Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!eusc.inter.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!yahoobb218120102027.bbtec.NET!not-for-mail From: Eric Takabayashi Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: I've finally figured this puppy out Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 01:50:20 +0900 Lines: 55 Message-ID: <3FBE424C.281131F0@yahoo.co.jp> References: <3FBE1EDB.CE83D7B0@yahoo.co.jp> Reply-To: etakajp@yahoo.co.jp NNTP-Posting-Host: yahoobb218120102027.bbtec.net (218.120.102.27) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1069433565 58619553 218.120.102.27 (16 [138107]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: ja,en Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:7996 Reg Blank wrote: > Eric Takabayashi wrote: > > I've been spending hours and a proportion of my salary* hanging out with the > > local homeless. I'd seen a new bunch of homeless there recently, but no one > > even made eye contact with them, despite being in one of the busiest parts of > > the city. They were in such a state, lying on the filthy sand in a playground > > under the pitch dark train tracks, that I could not be one of the people who > > simply walked by. They were happy to receive anything I had to offer, because > > they had nearly nothing. I say were, because just this morning about nine a.m., > > one group of homeless was cleared out by workers (an elderly couple including a > > woman on crutches was allowed to stay). > > Eric, > > When the city workers clear out the homeless in your town, do the > homeless get moved to another place? They find themselves another place. A man I spoke to two nights ago has been in seven places in two years, I think it was. My hometown has a similar clever plan to get rid of homeless. Evict them from all the beach parks so their presence does not offend or intimidate visitors, without having ANY shelters in place. > Glad to hear that at least the elderly couple could stay, right? I wish they would be sheltered, not living in the filth and rainwater under the train tracks. An elderly woman on crutches should not have to live a life of collecting cans and sleeping in filth. She's not one of these idiot homeless who drink One Cup instead of buying food. I am glad they were able to keep most of their stuff. It looks like the others lost whatever they couldn't carry on the two bicycles they had between them. The idiot who got arrested for assaulting another homeless man earlier this week and is currently in jail probably lost it all, including everything I had given him last week. > A homeless man used to sleep on the lone bench in my neighborhood > playground. He only came to the playground after dark to sleep. He > disappears to somewhere during the day. > > After a while... > > The city workers came and REMOVED THE ONLY BENCH IN THE PLAYGROUND. > > The "homeless person" problem disappeared from our neighborhood. That homeless person was not very clever or determined. He can sleep on cardboard or even bare ground or concrete like other homeless. I have. In Hiroshima City, at least one park developer was clever enough to install wooden benches with wooden slats dividing the bench into individual seats, also making it murder on the neck and back for anyone such as myself who tried to lie down.