Funny thing is, North Dakota has swelled to it's largest population in the last year. There is a severe housing shortage everywhere. And they don't hire criminals. So this guy will likely die from exposure. Good planning Aspen Homeless Shelter.

Can they do that? It seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

This is just like Rambo. Get the fark out of my town or we'll throw you in jail!!

i coulda swore i heard about this sort of thing happening....recently.... in Florida..... minds kinda hazy though.

Many places give their homeless people bus tickets to some other place. Nothing to see here. Move along. Heres a free bus ticket. If you don't take the bus ticket, you will be sent to prison for the crime of homelessness. But to discourage your jail use, you will have to pay for your jail lodging. Failure to pay jail lodging will result in a longer jail sentence. Or a bus ticket to Sheriff Joes hood, where you can lodge alongside of Former Sheriff Joe and his minions, until you are paroled to Florida, where it is a crime to be homeless in certain neighborhoods(bonus of getting in a Fark linked article).

Other cities send their homeless to Las Vegas here all of the time. But at this time of year, it's just as easy for somebody for somebody to freeze to death here as it is in North Dakota.

We also do not allow panhandlers on the Strip and if you try to panhandle outside the Strip on somebody else's spot, the 'owner' of that spot will more than likely kill you.

Subby, you magnificent bastard!

/new monitor, keyboard, blah blah blah
//please throw in a wireless mouse.
//kthxbye

If they were healthy and fit enough, they could hire on in the new oil boom going on up there.

AverageAmericanGuy: Can they do that? It seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

What happens if North Dakota responds by dropping off a bus load of meth addicts in Aspen? They can do it, but the consequences will never be the same.

FTA: Airfare for a lifelong Aspen woman was paid for in a similar fashion a few years ago, allowing her to go to Hawaii to live with acquaintances, Savage said.


Acquaintances??? Fark it, moving to Aspen!

I recently heard an articale on NPR about the hiring and housing situation in ND. This guy is out of luck. Criminal history, impulse control problems...it's not (mostly) the Wild West up there.

OK, maybe I should run up there and build a bunch of roadhouses with snow lines back to the work camp!Cha-ching!

From the article - Baldwin, originally from Modesto, Calif., proved a tough case. A poor attitude and bad behavior
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Gee i can't imagine why a homeless person would have a bad "attitude". WTF is that guys problem.

Nice soft concrete to sleep on. Plenty of dumpsters to dig through. Some people are never satisfied.

It's easy to get rid of the homeless. All you have to do is not give them change. Some how they are able to convert the change into sustenance.

I thought everyone sent there homeless to Austin.

They are the 99%!

AverageAmericanGuy: Can they do that? It seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

Presumably you're okay with every other state sending their homeless to your town. That seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

As we used to say, "30 below zero keeps the riffraff out". Luckily for him it's not that cold there ... yet.

Need a new sheriff in town.

their

The State of Michigan encourages people to leave the State to look for work; I believe you can draw more money and for a longer time than if you stayed put.

A lot of them wind up here in Corpus, where a "cold" day is 50 degrees, i.e., about 80 degrees warmer than Michigan. It all works well until they run out of money, then they are stuck.

SAan Antonio does something similar, when the homeless get racked up for petty offenses, they are given a choice between jail and leaving town.

Quite a few wind up here.

Figures a homeless guy in Aspen would be one of the Baldwin brothers.

epoc_tnac: AverageAmericanGuy: Can they do that? It seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

Presumably you're okay with every other state sending their homeless to your town. That seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

As long as each municipality is free to send them away again, sure. Hell, truck them all over the country.

iron_city_ap: AverageAmericanGuy: Can they do that? It seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

What happens if North Dakota responds by dropping off a bus load of meth addicts in Aspen? They can do it, but the consequences will never be the same.

Bum-Wars.

Sweet.

/maybe they compromise and both states send their untermensch to South Dakota.

sleeper2995: It's easy to get rid of the homeless. All you have to do is not give them change. Some how they are able to convert the change into sustenance booze .

FTFY

AverageAmericanGuy: epoc_tnac: AverageAmericanGuy: Can they do that? It seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

Presumably you're okay with every other state sending their homeless to your town. That seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

As long as each municipality is free to send them away again, sure. Hell, truck them all over the country.

Yeah, that's the solution! They can live on buses! That's much cheaper than housing them in stationary shelters.

Oh Im sure he will do just fine in ND. Plenty of work, no housing locals who dont like outsiders, and wonderfully mild winters.

epoc_tnac: AverageAmericanGuy: epoc_tnac: AverageAmericanGuy: Can they do that? It seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

Presumably you're okay with every other state sending their homeless to your town. That seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

As long as each municipality is free to send them away again, sure. Hell, truck them all over the country.

Yeah, that's the solution! They can live on buses! That's much cheaper than housing them in stationary shelters.

