Posted on 05/06/2023 7:05:21 AM PDT by Rummyfan
They deserve what they voted for
London has the Oystercard system. Every day (but one) costs something to ride the transit system (with a daily cap by zone).
Every day (but one) Mr. Bum would have to come up with what I believe would be $2.75.
As for the but one, the card, which costs, can incur a negative balance for just one ride (so riders can catch a bus to an Underground station where the card can be recharged).
It doesn’t make sense to warehouse mental defectives in apartments that people making $100,000 per year would have difficulty paying for.
-> mental facility upstate
-> treatment
-> job training
-> job
-> success
-> It was a pleasure helping you turn your life around.
From Wikipedia:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind, including a critique of psychiatry...
The book is narrated by “Chief” Bromden, a gigantic yet docile half-Native American patient at a psychiatric hospital, who presents himself as deaf and mute.
Bromden’s tale focuses mainly on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, who faked insanity to serve his sentence for battery and gambling in the hospital rather than at a prison work farm. The head administrative nurse, Nurse Ratched, rules the ward with absolute authority and little medical oversight. She is assisted by her three day-shift orderlies and her assistant doctors and nurses.
McMurphy constantly antagonizes Nurse Ratched and upsets the routines of the ward, leading to endless power struggles between the inmate and the nurse.
A violent disturbance after the fishing trip results in McMurphy and the Chief being sent for electroshock therapy sessions, but such punishment does nothing to curb McMurphy’s rambunctious behavior.
One night, after bribing the night orderly, McMurphy smuggles two prostitute girlfriends with liquor onto the ward and breaks into the pharmacy for codeine cough syrup and unnamed psychiatric medications.
McMurphy, having noticed on the fishing trip that Billy Bibbit—a timid, boyish patient with a stutter and little experience with women—had a crush on the prostitute named Candy, primarily arranged this break-in so that Billy could lose his virginity...
Nurse Ratched finds Billy and the prostitute in each other’s arms, partially dressed, and admonishes him. Billy asserts himself for the first time, answering Nurse Ratched without stuttering. Ratched calmly threatens to tell Billy’s mother what she has seen. Billy has an emotional breakdown, regressing immediately back to a boyish state, and, upon being left alone in the doctor’s office, takes his life by cutting his own throat. Nurse Ratched blames McMurphy for the loss of Billy’s life. Enraged at what she has done to Billy, McMurphy attacks Ratched by ripping her shirt open and attempting to strangle her to death. McMurphy is physically restrained and moved to the Disturbed ward.
Nurse Ratched misses a week of work due to her injuries, during which time many of the patients either transfer to other wards or check out of the hospital forever. When she returns, she cannot speak and is thus deprived of her most potent tool to keep the men in line. With Bromden, Martini, and Scanlon the only patients who attended the boat trip left on the ward, McMurphy is brought back in. He has received a lobotomy, and is now in a vegetative state, rendering him silent and motionless. The Chief smothers McMurphy with a pillow during the night in an act of mercy before lifting the tub room control panel that McMurphy could not lift earlier, throwing it through a window and escaping the hospital, thus being the “one” who “flew over the cuckoo’s nest”.
The novel is a direct product of Kesey’s time working the graveyard shift as an orderly at a mental health facility in Menlo Park, California. Not only did he speak to the patients and witness the workings of the institution, he also voluntarily took psychoactive drugs, including mescaline and LSD, as part of Project MKUltra. In addition to his work with Project MKUltra, Kesey took LSD recreationally; advocating for drug use as a path to individual freedom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo%27s_Nest_(novel)
Savage. I like it.
Protects the rest though.
Public transportation is only as good as the civilization where it is found.
Japan and China have safe accommodations—amazing how that works.
Yes, I'm old fashioned but I'm also real tired of our once civil society being forced to deal with this crap on a daily basis.
Crazies no longer have the protection of a nice safe lunatic asylum.
yeah, the nice mentally ill and deranged person harassing passengers is just one instant away from shoving someone onto the tracks....
I don’t give even the mentally ill a pass....they know right from wrong....our betters have decided that they can roam around and harass people and harm people or even kill people ...
Subways are NOT free homeless shelters for the mentally ill. Then again, New York is a democrat hellhole so maybe the homeless, perverts and drug addicts should have their way... and working citizens should move to Florida or Texas...
Never been there. May be OK. I prefer living in the country and drive my own car. If I cant drive my own car I aint going there.
Old fashioned works.
I’m with you on that.
The tragedy is that a public eager to identify transgressors in advance decided from the start that Mr. Goetz was a hero and that his [B]lack victims deserved what they got."...
Why do they say "[B]lack victims"?
Most of these Democrat cities give homeless people and welfare recipients monthly transit cards that are unwillingly paid for by the taxpayers.
There is a resale market where welfare recipients sell them to commuters. Everyone knows it's happening and no one cares. The program overseers point to the high usage (of the wrong people) as a success story.
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