Posted on 06/12/2018 7:06:33 AM PDT by C19fan
From the parks of Berkeley to the streets of Brooklyn, and in most every large city in between, they have become an almost inescapable part of urban life.
Known by many names – “crusty punks,” “crusties,” “gutter punks,” “crumb bums” and “dirty kids,” to list but a few – this group of young adults has rejected a more traditional 9-to-5 lifestyle in favor of train hopping, panhandling and voluntary homelessness.
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Why are tax, zoning, dog leash, noise, traffic and other statutes zealously enforced but not laws on vagrancy, eliminating waste in public, causing a disruption, blocking sidewalks, littering and any other infraction associated with bums?
And if the laws don’t apply to bums, then neither do the laws regarding hosing them and their trash down to get them to flee.
How DOES one differentiate between a ‘Crusty Punk’ and a trendy ‘Hipster?’ ;)
I can’t believe all the people giving them money at stop lights. Bet they wouldn’t do it if the bums were in their neighborhood.
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Hipsters have the dream of living in a tiny house but it is a house. Or living in an RV and traveling. But still having a shelter with plumbing, electricity and internet access.
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Needs more study, but I bet if you scratch the surface you’ll find a lot of these kids came from either broken homes, were latchkey kids, or lacked a father in the household. So very sad. A generation that is driftless, wandering in the desert, unmoored to faith and loosely tethered to rational and critical thought.
This is the “freedom” liberals have been teaching and preaching for decades now. Those who choose this path will increasingly cycle down into an isolated stupor.
How romantic. [Insert eye roll here]
There are two categories of homeless people: those who, thanks to mental illness or severe addictions, could not function in normal society, and a second category who choose not to function in normal society. The opioid epidemic is to blame for the expansion of the first, while the broader culture is to blame for the second. A “Crusty Punk” or whatever they call themselves isn’t so different from the 30-something still living in mom and dad’s basement, or from a college kid demanding “safe spaces” on campus.
Some cities make an effort to enforce anti-vagrancy laws while others dropped the ball completely and have voluntarily become bum meccas.
"...crusty punks / crusties / hipsters..."
There is a different person on one corner in my neighborhood every single day. It is on my way to work.
I am guessing religious cult. And every single person walks with a cane.
I think some of that is an organized operation. In Philly, it's got a Traveler feel to it. The panhandlers have handlers.
Saw a couple of girls (early 20s) on a corner with their faces made up like Broadway Annie. I told them it was a "hard luck life".
Nor is there an easy explanation for why many of these young adults — upper-middle-class and rich kids among them — take up such a difficult lifestyle.
These people do not go hungry. They choose to be a modern version of the hobo, but with much less difficulty. They do what they do, because they *want* to do it.
“Why are tax, zoning, dog leash, noise, traffic and other statutes zealously enforced but not laws on vagrancy, eliminating waste in public, causing a disruption, blocking sidewalks, littering and any other infraction associated with bums?”
I am sure you are asking this as a rhetorical question, or as a gripe disguised as a question, but nevertheless you know and I know the answer as it is the same answer for everything. Those crusty bums have no money to extract.
Listen to “Subways Are For Sleeping” on YouTube. It’s something I discovered a while back.
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