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Attention to every paranoid old lady or thugged out lowrider who has rolled up their windows and locked their doors after making eye contact with a defeated, down-on-our-luck hobo panhandling on the meridian: life sucks enough for us already, hobos are not going to sell themselves to prison for stealing the measly 35 cents you have in your ashtray.
we do, however, have feelings, and dealing with pretentious people like yourself – going so far out of your way to avoid any contact with us, be it a passing whiff of our sad souls, or a melanholy mumble of “have a nice day,” – doesn’t particularly motivate any of us to work towards assimilating ourselves into society because that means we’ll have to deal with more pricks like you. —Dude with the Dreadlocks & Sign around Connaught St.
This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2015.
Formerly employed by the film industry?
Boo fucking hoo for you.
Wait… are you some well off hobo that has a computer, did you steal a smart phone so you could steal wifi from a coffee shop? Now instead of concentrating on survival and improving your situation you got on the internet to bitch about old people not trusting a hobo with dreadlocks? No wonder you’re a fuckin’ hobo… ooooorrrrrrrr.. I call a fake bitch!! Hobos don’t go on the interwebz to bitch about this pointless shit, they’re trying to get food. You’re a horrible representative of hobos everywhere.
If this was written by a panhandler then he is obviously an educated middle-class kid who thinks it cool to slum it and pretend to be pathetic. If it is fake, it was written by a condescending dork who thinks that the panhandlers need someone to speak up for them. Either way, this is a fail.
how much do dreads cost anyway?
Cool your jets there Box Car Willie, in this day and age people have every right to feel nervous when there car is approached by someone they don’t know.
Have a nice day.
” motivate any of us to work towards assimilating ourselves into society because that means we’ll have to deal with more pricks like you. “
Nah, you’d rather pimp defenseless animals for sympathy money. You da man, cool guy!!!
Yep you won’t be getting any sympathy from me there dready. Go out and get a job!
Well doesn’t this just take the cake…and eat it too! You must be an unemployed Cartographer OP with your panhandling in the “meridian”. I thought that was a traffic “median”. You should be thick skinned enough for that shit…unless this is another troll bitch.
On a related note, a friend of mine handed over plenty of shrapnel to some complex carbon at the same location a number of years ago…under the ruse of frigging off out of town someday. He was shocked to see her drive into the Lady Hammond Tim’s one morning in a late model Ford Explorer…her’s it turns out. She got really uncomfortable when confronted.
I’m not suggesting poverty doesn’t exist…just yours. I don’t hand my hard earned money to strangers…I prefer registered anti poverty groups instead. I firmly believe that if the misguided bleeding hearts stopped handing it over there wouldn’t be individuals endangering themselves and others in traffic. As always.
^^^ “I prefer registered anti poverty groups instead. I firmly believe that if the misguided bleeding hearts stopped handing it over there wouldn’t be individuals endangering themselves and others in traffic.”
Good advice. A lot of people are essentially kind hearted and mean well but they really need to consider that they are, in essence, enabling the growth of panhandling and a harmful lifestyle. They are killing these folks with kindness. If you really want to help them, and not just feel good about yourself, give to the Sally Ann, Hope Cottage or other charity. Your money will be put to much better use.
Thanks for the level headed common sense Eggy…Cheers!
You know, I’m lucky. I have a job. I own a home and i worked for every cent, no help. I worked and work hard. Not everyone is that lucky. Any douche that wants to kick someone when they’re already down is no better than the people they’re judging. You think they’d steal from you because they’re scum and they don’t care about you. Look at the crap you post about people you don’t even know. You’re no different. You hide behind you computer and spew hate and think it’s funny. You’re all assholes. You’re no different. You judge people and you don’t give a shit about anyone. Look at your own mirror douche bags.
You idiot LAla stop being stupid, if you worked ohhhh so hard then it wasn’t luck that brought you a house and whatever else you have, it was you. Saying it was luck dumms it down for anyone else working their asses off and depreciates their work because it wasn’t their hard work that got them what they wanted, it was “luck”
Yea i’m an asshole, yea i’m judgemental, I’m human!!!!! I’m also scum and it takes scum to know scum and this home having, internet using, dreadlock deadbeat is scum. He can afford internet (bout $90 a month by itself) but stands out there on the side of the road with a sign all day while (and i’ll use this loosly since i think you’re really the dreadlock guy) you bust your ass all day. You’re god damn fucking right i’m judgemental about some lazy prick doing that, I’ve seen him, he has better shoes than I do for fuck sakes. In essence you’re just a big a douchefuck as the rest of us, so stop being so judgemental.
TrollfaceMcStupid, yes they do…
I’ve seen panhandlers in mcdonalds typing away on their netbooks.
BTW, OB, a “hobo” is historically an itinerant worker so you can’t claim to be a hobo. You are a “panhandler” – someone who begs for money. I mention this because hobos had a code of ethics that included:
– When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times.
-Always try to find work, even if temporary, and always seek out jobs nobody wants. By doing so you not only help a business along, but ensure employment should you return to that town again.
Dear middle-class slumming panhandler guy,
Trivializing the plight of the homeless is not “cool” — poverty, unemployment, addiction, and child/youth abandonment are serious problems, not some summer lark for people who think that slumming it is a fun way to have an “alternative” lifestyle.
People like you are happy to ask for spare change from all the people you despise for “assimilating.”
It’s OK for everyone else around the world to bust their ass making and selling all the stuff you love and use–your dope, your coffee, your beer, your computer, your smartphone, your wifi, even those beads you wear in your dreadlocks, and the very cardboard and markers you use to make your signs–but not you, precious little entitled one, you are “above” doing anything so demeaning as working in the production of any of those products. You think you the people who make all these things possible should give them to you for free.
And you wonder why no one wants to hand over to you any of their “spare” change? You know, the money they got from working?
By the way, if you have the writing skills and access to technology required to actually make a post in English on LTWWB, you are in the very top privileged elite of the world. You might want to consider using these gifts to do something more valuable to yourself and others than asking for their “spare” change.
Ummmm…LALALA11, I’m not sure if you truly understand the meaning of the word “luck”. The unemployment stats for Halifax sit around a constant 6-7%, meaning 93-94% of Haligonians have jobs. That means that “working” is the norm, not some stroke of luck. People that own their homes aren’t “lucky”, we’re determined.
The very definition of luck is: standing around doing nothing with your hand out, and having people fill it with money.
The way things are going, we’re headed to another economic collapse. Let’s see who has their jobs when that happens. Do you think people wanted to panhandle during the depression? We ll be eating our words and having to swallow our pride. Idiots.
There was very little panhandling during the depression. Alcoholics and “bums” were known to panhandle, but many thousands of people moved around looking for work of any kind (especially farm labour).
After the coming economic collapse, there won’t be any panhandling either, since no one will have any “spare” change to give away.
Anyway, were not there yet. There are still any number of jobs our OB could be doing to get his own money right now, instead of just standing around asking for coins.
OB wants money, but he despises all the people–the “pricks”– who have it to give, because they work at jobs that he considers “beneath” his precious self.
Sorry OB–no one owes you anything. Maybe if you weren’t such an asshole people would be more willing to help you out.
We re a society that feels everybody owes us something. Hypocrites the lot of you.
Heh… “Boxcar Willie…” heh…