[Timber Rattler]

So if they guy refuses to go to the shelter, then what does Jesus do?

Leave him alone, and certainly not dump cold water on him.

[Mrs. Don-o]

That's neither kind nor just to the homeless themselves, who are sleeping in their own urine, nor to the congregants, many of them kids and many elderly, who have to step through piles of stinking rubbish and human waste to get into or out of church for weekday masses.

Having lived in SF awhile back, I can also testify that many of the homeless are frighteningly aggressive, and can get quite menacing (as mentally ill and drug-addicted people do) when attempting to intimidate old ladies into giving them cash.

The "water sprinkler" question is almost moot, since they have now all been removed: but what now? Forcible removal? Cops at the doors every day?

Nobody wants a "solution" involving barbed wire, dogs or handcuffs. So seriously, as a caring person: what do you say?