Posted on 02/08/2015 7:20:53 PM PST by rickmichaels
Tim Hortons has apologized after the owner of a Vancouver outlet soaked a sleeping homeless man with a bucket of water outside the doughnut shop.
According to 1310 News, Tim Hortons said they regret what happened and the owner acted in a "moment of frustration."
The homeless man was sleeping with his dog outside the shop at Robson and Richards Streets when the owner came out with a bucket of water and soaked the man, his pet and belongings, 1310 News reported.
The story hit social media where people were urging a Tim Hortons boycott.
The company said the franchise owner will personally apologize to the homeless man and make a donation to a local shelter.
The manager should get a raise and a promotion.
Owner could have just told him to move, of he didn’t move, then apply the bucket of agua.
This is not the full story —the vast majority of people are hugely accommodating of the homeless.
He was probably sleeping in a manner that impeded consumer traffic to the location, or otherwise drove customers away.
Some chose such locations specifically in order to appear pathetic and needy of funds:
Sleep, but get paid to do it.
That’s also often 1/2 the reason for having the pets —makes them appear more needy.
The other 1/2 of the pet reason is to protect them from other homeless people
Ah for the good old days of Vagrancy laws when such rif raf were arrested and usually shown the door out of town.
and here I thought they only soaked the rich up there.
Can I ask a stupid question?
How is it that we now accept as normal, people sleeping and p***ing and s***ing and God knows what else in the streets????
How is it that we didn’t have these critical masses of homeless in 1950 or 1960???
What changed so that we as a society are unable or unwilling to get people off the streets??
I just am completely confused. These people who have no means of support, many of whom have mental illness, or other problems which prevent them from living normal lives, are just in the streets, and we accept it as normal. When did we as a society decide that people have a constitutional right to impose themselves on the rest of us in that manner????
Good for him. The same people whining about this would be pissed if that same homeless man camped himself outside their house.
In 1950 or 60, there were state mental facilities and people were put in them. Then, there was the discovery that some of them were horrible. So, the answer was not to improve them, but shut them down. Local governments were supposed to step in and communities were supposed to take care of their own. It didn’t happen much, especially because homeless people drift over to where they get a better deal, so a city could just do nothing and save money, or do a lot and get a whole lot of extra people as a “reward”.
Agreed 100%, FRiend! Filthy, stinking homeless bums are a liberal pestilence. The leftists want to give them some protected status. At best, they're nothing but an unsightly blight on any community. In reality, they commit all kinds of crimes.
There are also a lot of “normal” people on the streets now. People that have lost their jobs in the great “obama recovery” that cannot find new jobs. There are tons of homeless in town here that are families with children.
The thing that kills me is that each of these people was somebody’s baby boy at some point...........why does the world have to be such a pile of crap
If you are really too young to know, and are asking a serious question...
Severely mentally ill folks used to be institutionalized to protect and treat them and to protect society. In the late 1960s, federal judges got the bright idea to turn them all out in the streets. Add to those numbers the folks that cooked their brains with drugs, and you have the present mess.
Well, they shouldn't be on the streets. Churches will provide assistance if they are truly needy. But, in reality, the vast majority of the homeless are rotten criminals (looters) preying on productive people (the good guys).
Do we know that he didn’t? There seems to be more than what was reported here.
Some homeless people have been tossed aside by family, but others have alienated everybody who loved them.
You are right, though that each one is somebody’s baby. My brother was a violent schizophrenic drug addict. The only reason he wasn’t homeless was because, by the grace of God, he secured an honorable discharge from the military, so the VA had to help him, such as they might. (He could go for help at the VA hospital, but they could not force him to stay long enough to benefit from it.) Then, he committed a crime and went to the secure ward of the state mental hospital for the rest of his life.
Mental illness sucks. And “modern” medicine is in the baby stages of knowing what to do about it.
It can be very dangerous to interact with homeless people, but we really are called by God to take the risk or support people who do. What we do for them, we do for God.
The temperatures have been below freezing everyday, depending on which day it was the low was between 14 and 2 degrees.
That punk who soaked the homeless guy, needs to be facing some charges.
He soaked the man, the dog, and the man’s belongings, that is some serious, dangerous stuff.
An “unarmed, homeless” man?
Huh?
Oh yeah. A bum!
Lefty’s and their euphemisms ... “Grasp this feline
by the narrative, and extinguish him at once Fernando.”
I am sorry. I do not understand all the suffering in the world.
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