Street People

[Persnickety]

When you walk around downtown there are always those street people like buskers and preaching bums. Do you guys mind them?

There`s this one guy that yells out `Believe in Christ` randomly at this one corner. I personally am not bothered by them and find them kind of amusing, I don`t know if that is right. Do you guys stop by to watch a busker or maybe hear a bum preach every now and then? Do you give money to them?

[Zerok]

Basic bums sort of make me feel weird. I don't enjoy walking by them and hearing their rattling cups and feeble begging.

[STEM]

Tom's artistic talent lies elsewhere.

In the art of drinking beer

[STEM]

Ok, that's the second time today my post has ended up in a totally random topic. Wtf is this bug?

[yurgenburgen]

They annoy me, because they actually come up to me and greet me with a long sob-story about how they need (x) amount of money to get into such-a-place and blah blah. I don't give them anything.

[Persnickety]

Oh yes, I tend to avoid beggars. Those guys are the real deal and they scare me. Apparently most actual hobos have mental illnesses so I am afraid them may turn dangerous all of a sudden.

[Doom-Fan]

I walked around in China Town in Toronto once... it was just great.

Homeless people, people begging for change, people smoking pot everywhere... I just love going in a crowded Urban area... I think I'd love New York.

[Zerok]

At 4/14/09 08:03 PM, STEM wrote: Ok, that's the second time today my post has ended up in a totally random topic. Wtf is this bug?

Really? Hahaha that's going to make for some interesting replies if it's not just you.

[UnluckyXIII]

I seemed to be not distracted by it.

[Gateau]

Homeless people are very colorful and eccentric people, weirdly enough...
I mean, think about it. They are the people who have gone through a lot of rough times in their lives; from drugs and alcohol, back to non supportive families, they must all have stories to tell.

It would be interesting to hear a story about one of their lives, if you could hear it coherently :)

[GeoPowa]

I don't really mind them, but there is this one in-particular that scares the cr*p out of me. A bum comes into the train station every now and then with a guitar. (Not sure how he got it) He plays it and then after 5 notes or so he screams out 'YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!', which makes it scarier because the train station makes echoes. Lol

[Aliensandwich]

lol @ Black Jews.

[ToastedCupcake]

There's not too many bums or any of those types around where I live, although there is one bum who's always sitting in the same spot on the guardrail every Friday, and he likes to hang outside the KFC.

[Aliensandwich]

Sorry for the double post!

MODS, don't ban me! I said "lol @ Black Jews" since they stand on city sidewalks and preach their bullshit such as how "JESUS WAS BLACK!!"

[Persnickety]

Just recently there have been bums who push people into the subway tracks. I try not to stand near the tracks anymore, other than that they are quite harmless albeit very stinky.

Funniest thing I`ve witnessed was when I was in a street car at about midnight and a hobo was stumbling along and passed out right in front of the Beer Store. Everyone in the streetcar that saw had a good chuckle.

[JohnnyWang]

There's not much street people here in Finland, the occational busker, and In Helsinki, last summer there was a lot of talk about Romanian beggars.

I don't really mind them, they're just another side of the society.

[LazyPussyCat]

At 4/15/09 02:41 AM, JohnnyWang wrote: There's not much street people here in Finland, the occational busker, and In Helsinki, last summer there was a lot of talk about Romanian beggars.

I don't really mind them, they're just another side of the society.

those romas are the worst beggars... I work in a restaurant and they always come beggin' then we want to give them food but they don't want that... they always want money so i tell them to fuck off, then they put some fucking gipsy curse on me i dont fucking care

[Steff]

Nope there aren't people like those here.
Only people who hang out alot and shit.

[LazyPussyCat]

yeah i live in France and when i enter Lille there like this little park with a mountain of garbage, broken cars, cars that were set on fire, and rly dirty mobile homes with smashed windows and dirty roma children playing in the mud and shit like that....srsly

[JohnnyWang]

At 4/15/09 02:58 AM, LazyPussyCat wrote: those romas are the worst beggars... I work in a restaurant and they always come beggin' then we want to give them food but they don't want that... they always want money so i tell them to fuck off, then they put some fucking gipsy curse on me i dont fucking care

Over here, they just sit still with a sign and a cup in front of them. That's what most people found most uncomfortable about them, they just sat there.

[LazyPussyCat]

yeah until they come to your street and start knocking on every door with that f*cking sign

[Deadchick]

I bump into a bunch of bums. Some of them ask for change, some of them just saying a friendly hello with a creepy smile, even some of them asking for drugs! But I just walk away, ignore them. They don't bother me.

[FurFurLife]

Bums are annoying.

Can you spare a dime?

[LegolaSS]

we had one walking around a supermarket buying alot of stuff along with brand name bread... how the hell do you buy that much stuff with no money?... let alone go for the expensive stuff?... dont want to go near them.. creep me out... picking at the grapes with grubby fingerless gloves and tatty overcoat... i feel sorry for the poor girls on the checkouts having to count all the pennys... *sigh*... ciao

-LegolaSS