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Posted on 07/16/2011 12:42:35 PM PDT by Lornik
City Transportation Services Director Wayne Yoshioka says the city is not setting a precedent by moving a Kapiolani bus stop because of complaints about a homeless woman who had taken up residence at the shelter near Keeaumoku Street.
The city received complaints from bus riders who didn't like having to wait for the bus near the homeless woman, who has hygiene issues.
Tessie Cadelina, 66, who catches the bus daily to and from work, said Thursday, "I no like sit down if the lady stay there. The smell."
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“They relieve themselves in the corners? Does the library not have bathrooms?
I don’t understand.”
Tallahassee. This isn’t a bathroom problem, it’s a mental issue. Last time I was in Tampa the ground floor of the downtown library had become a homeless center. The remote corners stunk of urine. That was 30 years ago and I’ve never been back to an in-town library since: except for a quick run-through in Tallahassee. I decided I’d never go back there either.
When I was in the Smithsonian several years ago, I told a guard that a homeless person was peeing on one of the cases. He rolled his eyes and told me; “Unless I see it myself I can’t throw them out. Even if I do, they just come back in. We can’t throw them out until we close. This is a public building and they’re the public. That’s the law.”
That’s what I thought. Lots of Hawaiians talk like that. Usually the compassionate liberal reporter “cleans up” the quote so it appears as though the speaker is using the King’s English. Notice how you NEVER see a news report that accurately transcribes how Obama really speaks? There’s never a “ah, ah ah...let me be ah clear...ah...the republicans are... ah going to take your social security...ah... away.”
>If I had to be homeless somewhere, Hawaii wouldn’t be so bad. I love the beach and could sleep on the beach every night of the year.<
Then you’ll love it here in Santa Monica, CA..
>The main public library downtown has a full-time armed police guard who patrols every corner of all four floors continuously. There have been rapes, muggings and all manner of assaults. They can’t kick the homeless out until the library closes. The librarians told me they won’t go into some areas without the cop. The homeless pee and poop in the corners. This problem mostly exists because there’s a homeless shelter a block away.<
Which library? Our Central library in L.A. is like that. The architecture is comparable to NY’s. When it opens at 10 am, you will find the security guards walking to each of the 9 floors and waking up the bums at 11 am. They take over the couches, the cubicles etc..
It’s a couple of blocks away from Skid Row but located in the financial district. And people will think of me as racist when I say this, they’re all black. Not even mexican..
“Which library? Our Central library in L.A. is like that.”
The only two downtown libraries I’m familiar with are in Tallahassee and Tampa. I don’t go to either because of the homeless. Actually, I’m beginning to think it’s time to get rid of libraries. We live in the information age. I can either buy the book I want for next to nothing on Amazon.com or just download the factoid I need. Is it worth paying the library’s operating costs and the pension costs? I think not as libraries have become babysitting services and hostels for the homeless; neither of which taxpayers should pay for. Actually, I think we could get rid of 50-90% of government and we’d all be better off.
Yes folks, it WAS that bad..till Rudy cleaned it up. We forget..
I'd vote for Rudy for a job of cleaning poop from between parked cars but not for POTUS.
It's fashionable among some to look down their noses at anything southern, Atlanta is southern.......
Maybe I’ll just become a gypsy and live on different beaches all over the country.
Yes.
Wow. Did the system change in Tampa after that? Or is it still the same old ACLU types running the show?
“If I recall about 20 people eventually died of their burns and I don’t know how many were scarred
Wow. Did the system change in Tampa after that? Or is it still the same old ACLU types running the show?”
I have no personal experience on what changed, but I’d guess since the motivations are economic that nothing has changed. As a politician would you prefer spending your budget to keep people safe, for which you get no credit, or spending it to have bridges and roads built with your name on them? (Or, spending it on hiring people who know you’re the source of their income?)
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