Well, hopefully the buses would eventually careen off a cliff somewhere and burst into flames.

epoc_tnac: AverageAmericanGuy: epoc_tnac: AverageAmericanGuy: Can they do that? It seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

Presumably you're okay with every other state sending their homeless to your town. That seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

As long as each municipality is free to send them away again, sure. Hell, truck them all over the country.

Yeah, that's the solution! They can live on buses! That's much cheaper than housing them in stationary shelters.

You don't do it forever, of course. You lull them into a false sense of security, then after a week or so you take them to secret government warehouses where they are used as test subjects for the alien/human hybrid program.

Good idea.

Now that ski season is starting we can't have these bums littering the streets.

AverageAmericanGuy: You don't do it forever, of course. You lull them into a false sense of security, then after a week or so you take them to secret government warehouses where they are used as test subjects for the alien/human hybrid program.

The troubling thing is that other than the alien crap, you seem like the kind of guy that would like that to happen.

Bob16: From the article - Baldwin, originally from Modesto, Calif., proved a tough case. A poor attitude and bad behavior
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Gee i can't imagine why a homeless person would have a bad "attitude". WTF is that guys problem.

Nice soft concrete to sleep on. Plenty of dumpsters to dig through. Some people are never satisfied.

... or "assholes have trouble finding work". Hard to tell which this is.

It wouldn't have happened if he'd been a successful attractive street person.

//lude

AcneVulgaris: or "assholes have trouble finding work". Hard to tell which this is.

YEah i know what you mean.

Nobody has ever had the experience of working with an asshole.

Probably cause so many people end up working FOR assholes.

Sounds like he got sent to Williston.

StymieMotJuste: Funny thing is, North Dakota has swelled to it's largest population in the last year. There is a severe housing shortage everywhere. And they don't hire criminals. So this guy will likely die from exposure. Good planning Aspen Homeless Shelter.

Well, if he dies he won't be homeless, right?

Call me a troll if you want but....I have a solution to the homeless problem. And unemployment. And lots of crime. It's actually a pretty good system.

I'm not the first to come up with it either. You see, most countries have pretty strict requirements for non-citizens to live and work in their country. For example, I work in such a country now. If I lose my job - I get no government benefits and I have six months to find a new job that meets their requirements or I have to leave. I'm ineligible for pretty much every social program that exists. Any semi-serious crime/conviction against me would force me to leave the country.

What I'm saying is - why doesn't someone start a country that has those same regulations for it's citizens?

If you want to be a citizen of country Awesome, you *need* to be a productive member. That's it. If you aren't, you get shipped out. Where you go is your problem. Again, while it might sound cold - it's exactly what millions of immigrants like myself face each and every day.

epoc_tnac: AverageAmericanGuy: epoc_tnac: AverageAmericanGuy: Can they do that? It seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

Presumably you're okay with every other state sending their homeless to your town. That seems like a good solution to a persistent problem.

As long as each municipality is free to send them away again, sure. Hell, truck them all over the country.

Yeah, that's the solution! They can live on buses! That's much cheaper than housing them in stationary shelters.

Better still...get them plane tickets and over time, they could reach Platinum status and just live at the clubs in the airports.

Bob16: AcneVulgaris: or "assholes have trouble finding work". Hard to tell which this is.

YEah i know what you mean.

Nobody has ever had the experience of working with an asshole.

Probably cause so many people end up working FOR assholes.

I have a feeling that wherever you go, you work with an asshole.

This is not surprising. North Dakota is doing very well economically. Bureaucrats in cities with a homeless problem ship them to places that are doing well out of spite.

This is not a bad idea. An army of frozen homeless people stored away for future use could have many practical applications. Once frozen, they can be easily transported, for work, as food; to stop leaking oil rigs, or just as fuel for green bio-fuel plants.

Two words.."solyent green"

RexNexus: StymieMotJuste: Funny thing is, North Dakota has swelled to it's largest population in the last year. There is a severe housing shortage everywhere. And they don't hire criminals. So this guy will likely die from exposure. Good planning Aspen Homeless Shelter.

The oil patch doesn't give a rat's ass if you have a criminal record if you show up for work on time every day and do your job.

//grew up in oil towns

It's not the way it is anymore, old timer, they have rules now. And criminal records don't get hired. There's plenty of people who aren't criminals that want the jobs, they get hired first.

Hmmmm.... As someone who actually IS homeless, and who actually RTFA, I think I approve of this solution. It's not as if the guy was kidnapped and dumped into the baggage comparment of the bus. According to TFA the decision to go included HIS input. If everybody, including him, is mistaken then, well, life does not come with guarantees.

I wonder how many of the Fark Experts (tm) here have actually personally experienced extended homelessness? (And by homelessness, I don't mean having your Mom throw out your ratty cum-stained old mattress and making you sleep on the couch.)

fark aspen.