Greyhound therapy to ensue.

Let them hang around the UofW campus. They'll be out of the way of the general public, have access to facilities & get lots of change from guilty college students. It's win/win.

Um....isn't fining the homeless kinda like trying to squeeze blood from a rock?

/I like forties

So, sixty bucks altogether? What if I can't afford that?

I wonder how the alderwoman would feel if the homeless were given rides to use her residence as a bathroom. Might it be a problem then?

/probably only cares if it happens in her backyard

I hate homeless people that piss themselves and piss and shiat on the sidewalk. One of them shat on the sidewalk by Union Station today and covered it with a blue towel (probably still there, for you commuters walking southeast on Mass Ave). For fark's sake, at least walk a little off the beaten path to take a dump.

tukatz

"Yes, kids, that IS a homeless person peeing on that picnic table."

Madison has always been fluffy about letting the bums "work". They get in your face, block your way, threaten, and steal. They also lay around drunk, make no attempt to get jobs, and prey upon the naive student population. Many refuse to utilize the shelters, so it's not a question having no room for them.

Madison has become a mecca for bums.

Sounds an awful lot like Mexicans in southern California. I forget which city it was, but they actually passed a law preventing their cops from cooperating with federal immigration agents in order to protect the illegal immigrants. Seriously, wtf.

Never should have let them out of the kitchen.

No, I'm not joking, women are ruining western civilization. We had a well known homeless person die in my (Canadian) town recently; you'd think the Queen had died the way the hens, and only the hens, carried on.

Analysis: modern women, being barren, childless abortion sluts, have an "empathy deficit" and overcompensate for their general coontiness and childlessness by playing mother Teresa to homeless men. "See? I'm a good person, I give money to bums." Yeesh.

When did politicians start thinking of the homeless as their consitutents? Have the become an important voting block?

shadowf200
Um....isn't fining the homeless kinda like trying to squeeze blood from a rock?


/got nothin'

I don't know why it's such a big deal that the homeless sleep in parks at night. You bastard teenagers shouldn't be in the park at night, anyway.

/pull up you pants and get off my lawn!

The Stealth Hippopotamus: It makes sense. If they had the money they would not be homeless.

Nope. I had a man move into the apartment next to mine from his car. Within four months he was back in his car because the "fumes" from the apartment and the noise from the other neighbors was too much for him. Some people are homeless because they want to be homeless. Not for lack of money.

Enforcing those fines is just an excuse to lock up the homeless for a couple of days at a time. It's a waste of police resources and accomplishes nothing. If they spent the amount of $$ it takes them to monitor, arrest, transport, process, keep in jail, and release the homeless on providing them appropriate facilities to take care of necessities like disposing of waste, they'd have no shortage of public bathroom facilities.

They're handing out 20's and big boy beers in Madison???
I'm quitting my job and moving there.

/always liked pissing outside

When Zorlack takes over the world, Zorlack will ensure that all bums get jobs through the genius GAJOGSOAC program... GAJOGSOAC of course being an acronym for "Get a job or get shot out of a cannon."

Is this a bad time to bring up bumwine.com?

They are ticketing panhandlers in Toronto now. It is really quite disgusting. Toronto the good my ass!

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My hometown used to have a couple of homeless people begging about a decade ago. Now we have one on seemingly every other street corner begging for change. Anyone have the slightest clue how to get rid of them short of:

1) Killing them
2) Shipping them to CA
3) Magically solving the entire state's economic woe

I could only think of:
a) Arresting people who give them change.

drunk post!! mods, pls delete.. lol

40oz_A_Knight: I hate homeless people that piss themselves and piss and shiat on the sidewalk. One of them shat on the sidewalk by Union Station today and covered it with a blue towel (probably still there, for you commuters walking southeast on Mass Ave). For fark's sake, at least walk a little off the beaten path to take a dump.

Sorry, mate. That was me.
/can I have my blue towel back?

I think that the majority of the homeless have mental or medical issues. They are schizophrenic or addicted to various drugs. Question for whoever cares to answer, would you support the following:

the first time a panhandler is picked up by police, he is given a competent medical and psychological evaluation (for the purposes of the this hypothetical, let's assume the evaluation is competent). He is given any and all treatment required/requested (for the purposes of this hypothetical, let's assume we can afford this) included rehab or schizophrenia treatment.

