I passed by a bus stop yesterday and there is now a no trespassing sign and a no loitering sign up. That seems odd for a public bus stop.
It is literally so they can charge homeless people taking shelter there.
That’s just mean
Welcome to people. Instead of fixing the homelessness, governments would prefer to make the situation worse while doing their best to ignore it.
Welcome to today‘s USA.
Anti-homeless antics are neither recent nor limited to America.
I have never heard of a western democracy that has a witch hunt against homeless people to near the degree that is common in USA.
So yes this level of evil harassment against homeless people is mostly limited to America. USA has become the dystopia SciFi stories warned us against since a century ago. And most Americans don’t even know it.
I wouldn’t even say that it’s to be able to charge homeless people - how are they going to pay? It wouldn’t be particularly smart financially.
It’s more about just not having them there. Say what you want, but if a bus stop reeks, it makes it much less attractive to take public transit. Of course, it just moves the problem somewhere else - but the transit authority doesn’t have to worry about it too much anymore.
charge them with a crime
Exactly. Them not being able to pay the fine is the bonus. That and its immediate probable cause for any officer wanting to cause some shit with whoever needs to take the bus that day.
I swear some people on this platform are intentionally dense or something
sometimes people just go to home despot and buy signs and put them up.
i’ve it a lot with “no parking” signs on public streets when they want to reserve parking for themselveshome despot
This is the perfect typo for this post lol
that was not a typo (:
Yup, I call it the same.
Yeah my city has a lot of homeless around bus stops.
Is a bummer but it makes other people avoid those places like the plague and gives further bad names to public transport.
I get that but they take away everything someone owns, prevent them from sitting or sleeping anywhere, throw them in jail or put them on a bus and send them to another state. I don’t see how any of this solves the problem.
If the homeless all end up in prison, there are no more homeless, and a fresh supply of profitable slave laborers.
