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OrganicPrinciple130 t1_j0svz2g wrote

Reply to comment by whats_his in Homeless man arrested for stealing excavator to help man change his tire in Downtown by Mr_Blite

Still no excuse to default to being that way of people that are homeless, some are homeless for reason out of their control… irks me to see and hear people default to that because someone is unkept, mental health is a bitch.

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whats_his t1_j0szgha wrote

I didn't say that because he was experiencing homelessness. I said that because he chose to commandeer an excavator and lift a car with it. I honestly didn't even think about his housing situation.

You shouldn't assume he has a mental illness. Not everyone experiencing homelessness has a mental illness.

Also, you should refer to the situation as "experiencing homelessness" rather than refer to the person as homeless. They're in a bad situation, it's not a part of their identity.

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RailwayFox t1_j0w94rw wrote

I agree, with the small caveat that in current year +6 the most PC term would be "experiencing unhousedness" if we're going to split hairs

This guy is living the home is where you make it life, which sometimes is in the cab of an excavator that is experiencing unpermitted borrowedness

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Kewkky t1_j0tjwd8 wrote

You should learn to mind your own business and focus on what you know about. You don't know anything about the homeless situation in San Diego except whatever fantasy you got going on in your head. The VAST majority of homeless here are definitely mentally unstable, and a lot of them are on drugs. Crimes committed by homeless has been on the rise, and the ones that do crazy shit like this are, to no surprise, part of the crazy homeless population. The ones that are homeless and sane own cars, have dogs, etc. Before you go blindly defending someone who straight up stole construction equipment worth thousands then didn't understand how he did any wrong, think about what it would take for someone to do that just to pull a car up to help someone change the wheel of a car.

Signed, a San Diego resident.

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mattchinn t1_j0u2r99 wrote

…and evidently did damage to the car.

Sidenote:

Read this entire exchange, while working a night shift dealing with tweakers every night.

…also in San Diego. lol

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Crizbibble t1_j0syp44 wrote

I see you friend. Keep on being kind and decent. You aren’t wrong.

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OrganicPrinciple130 t1_j0wdml3 wrote

Seems being kind isn't welcome... I just see people shit on homeless and tweakers, how about be nice, help them, nobody knows how they got there, but we all have our battles, don't kick em while they are down, our job is to lift folks up, not punch them down.

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Crizbibble t1_j0wf4bx wrote

This is a cruel world and the most cruel often times are the folks that are at the bottom because they have nobody to take their anger out on. The bottom is voting you down so don’t despair. Decent folks are around too but just not as many.

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