God Damn Transients

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-station-fire20-2009oct20,0,2477803.story?track=rss


Babatunsin Olukunle

Transient charged with setting blaze 6 days before Station fire

Officials say they're still investigating whether Babatunsin Olukunle, a 25-year-old Nigerian national, may have played a role in the massive Station wildfire as well.

A man sought for questioning in the massive Station wildfire that killed two firefighters has been arrested and charged with setting a smaller blaze less than a week before in Angeles National Forest, authorities said Monday.

Really transient? You can't just stay out of the way, you have to set fires that cause millions of dollars worth of damage and take innocent lives? Man you suck. You're the worst.

Transients disgust Lil' Wayne

Tito Ortiz is AWESOME

From TMZ, check out the video:

Tito Chastises 'Lazy' Homeless Guy

A self-described "homeless" man hit up the wrong person for cash -- because last night Tito Ortiz handed out brutal honesty instead of $10 bills.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/09/30/tito-chastises-lazy-homeless-guy/
I was already a big fan of Tito Ortiz and even used to have a Punishment Athletics poster hanging up in my apartment. This just makes me love him more.

Quick anecdote - Hood Rich

So my former roommate on Facebook posted "Just got asked for change by an individual with real 135 dollar basketball shoes on. Are you kidding me?"

This is the same roommate that was with me for the Taco Bell "change comes from within" story.

Back in Chicago in 2005, there was always this beggar by Ogilvie train station asking for change. He was always smoking cigarettes and I saw him wearing a complete matching outfit: shirt, shorts, shoes, all perfectly coordinated with its purposefully obscure matching colors of maroon and baby blue. He was dressed nicer than me yet was shaking a cup full of change at people while smoking a cancer stick! What an asshole.

Wearing expensive ass shoes or clothes and at the same time asking for money really shows the ignorant "hood rich" mentality of these people. Friends of mine who are teachers in ghetto areas see kids come to school with the newest Air Jordans, yet the same kids don't even have money to eat lunch. This ignorance even spreads across continents. On the Jay-Z "Water For Life" MTV special, Jay-Z travels to Angola and South Africa and meets people who have to travel a couple of miles to haul back a small tank of water, which needs to last an entire family one week for drinking, bathing, cleaning, etc. They then show that these same people own cell phones! WTF? Do the cell phones even get service out there? It's ridiculous and sad that some people place vain frivolous material possessions ahead of basic life necessities. Expensive cars, jewelry, lavish houses...you don't need these things, save your money instead.

You're not fooling anyone.

Reader submission photo - Bums in the wild

A reader submitted this picture of a bum in Rosemead, CA, entitled "Rosemead's Finest."

Is that a cast on his foot? Fuck, if it is, tax payer dollars for sure paid for that. Dude is pretty heavy for a bum.....looks like he's eating well. I like how he's looking at the photographer like huh? Kind of reminds me of the famous Patterson bigfoot footage:

The Tragedy of the Commons - An example of bums ruining it for everyone

For many years bums have felt like it's permissible for them to hang out all day at fast food restaurants like McDonalds, Burger King, and Taco Bell. Fast food employees usually won't tell a bum to get the hell out of the restaurant like you'd see at almost every nicer sit-down restaurant. These abundant and inexpensive chain restaurants are viewed by people as being kind of like public rest stops, and bums take this to the extreme.

Years ago, fast food restaurants were much more apt to leave things like napkin dispensers, salt and pepper shakers, and ketchup packets out for customers to take. Soda fountains were often available, and public bathrooms would always be available to the customers. Scummy people (prime example: homeless people) abuse these free amenities by taking tons of condiments and napkins, filling up pre-owned thermoses with soda from the soda fountain, and trashing the bathrooms. As a result, fast food restaurants are forced to move all condiments and napkins behind the counter, disable publicly accessible soda fountains (e.g. McDonalds on Hollywood Blvd), and lock the bathroom doors. Next time you are in a fast food restaurant take a look at what amenities are available to you, and it will often correlate with how nice the town is that you are in. Moving napkins and condiments behind the counter is becoming more and more common, but you can usually tell a place is ghetto when they have a token operated bathroom or have to buzz you in.

Give a yard, bums will take a mile. Everyone had it good, but trashy people like bums had to abuse the fast food system and now we all must suffer for it.

Sorry bums, but you can't find this extra value meal at McDonalds.

Rack 'Em Rack Willie - LoLz

Rackem Rack Willie - Watch more

This guy loves saying Rack 'Em Rack Rack 'Em Rack Rackball more than anyone in the world, that's for sure.

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HILARIOUS, check out their DVD's.

Bedding that looks like cardboard -- Homeless Chic

http://www.le-clochard.com/

At first I seriously thought about purchasing this bedding...But then I thought how I get about four girls into my bed a year, and unless I start dating homeless chicks, that number might drop to zero with this bedding.

Apparently the proceeds go to a Dutch homeless charity.

Awesome movie trailer - Hobo With A Shotgun

One-time writer for Bum Hate, Sintaxi, sent me the link to this badass trailer.



