Post #172273 by FLOUNDERart on Fri, Jul 15, 2005 12:33 PM

...and the meek shalt inherit the earth.

When I was going to school in Pittsburgh my girlfriend at the time worked at the city morgue. In the winter time the morgue would fill up with the dead homeless. So many would come in that they didn't have time to get to them and would have to put them in the freezer. Ironic that's what put them there in the first place. Anyhow one of the homeless was in the freezer for over two weeks and when they finally got around to him and striped him down they found something like $25,000 dollars in small bills taped to his body. $25,000 and not the sense to get a room.

For the most part I think there is nothing that you can do for them. Friends always get on me for giving them money knowing they will probably just buy booze with it anyhow. So what!!! If it makes them happy as it does me them more power to them. The best homeless sign I have ever seen was a guy sitting at an intersection in Atlanta. It read "No lies, I need money for a beer". You can betcha I gave him enough for a six pack.

You never know who your talking to.