If there's nothing wrong with him, he is offered meaningful employment (for the purposes of this hypothetical, let's assume that you personally get to pick the employment, so it wont be "crash test dummy" or anything like that - I'm thinking more like, you look at what he is able to do physically and at his education level and just have a government subsidy to give him a some made up job, "planting trees in parks" maybe).

The second time he's picked up, he has a choice between repeating rehab/treatment or jail. After some finite number of retries, he's put in jail.

They are ticketing panhandlers in Toronto now. It is really quite disgusting.

This would be non-viable option 4, I believe.

In Mexico they have signs posted by local churches that say to the affect"Don't give beggars money. You're only contributing to their misery. Let them go find work."

EliteAnalyst: Never should have let them out of the kitchen.

No, I'm not joking, women are ruining western civilization. We had a well known homeless person die in my (Canadian) town recently; you'd think the Queen had died the way the hens, and only the hens, carried on.

Analysis: modern women, being barren, childless abortion sluts, have an "empathy deficit" and overcompensate for their general coontiness and childlessness by playing mother Teresa to homeless men. "See? I'm a good person, I give money to bums." Yeesh.

Ah, so we meet again.


*PSSHHHHTTTTTT*

swingbozo: Is this a bad time to bring up bumwine.com?

I found that site last week when looking for more info on T-Bird. Now I just walk around the house asking my wife, "What's the word?"

/Thunderbird!

therhinodep: 40oz_A_Knight: I hate homeless people that piss themselves and piss and shiat on the sidewalk. One of them shat on the sidewalk by Union Station today and covered it with a blue towel (probably still there, for you commuters walking southeast on Mass Ave). For fark's sake, at least walk a little off the beaten path to take a dump.

Sorry, mate. That was me.
/can I have my blue towel back?

Dad?

Soni: drunk post!! mods, pls delete.. lol

NOOOOO!!!!! DO NOT DELETE!!!! MUST... FINISH... FAPPING!!!

If you like batshiat crazy liberal ideas, you'll love Madison, Wisconsin.

Cue the funny panhandling signs!

Most of the homeless I see:

1) Don't want to work (lazy)
2) Want to spend their life drinking/drunk
3) Or like Tofo said, are medically crazy / schizo

Bari: Most of the homeless I see:

1) Don't want to work (lazy)
2) Want to spend their life drinking/drunk
3) Or like Tofo said, are medically crazy / schizo

Hey! I have a home!!!

The Stealth Hippopotamus: It makes sense. If they had the money they would not be homeless.

Corpses can't be homeless...can that be a solution too?


/Supports anti-panhandler laws...$250 fine for every $0.01 cent you give to beggars. Second offense? Mandatory 90 days in county jail.

cefm: Cue the funny panhandling signs!

Mmm... Street meat!!

tukatz: Madison has become a mecca for bums.

has clearly never been to San Francisco

and if they did make it mandatory to hand out a $20 bill and a forty oz. I'd take up a new profession!

As long as we're all being honest about how much we hate homeless people and women here, I just think I should throw this out:

We should bring back slavery.

There, I said it.

Also, what happened to poor people being required to kiss the feet of rich people when they walk by? We should bring that back, too.

I thought the homeless issue was bad when I went to school in Madison...then I moved to Portland. At least Wisconsin gets cold in the Winter so the homeless migrate South for a while.

"Here's your sign."

<b><a target="_blank" href="http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=3857837&IDComment=44193 664#c44193664">destitute college kid</a>:</b> <i>As long as we're all being honest about how much we hate homeless people and women here, I just think I should throw this out:

We should bring back slavery.

There, I said it.</i>

How about Homeless Slavery?

They get a roof over their heads and a sense of purpose, we get the lawn mowed and the house cleaned.

Everybody wins!

cefm: Cue the funny panhandling signs!



for you Don Hertzfeldt fans

The Grinch: Sounds an awful lot like Mexicans in southern California. I forget which city it was, but they actually passed a law preventing their cops from cooperating with federal immigration agents in order to protect the illegal immigrants. Seriously, wtf.

There's logic behind this. If an illegal immigrant is a victim or witness to a crime, I think it's reasonable to suggest that they should be able to come forward to law enforcement without fear. If your mother was murdered, and a key witness in the attach was an illegal immigrant, I think you'd want that person to be able to cooperate with police.