Brush fire along Highway 101 southbound, just south of Fairview. Engine 14 is on scene reporting light smoke from a homeless encampment.
Vegetation Fire Near Fairview
Roger
June 5, 2019, 4:04 am
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It is almost dinner time.
Do “these people” struggle more than those who have jobs, mortgages and families to care for in this community?
I confronted then called in a panhandler 201 South Milpas this morning he was detained checked out doubt if he was arrested. Someone put up a homeless rights thing about “Give em a dollar you can afford a dollar to keep them being brutalized by the police.” What about some of them brutalizing me demanding money..The police don’t brutalizing them that is a bunch of carp..I cannot afford a buck either.
Rodger, I agree…can’t afford to give them all my ones, or change, every time.
Still avoid parking in certain groceries, gas stations…don’t want to be harrassed.
Will I just found poop in my yard and it did not come from the neighbors dog…I know what you mean Winter.
So sorry Rodger….yikes !
My karma for calling people NIMBYS lol..
My guess is the majority of homeless don’t really want to live that way. However, we had a friend, a boy who grew up with my kids, who did want to live that way. He had plenty of family and old neighbors who offered him shelter but it was his decision to live on the street. My husband worked with a man who choose to live the homeless life even though he had a good paying job. When it rained he stayed with friends. I don’t think either of these people did any panhandling.
There have always been guys with no desire to lead a settled life. At one time, they were trappers, hunters, explorers and that ilk. When the railroads came in, they “rode and rails” and were known as hobos. They might steal a pie off a windowsill or clothes off a laundry line, but they weren’t thieves by profession, it was a life-style and they managed OK. The drug addicts/alcoholics/mental cases are a whole different story: They are dangerous. The other big division is people who can’t find a job or housing they can afford or who have been financially ruined, often due to health issues, or are generally unable to cope with modern life. Those three categories typically don’t do all right. The addicts can only be ‘cured’ by themselves. The mental cases need mental help. The financially ruined need education/a new start. Those who can’t cope will always be a problem for themselves and society.
There are many less expensive places than “exclusive” areas like Santa Barbara, Palo Altos, Palm Springs and so forth. Places where a minimum wage job pay the rent and food at least. Anywhere in the “rust belt”…
A lot of this seems to be “your right to swing your arms stops short of my nose.” These encampments are a serious threat to the community whether fire and health hazard or only a solicitation annoyance.