Can you imagine if everyone decided to up and travel across Canada with no money and no plan to work along the way? If everyone thought that the best way to get money is to just sit around asking for it instead of getting up and earning it? If everyone just slumped around the street begging for money from the people that live in the city they came to see? If we all took our pets along for the trip so they could lay around chained up on the hard pavement with us? Imagine if we all felt so entitled? Wouldn’t this just be a sea of black studded clothing, dog shit and cardboard signs? Have some dignity, get up and quit mooching. Please. Come on. —Not Normally a Hater
This article appears in Jun 7-13, 2012.
I always feel bad for the dogs. Poor beasts never had a choice in the matter. Their parasite owners can go get stuffed.
I’ve wandered upon their ‘campouts’ while hiking and it’s fucking disgusting the trash and junk they leave behind.
Kerouac was curiously silent about that aspect of being “On The Road”. I wonder why?
*Not bustin’ your balls WheelieP. I know you like the beats .>; )
I hitchhiked around, but I had my own money, and no pet. And I sure as hell never panhandled. It pisses me off when I see these kids with their signs “travelling, need money.” And….people should fund your vacation (which is what it is)……why exactly?
Also, what Cranky said.
but o.p., as i said many times before. these soo called moochers and bums, pull in more than you or i in one day. if we worked a good paying job for a month, some of these people make that, in a day or two
the guy who usually rents the spaces to these people, lives up in clayton park, in a nice big home. and it is probably worth about 300 grand, or more.
don’t be so quick to say they are lazy, they got the system beat, and we go on helping them, get richer. don’t give these or anyone on the street any fucking money at all. if they say they need money for food, then buy them a fucking sub or burger.
I feel bad for the pets too. Those poor animals don’t ask for that shit life.
So was it the black lab or the brindled pit bull kid you saw? There were two downtown this week.
Last summer there was a homeless guy downtown with a purebred German Shepherd. I actually got chatting and he had been a construction worker out west and gotten crippled up long enough to get seriously screwed. All he had left was his dog. I’ll dump pocket for a guy like that looking to get back up and into a job, but those little yuppie vagabonds can fuck themselves.
On more than one occassion I have brought the dogs , a bag of dry food, or milk bone treats. I’ve even given them bottles of water…which could be drank by the owner as well, but every time I’ve ever offered food/treats or water the owner has always been very thankful to me.
Perhaps they only have one real friend in this world & its their dog ?!?
I feel bad that the dogs don’t get the nutrition they need due to the lack of a steady food source, but, dogs don’t care about money, houses, jobs, iPhones, etc. They only require unconditional love, companionship and exercise. Presumably, with no job to go to, they probably get lots of that, and I bet the owners appreciate their bond more than most. It’s a far better life than being some rich bitch’s fashion accessory.
I’ve given them dog food and dog treats too. I can’t help but think that the pets are there, not just for company but for the sympathy factor.
Comrade, I dug the Beats, but I stopped idolizing them when I saw Ginsberg read at U of T in 1996. Every time he said “fuck”, the sheep in the audience stomped teir feet and hooted as if Allan was being original or edgy. When he read a poem about showering with/screwing a teenage boy, I lost all respect for the pedo.
Sometimes it’s better when people die young, right? Saves them being old and embarrassing and diluting their legacy with former fans.
And noone “rents” Spring Garden Road for panhandlers. I know a couple of those guys and they said “get evidence”, because whoever said we rent these spaces has no clue”.
Wp
sux has no clue?
*ghasp*
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In BC welfare gives them more money if they have a pet to support.
can it be any pet, like a gerbil or mouse or something?
pet rocks count?
is a cactus a pet?
Don’t they know that in California your first months rent is free? They can just roam from place to place for free until they need to settle down.
Saw the douchelings with the brindle pitty on Gottingen this morning. Was also treated to the dull incomprehension of a trio of pavement pioneers when a constable attempted to explain to them that playing catch with a football on a Quinpool Road sidewalk was neither appreciated , nor desirable.
Were they wearing tuxedos, Ivan?
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***Spoiler alert if you’ve never seen The Room
Ha ha ha -They were nowhere near that elegant, Mel. Cut off camo trousers, wife beaters, leather jackets so decrepit Gwynne Dyer wouldn’t touch them and that weatherbeaten combination of ingrained grime and sun-flayed skin that I call “Panhandler Tan.” Nothing that a healthy dose of bath salts (either kind) wouldn’t cure. At least they didn’t have a dog.
Yeah but who’s going to pick up all those recyclables people leave lying around? Not funny, I know.
A large number of “street” people have psychological issues OP at least in my experience and dealings. It’s not just a matter of mooching or something cool to do, some of them have no family support and can’t hold a job because of the illness. Add an addiction to the situation and you have somebody with nowhere to go but down.
As for the urban campers, I’m sure that lifestyle gets old pretty fast before they head back to Mom and Dad.
some of us, can tell the difference between crazy and moochie
Yeah, I know this bitch was about the moochers. I just wanted to bring up that some young men and women are out there because of reasons that aren`t altogether their fault. Abuse and the fallouts such as psychological problems and chemical dependency.
There are also the locals who have been” stranded ” in the middle of four lanes of traffic near major intersections for years now. Like the nasty, conniving, lying, thieving, smile in your face while stabbing you in the back guy in a wheelchair and his bleached blond brushes her hair with a brick nasty wife who are usually”stranded” at the intersections of Wyse rd and Nantucket. Stranded my foot. They sell the bus passes they get from welfare every month so they can go for their methadone treatments and use his disability as a ruse to suck honest people out of their hard earened money by saying they are stranded. They con anyone they can and probably say in their cold calculating minds as you drop your change and or paper money in their cup,” You are so fucking stupid”.
Not just the moochers either. Everyone has their hand out these days.