Here's their MySpace link: http://www.myspace.com/hobowithashotgun

Rapper 40 Glocc shows his ignorance by knocking out a bum for wearing red rags

Wow. You are wearing red colored rags so I'm going to beat you up. Sounds reasonable. If that bum hadn't mouthed off like he did, he wouldn't have gotten knocked out like that. Hell, 40 Glocc had a crew of dudes with him and the bum still was mouthing off!

Yes, attacking bums in general is good. However, stupid ignorant actions like attacking someone over what colored clothes they're wearing is ridiculous and is part of the reason why I don't listen to gangster rap anymore.

Some people shouldn't raise a family--Get ready for a harsh rant

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-shelters30-2009mar30,0,7212414.story

This winter, twice as many homeless families sought emergency shelter

Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority says 620 families sought shelter in the last 3 months, compared with 330 last winter. Individual shelter-seekers increased about 4% across L.A. County.
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"I think the economy has been really hard on families," said Rebecca Isaacs, executive director of the Homeless Services Authority. "There are many triggers for homelessness: an eviction, an increase in rent, the loss of a job, a health tragedy, domestic violence. A lot of people are living very close to the edge."

People, get your shit together! Save your goddamn money instead of living beyond your means! Each one of these "reasons" for homelessness could be avoided if the people saved their money.
Here's a few ways that saving money can help
If you save your money, you can dip into your bank account to afford an increase in rent and avoid eviction. Move into a cheaper place while you're at it. If you lose your job or fall into bad health, you can live off of your savings for a while until you get a new job or your health improves. If you're a victim of domestic violence, you should have your own savings account so you can leave the person that beat you. Furthermore, during prosperous times, you can learn new profitable skills, go to school, acquire licenses or certifications, etc., so that you can make more money and be more marketable. Then, if you lose your job, you can bounce back faster.

The short sightedness of these people amazes me....apparently no one read them the fable "The Ant and the Grasshopper" when they were young.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper

The Rev. Andy Bales, the mission's chief executive, speculated that foreclosures were probably throwing more families onto the street than individuals. And recently laid-off individuals were probably more likely to find a friend or family member to take them in, he added.

"When you bring the whole family into a house, the welcome wears out sooner," he said.

As it should.

While neighbors had many concerns about the shelter -- including worries about sex offenders, which the shelter has tried to resolve -- they were also upset that more people than anticipated were walking through residential and commercial neighborhoods into the shelter at night, he said.

Call them crazy, but Burbank residents don't want dangerous, insane, homeless sex offenders and criminals with nothing to lose roaming their neighborhoods!

The photo caption from the LA Times: Alitha Chism, 28, reads a bedtime story to her children Friday at the Union Rescue Mission in downtown L.A. The family was evicted after Alitha’s husband Amos, in back, lost his job and their apartment went into foreclosure.
Damn, four kids at 28? Haven't you guys heard of the many different kinds of birth control? To name a few: condoms, the pill, the morning after pill, foams, vasectomies, even abortions and the pull out method...USE THEM. Either that or keep your fucking legs shut you whore Alitha and your dick in your pants you deadbeat Amos. Now you're all homeless and giving your kids a shitty life because you didn't like the way condoms felt. What the fuck were you thinking? Oh wait, like my mom would say, you weren't thinking. Stupid trashy assholes, you belong on http://whythefuckdoyouhaveakid.com. I hope you get back on your feet and that one day you google your names, find this post, and realize how much you fucked up and how much I hate you.

H.O.B.O. Ops

One time writer for Bum Hate, Sintaxi, provided this awesome link to a Wonder Showzen cartoon piece called H.O.B.O. Ops. Check it out here:

Hobo-Ops


Boy I wish Wonder Showzen was still on...

The Armpit of America Keeps Drug Addicted Thieves Warm

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20090123_Camden_building_is_refuge_for_the_homeless.html?viewAll=y

Camden building is refuge for the homeless

By night, it's part slumber party and part refuge, a last chance for dozens of homeless people who could otherwise freeze to death.

The word "party" should not be used in the same sentence as the word "homeless".

They play cards, talk about football, eat chips, and fall asleep in the hoods of their coats.

Instead of playing cards, play the "get a fucking job" game. If you're homeless you shouldn't have free time to dick around. You should be working or looking for work whenever you're not sleeping.

"This gives them a little reprieve from the cold so in the morning we're not scraping people off the ground because it's so cold."

Whatever, you only have to scrape them off the ground once and you won't have to do it again.

Typical resting spots are all exposed to the elements: abandoned houses, known to the homeless as bandos; areas under bridges and between warehouses; park benches.

"Bandos". Droppin' some homeless slang knowledge on yo ass.


