Housing B.C. homeless would save $211M: report

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P.C.

#30
Mar 25 08 10:40
OMG  Lil Me......have you ever thought about doing a stint at Yuk Yuks ?  
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

P.C.

#31
Mar 25 08 10:42
I looked for a secruity person to say somebody needs help, couldn't find anyone. I doubt if I started saying "hey guys this guy looks dead!" [FONT color=#0000bf]vancouverites wouldn't respond too well or at all[/FONT]. lol  

  THAT did it.  I withdraw from this conversation.
Sir Isaac Newton invented the swinging door....for the convenience of his cat.

Lil Me

#32
Mar 25 08 10:43
You have a good heart, SD.  
"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

Sportsdude

#33
Mar 25 08 10:45
  what? I was with 3 Vancouverites said "hey you know there's a guy who is bleeding on the station back there" they all shrugged. First thing they told me here was "sd it'll be a shock for you to see homeless and people lighting up but after a while you'll just get used to it and not even notice they're there."  Then it was the december incident when I was walking home through Harewood with a friend and seeing a prostitute get beaten up. 5 cars past nobody said "hey stop that", two cabbies drove by, nothing. The guy only stopped once we stopped and just said to cool it and he pretty much ran off after a while.


   
"We can't stop here. This is bat country."

Lil Me

#34
Mar 25 08 10:47
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"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."  Robert Heinlein

Van

#35
Mar 26 08 07:39
Sportsdude wrote:
  what? I was with 3 Vancouverites said "hey you know there's a guy who is bleeding on the station back there" they all shrugged. First thing they told me here was "sd it'll be a shock for you to see homeless and people lighting up but after a while you'll just get used to it and not even notice they're there."  Then it was the december incident when I was walking home through Harewood with a friend and seeing a prostitute get beaten up. 5 cars past nobody said "hey stop that", two cabbies drove by, nothing. The guy only stopped once we stopped and just said to cool it and he pretty much ran off after a while.

Yeah, you are a real hero SD!

  Funny how Vancouver is no longer this utopia you used to paint it as before you moved to the Island. I could dig up pages and pages from DV of how "amazing" Vancouver is. Now Vancouverites are a heartless bunch that don't give a crap about humanity.

 You are a petty boy, with a small mind. Good luck with your life! I respect any opinion even if I disagree. It is the generalization you never give up that makes me want to vomit. From Quebecers, Islanders, Vancouverites, Albertans, Seattle University students...the list really doesn't end, you know everything about everyone, based on isolated incidents, a few individuals, and BS propaganda.  

 From, a Heartless Vancouverite.


 
When the End comes, don't worry if your party shoes are clean or not. Just make sure you have them on!

purelife

#36
Mar 26 08 09:52
if people care I sure don't see it. I dunno I saw a guy who was bleeding/sleep on a skytrain platform. Nobody noticed. It just reminds of everyone after 9/11. Unphased by anything and everything. Either everyone is cynical about everything or they simply just don't give a damn anymore.

 
 How long were you observing at the platform to conclude that nobody gives a f*ck?  If your answer is less than an hour, then you can't say that "everyone is cynical about everything."   ADD:  I'm not saying that if you were there for more than an hour that you could just say that everyone is cynical.  I'm merely making a point about how quickly you may have possibly passed that judgement.

 Yes, humans are not the greatest.  We lead our own lives and can often miss the sight of a homeless person lying on the street but it doesn't mean that we don't care.  I for one walk around the skytrain, in and out and could be totally oblivious to my surroundings.  I'm too zoned into my own thoughts most of the time.  That's my weakness.  I know that it's something that I have to work on but it doesn't mean that I wouldn't care if I saw a child abandoned, or a kid crying alone or a homeless person who is bleeding on the street corner.

 I've read and learned something about people.  Some people are happy just the way they are at.  If you come in to try to change something, they're not going to give the thanks you think you deserve.  Many people just learn to accept their lives and live it the way they are comfortable with.  You're right, some people don't give a damn but many do.  And the many who do care, is what we need to give thanks to so that they can "pay it forward" more so to speak and set that example.

 I just really dislike how you just go ahead and label "everyone" and come to conclusions about Vancouver when you haven't lived in Vancouver, SD.  You have step foot in Vancouver for a while.  I'm not saying that you can't give your opinions about Vancouver, now that you have touched it, but to generalize and conclude without keeping an open-mind, isn't too healthy.

 *insert cartoon hitting the brick wall and repeat times infinity*

 

 

49er

#37
Mar 26 08 11:14
..........and attending to his injury and dragging his ass to a shelter is violating his civil rights
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