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Originally posted by Jon_Snow It's a little surprising that a homeless person would break in for food. In my experience these type of ppl get all the food they need from government programs or charitable organizations. That's why when they either pan handle or steal to pawn the purposes is to raise cash to buy alcohol/drugs. Once you understand this you realize there isn't the demand for restaurant left overs you might have thought.

I'm sorry, but that's a completely retarded thing to say.

"In my experience". You've been homeless, then? How was that, for you? Pretty chilled, no big deal? Your stomach rumbles, so you just swing by the local soup kitchen and grab a feed, whenever you want?

I highly doubt it.

There aren't very many more things in the world that will compel a person to commit a crime, more than hunger. It's basic survival, at that point.

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Canada has great welfare systems and there are plenty of places in Montreal for the homeless to sleep.

The fact is a lot of these people have been on the streets for so long, partially due to many of them being mentally ill with absolutely no treatment, that they no longer operate the way we do. As Sushi said they focus their priorities into survival mode, and in MY experience many of them whom I've offered help to flatly refuse my change or my offer to buy them a sandwich.

Most of them will take a cigarette off me though

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Originally posted by Sushipunk I'm sorry, but that's a completely retarded thing to say. "In my experience". You've been homeless, then? How was that, for you? Pretty chilled, no big deal? Your stomach rumbles, so you just swing by the local soup kitchen and grab a feed, whenever you want? I highly doubt it. There aren't very many more things in the world that will compel a person to commit a crime, more than hunger. It's basic survival, at that point.

I think he is pretty accurate. Anything requiring that sort of force is drug related and they are looking for money or anything they can barter with.. Granted most homeless are on drugs so ....

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney I think he is pretty accurate. Anything requiring that sort of force is drug related and they are looking for money or anything they can barter with.. Granted most homeless are on drugs so ....

Exactly. Besides a homeless person won't even have refrigerator to store the food and those type of ppl aren't breaking down a door to make off with a bag of chips.

The mo for a job like this someone with a criminal record, who works odd jobs, who's always looking for an opportunity to steal. I wouldn't be surprised if he has eaten there before. Either that or he's your typical smash and grab druggy.

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney I think he is pretty accurate. Anything requiring that sort of force is drug related and they are looking for money or anything they can barter with.. Granted most homeless are on drugs so ....

Fundamental misunderstanding and miscommunication on the meaning of homelessness aside, I don't think Sushi was necessarily disagreeing, just calling him out for his presumptuous wording.

To remark that some desperate person broke in with objective is obvious to the point of headache. The division between nourishment and sustenance when it comes to the homeless is significantly more blurred than it is with those of us privileged enough with opportunity; when someone with everything in life squanders it all with a drug addiction, we can easily enough pity their downfall (unless they're competing for our inheritance), but when people with no job, no possessions, no prospects, no health, and no home use drugs, it is a necessary imperative to merely while their intensely protracted "free time" away to mitigate their suffering.

There ought not be a difference to us, so far as condemnation is concerned.

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The stupid part is baldly stating that homeless people "get all the food they need" without any citation of the "experience" IGK has to affirm such an unsympathetic outlook.

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