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2021-01-03 at 4:19 PM UTCJust don't smell bad find showers to use regularly and don't panhandle you have to get food the hard way
niggas out here panhandle for hours and waste it all on opiates goes to show how dumb people are for giving money when if you're homeless you don't need a job but you do gotta sell shit to pawn shops mainly
still more dignified than a dirty ass panhandling opiate userThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-01-03 at 5:03 PM UTCSell drugs
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2021-01-03 at 5:25 PM UTCBeing in a band kept me alive when I was a homeless teenager. I was around people 24/7, people were always willing to share cigs, beer, drugs. If I wasn't at my usual spots for a couple of days people were looking for me. There were little groupies who thought it was cute and kookie to bring me homemade meals or do my washing. Plus, I was making a small amount of legit income from gigs.
Being not shit helps a lot though. -
2021-01-03 at 5:26 PM UTC
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2021-01-03 at 6:09 PM UTCI never give money to the homeless, but I routinely throw em my old clothes, sometimes food.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-01-03 at 6:14 PM UTCI wonder what would happen if you go into a tent city and start handing out ak rifles/ loaded chest rigs plus a couple ounces of meth. I bet the city folk would have something to complain about besides dirty needles at the park.
The question is, what percentage of the homeless population knows how to: 1) shoot an ak accurately to 200meters and 2) work as part of a team, employing basic combat maneuvers, and, 3) if they don't know this, why not? -
2021-01-03 at 6:34 PM UTCWhen I was homeless I was also on drugs.
There was nothing dignified about my lifestyle during that time.
Being homeless taught me a lot about the world but I have since probably forgotten more than I learned from it.
I will tell you it absolutely sucked.
For a while I slept in a pickup truck but it had a single bench seat that didn't recline at all and that was more miserable than sleeping outside as it would get humid and sticky really fast especially with 2 people trying to sleep in it.
It wasn't long before I couldn't afford to keep gas in it and I was always just wandering around town with a gas can.
It had an electrical issue and it died in the middle of an intersection and quickly got towed off before I could do anything about it.
After that I just stayed in bandos but having to walk everywhere it take hours and hours just walking to the dope boys house.
Hours walking and more hours and more hours.
I spent more time walking than I did holding a sign and making money for dope.
Nothing was fun.
Id sleep in strangers houses who would invite me in.
Id sleep under awning of abandoned businesses.
I'd sleep in the bushes at parks.
Sometimes if there was no prospects I would go to the hospital and act stupid so they would give me something to eat and someplace to sleep for a couple hours.
Everything fucking sucked. It really really sucked.
I kept believing I could just get a job and fix it but I was in denial about how very fucked up the drugs made me.
Not having showered in 3 weeks and having long dirty hair I'd just walk into a place and fill out job applications but they never called because I didn't even have a phone to use.
If I had to call someone I would sneak into the hospital and use a phone in the lobby.
I'd also borrow phones from the clerk at the gas station but this didn't last long before they started asking me to leave and not come back because I was pan handling in their parking lot.
It was the middle of summer and the heat was horrible.
Id find half drank bottles of water that someone threw out of their car and I would finish them off.
Sometimes I could use the drinking fountain at the library to refill them or I would use the hose spigot in someone's back yard.
And if it started to rain you got soaked.
I remember stealing a bmx bike off someone's front porch to try and get out of the rain faster but I ended up just getting even more soaked going through puddles and then I found it had no breaks but I found this out as I blew through an intersection on it and masturbated. Then when I got where I was going the damn tires both had gone flat.
Im glad it ended when it did because I would probably have froze to death had I been out in the winter.
I remember when it was coming to an end and I was laying in the dirt trying to catch my breath and my arm wouldn't move and my leg wouldn't move I was still too focused on getting to the drug dealers house than I was at going to see a doctor.
I kept trying to get up but it was more pathetic than a fat kid trying to do a push up.
I wanted to light my pants on fire to try and get help but it was getting colder and colder.
Some weirdo on a walk found me in the night.
Pure luck.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-01-03 at 6:44 PM UTC
Originally posted by BeeReBuddy When I was homeless I was also on drugs.
There was nothing dignified about my lifestyle during that time.
Being homeless taught me a lot about the world but I have since probably forgotten more than I learned from it.
I will tell you it absolutely sucked.
For a while I slept in a pickup truck but it had a single bench seat that didn't recline at all and that was more miserable than sleeping outside as it would get humid and sticky really fast especially with 2 people trying to sleep in it.
It wasn't long before I couldn't afford to keep gas in it and I was always just wandering around town with a gas can.
It had an electrical issue and it died in the middle of an intersection and quickly got towed off before I could do anything about it.
After that I just stayed in bandos but having to walk everywhere it take hours and hours just walking to the dope boys house.
Hours walking and more hours and more hours.
I spent more time walking than I did holding a sign and making money for dope.
Nothing was fun.
Id sleep in strangers houses who would invite me in.
Id sleep under awning of abandoned businesses.
I'd sleep in the bushes at parks.
