What To Do About Homeless People At Stop Light

That's the kind of place that I try to donate my money to. I don't mind donating the money but I want to see results. I don't want to see money being used for excessive administrative costs.

 

You make a gun out of your fingers and shoot them. And let them see it. That'll show those no hopers who's boss.

 

People can be good.

On line, there is a community "yard sale" where I saw a woman asking for the name of any local food pantries because her family needed help until pay day due to extenuating circumstances. Another woman told her that she had a little extra food she could give her to help her out.

Another time, on that same site, I saw a woman who had dry goods leftover from her yard sale. She told anyone that could use them to just come get them.

These are people who don't have the money to buy things new so they buy and sell at yard sales. Their hearts are big.

I also like the free-cycle type sites.

It's community helping community and I think that's the way it should be if people honestly need a little help.

 

I always remind myself...just by the grace of God I am not in that situation. I never look down on homeless people, whether they ask for money or not.

 

I don't see too many where I live also. I have had two guys that were down on luck, and I needed an extra set of hands that day(s). One way a bounce around junkie that half-assed most of the job, but never stopped or bitched. The other worked like I was paying him in gold bricks.
Both guys got $100 cash for the days work and looked at me in awe, the one cried. He said he had not had that amount of money at one time in a couple years, so I gave him another $50. He worked for it, all and then some and I won't cheat workers. He now has a roof over his head, food in his kitchen and a vehicle to drive to the job he wanted/needed.

Ya never know what will make their day or what they are after. But when a person is willing to work for $$ than stand on a corner, I'll help them out as much as I can. Some can't and that's understandable, but for the most part there is always something small they can do to earn the $ they were asking for.
I have never found it a loss to me to see smiles on people who look like they haven't or needed a good reason too, in awhile.

 

Last time I saw someone it was someone taking up donations for a family that lost a lot in an accident. I didn't give anything because if you stop in the middle of a busy intersection you're likely to have an accident and someone will be in the street trying to get donations for your accident.

 

eliminate stop lights?

 

flame thrower should do the trick..

 

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Cheers Glen.

 

lost all my posts when they upgraded the site..

 

The homeless around where I live stay at the light with their sign until flagged most of the time.

Once in a while one will walk up the line of cars stopped at the light.

I give what I can, when I can, which isn't very often. I wish I could do more.

I often think about how I would help if I won the lottery. And I don't mean handing out large bills, I mean real help for those who really need it. Like temp housing and job placement. Not contracting them out and taking money from their pay like the halfway houses I've heard around here do.

 

Caution: Explicit language

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfU8TUZRtZg

 

there wouldn't BE homelessness, if people weren't so busy trying to impress each other that they neither know nor care, what they're doing to the world they, along with everyone else, have to live in.