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.”
Bar of soap. tub of water, chain gang from the local or county jail. Problem solved.
Well, you can wash them up once but they just keep pooping.
Hawaii is one of the few places in the US where being homeless isn’t all that tragic.
There is potable water and showers at all the beaches; mango trees are fairly plentiful; a considerable amount of tourism where some offering of manual labor is marginably compensated, and the moderate tropical climate allows year-round living outdoors. No worries about freezing to death or suffering from heat exhaustion.
With a little imagination, fishing isn’t that infeasible from nearby the shores.
On the other hand, if you are homeless and jobless in Hawaii, it’s alot more costly to make it out of the area without becoming a stowaway.
If the woman has a problem with hygiene, it isn’t due to lack or nonavailability of facilities. Every beach has public showers, accessible even at night, and the ocean swim in waste deep waters is also very accessible, then a rinse in the shower, even wearing clothes.
I had a boss many years ago who grew up in St. Louis. He said in the late 40s and 50 the police beat patrols would whack the bums sleeping in doorways across the soles of their feet with nightsticks to keep them moving and head for the “outskirts.” That tended to solve the problem, too. Civil society was MUCH more civil in that era. Now the public square in many parts of the nation is a true cesspool.