Ugh, this woman is in the run for the worst person in the world

[HEyHEY]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/11/29/bc-coquitlam-homeless-shelter.html

"Tempers are running so high over a proposed homeless shelter in Coquitlam that the city has moved to ensure participants security would be beefed up at a public hearing into the issue Monday night.

A meeting at city hall Nov. 1 descended into such chaos that some stakeholders are refusing to attend the follow-up gathering in the council chambers out of concern for their own safety, said Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart."

""Already we had a few homeless people that did live right in those bushes there before they clear-cutted them," said Jennifer Rees, pointing from her backyard. "You see a lot of them in the neighbourhoods, petty They go right into your backyards looking for stuff.""

I'm so sick of these spoiled suburban pricks and their hatred of the less fortunate.

[2Design]

1. The states don't like homeless anywhere and are unwilling to help n/t

[RKP5637]

2. Yep, but Corporate Welfare is accepted as godly. n/t

[Ken Burch]

3. Neither does Canada, apparently, which is where this story occurred.

n/t.

[virgogal]

7. Canada has provinces,not states.

[virgogal]

4. Gee,I thought Canada was a perfect country.

:sarcasm:

[HEyHEY]

6. Not since I left.

[pacalo]

5. "Don't mess up my pretty world.".

She didn't look like she was missing any meals. Couldn't she have offered them something to eat & drink?

[HEyHEY]

8. That only encourages them to come back!

They are just like racoons, the homeless.

[pacalo]

13. She doesn't want them near her yard; she doesn't want a shelter built near her home.

What solution for the homeless would she propose? A shelter would prevent, or at least lessen the presence of, these "less-than-human-beings" who are cluttering up her perfect world.

Some people just... :grr:

[HEyHEY]

14. I wager she's the type of woman hated by all her neighbours

Probably complains about Christmas decorations and such.

[pacalo]

15. She needs to get a life, HEy,HEy...

She needs to get on a keyboard & find a discussion board, like us!

[HEyHEY]

16. The last thing I need is one more person I hate posting on the internet!

[KamaAina]

20. Nice post, Andre Bauer!

:rofl:

[Sonoman]

9. When they start crossing property lines, the game changes.

We have a crew of guys living up the hill. They are right over the top, looking down on the house of the mother of one of the bunch. He is so dog-shit crazy that she had to get a restraining order against him.

And they are up there, looking down on her property.

I drop off food, propane and toilet paper for them pretty regularly.

I have also told them that they will die, should I catch them anywhere near my house.

It is not hatred, but reality. The hard-core (especially crazy) homeless will do things that we would never expect.

And I will guarantee you, you would not want these guys to live next door to you.

Sonoman

[HEyHEY]

11. I had homeless people all around me in Vancouver

Most of them are harmless and wouldn't hurt anyone. In fact, the only people I have ever heard of robbing and mugging folks are junkies who have homes.

[Warpy]

10. Personally, I love the homeless.

They're the ones who come by asking for yard work and I give it to them, making sure they're well paid for their time and effort. I also feed them if they ask. I'm at that point in my life when I really need some help doing work, especially yard work, and the homeless have proven themselves valuable allies.

People who look down their long blue noses at them don't know what they're missing.

[HEyHEY]

12. I used to get amazing news tips from one

His name was Don and he was always on the corner across from my office. He was a former researcher for some department at the University of British Columbia. Then one day he had a breakdown of some kind. He would sit on the corner panhandling and reading. He gave me leads that actually panned out, it was amazing.

Sadly, some days I would see him and stop to chat and he would be clearly in distress mentally. When he was like that I didn't know what to do, so I just acted as non-threatening as I could and moved along.

[Warpy]

19. Acting non threatening is good

because one of the defining characteristics of mental illness is fear, usually with good reason.

I know what you mean. I've always listened to street people, ever since I was new to Boston in the late 60s. They told me who to trust and who to watch out for and they were never wrong.

[stevedeshazer]

17. The worst person in Coquitlam, maybe.

Nothing gets a neighborhood stirred up so much as an invasion of homeless.

Just when they thought they'd moved far enough out from the city.

Agreed. We've got that here, too.

[Initech]

18. I personally propose we use George Carlin's idea and turn golf courses into homeless shelters.