Incident (or, God Bless the USA)

This nails it... and it's an incredibly common problem.

 

America...we are ALL here to safeguard each other. The policeman IS your friend. The government is here to HELP you. Yes, yes...

 

I prefer standing out by a mile, maybe two or three or four. The Big Picture is that America ENFORCES the commonality. The "norm."

 

If you are so convinced that people need to mind their own business then why post your personal business here unless you're operating on the assumption that everyone is supposed to think as you do?

In the same vein that well intended intrusions are not entitled to civility, you are not entitled to be indulged by those who would enable your destructive and antisocial escalation of a peaceable act. All you have done for me is to think you're one lucky fuck to not have provoked to cops into an escalation of their own... which of course you'd be looking to file a suit and your sanitized version of the events evoking a sympathetic reply- possibly even from me.

 

I don't know. If there was somebody I was concerned about and I wanted to ensure the situation was handled correctly, who else would I call beside the police? I do a lot of crazy things without shoes, but I'm never rude to people who question me.

 

im skeptical about the good attitude of people on the road.

i was on a god damned italian train. i paid an awfully pricey ticket, yet there was no seat for me: happens in the land of mafia and shit. i was backpacking and barefoot but not dirty , messy or stoned, i was back from a medicine rainbow. so i stepped into the narrow luggage compartment, located in the atrium of the wagon, near the toilets, sitting on my own stuff and reading a newspaper. this in order to avoid clogging the way for other travelers. after awhile the ticket man came, obviously looking for someone: me. he told me that people of good will, all perfect citizens of course, reported the presence of one suspicious folk (maybe deranged and potentially dangerous, too? i asked ). I was in possess of a valid ticket (i hate stowaways) so the thing ended in a simple conversation with the old man which involved my lack of shoes but the point is, what made the difference between me and the rest of the world was that i was barefoot so they called what in that situation was the closest match to a cop and sent him out all for ME, and this because:

1 i paid a ticket , yet i was denied of my seat;
2 i was traveling in the luggage spot and not in the corridor, for the comfort of other travelers , i didn't make any noise or any other kind of thing that could possibly disturb the rest of the world;
3 i was barefoot.

i'm rather prone to think that if i had shoes on, no one would care about me; maybe it could have been the same if i was shod but dirty ragged and smelly, but i wasnt.

it was *not* a coincidence. someone looked at me and wanted me to be kicked out of the train because he/she didn't like my looks, it was a bet about whether i had the ticket or not and i won, but this and other experiences enforce my point of view... those sending cops after you hardly do that for your good. (dont know how good the average US cops are, but here pigs usually are those critters that shoot gas grenades at point blank or beat you for no valid reason, that charge passive protesters with armored cars, that smash the face of girls with sticks in front of cameras, that drag away people and beat, or kill, them without even taking the hassle of finding a charge against their victims, so the fact that they're gonna help is definitely dubious) they only want to have you handcuffed and removed from their otherwise perfect world. again, im prone to think that the goal of that fellow in the car that sent the pigs after nuspieds was not to help our pal but to see if the officers dragged away that god damned punk, just like in my case the public enemy to vanquish was the lousy fucking hippie sitting on his pack.

just to explain my theory about the disposition of common people on the streets i could tell you a story that happened to me and it's perfectly the opposite of this one but it is ugly and i'm sure most of you barefoot hippie fellows won't like that much, so enough with this.

 

For some reason Americans seem to appear more caring & giving between the holidays of Thanksgiving & Christmas, The government has not extended unemployment benefits and the economy is in a shamble, perhaps the guy was in a giving mood I mean after all the Red kettle bell ringers are everywhere. Just my two cents.

 

A similar thing happened to me about 7 years ago. I was hiking along a rocky beach in Southern California with a friend when a local land conservation group passed by. I noticed several of them eye me very suspiciously. When I smiled and said "Hello", they turned away and did not acknowledge me. Later a policeman on horseback stopped us and asked me if I was OK. He told me that several people had reported me, saying that they had seen a strange barefoot man and that something must be wrong with me because I was walking around barefoot. I explained how going barefoot is normal for me and that I had moved from a small town where there is nothing unusual about it. He accepted my response and left us alone.

Just the day before I was told to leave a small pizza restaurant just for being barefoot. Anyway, those kind of confrontations happened to me all the time when I lived in Los Angeles for a couple years- I could not wait to get out of that alienating, closed-minded city. Seemed like everyone was so scared of anything out of the ordinary.

 

the man did not do anything wrong... from what i see, he was most likely worried because there was a human walking around in 35F weather with no shoes on... 3 degrees away from freezing and no protection on your feet which cause you to lose plenty of body heat. hmmm pneumonia, hypothermia, ect. people do need to mind their own business i agree, but he was just trying to help you out lol and you are making it seem like he did it because you were just a barefooter? dude probably does not even know they exist.

you prefer to stand out huh? so you want attention? you stood out and this guy was trying to help ya, you were getting attention, boostin da ego now... lols, nice.

 

yeah, you prefer to stand out by a mile, but no one is allowed to say anything to you about it! lmao

 

Who let the dogs out????

 

A guy asks you if you're alright, you tell him to move the f*** along and he's the asshole?

You have some serious issues my friend. You give the rest of us barefooters a bad name.

 

that's all you've got? your argument has no logical grounds.

 

I wonder if your feelings about people "minding their own business" would be the same if you were suffering from frostbite, about to lose some toes and the guy just drove right past and didn't offer any help.
I bet you would be on here bitching about how selfish and heartless Americans are.

But Vig hit it on the nose, another "individual" expressing their "individuality" and then crying and complaining about it when it's taken notice of.

 

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hardly An Appropiate Reply To A Female Member..., And As Such

I Feel You Owe The Lady A Sincere Apology...:toetap05:.



Cheers Glen.

 

Nuispieds, you are a right prick.

I don't think I need to explain why.

 

It strikes me as odd that after you indulge in attention seeking behavior you'd have such an inappropriate and rude response to someone who innocently thought you might need help. You do need help...just not the kind they imagined. Your behavior is pathetic and childish, typical of a narcissistic personality. What a pity you have to share the world with the rest of us...what a pity for us, that is.

 

Dont judge lest you be judged.