The caption on Philly.com for this photo is:Mike Rego, 34, from Pittsburgh, is a drifter and frequent overnight visitor to the Camden County "warming center."
Yikes! You see that look in his eye? You better keep on steppin'. It's guaranteed that this guy is pertinent to the exclusive information of where a few women's bodies are buried. It's a good idea to keep away from any guy who is described as a drifter. To paraphrase the Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets in that van with those hippies: "Hey, Rego - have you ever killed a man?" Rego: "What do you think, junior? You think these hands have been soakin' in Ivory liquid?" *mimics choking somebody*

Shortened version of the Seinfeld scene
Here is the story behind this piece of shit poor excuse for a human being:

Mike Rego, 34, a father from Pittsburgh, got to the Wright lobby on his own. He said he relapsed into heroin addiction about six weeks ago, and now his bed on cold nights is a red blanket on the red-tiled floor near the lobby security desk.

He ended up in Camden because, as he put it, "if you had an addiction to cheeseburgers, and you were told the best cheeseburgers were in Milwaukee, Wis., you would go to Milwaukee."

HUH? So you're saying you were told the best heroin is in Camden, NJ? Rego's story continued:

The two security guards do their first wake-up call at 5:15 a.m., and by 6, when a cleaning crew arrives, Rego heads around the corner to a Dunkin' Donuts store, where he sits until he is kicked out for not buying anything.

Then it's over to a McDonald's. Same drill.

Myself being one of McDonald's greatest customers ever, eating there probably about 4 times a week (used to be more), and also being a fast food addict, I gotta say I HATE having to deal with homeless scum when I eat there.

I hope when Mike Rego shows up to McDonalds, evil Ronald McDonald is waiting there to kill him.

The rest of the day often goes like this: He hops on the RiverLine train without buying a ticket, gets off at a random town, steals a large box of candy from a convenience store, and brings it back to Camden to sell to a bodega for $10.

He buys a bag of heroin with the money and shoots it. Then he walks and walks. If it's cold enough, his day ends back in the lobby.

If not, "I just won't sleep." If he gets really tired - or if the heroin stops masking the pain in his feet from walking so much - he'll find a bando.

"Sometimes I pray that they lock me up" so he can find a way to recover, he said.

Sometimes (a lot of times) I pray you die. His daily activities are stealing and doing drugs for christ's sakes! This drain to society needs to get off of the smack.

A group smoking cigarettes outside the lobby said that if the warming center weren't there, they would be freezing to death.

Boy I wish the warming center wasn't there.

Homeless man Angel says:

"Do you see how many houses have been burned down and just sit there?" he asked. "If I was rich, if I was wealthy, I'd build the biggest shelter in New Jersey."

Bullshit you would, you would blow all your money on booze, drugs, and hookers.

Those at the warming center said they wait in line for shelter, only to be turned away for space. Others said they do not like that shelters require ID, Social Security numbers, and a willingness to get addiction treatment or public assistance.

Willingness to get addiction treatment or public assistance should absolutely be a requirement! Any filthy bum who says he doesn't want addiction treatment or public assistance needs some sense beat into him. It is not acceptable for homeless people to live a life of stealing and leeching from society--they need to be reintegrated.

Big Red doesn't approve of the homeless lifestyle

LoLz BMX Biker drops down on homeless guy's head

Biker Drops On Homeless Man's Head - Watch more Funny Videos

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OMG this made me put on my lollerskates and get into my roflcopter!



I love the delayed "OH GOD DAMN IT!"

Man that's cold - Homeless man kills aunt with ice pick

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_11171815

ANTIOCH, Calif.—Police say a homeless man suspected of killing his 87-year-old aunt at her Antioch home stabbed her more than 50 times with an ice pick and then stayed overnight and cooked a meal [for] himself.
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They say 51-year-old Carrel Grayson has confessed that he killed his aunt Saturday because he was cold and angry and wanted a place to stay. Grayson had apparently refused to allow him to sleep in the house.
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Authorities say the victim used to feed her nephew, but she eventually became frustrated with his behavior.

Of course she'd become frustrated with this leeching ungrateful piece of shit and his behavior...especially when his behavior includes stabbing you to death with an ice pick 50 times and then kicking his feet up with a beer. What an asshole. Fucking homeless.

"Hmmmm this ice pick could be used on a bum...."

Homeless on ice - zOMG AWESOME PHOTO!!!

Ice fishing: You're doing it wrong
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090128/METRO08/901280491

DetNews.com user comments on the article

*Make sure to check out their photo gallery link for the article as well.*

Frozen in indifference: Life goes on around body found in vacant warehouse

Detroit is putting up a good fight against New Orleans for the title of worst city in the entire United States.

Basically there is a bum frozen to death in some ice in an abandoned building. For a month a bunch of people are around the frozen body, even playing ice hockey next to it, but no one calls the police! Finally the reporter calls the police, the police don't show up, so he calls them again a day later and the cops finally arrive.

In all actuality though, I'd be reluctant to call the cops too, because they often look at the caller as the prime suspect if there is a crime involved, or try to fuck the caller over some other way (I know from first hand experience). If the dirty bums called the police, they might get blamed for the frozen bum's death, kicked out of their warehouse "home", charged with drug possession, trespassing, etc.

