[crackmonkey] [g@wired.com: Re: [Pigdog] Seattle real mean and uncompassionate towards homeless people]

[Nick Moffitt]

----- Forwarded message from P a u l Guth <g at wired.com> -----

Dan Sneddon wrote:

> It really is amazing to drive 4 hours north and experience the
> street culture of Vancouver. There, the bums are polite, and many of
> the people on the street are harmless street kids dealing pot to
> stay alive. Sure, there's even more heroin on the streets there than
> here, but there sure as hell isn't any public drinking.

When I was walking around outside of Harvard in Cambridge Mass, there
was this whiskered old gentleman wearing one of those tweed Sherlock
Holmes greatcoats with a floppy chapeau and a great big scarf.  I
figured he was a rhetoric professor or something.  As I walked by he
said, "'Scuse me, guvnor, but could you spare a dime?"

I used to walk through Berkeley on a nightly basis so I don't even
notice old bearded men in bras digging through trash cans for nyquil
caps to feed their syphilitic dogs, but that tweed guy REALLY FREAKED
ME OUT.  I wanted to fly him out to Berkeley to watch him be ripped
apart by the casual dull-eyed violence of People's Park, but hell that
would've cost money.
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