Posted on 08/30/2018 7:13:31 AM PDT by simpson96
Edited on 08/30/2018 8:40:05 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
A homeless woman sleeping in a cardboard box was struck and killed by heavy machinery operated by a road crew clearing a homeless camp, police said Wednesday.
Shannon Marie Bigley, 33, was killed Aug. 1 in a grassy field alongside a highway where a homeless camp was built, the Modesto Bee reported.
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The racheal corey effect? Somebody gonna pay!
judas effing priest.
Can’t we get these nomads a bed somewhere? We can put people on the moon and we can’t solve this?
There needs to be a rule, something like “go to a shelter or go to a nut house. Choose.” This tolerance for people living like animals in the streets has to end.
Looks like the California Department of Transportation screwed up — bigley.
Of course it’s a homicide. A human was killed, therefore a homicide. Unless the vic was dead before she was squished.
>>Can’t we get these nomads a bed somewhere? We can put people on the moon and we can’t solve this?<<
I agree. It seems like every now and then we hear bout a $30 MILLION dollar homeless facility with 112 beds.
I 100% guarantee for 30 million I could house 1,000 people using those storage boxes, some land and a bunch of welders.
They’d quickly trash and likely destroy any place they were put.
Live is hard. It’s harder when you’re stupid. - John Wayne.
I’ll add, it may also be a lot shorter.
Has a toxicology report come back on this yet?
Most refuse to go when offered shelter. It’s a combination of mental illness, drugs and a free and easy lifestyle with no responsibilities.
There have always been hobo’s and nomads, but the level now is insane.
Ouch!
My community has a homeless shelter. It is well used. However, there are campsites near the homeless shelter, where people sleep outside.
Why?
The homeless shelter has rules, especially against drinking or using drugs. So people camp out near the shelter...go in for a meal, etc, but don’t stay on the clean beds provided...by their own choosing. Its very hard to help people who are under the spell of drugs.
Many are homeless by choice. Nothing you can do for them.
My conversations with homeless folks over the years suggest that many government-run shelters are horrors. These shun them because outside, they at least have some choice about who is next to them, even in a box.
No, the fact is that many maybe not most, but many homeless choose that lifestyle.
They are not incompetent, not mentally ill nor a danger to themselves or others, they just choose to be so.
I suppose, if we decided that making bad decisions compared to the “normal” lot of us is a measure of incompetence, then recreational drug users, thrill enthusiast, homeless, wanderers, wayfarers and other nonconformists would need to be housed somehow. Got dollars? Didn’t think so.
So, until the above happens (God forbid) many will be living in a cardboard box on the street, where they choose.
I have a BIL who so chooses. He is not insane, a criminal or incompetent. He has a college education ran a successful business for 2 years, married ( no kids) divorced and now a vagabond who just wanders with the climate. He used to ask for money from his sister, but I put the kibosh to that. I offered him a job and a roof until he could so do on his own, he declined. Haven’t seen him in 8 years, but his brothers report he is in the upper MW right now, heading south soon.
His step father and mother tried to have him committed after he went on the road but the shrink declared him fit, so off he went. I think they wanted his land and house in W NC.... He gave it to a friend before he took off.
He even made it to Finland once, but lost his PP after they deported him. He had the bill for airfare sent to me, but alas, Finland has no legal claim for me to pay for him ( my signature being absent and all). I suppose I’ll never go to Finland... they may want money once I sow up at customs....
Yeah, that’s probably the more prominent side. Rules enforced cause homeless who don’t want to comply to avoid them. Rules unenforced tend to create brutal shelters which causes other homeless to avoid them.
“If you look at their job classification, nowhere is it mentioned that they clean up homeless encampments,” Courch said.
Probably doesn’t say anything about wiping their ass either.
Because sleeping in garbage by the side of the highway should be absolutely safe and without any risks.
“Solve” what? If you think it’s that simple, you don’t understand the problem.
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