"Mercy? I'm afraid my condition has left me cold to your pleas of mercy." - Mr. Freeze, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Some people bring up good points on the detNews.com forum. User "dechko" says:

"While sad, this isn't entirely surprising. First off homeless people are not really a priority when it comes to emergency services. They are seen as more of a burden than anything else. As for the homeless people who were indifferent to the frozen corpse; how can really expect someone who doesn't care about themselves to have any compassion whatsoever for anyone else? And when they are simply trying to survive, how can you blame them?"

Others users comment that the indifference really started with the bum who was frozen, in that he didn't care about himself.
Of course, we also have some dumbass comments, such as one from user "Teresa Sardinha":

"Matty Moroun, the real estate mogul who is worth billions of dollars and owns this warehouse should convert this property into a homeless shelter. It's obvious he already has tenents. The least he could do for these poor souls would be to provide them some comfort and a hope of a future. It would also make ammends for the death of the man on his property that he has left in such disrepair."

WTF? Moroun is supposed to "make amends" for an alcoholic/drug addict homeless man trespassing and then dying on Maroun's property because of the homeless man's own suicidal and self destructive tendencies, carelessness, and total lack of concern for his own health? Fuck that. Moroun doesn't owe shit to these homeless people. Technically they owe him for crashing uninvited in his warehouse. Maybe this Maroun guy is a dickhead, maybe not, but either way he still should not feel obligated to bail out the lazy bums of Detroit just because he worked hard and became rich.

Another dumbass comment excerpt comes from user "Timeforchange":

We need to wake up and treat each other like human beings or we are no less then the terrorist that want to destroy us!"

Wow that sentence makes no sense. Terrorists actively attack people and infrastructure. In this frozen bum story, there was a total lack of action. In fact, the bum was probably the most like a terrorist, in that he essentially committed suicide, and we all know how terrorists love a good suicide attack.

Some people thought that the frozen man might not be homeless because his white socks were fairly clean and his shoes had fresh laces. However, follow ups on the story say that it looks like the frozen man really was a bum, not a regular citizen, and that no foul play is suspected. No shocker there. I mean look, the guy has white socks with black shoes...anyone with such poor fashion sense is probably homeless.

Wouldn't it have been crazy weird if they pulled the legs out of the ice and it turned out to be a reverse merman instead of a homeless man? Like the top half of his body was a fish? WHOA.

L.A. Hero "lights up the life" of homeless man

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/01/homeless-burned.html

Prosecutor: Suspect used flare to set homeless man afire

A one-time barber used a road flare to set a homeless man on fire after pouring gasoline on him, prosecutors said today in filing a capital murder case against the accused killer.
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He was connected to the 2008 slaying by eyewitnesses and DNA at the scene of the crime. The suspect left a red plastic gasoline can behind at 3rd and Berendo streets.

Man, DNA testing is a bitch! In the future criminals are going to be way more afraid to commit crimes when DNA testing gets cheaper and refined.
LATimes.com has a lot of comments from people saying how terrible this murder is. Whateverrrrr, LATimes.com states that they moderate their comments and I bet that the moderator isn't allowing any of the anti-homeless ones...and for sure a lot of people are reluctant to speak their true feelings because they don't want their unpopular opinions coming back to haunt them. I guarantee that a lot of people are secretly glad that there's one less homeless man out there leeching from society, dirtying up the place, and making you feel guilty about not giving him any change when you walk by.

Authorities say the motive was unclear, but sources said the unemployed barber had previously voiced his dislike of the homeless in the area.

Yikes...That's one bad thing about having created Bum Hate. If I should ever have to lay the smack down in self-defense on a rude homeless person that gets in my face after I tell him to fuck off, this blog certainly won't help my case. Additionally, the judge would say to me, "If you truly acted in self-defense, then was it necessary to rub Tabasco sauce in the homeless man's eyes?" Yes your honor, yes it was.

Homeless men on fire are so hot right now

Bad news - Homeless deaths declining in downtown L.A.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/01/deaths-on-downt.html

Homeless deaths declining in downtown L.A., officials say

Deaths on downtown's skid row have fallen over the last four years amid a crackdown on crime by police and an exodus of homeless people to other parts of the city.

Ugh...I'd rather herd all the homeless into one place where you can keep track of them better, rather than spread them all out.

Excluding murders and suicides, 60 people died within the 19 police reporting districts that make up skid row in 2008, according to LAPD statistics.

Ah, hopefully then there were more murders and suicides of homeless to make up for the lack of other types of homeless deaths. If not, L.A. county will have to issue bum hunting licenses to deal with the overpopulation.

Bum reveals ways he tricks you into giving him money

Click on the image to expand
The October 2008 issue of Complex magazine with Aubrey O'Day from Danity Kane on the cover (yowza) had a short article where a bum reveals some of his sly tactics and lies for conning gullible people out of money.

