I just passed a homeless guy standing by the side of the road and holding a sign that had a big yellow smiley face and also read: “IT ONLY TAKES A CRUMB … TO MAKE ME A HAPPY BUM!!” Definitely one of the better beggar signs I’ve seen recently.
And speaking of beggars, yesterday a cop was telling one of my friends that LAPD will be flushing all the homeless people out of Skid Row (the area with the nation’s largest homeless population — which I had the interesting experience of bicycling through at midnight), so we should expect a big influx of them around USC for a week or so until they all move back. (And believe me, it’s not like there’s a huge shortage of homeless people around here already.) The point of this exercise is not clear to me.
The cop also warned us not to give any spare cash to the homeless people, since they’d just spend it on booze, but considering that we’d probably just spend it on booze too, I don’t see what the big problem is.
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