ok - I was riding my bicycle in the University town where I am typing now. Broad daylight, in the summer.. urban houses. One house is vacant, and has been for y

ok - I was riding my bicycle in the University town where I am typing now. Broad daylight, in the summer.. urban houses. One house is vacant, and has been for years. There are dry leaves and the house is wooden, a giant old tree is in the center of the front yard that drop leaves often. The stairs and porch are painted wood but years old, from neglect. An apparently-homeless black woman had her urban homeless baggage with her, on the steps, and she was smoking a cigarette and talking to herself. We have had fires here, more on the way. I stopped and said "Hey, cigarattes? that is super dangerous. Can you please not smoke cigarettes there?" big, dismissive, mildly cursing no.. So I repeated, "really, its really not OK to smoke there. There are things all around you that can catch fire" .. BIG, resentful, harsh retaliation including "you are a racist!" etc No movement, no accomodation.. I rode my bike fifty feet, found a neighbor and pointed it out. The middle aged woman neighbor made a bad face, and was completely unhappy about this, as I was.