I like the one lie about his family being in Cleveland and that they're all suffering from acute lepromeningosis. Googling lepromeningosis revealed no results, so don't feel bad for not knowing the word, because it doesn't exist (Google says: Did you mean: leptomeningitis). Regardless, saying your family is in Cleveland should be enough to get money from anyone who has ever been to Cleveland. I went there in 2003 and it sucked. The Rock and Roll Museum was a huge let down. I did see a celebrity there....convicted murderer and swindler Don King was staying at my hotel. Sweet. Don't get me wrong, Cleveland is way better than a ton of other large cities out there, like that shit hole New Orleans which should be washed away and never rebuilt...but I still wouldn't want to live there.

It's also nice to see the bum criticize sickening cutesy attempts at humor on signs that some bums use in hopes of getting money. "Funny" bum signs during a recession probably increase a bum's chances of getting doused with gasoline and set on fire. We hope.

The question is....can you put rims on it?

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-edar10-2008dec10,0,5253031.story?page=1

Upgrading from a cardboard box for the homeless

The EDAR, a cross between a shopping cart and a pop-up camper, is a step up.

Christopher Raynor's father kicked him out when he was 13, after his stepmother interrupted an orgy in his bedroom and the teen jammed a broom handle against her throat.

Daaaaaamn son, an orgy at 13?! You were a mack! I'd be pissed too if anyone interrupted my orgy. Now a days it's illegal to kick a kid that young out of the house. Maybe it was allowed 27 years ago when this supposedly happened.

Raynor's mother died of stomach cancer, his father was shot to death, and he himself has served time in jail. He spends much of each day intoxicated and grimy. He despises most people.

What's that ladies? You want to know if he's single?

EDAR creator Peter Samuelson discusses how he came up with the idea for the EDAR by interviewing homeless people:

"Where do you spend the night?" he asked one woman. She led him by the hand into the bushes and showed him a large cardboard Sub-Zero box.

I bet that's not ALL she showed him if you catch my drift. *wink wink* *knowing nod* Cue the 70's porno music!

Samuelson said he was shocked by the demographics: About 60% of the homeless were men, 24% were women, and 15% were under 18. (Adult transgender individuals accounted for the rest.)

Wait a second, if we do 100% total people, minus 60% men, minus 24% women, that leaves us with 16% trannies! Yikes that's a lot of trannies! I suppose it makes sense though, because most people don't want trannies around; they're just too damn weird. This makes it hard for them to get hired for jobs and no one on Craigslist will room with them, so they go homeless.


Admiral Ackbar does his best to warn you about those trannies

Here is another EDAR user's story:

After Dehanka Straughter was laid off from her job as a cook at a Compton preschool, she and her two sons, ages 2 and 6, were evicted from their $975-a-month apartment.
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Now the petite Straughter, 27, sleeps in an EDAR with her boys on the fourth floor of the mission. They like it better than she does. "The kids adjust to anything," she said. "They think they're camping."

Damn, these poor kids. What are the laws on keeping kids in shelters like this? At what point are the kids removed from the mom because she can't take care of them? If you don't have much money, then don't have all these kids!

Raynor learned about EDAR from homeless acquaintances. A high school dropout and former construction worker, Raynor had spent three years in jail for auto theft and forgery. With police after him in Texas and his home state of Missouri, he went to Arizona. He left there in search of more temperate weather and found it next to Pacific Coast Highway.

As traffic rushed by one recent starry Friday night, Raynor reminisced about his brushes with the law. Beer can in hand, he spoke of jumping a freight train to Texas to search for a friend's missing 13-year-old daughter. Wielding a sawed-off shotgun, he banged down a door and tied up two men who he thought knew her whereabouts. "How was I to know they were cops working on a sting operation?" he said.

lol wut?! I like how he's acting like his actions aren't that big of a deal and that he just got unlucky with the undercover cops. Dude, you aren't OJ Simpson, you can't be busting into places with a gun and tying people up.

Recently, a woman he described as his fiancee was struck and killed by a driver on PCH. Not long after, a male friend suffered the same fate, he said. The woman he'd married in Arizona disappeared from his life. He shares his PCH-adjacent turf with a woman named Yolanda, whose speech has been slurred by alcohol and a head injury.

Damn, PCH is gangster! PCH in Long Beach is where I saw my first big homeless caravan of people. It's not surprising that these bums are getting nailed by cars on PCH. I saw a bum walk straight across PCH with tons of cars flying by that had a green light. Basically it was the bum saying "fuck all of you, what are you gonna do, hit me and damage your cars?"

Meanwhile, lawyers are sorting out legal issues. Will municipal codes allow users to park their units anywhere? What about constitutional questions and not-in-my-backyard complaints?

