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"What are you in for Lefty?"
"Sleeping in a car. Now shut up, or I'll give you some of the same!" 
They should get fucking real as in see past their ignorant greed .
My mileage varies.
I'd rather see them in a well lighted place where they can yell for help if they get in a jam and someone will hear them, understand their situation, and respond. That would not be the case in a neighborhood setting on a poorly lit street.
So yeah--BAH. It has nothing to do with "offended," it has to do with safety and understanding.
And you plainly know nothing about the elderly. They age, they lose a spouse, their incomes don't keep pace with inflation, they struggle to stay in their homes, and they become fearful--your lack of compassion for THEM is noted.
You'll get there one day--I hope people are nicer to you than you apparently can manage for them.
Not. Nice.
As you make your way to work in the morning, you'll smell the pee and slip on plastic bags of feces as you make your way to your car. That'll get your morning off nice and bright, eh?
WALMARTS are often open 24 hours a day, and they have in them places to shit. Gee, and the lots are brightly lit so people will feel safe going to take a dump at three in the morning.
It's not Gladys' 'sensibilities.' She has a right to live without being afraid of someone she doesn't know with no ties to her neighborhood who may be homeless, but who also may be a thief, laying in wait outside her door.
Right now, vagrancy and other laws do limit your rights to sleep in your car, and poop and pee at the end of Gladys' driveway--but WALMART will welcome you, in a safe environment, and let you use their crappers, too.
And you don't know who that person in the car is--so how do you "know" what they'll do to you? Answer--you don't.
Remain obtuse. It doesnt make you look very good, but knock yourself out.
What a sport!! You're not creating an equivalent scenario with your little tale of Katrina altruism, there.
Of course, anyone parked on your street is more than welcome to ring your bell at two a.m. if they need to drop the kids off at the pool, hmmmm? Because you're so RAH RAH about this issue, you'll open your home and all!
Yeah, right.
And your attempt to label me a Gladys demonstrates what a big fat fail your argument is, here. The fact of the matter is that Gladys has the law on her side, and you, telling people to park and poop all over the neighborhood, do not. She can pick up the phone, tell the cops there's someone in a car in front of her house, and they'll come and check it out. Your homeless buddy ends up in the shits, because you want to sit in your nice warm home and tell that poor person that they have "rights" to park wheresoever they'd like, vagrancy, loitering, and parking regulations notwithstanding--because YOU said so!
What's very enlightening is that you'd recommend that a homeless person stay in an unsafe, darkened environment in a strange neighborhood where the person might draw unwanted attention to themselves, with no toilet facilities "becuz freedumb" or something, rather than parking in a place where they're safer, like a full service rest stop or a church parking lot/Salvation Army that has opened their facilities to homeless people, or one of those WALMARTS with their well-lit lots and available indoor plumbing.
Very enlightening, indeed! And yeah--This does explain your position on some other topics, though. You don't "care" as much as you might like to think you do, apparently. You sure don't care about the safety and security of homeless people, that's obvious.
