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? Glad to hear that at least the 
elderly couple could stay, right?

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.

Reg.