My buddy in Long Beach is a doctor who had a homeless woman set up camp with her carts and boxes full of garbage right on his parking lot in the back of his office. He called the cops to move her out of there. The woman was taking her sweet time gathering her garbage, and the cops finally said, "we're busy and have to go now," no doubt to take care of the one million other crimes going on in Long Beach at that moment. "Homeless woman, make sure you're out of here within the next hour." Well of course as soon as the cops left the homeless woman just plunked her trash right back down to where she was. *sigh*

These EDARs are indeed a step up from living in card board boxes, but unfortunately some homeless will use EDARs to rationalize and justify that their way of life is accpetable because they have this nifty transportable tent-like device. Regardless, more EDARs should be tested and deployed to bums everywhere.

http://www.edar.org

"Homeless Roll" at Mikomi sushi restaurant in Monrovia, CA

I came across this curiously named "Homeless Roll" at Mikomi sushi restaurant located at 414 S Myrtle Ave Monrovia, CA 91016. Since I am an authoritative source on all things homeless, I had to give it a try. The roll consists of shrimp tempura, avocado inside, chopped prime size soft shell crab on top. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the homeless sushi roll does not contain homeless man raw meat in it. The homeless roll is item number S11 on the menu and costs $13.50. I asked the waitress if she knew why the Homeless Roll was called the Homeless Roll and not surprisingly she said "Oh, I don't know, tee-hee." My guess would be because of all the crab sits in the middle of the plate by itself. If you can figure out the reasoning for the naming, let me know.

Give it on up to Homelessville on Saturday Night Live

Kid's dying wish is to feed the homeless...Really? Don't you want some toys instead or to meet Chris Brown or something?

Poor kid. He's so young and innocent and doesn't know that homeless people are actually lazy pieces of shit who don't deserve to be fed, unless you're feeding them something inedible.

Homeless Veterans in NY get the hookup

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/11/homeless.veterans/index.html

Homeless veteran is a nomad no more
-Navy veteran Joe O'Boyle spent 15 years living on the street
-A nonprofit called Pathways to Housing helped him find an apartment
-Pathways is a pioneer in separating treatment needs from housing needs
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O'Boyle spent two of his homeless years underground, riding the trains of the city's subway system.

"I had nothing to do, so I rode the trains. I got to know the whole subway system like the back of my hand," O'Boyle said.

You had nothing to do? How about looking for a god damn job, asshole. Seriously, WTF?!

If your To-Do List looks like this, then go get a fucking job

Tsemberis believes that putting his clients in a place of their own is paramount in achieving success with their counseling and stabilization, as is the case with O'Boyle.

"You have to separate the treatment needs from the housing needs, which is what we were able to do for him. Give him a place to live so that he can feel safe and secure first, and then he's interested in helping himself with his psychiatric or addiction issues, employment issues. All of the issues follow the security of housing."

Hmmm there might be some truth in that....Then again, all homeless once had homes and went down from there...but there's no doubt that having a home would make getting back on your feet a lot easier.

Tsemberis says veterans' perspectives played a key role in the ideological creation of Pathways to Housing.

"They had already served their country, so jumping through hoops was not really something they were willing to put themselves through and would really accept housing on their own terms," he said.

"They felt that they had done their part and that someone should help them in the way that they deserved to be helped. And we agreed with that."

Ugh there is the bum's dangerous sense of self-entitlement. I have to say, I do feel way more sympathy for homeless Veterans than almost all other kinds of bums, but it's not like capable veterans shouldn't have to ever work again after a few years of service.

Pathways clients typically receive about $20,000 in rent and services which include mental health, addiction, health, employment and peer support. Tsemberis says that figure is half the amount a homeless person usually costs the system.

Daaaaamn that's expensive. This Tsemberis is saying that a homeless person usually costs "the system" $40,000? Man I didn't even make $40,000 a year until 2004, and didn't make more than $40,000 until 2005...and that was doing pretty well in Chicago!

The money comes from federal, state and some city funds, and clients have to meet standard lease obligations, such as paying 30 percent of income toward rent. Rental rates on apartments are fair market, with a studio usually going for about $750 a month.

Yeah NY rentals are expensive, but it sounds like these bums are living pretty well with the help of this service. I hope it produces rehabilitative results.

Dumbass former executive shows why companies shouldn't hire him with ridiculous sign

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/12/05/unemployed.sign/index.html

Wearing 'almost homeless' sign, ex-executive seeks
-Paul Nawrocki worked in toy industry for 36 years before February layoff
-After unsuccessful initial job hunt, Nawrocki started wearing sign in New York
-Sign says: "Almost homeless. Looking for employment"
-Nawrocki is running out of money; partially disabled wife on 15 medications

Paul Nawrocki says he's beyond the point where he cares about humiliation.

That's why he weekly takes a 90-minute train ride to New York, where he walks the streets wearing a sandwich board that advertises his plight: The former toy-industry executive needs a job.

"Almost homeless," reads the sign. "Looking for employment. Very experienced operations and administration manager."

Dude, of all things you were an operations and administration manager and you're taking 90 minute train rides to stand there with a sandwich board sign in attempts to get a job? This isn't a good use of your time dumbass. What did you do all 36 of those years working in the toy industry? You apparently didn't learn much and you most likely did a shitty job. Get your ass on the internet job boards, start posting and sending your resume out there, and start making some phone calls.

He tried more traditional approaches at looking for work, but nothing came through.

ORLY? Keep trying the traditional methods. Let's look at your job searching methods, review your resume, and check on your interviewing skills, because I bet they all suck a fat one.

