Carts of Darkness - Real documentary on homeless extreme shopping cart racing

Here's the description from nfb.ca:

Murray Siple's feature-length documentary follows a group of homeless men who have combined bottle picking with the extreme sport of racing shopping carts down the steep hills of North Vancouver. This subculture depicts street life as much more than the stereotypes portrayed in mainstream media. The film takes a deep look into the lives of the men who race carts, the adversity they face and the appeal of cart racing despite the risk. Shot in high-definition and featuring tracks from Black Mountain, Ladyhawk, Vetiver, Bison, and Alan Boyd of Little Sparta.

LoL in the first 3 minutes a bum crashes his cart full of shit into a car, breaks his leg, and says "Just get me the hell out of here." Great, the bum will pay nothing and both the insurance company and the government will lose money by paying for the car repairs and the bum's medical bills respectively.

The documentary shows a bunch of homeless scavengers stealing money from the city of Vancouver by taking all the recyclables out of the recycle bins. Why this is stealing is addressed in a previous Bum Hate article found here.

I started writing this post nearly two years ago, so the rest of the post will be mostly from memory, since I'm not going to watch the entire documentary again...

First off, these bums are stealing shopping carts. Shopping carts cost money. Now a days many stores have to put electronic devices on the shopping carts to prevent their theft, which costs even more money.

It's actually kind of impressive how good these bums are at riding the carts. The bums act like the carts are skateboards.

One of the bums says he "could probably get a damn job tomorrow" but then wouldn't show up for two days in a row because he was on bender and would get fired. That's messed up. The guy lacks responsibility and discipline and would rather leech off of society. Yes I realize he most likely has an alcohol problem. In fact, the video shows quite a few bums that just sit around and drink booze instead of working. They should be saving their money for something important like food or a home. Hell, one of the bums is even wearing a Budweiser t-shirt. It's ironic that he's basically advertising for the root of his problems.

Lastly, some of the homeless in this documentary say what many homeless people say: they prefer being homeless because of the freedom. Sorry bums, but this is just backwards rationalization for being homeless. Who has more freedom, an employed man with money in his pocket who can eat at whatever restaurant he wants, or a bum with no money who, for every meal, must scavenge for garbage, steal, or beg for change just to afford the cheapest of food items? Who has more freedom, an employed man with money who can choose to live in a variety of apartments, condos, or houses, or a bum with no money who can choose to sleep in a limited selection of alleys or shelters that must provide enough warmth so he doesn't die of hypothermia at night? The freedom that homelessness offers is like the freedom to get hit in the nut sack a variety of different ways. It sucks any which way.

Booze leads to a variety of problems