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It's an exhausting problem. I live in Portland, which is just another west coast city having increasing trouble with a rising homeless population. On one hand y
by alexbanks 7y ago
It's an exhausting problem. I live in Portland, which is just another west coast city having increasing trouble with a rising homeless population. On one hand yes, they're people and they deserve help and support and appropriate housing and access to rehab and structure. But on the other hand, if you buy a house in Portland there's very little you can do to prevent your front sidewalk from getting turned into a homeless camp. Having seen first hand how frequently camps are also drug dens, it's really tiring stepping over hundreds of dirty needles and needle-caps when you leave every morning. And the smell of piss and shit in every offstreet doorway in the city. When my mom visited we were driving over the Morrison bridge and a homeless man was pissing off the side in broad daylight - not a care in the world.
So yes, help them. But also just do something, anything at all.
- tppiotrowski 7y agoI have heard the hundreds of dirty needles sentiment from people but have never encountered a neighborhood in LA where there are hundreds of dirty needles on the ground. Is there any photos of this phenomenon online you could point me to or is this mostly hyperbole?
- _t0du 7y agoCaps are way more common, but every monday morning the front stoop at my old office would have a handful of used needles on it. I suppose the hyperbole would be implying "hundreds" of dirty needles all in one place. When I walk to work, I see many, but rarely are there more than 2-3 in one spot.
- coldtea 7y agoDoesn't have to be "hundreds of dirty needles on the ground" in the same spot . It's enough that there are hundreds of dirty needles on the ground to be discovered in the span of a couple square miles or so...
- big_chungus 7y ago"Thousands of pounds of human waste, close to 14,000 hypodermic needles cleaned out from Santa Ana River homeless encampments" - https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/08/thousands-of-pounds-of-human-waste-close-to-14000-hypodermic-needles-cleaned-out-from-santa-ana-river-homeless-encampments/ https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/08/thousands-of-pounds-of... They will also need to remove a few inches of topsoil to clean it up. This is the sort of procedure that is used to clean up toxic chemical spills, high levels of pollution, and nuclear waste.
- GauntletWizard 7y agoDon't forget actual toxic chemical spills, caused by looting: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/the-city-discovered-contamination-at-a-former-homeless-encampment-these-campers-say-they-were-never-told/ https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/the-city-...
- tacotime 7y agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/7n446x/everett_wa_needle_cleanup_behind_a_home_depot/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_title https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/7n446x/everett_w... https://www.google.com/amp/s/q13fox.com/2017/10/23/ex-addicts-assisting-homeless-cleanup-the-only-way-i-can-stay-sober-is-helping-somebody-else/amp/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/q13fox.com/2017/10/23/ex-addict...
- heavyset_go 7y agoThese pics were taken out in the sticks of Everett, apparently in the woods where no one lives. Where are the the piles of needles people keep claiming they need to walk over on their way out of their apartments in Seattle?