His daughter eventually suggested handing out résumés on the street.

"We started talking, and she actually came up with the suggestion of putting on the sign board. I thought, 'That's not a bad idea.' So, here I am," he said.

You're wrong, that is a bad idea. You look like a fucking crazy person with that sandwich board sign. You're daughter doesn't know WTF she's talking about. If you were looking for jobs at her skill level in life, such as waiting tables, flipping burgers, and babysitting, then maybe passing out resumes on the street could work. No company is going to hire you into anything remotely close to an executive level position with a goddamn sign hanging around your neck begging for work!

Getting the right person's attention is tough. Competing with him for the eyes of passers-by are charity groups and homeless people seeking donations.

Exactly dude. You aren't going to get an executive level job out of pity, you have to actually be qualified for the position, so you shouldn't be out begging for a job alongside charities and bums. Wearing a sign around your neck like that to look for a white-collar job shows that you have a poor understanding of how the business world actually works.
Furthermore, your sign says "Almost homeless," which implies many negative things about you. First, it implies that you are a poor manager of money, since you had little savings to rely on during your unemployment. Second, it implies that you have a poor social network and are unresourceful in finding help and money to avoid homelessness. Third, it implies that you have been jobless for a long time, which means that many companies saw you and didn't want you, because you suck.

But there was one hopeful moment as CNN was interviewing him. A man identifying himself as the head of a New York executive recruiting firm took one of Nawrocki's résumés.
...
Warren was asked whether someone could find a job using Nawrocki's walking-the-streets tactic.

"Well, I found his résumé here, so I'm going to try to find him [something]," he said.

Nawrocki could have found this recruiter on the internet and emailed the recruiter his resume which would have saved him the hassle of standing around with a sign like a damn fool. If the recruitment guy actually looks for a job for Nawrocki, which the recruiter shouldn't unless he wants to lose credibility with the companies that he supplies potential employees to, he better hope the companies don't do a quick Google search on "Paul Nawrocki"....because they'll find out that this guy is so inept that he wore a fucking sandwich board sign around his goddamn neck looking for an executive level job. Paul Nawrocki, lose the sign gimmick and start looking for professional occupations through professional modern means like the internet, or you won't be "Almost Homeless", you will be homeless.

These are tough times even for Power Rangers.

Reward In Homeless Man's Death--Wait, The Reward Isn't For Killing Him?

"He's on fire!" -- Marv Albert

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-reward25-2008oct25,0,4135598.story

$75,000 reward in homeless man's death
Police are still looking for the man who set John Robert McGraham on fire, killing him.

Imagine my confusion when I learned that the reward is actually for helping arrest the person who set the bum on fire, and NOT a cash prize for having killed the bum! Insanity!

John Robert McGraham was killed Oct. 9 when someone doused him with gasoline and set him on fire. He had been sitting on the sidewalk in front of a boarded-up dental office at Third and Berendo streets.
...
For two decades, he repeatedly refused help from family members and others who attempted to remove him from the streets and obtain treatment for him. He was well-known to area residents, who often fed and provided clothing for him.

Stupid mother fucker, why didn't you take their help? Were you too prideful? Did you want to ensure that you would never have to work again?

"The community is horrified by this senseless act of violence," LaBonge said in a telephone interview. He said he and fellow Councilman Eric Garcetti are seeking to have attacks against homeless people classified as hate crimes under state law.

This hate crime shit is so idiotic. Of course it's a hate crime! Every time someone beats someone else's ass or violently murders someone it's a hate crime! They're not assaulting the person out of love, it's because they're filled with hate!

The Only Good Thing That Came Of The October L.A. Fires: One Crispy Bum

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/13/wildfires/index.html

At least two people have died because of the blazes, which have burned 8,000 acres in the hills and mountains of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, fire and police officials said.

One was identified as a man who died in a makeshift wood-and-cardboard shelter and appeared to be homeless.

Like in the movie The Dark Knight, Alfred tells Bruce Wayne that in order to catch a bandit, "We burned down the forest." In order to make an omlet, you gotta break a few eggs. In this case, in order to burn a bum alive, you gotta set acres of land on fire. Or you can just go to your local alleyway and set a bum on fire there too. Whatever's easiest.

Homeless Food Kitchen Closes, Cry Me A Fucking River

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1204055,CST-NWS-soup06.article

Homeless left out as food kitchen closes
There's Steve, the Richard Pryor look-alike, who always has a grin on his face and carries a shabby notebook he says is part of a plan to get his GED.

LoLz B please, you don't have plans of getting your GED, let's keep it real.

"They don't want the homeless people around --we're an eyesore," says a middle-aged woman who identified herself as "Kristy." "But they are probably one paycheck away from being where we are, and then we'll see if they can survive out here."

Yes, you are an eyesore. No, "they" aren't one paycheck away from being homeless.

Coax a story out of some of the center's clients, the staff there say, and you may well find a highly educated person who lost a spouse or child and simply never recovered from it.