Sometimes if there was no prospects I would go to the hospital and act stupid so they would give me something to eat and someplace to sleep for a couple hours.
Everything fucking sucked. It really really sucked.
I kept believing I could just get a job and fix it but I was in denial about how very fucked up the drugs made me.
Not having showered in 3 weeks and having long dirty hair I'd just walk into a place and fill out job applications but they never called because I didn't even have a phone to use.
If I had to call someone I would sneak into the hospital and use a phone in the lobby.
I'd also borrow phones from the clerk at the gas station but this didn't last long before they started asking me to leave and not come back because I was pan handling in their parking lot.
It was the middle of summer and the heat was horrible.
Id find half drank bottles of water that someone threw out of their car and I would finish them off.
Sometimes I could use the drinking fountain at the library to refill them or I would use the hose spigot in someone's back yard.
And if it started to rain you got soaked.
I remember stealing a bmx bike off someone's front porch to try and get out of the rain faster but I ended up just getting even more soaked going through puddles and then I found it had no breaks but I found this out as I blew through an intersection on it and masturbated. Then when I got where I was going the damn tires both had gone flat.
Im glad it ended when it did because I would probably have froze to death had I been out in the winter.
I remember when it was coming to an end and I was laying in the dirt trying to catch my breath and my arm wouldn't move and my leg wouldn't move I was still too focused on getting to the drug dealers house than I was at going to see a doctor.
I kept trying to get up but it was more pathetic than a fat kid trying to do a push up.
I wanted to light my pants on fire to try and get help but it was getting colder and colder.
Some weirdo on a walk found me in the night.
Pure luck.
Write about how you quit using opiates. Details on what programs/ meds you used, what withdrawl was like, etc. Post them in threads where people talk of opiates. -
2021-01-03 at 6:45 PM UTC
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2021-01-03 at 6:56 PM UTC
Originally posted by BummyMofo this is what ppl do so you'd think they'd be fine. but they still panhandlin to get that heroin
I don't think that they'll be fine just because I give them things. I just rather give stuff to people who can use it instead of giving to goodwill who just use it for profit, or clothes bins which probably end up sending some things to other countries.
The homeless population is a source of infinite entertainment, sometimes nuisance. The people who get victimized by the homeless are just those who have no common sense and live in a bubble. I understand that people in some cities used to feel safer before the homeless crisis, but still no excuse for not knowing to park your car where you can see it, securing your belongings, etc.
I used to live in seattle, where I routinely watched homeless shenanigans through the scope of a rifle while using proper concealment in a building. Good times.
I remember reading about a case against a dude in Israel booby trapped his car in a deadly manner to prevent theft. He got in some trouble because he didn't put a warning sticker. Booby traps are categorically banned in the u.s. if im not mistaken. -
2021-01-03 at 7:05 PM UTC
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2021-01-04 at 10:16 PM UTCI don't really have a problem with the homeless using drugs, I Just feel like if someone's going to be spending my money on drugs it should be me
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2021-01-06 at 1:25 AM UTC
Originally posted by street_carp Being in a band kept me alive when I was a homeless teenager. I was around people 24/7, people were always willing to share cigs, beer, drugs. If I wasn't at my usual spots for a couple of days people were looking for me. There were little groupies who thought it was cute and kookie to bring me homemade meals or do my washing. Plus, I was making a small amount of legit income from gigs.
Being not shit helps a lot though.
I agree with op
just find a fucking hose before people wake up and take a bloody cold lawn bath as quickly as possible and then towel off and put on clean clothes and then go hit Safeway and just "graze" in the vegetable department and grab shit and open it and munch on it and get the fuck out as fast as possible and if you have to, take a dishwashing job under the table or work odd jobs.
stop being homeless. fucking shit. the county will do everything it can to get you your ID and Social Security card if you were born in the USA> -
2021-01-06 at 1:28 AM UTC
Originally posted by blaster master This is true, and there is some cool things about car living.
But what sucks is when you're sick and can't warm up. You can't just put a space heater in the bathroom and take an hour log hot bath while chugging ice cold fluids. You're trapped in ur stinky little car unable to leave your sleeping bag.
San Diego, car living isnt as bad. I'm sure Florida as well.
or even New Orleans or somewhere in Louisiana is livable year round. Chicago, NOT SO MUCH! -
2021-01-06 at 1:35 AM UTCI was parked waiting to pick up someone and I see this kid, maybe 11 or 12 years old and the little fucker opens a Red Cross bin open and leaps inside I guess to take a nap. And he did it as if it was his job to do so. so fluidly I had to do a double take. and then this Garbage man across the lane from me looked at me and I looked at him and we both pointed at it at the same time like "Did I just see that" and then some couple pushing their baby stroller walked up a second later and the mom said "Did you guys see that" and we're all just like "What do we do. Call the cops? I dont want to snitch him out but what if he's stuck"?
I'v heard people getting crushed in the rolling door
I picked up my ride and left. never knew what happened. -
2021-01-06 at 6:27 AM UTC
Originally posted by Misguided Russian Write about how you quit using opiates. Details on what programs/ meds you used, what withdrawal was like, etc. Post them in threads where people talk of opiates.
