To the Homeless Man This Concerns

[Eliza Hodgkins 1812]

Originally Posted by Capt Jack

been there. tried to be nice and went out and talked to them

"guys, you know you cant stay here. you'll force me to call the cops if I see you here again. sleep tight, dont leave a mess, but be gone tomorrow"

they were. theyre not normally unreasonable, just down on their luck

Which is why I let him sleep and decided to take action if he returned. Though, as a single lass living alone, I wasn't about to have a chat with him. It's not because I think of him as subhuman (far from it!)but I do sometimes get wound up about my own personal safety, and I'm not a paranoid person. I notice that Los Angeles homeless people, more so than any other major city I've lived in, can be pretty unreasonable and aggressive. As a young boy my brother was slapped hard across the neck by a homeless woman who thought she was being attached. There seem to be a lot of mentally ill homeless here and my assumption is that there are fewer mental health services for those who can't pay for it here.