Yeah...probably not. It's more likely that you'll find a lazy dumbass who loves alcohol and drugs more than working.

Last week, the day the center closed, the staff served up prime rib and cake. In the noisy, crowded dining room, cook Deborah Crump proudly listed the ingredients she used to marinate the meat.

"The meat is burnt!" shouted a woman a few feet away.

Crump slowly shook her head.

Fucking ungrateful homeless. If that bitch doesn't like the meat she can go eat garbage, rats, or go hungry. No good deed goes unpunished ey?

"Some people consider this a blight," Bealer said of the center. "But where can we put them? Should we build them underground?"

Build them underground? No, bury them underground.

It's Good To Be A Beverly Hills Bum

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/13/homeless-90210-slummin-ti_n_126235.html

Homeless 90210: Slumming time and the livin's easy

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Being homeless in this upper crust enclave is not exactly like living on the street in other places. There are handouts of $2,000 and bottles of Dom Perignon, lucky finds of Gucci shoes and diamond-encrusted bracelets, a chance to rub shoulders with rich and famous locals such as Mark Wahlberg and Master P, even empty houses to live in.

OK really, how often does someone find Gucci shoes and diamond-encrused bracelets or something of comprable value in Beverly Hills? It's probably happened a few times in the history of mankind but it cannot be a regular occurence. I wonder if bums robbing or stealing these items counts as "lucky finds". I do think dumpster diving in Beverly Hills would reap better rewards than dumpster diving in somewhere like Compton, due to the decadence of the rich people throwing out more valuable items.

"This is the finest place you can be," said Isaac Young, an affable 59-year-old with a wide grin and a smooth baritone voice who has been homeless in Beverly Hills since 1992.

Wow, you should be so proud.

But the city also features about 30 rather scruffy residents who live in parks, bus shelters and alleyways.

Thirty? That's it? Those thirty better not let the word get out about how nice it is in Beverly Hills or else they will have panhandling and scavenging competition.

They're an incongruous sight amid the shows of superfluous wealth, underscoring the pervasiveness of the huge homeless population in Los Angeles County. Some 74,000 people live on the streets or in shelters, making the county the nation's capital of homelessness.

Argh it pains me to hear that LA County is the nation's capital of homelessness. Then again, the weather here is amazing, so if you were going to be homeless anywhere in the United States it would make sense to be in SoCal.

The rest of the article is basically more stories of bums getting large handouts and finding nice stuff in Beverly Hills.

A homeless man who identifies himself only by the name of "Bond" says the following gem:

"A lot of homeless don't want to be with snooty, rich people," he said. "You have to be respectful and not act like an idiot. If you're a derelict, they're going to call the cops on you. We're the upscale bums."

Three Heroes Attempt To Help Homeless Woman Overcome Her Greatest Fear

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356627,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/19/buried.on.beach.ap/index.html

Homeless Woman Buried Alive in California; Relatives Say It Was Ultimate Fear

Homeless woman suffocates in sand; 3 held
-Homeless woman, 53, was passed out on California beach
-Three men, who also were drunk, allegedly buried her in sand
-Patricia Ann Kalbskopf suffocated, authorities say
-Men are charged with manslaughter

Man I'd be afraid to pass out on a couch in my fraternity house, let alone public sand dunes. Isn't it a drinking rule that if you pass out in public, you're fair game to be buried alive? Something like that....

One-time writing contributor to Bum Hate, Sintaxi, had the following to say about the story: "I like how it says that she was so afraid of being buried that she wanted to be cremated instead. Looks like those three heroes were just helping her get over her fear. Plus, they were doing everybody a favor by burying her--their timing was just a bit off (or maybe it was perfect...). Buried like a cat turd!"

Maury Povich helps a woman get over her ultimate fear of...cotton

Tucson, AZ Bums Get A License To Piss Everywhere

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/breakingnews/97983.php

City court program keeps homeless out of jail, in treatment

An effort to keep homeless people out of jail for petty crimes has saved the city $3.8 million in jail costs since 2000, city Magistrate Michael Lex said.

The article says this about jail:

For some homeless people, "it's a chance to get your calories up" through three meals a day but with little other deterrent.

Hundreds of homeless adults are arrested each year for the same types of petty crimes: urinating in public, trespassing and panhandling, he said.

The city court's homeless program has resulted in 31,777 charges dismissed since the program began in 2000.
Those charges represent 13,363 court dockets and nearly 6,000 individuals whose charges were thrown out after they completed a diversion program tailored to their needs.
Lex said that as an arraignment judge and then a trial judge, he saw "the same people again and again."
They were either "real jerks," substance abusers or mentally ill, Lex said.

These "diversion programs" better show some fucking results, otherwise it's just giving these homeless a license to commit petty crimes without any fear of retribution. How would you like it if a bum kept trespassing on your property and pissing and shitting in your yard over and over again and he would never be punished for it? Rather than a diversion program, a better punishment would be lethal injection or the electric chair.

Isn't it sad that a sign like this actually has to be posted? This shit should be a given, no pun intended.