31 am
Not every homeless person is "too lazy to get a job" or just out to con people, a lot of them are seriously f*cked up. Many have serious and deadly drug problems and a lot more have severe mental disorders that hinder them getting a job, let alone keeping one or even taking care of themselves. Do you really honestly truly believe that people out there are just soooo lazy and scheming that they would rather sleep in garbage filled alleys and looked at as pathetic and lazy by most people out there, not have a family or kids or friends, not have enough food to eat everyday, or heavy clothes in the winter or a bed to sleep in, obviously not have a girl/boyfriend, smell and look like shit and go begging people they dont know and degrade themselves just for peoples spare change that the people give them because to them pennies, dimes and coins dont make a difference but to the homeless can make or break a chance to eat or stave off withdrawal for the night/day.....you think all of these people would go through this shit just so they dont have to work and be lazy? While chances are there might be some, it would clearly be a tiny amount or fraction of a small amount because any reasonable person out there who cares about their life wouldn't choose to go through that life of loneliness and despair. A lot of homeless people are assaulted ALL the time by sick people who figure nobody will give a shit. Some are even murdered. Another danger is from other homeless people who might steal what you have or fight you for it, homeless shelters are notorious for theft, at least where I live. Not to mention disease and lack of any money for medical care. But hey, they're just lazy right? Why don't they get a nice cozy job at McDonalds and make minimum wage that won't even allow them to afford any place to stay or car to buy, who the f*ck is going to hire a homeless man to begin with anyways? But like you guys say, they're just a bunch of lazy f*cks who just want an easy life of not working....c'mon gimme a f*ckn break.....
(of that kit-kat bar)
November 3rd, 2009 at 07:35 pm
Wow... you're one of those talkative people, aren't you?
November 4th, 2009 at 04:47 pm
If they are out there 8 hours a day. 6 days a week pan handling . that is a job. the are self employeed. don't apy taxes, low over head costs. and if they are hungry they can get food. They show they are cleaver, smart, and intresting people. they just like all of us make the world turn and in some caes make it interesting. So do i feel sorry for these guy. HMMMM? not really. A man has to do what a man has to do.
November 26th, 2009 at 11:23 am
In Montreal, there was a homeless guy named Hollywood who would try and hold you up with a banana...
everytime i saw him he always had a fresh banana.
December 11th, 2009 at 07:26 pm
Yea, there's this guy in Logansport, IN who acts like he's homeless. My mom, when she was younger, use to work at Papa John's and said the fucker ordered a pizza every night and had one of the largest houses in town, but he drives around in an electric wheel chair and asks for change.
January 28th, 2010 at 05:20 am
help @ http://homelessforums.com
August 17th, 2009 at 05:24 pm
I've seen a few of those in person. San Francisco definitely has the most clever homeless. Probably the dirtiest too.
August 18th, 2009 at 01:37 pm
Help my homeless homies:
http://www.filthyrichmond.com/2008/10/help-my-homeless-homies.html
August 19th, 2009 at 07:28 pm
Homeless my ass...tell 'em to get a job.
August 20th, 2009 at 06:46 pm
That IS their job!!!!!!
August 21st, 2009 at 03:12 pm
Yeah, I saw the "Alcohol Research" guy in San Fran. I believe I actually gave him some money too.
August 21st, 2009 at 07:06 pm
SparkyOreilly is probably a Bill O'Reilly fan. Get a job... What an idiotic statement. That's something a Republican would say without understanding how hard it is to actually find a job. And I'm talking about those WITH a roof over their heads, phone numbers to call, a change of clothes, and a shower. Numbnuts.
August 22nd, 2009 at 10:12 pm
i remember the alcohol research guy in San Fran, outside chinatown...these are damn funny!
August 24th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Yeah i saw him outside a movie theater w/ a friend
September 3rd, 2009 at 04:56 am
Yeah, so hard to get a job - guess what... Walmart and McDonald's are always hiring...
Those with the roof over their head don't want to "stoop to that level" and those without the roof are too f'n lazy
September 8th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Maybe they're hiring in Canada. I applied at 15 places in a day, including both of those, and got one call back out of 15. And I have two prior management conditions and a college degree going for me. Try getting a job when you don't have a phone they can call you back on, and tell me how that goes.
September 11th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
@Canadian...
There's a BIG difference between "taking applications" and "hiring". Sure, just about any place will let you fill out an app, but when 200 other people have also filled out one that same week...good luck!
September 12th, 2009 at 09:02 pm
tell you what dont let em fool ya some of these people got more money than you. for example, im from IL and when i was a teen there was this guy they called jr you would see him riding around at all times of the day on this 40 year old bicycle collecting cans thats all he did dug through trash lived in the park everyone assumed he just used his can money to get a little food to survive,when they found his body,they also found in one of his bags they also found $125000 i guess aluminum pays off
September 16th, 2009 at 05:22 pm
Why thanks egizzit.