I was really fucked up and one night I thought the cops were chasing me so I started running and I went to hop over a fence but it was actually a flood wall down by the river and I couldn't see shit I just knew I was falling a lot farther than I thought I was going to be.
I landed 25 feet below and in a bunch of pain. My shoulder was broken and my hip was broken which really was slowing me down going to get high.
I didn't have any other choice really.
There was just no more getting high.
The right side of my body was out of commission for a while and they kept giving me pretty okay oxys and valiums for a couple of months while I was in a nursing home during which time I was able to think clearer even when I was drunk.
Once I could no longer go get high I just quit thinking about it I guess.
Im sure you have been in jail where you just stop thinking about cigarettes because you just can't get them anyways and how it really isn't that bad.
Speaking of jail I had multiple warrants and time on the shelf already that I was going to be doing the next time I got picked up.
Since I was too hospitalized to be arrested and taken to jail it seemed like a good time to check back in with my probation officer who I had blown off many months before.
But first I contacted a rehab center and arranged to go there after I was out of the nursing home.
I did this for a couple reasons.
- I was homeless and I really didn't want to get discharged from a nursing home in the winter.
- The rehab place said they wouldn't tell the cops I was there.
Then I just camped out at rehab for as long as I could which ended up being 99 days.
After which my Obama Care quit caring and I had to leave but by then it was the beginning of March.
I was so sick and tired of being sick and tired that I took that opportunity without a second thought.
If you are having issues with cleaning up your act because the withdrawals keep you out on the street I totally understand 100%.
I had to get seriously fucked up to the point I couldn't get high anymore to quit getting high.
I would be dead or in prison right now if it wasn't for that fortunate accident.
If you can manage to get into a rehab do inpatient only.
Rehab doesn't work if you are only there an hour or 2 a day.
As far as the withdrawals go you are going to have to do it.
It is unlikely that you will get to use oxys and valium as comfort meds to get sober but they do have some drugs that help take the edge off and if you go that route and it works for you then do it.
Do not use stop sign drugs those are fucking stupid.
As much as I would like to go into more detail and maybe do a better job answering the questions I am suppose to get up for work in 4 hours and I need to go to bed now.
Thanks for asking.
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2021-01-06 at 12:02 PM UTC
Originally posted by BeeReBuddy I was really fucked up and one night I thought the cops were chasing me so I started running and I went to hop over a fence but it was actually a flood wall down by the river and I couldn't see shit I just knew I was falling a lot farther than I thought I was going to be.
I landed 25 feet below and in a bunch of pain. My shoulder was broken and my hip was broken which really was slowing me down going to get high.
I didn't have any other choice really.
There was just no more getting high.
The right side of my body was out of commission for a while and they kept giving me pretty okay oxys and valiums for a couple of months while I was in a nursing home during which time I was able to think clearer even when I was drunk.
Once I could no longer go get high I just quit thinking about it I guess.
Im sure you have been in jail where you just stop thinking about cigarettes because you just can't get them anyways and how it really isn't that bad.
Speaking of jail I had multiple warrants and time on the shelf already that I was going to be doing the next time I got picked up.
Since I was too hospitalized to be arrested and taken to jail it seemed like a good time to check back in with my probation officer who I had blown off many months before.
But first I contacted a rehab center and arranged to go there after I was out of the nursing home.
I did this for a couple reasons.
- I was homeless and I really didn't want to get discharged from a nursing home in the winter.
- The rehab place said they wouldn't tell the cops I was there.
Then I just camped out at rehab for as long as I could which ended up being 99 days.
After which my Obama Care quit caring and I had to leave but by then it was the beginning of March.
I was so sick and tired of being sick and tired that I took that opportunity without a second thought.
If you are having issues with cleaning up your act because the withdrawals keep you out on the street I totally understand 100%.
I had to get seriously fucked up to the point I couldn't get high anymore to quit getting high.
I would be dead or in prison right now if it wasn't for that fortunate accident.
If you can manage to get into a rehab do inpatient only.
Rehab doesn't work if you are only there an hour or 2 a day.
As far as the withdrawals go you are going to have to do it.
It is unlikely that you will get to use oxys and valium as comfort meds to get sober but they do have some drugs that help take the edge off and if you go that route and it works for you then do it.
Do not use stop sign drugs those are fucking stupid.
As much as I would like to go into more detail and maybe do a better job answering the questions I am suppose to get up for work in 4 hours and I need to go to bed now.
Thanks for asking.
TTYL
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2021-01-06 at 1:02 PM UTC
Originally posted by blaster master This is true, and there is some cool things about car living.
But what sucks is when you're sick and can't warm up. You can't just put a space heater in the bathroom and take an hour log hot bath while chugging ice cold fluids. You're trapped in ur stinky little car unable to leave your sleeping bag.
You sound like you have experience in this. Explain -
2021-01-06 at 1:07 PM UTC
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