Reply #31: So it's one thing to abandon a crazy lady

[comrade snarky]

To die alone in her home but it's not OK to walk by someone who looks asleep in a city with a severe homeless problem. Gotcha.

You try walking down Market Street at 4:30 in the morning and waking all up all sleeping homeless people to check and see if they're alive. I'm sure it would be a much friendlier greeting than that old lady. Oh yeah... I'd love being woken every 10 minutes by some busybody who wants to know if I'm alive or asleep. Life on the streets is so easy who would need rest?

How may people who don't have homes stay in your nice little town? Do you have a park? A central square where the band plays every Sunday? Would you walk by a person leaning up against the bandstand or stretched out in the grass who appeared to be asleep on a sunny Saturday afternoon?

Really? Honestly?

You sure about that?

Well sure you are, it's them nasty big cities where people don't care about each other. Let me tell you something about San Francisco, it's a story I've told before on DU. A few years ago a guy in the suburbs went nuts. Snapped big time. He got in his SUV and drove to the city where he began running people over on one of the neighborhood commercial districts. A place with shops and restaurants full of people enjoying the afternoon. He hit several, wounding some badly and drove up the street. He then turned around and came back for another run.

What do you think those nasty, jaded city people did? Run?

No.

With no thought of themselves people grabbed the wounded and pulled them to safety at risk of their own lives. Residents opened their homes as refuges to complete strangers. A few even tried to distract the insane driver from the wounded by using their own bodies as bait while the driver was raging up and down the street.

That's San Francisco and that's why I get angry when someone pulls the small town moral superiority crap and that's why I wont sit silent while some fool insults my city.


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