Your unsupported, unverifiable, antectdotal claim has convinced me that despite obvious appearances, all homeless people are actually wealthy aristocrats who are simply out to con people out of their pocket change while laughing all the way to the bank. I certainly hope you are a sociologist because they world needs your profound research and analysis in order to make sense of this imaginary 'homeless problem'. Someone give this man a PhD, QUICK!
September 23rd, 2009 at 09:29 am
solution to homeless problem and war needs. send all homeleess people to fight in iraq
September 25th, 2009 at 02:16 pm
I agree with Thatdude. Send them to work in Iraq. They will eat and have a job and get a roof over their heads. They will even get clean clothes
September 25th, 2009 at 02:19 pm
If you offer them a job of real labor watch them squirm out of it..... I have a bad back, uh leg, uh arm, uh heart. You get the idea. I have seen in California the guy with several hundred dollars walk around the corner and get into his brand new truck and drive away. Thanks guys for giving him the money to make a truck payment....
October 16th, 2009 at 08:50 am
@ thatgal, thatdude and Canadian:
It's true that there are those who abuse people's generosity by panhandling when they don't need to. Also, some have just fallen into bad times and need a leg up. But a lot of these people are mentally ill (though not necessarily dangerous) and couldn't hold down a job if they tried. Just because they're clever doesn't mean they don't need help.
October 19th, 2009 at 03:20 pm
To Canadian: Where in Canada to you live?! In a small town? *rolls eyes*
It's just as hard in Canada to get a job. The major cities are terrible for finding jobs AND finding a place to live that doesn't cost some ridiculous price.
Most people who live in my city need two, sometimes THREE jobs to afford APARTMENTS. (unless they have a very high paying job.)
Getting a job at some McDonald's place wouldn't even pay enough money for someone needing a place to stay.
Financial aid organizations like the low-income housing in my city are very hard to get put on their lists, and even if you DO get on the list, you have a 4 year wait to get a place to live.
Getting on a disability pension is a good idea.(which is how I pay for my home), (Now don't read me wrong, if you are a lazy ass, then you deserve what you get. But if you are in a condition where you CAN'T work, or are severely disabled and need this then this is totally acceptable and the best thing to do.
But this can be VERY difficult to get on here, even if you have a life debilitating chronic illness, and for some people, take a long time for paperwork to come through.
There are TONS of other reasons than this that cause homelessness. Many that the person CANNOT CONTROL.
YES some homeless people are doing NOTHING for their situation.
But A LOT OF THEM CAN'T do anything. They need SOMEONE ELSE to help them.
I was homeless once, but because of help and support from some people along they way I am now paying for my own home, have a education in medicine, and despite now having developed an illness that is going to KILL me, I am not a lazy person who is just letting others serve me. I have never intended to become someone like that, even when I was homeless.
Yes I needed help when I had no home, and I did beg for money but I needed to do this to get the money I needed to help myself get by. All this time though, I was looking for a way to get an income, I had contacted places to see if I could get help for my situation and eventually --it worked.)
There ARE more people out there who COULD do something for themselves if they are given the help they need to get out of the situation they're in....maybe you can't do that exactly, but you could at least give them the change if they need it.
Those of you who say, "Oh, they're going to use it for dope, booze, etc."
That is their fucking business, you have no clue what they've seen in their lives that most people couldn't fathom.
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Lmfao, this post was awesome. I loved the signs! (I'd like to see more.
December 3rd, 2009 at 04:49 pm
Those of you who say, "Oh, they're going to use it for dope, booze, etc." That is their fucking business"
Really? Their fucking business, you say? Well then it must their fucking problem too, so they can just fucking sack up and deal with it, right?
"Beggars can't be choosers" -- ring a bell?
Anyone begging for MY help in the form of MY money or MY time or MY spare clothes is making their problem MY business. They can squander whatever money they already have on whatever drugs or booze they want, but they damn sure aren't going to do it with money I worked my ass off to earn.
December 11th, 2009 at 06:05 pm
speak on brother!!!
December 20th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Let's all reply to the same message!
February 1st, 2010 at 09:10 pm
ya ya fucking yaya
August 17th, 2009 at 05:40 pm
Homeless Bill lives here in Anchorage, he cleans up.
August 19th, 2009 at 01:03 pm
He probably "cleans up" at the Rich Lady's house (WINK!)
August 21st, 2009 at 07:36 pm
Homeless Bill! I was hoping he'd be on here. I've seen him with that very sign.
December 11th, 2009 at 06:07 pm
thats funny, i thought that i had seen him before in anchorage. like 2 yrs ago, but he look a little different....he had shaved.
August 17th, 2009 at 05:46 pm
really nice
August 17th, 2009 at 06:13 pm
Take a lesson from these guys. Might I suggest: "Will Tell You To 'GO DIE,' For Food"?
Think it over. You'll thank me.
September 24th, 2009 at 01:47 pm
never thought it'd happen to me. Work'd all my life, taught my kids to feed animals before breakfast. Dug my own garden, have overcome death, over come tragedies so many times, educated, more than one career, yada yada....
you never know....
and I'm gorgeous and not yet fifty
slept out doors, am 'happy' to be in my motel room for 2 years.
sorry, I never wanted to be a cynic either.
I fed the homeless years ago. Just to be Christian. took my 3 youngest kids, did meals on wheels...
I think Forest said it best...
"shit Happens"
and get off these peoples backs. at least they are 'handling' it, some just lay down and die. check your statistics in America.
compare that to the last 100 years on a progressive scale.
and keep kicking God out of the country....
just an observation from experience.
October 19th, 2009 at 03:24 pm
1 step from homeless, great post. I can relate with you! You're a good person to do what you did, back then. :)
December 3rd, 2009 at 05:35 pm
Oh yea, thats exactly what we need, more religious bigots and fundamentalist fuckwits. Like the ones currently lobbing artillery at each other in the Middle East over who has the biggest, bestest baddest god of all and thus possesses the One True Faith. Always been a big help to everyone, back in the days of the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, Salem trials, etc. Muslim extremists aren't any worse than Christian extremists; they're equally gullible, equally stupid, equally convinced of their righteousness, and equally determined to wipe each other off the planet. I just wish they'd hurry it up.
Churches are corporate machines that use unproven and unprovable claims and fear of the unknown to impose arbitrary and frequently bizarre rules upon their congregations in order to control their minds and thus their wallets. Thanks to this clever strategy, the church now owns more land than any other corporate entity, period. It owns more valuable trinkets, more pieces of art, more historical artifacts, and takes in more money every year than all the banks in the world; billions and billions of dollars anually, worldwide. It pays NO TAX on any of it, and has almost no overhead as compared to it's income.
I just have one question. WHERE DOES IT ALL GO? If it's all going to "worthy causes", world hunger should have ended decades ago and "homeless" people should no longer exist. Even the ridiculous excesses of some so-called preachers with their personal jets and drug habits and hookers and mansions and cosmetic surgeries can't explain the disappearance of THAT much money. Presumably, then, there's a hell of a lot of dough stashed somewhere.
So, how about those pointy-hatted religious hypocrites get off their self-righteous asses, stop telling everyone to look after each other, and instead turn some of their millions of acres of land and billions of dollars of hoarded cash into homes for the homeless and kitchens for the hungry?
Failing that, lets start taxing churches. They're operated as businesses; why shouldn't they pay taxes like everyone else? With that much tax money we could eradicate homelessness and hunger, and elevate the piss-poor educational standards in this idiot-infested land to something closer to the European average.
Nah! Let's just keep up the infantile pretense that there's some omnipotent buffoon up there whose will can't be determined by mere mortals (except for a few in pointy hats) and who has a Grand Plan for everything and everyone, which involves great suffering and misery and occasional large-scale disasters -- all for our own good, because he "loves us", and all of which may be subject to random change by the power of "prayer" as long as you "have enough faith". Yep. That'll solve all our problems for sure.
December 20th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
god loves us all and you should not be saying this
December 26th, 2009 at 01:43 am
Beautifully done, lots of originality. 1 step, & 14 yr old said it best. God bless & merry Christmas 2009 2 All
January 1st, 2010 at 10:12 pm
!! i just wanna say this to cirujano:
you know how you said were does all that money go if there so rich? click on this link
http://sherritalley.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/priceless_atm.jpg
i dont know if that went through as a link but its a picture of an ATM thats probly were they keep there money!think about it if ur walkin down the road with 1000 dollars and ur homeless!
first of all 1000$ is not enough to get back on ur feet but thats an example. sence its very dangerouse being homeless y would u wanna carry around all that cash? u also cant keep it back at the alley you stay at because when you get back u might find the trash man threw out all ur stuff. or some other bum stole it. so most likely they put there money in the bank. at least the ones that have money and are just scamming you might. because just because ur homless dosent mean u cant have a bank account. im sure that alot of homeless people are scamming you but really you wont really know unless you see the guy 10 seconds l8r hoppin into a 2010 caddilac on 24"s and headin str8 to the bank. but i mean just if you see someone wearing average clothes o the corner begging dont mean they scammin you. some people are just really fucked up and they need help but some are scamming you. me personly i really dont pay them any attention some1 ax me 4 money they better fuck off (im bout to start censering in a sec. tryin ta keep it PG but its the truth) I mean its hard to get money nowwa days and sum dirty A** F*** wanna come and take that from me? then hop in your nice car and leave? F*** no! thats not gone happen im not gettin played by no homless person. because really i dont got money like that i just caint be givin every mutha F**KA a handout. its not like i dont care or anything but most of them are out there on there own damn faults they dont got no1 2 blame but themselfs and maby the government 4 lettin this S*** happen. now ME i live in AMERICA and america is on a crash course and im tellin people we need to get out while we can b4 each country goes n2 lockdown or sum S*** and nobody leaves & nobody kums. thats y me personally i say in 10 years i wanna be out of this country and im going to move to Saudi Arabia. now i know ur wondering y the fuck would (oops i ment y the F***) would i go and move to the middle east with all the violence and terrism? honestly i think it will be calmer over there then in america in 10 years.. i think it will be america that will have the violence bye then... but again i get off topic sometimes ADHD long story well maby not i guess those 4 letters just about sums up y i get off topic and y im not even bothering with my grammer in this LLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG A** comment. but anyways back to the homeless subject. i just really dont know how som1 can go on a day to day basis walking around town knowing u have nuthing... if i were homless i would try and stay at the big citys i know theres more crime but its better then being homless in the middle of F****IN nowhere were u dont got no chance of surviving. but really as im typing this and i know as ur reading this (reallly i woulda been gave up reading this lett alone type it if i was you. kudos : )) BUT its 1:05 A.M.
jan,2nd,2010 and im tired so im just gonna stop reading this... not reading im mean typing! see how tired i am i caint even type! but 4real no offense if i affended anyone. im not saying i dont care for homless but im saying most r out there because of them and if you were 1 of them that did somthing about it then good for you you want a cookie?? no im 4reall if u made it u can actually go to the store and by a cockie i mean cookie or a cockie cookie idontcare but yeah what im tryin ta say is u made it and now u can buy stuff now.... idk.
but if u made it hears what i h8 how 10 years l8r UR STILL FUCKIN PLLAYIN THE VIOLIN SOB STORRY ABOUT HARD TIMES! THEN U HOP IN UR MERCEDESE! (i know i spellt that wrong) but ok gnight yall nice typing to you.....
January 22nd, 2010 at 11:34 pm
These signs were priceless! What I find funnier though is everyone bickering over the fact that they think 'every' homeless person is a lazy bastard who should be sent to Iraq, to earn their keep.
If they could do that-they would have been able to stay on their psych medications/in therapy, or not been alcoholics/drug addicts & kept their jobs & hopefully wouldn't have lost their homes & ended up in this predicament in the 1st place.
There was a mail order bride from Greece who wanted to STAY in Greece who was forced to move to Michigan-(basically sold by her parents to her American Husband)who happened to be a Schizophrenic who was so miserable in America & wanted to go HOME to Greece but her husband wouldn't let her-she kept running away..even after she gave birth to their children. She lived on the streets. She lived in Greek Town-the Detroit Police Department let her wash her clothing at the Police Station, sometimes she even dried her clothing outside-on a line there-they even gave her a nitestick so she could help protect herself from assailants-& the Greek Town Merchants would Feed her meals. She just died-they had a very larger turn out for her funeral too, she was a bit of a local celebrity in her own right-not that 'she' ever realized it.
So everyone can take their self righteous 'Street People' Bashing & Sanctimonious 'I would nevers' & stuff them, because if you've never known hardship, good for you. I hope you never have to tighten your wallet/purses. I hope your family/friends never lose their homes in a naturual disaster or foreclosure.
And I can understand thinking-I don't want someone to get stoned or drunk with my hard earned cash..that doesn't mean you can't come out of a restaraunt with a sandwich. Or give the person a juice box, or a piece of fruit. And use your brains, don't give them something that they need a can opener for, or that they need to cook-they don't have a microwave. They'll have to peel off the top of the ravioli's, so give them the plastic utinsils if you give them soup or something like that, and they're NOT animals, give them napkins. And some handiwipes. You'd reek too if you didn't have running water, or a commode. It's common sense...and No..our Soliders DON'T have it any damn better than a Homeless Person. They don't have effing Plumbing either--that's why it's called WAR--they need disposable wipes & ask for Depends a LOT of the times because they can't leave the Tank/Jeep and if they can't urinate in a bottle they'll piss/deficate their diaper & use wipes later. And don't get me started on how hard it is for female soldiers & the need for tampons & birth control (for either sex) & the need to send E.P.T. Kits. Yes that was a real request on stuff that was requested.
So back to Homeless People Posters that were here? They were a Riot. Everyone else...not so much.
August 17th, 2009 at 06:46 pm
The negro in the wheelchair lives in Cincinnati... Saw him outside Bogart's waiting for a show and took a pick of him myself...
August 18th, 2009 at 01:36 pm
Negro. Seriously.
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