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    Bloomberg's Greatest Foe Living on the Streets

    Is Buying Cardboard Boxes for Hobos a Good Use of Charity Money?

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    06/26/09

    In reply to Bloomberg's Greatest Foe Living on the Streets
    There's a reason that a large portion of the homeless population is paranoid schizophrenic.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    06/26/09

    In reply to Bloomberg's Greatest Foe Living on the Streets
    It's too bad I live in Astoria. I love hosting lunatics in my home.
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    06/26/09

    In reply to Bloomberg's Greatest Foe Living on the Streets
    Batshit.
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    Image of valet_of_the_dolls valet_of_the_dolls
    06/26/09

    In reply to Bloomberg's Greatest Foe Living on the Streets
    I am totally going to change my name to [ENEMY], as soon as I can figure out how I want the brackets to be pronounced.
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    Image of power_stroke power_stroke
    06/26/09

    In reply to Bloomberg's Greatest Foe Living on the Streets
    Having had a few personal interactions with him in the earlier part of this decade, I can attest that he needs prompt psychiatric services more than he needs a place to live. Or perhaps he can kill two birds with one stone - is there a bed open at Creedmoor?
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    06/26/09

    @power_stroke: Bellevue's closer?
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    03/21/09

    In reply to Is Buying Cardboard Boxes for Hobos a Good Use of Charity Money?
    Why doesn't he just wait for the next oil price spike so the homeless can take up residence in all the abandoned SUVs certain to accrue.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    03/21/09

    In reply to Is Buying Cardboard Boxes for Hobos a Good Use of Charity Money?
    It's only ethical if you make them work for it. You wouldn't want them to take handouts. This is America, not some God damn Socialist country.
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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    03/21/09

    In reply to Is Buying Cardboard Boxes for Hobos a Good Use of Charity Money?
    At last, the real reason why newspapers can never disappear -- they're useful for wrapping hobos in.
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    Image of krismry krismry
    03/21/09

    In reply to Is Buying Cardboard Boxes for Hobos a Good Use of Charity Money?
    People in this country, I mean usa Americans, are really nuts if they are thinking about providing boxes when, what is it, 37 trillion houses are sitting vacant with nobody living in them. There are enough houses standing around empty for everyone and their dog and cat to have three houses apiece and not even need to share with anyone else. Well, like we used to say out west when we were rich, hell, the ashtrays are full in this Cadillac, let's go buy another one. Need return of preview button.
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    Image of T.S._delegate T.S._delegate
    03/21/09

    In reply to Is Buying Cardboard Boxes for Hobos a Good Use of Charity Money?
    Why give 1,000 homeless people carboard boxes when you could give 10,000 people cardboard sleeves on which to write their sad life stories? They seem to like doing that, too, right? Is that ethical?
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    Image of LinerNotesDanny LinerNotesDanny
    03/21/09

    In reply to Is Buying Cardboard Boxes for Hobos a Good Use of Charity Money?
    I miss the Unethicist too. What's up with that?
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    Image of Mary Mouse Mary Mouse
    03/21/09

    @LinerNotesDanny: We ALL miss The Unethicist. "The Hunt for the Worst Movie of all Time" helps a little. [videogum.com]
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    Image of TableNine TableNine
    03/21/09

    In reply to Is Buying Cardboard Boxes for Hobos a Good Use of Charity Money?
    Give a homeless man a box and he'll sleep for a week. Teach a homeless man to box...and you get [www.bumfightsdump.com]
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    Image of DoctorEcks DoctorEcks
    03/21/09

    @TableNine:

    VERY good one there TableNine
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    Image of cdmunch cdmunch
    03/21/09

    In reply to Is Buying Cardboard Boxes for Hobos a Good Use of Charity Money?
    Dear Retiree,


    First off, why are you people in Colorado? I've never understand why you former gas-guzzling, wife-cheating East Coast boomers all move out west to ski resorts once you have gallstones and a 401k. And once you're there, you don't ski! You all get into yoga and vegetarianism and important-sounding committees to solve "social problems." WTF? Are your grandkids not using that spare bedroom in your in-town condo like you envisioned? Well, obviously not since you have all this time to ponder waxed boxes for the homeless while the country burns and your sons and daughters are probably freaking out about life in New York. Isn't wax flammable? Are there really homeless in Vail? They're your fault, you know. There weren't any before you Rolex-wearing, Lexapro poppers showed up. So, here's my solution: send your kids a fat check cuz they're really gay and there'll be no grandkids in the picture and then set up a "Shelter a Homeless in Your Guest Bedroom/Former Office" program. With the vomit and the screaming, it will be like having a surrogate grandkid!


    Love,


    Your wonderful children

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    Image of Weegee's bored Weegee's bored
    03/21/09

    @cdmunch: Nicely done.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    03/22/09

    @cdmunch:


    What Retiree had in mind was to dump the boxes in Phoenix and bus the homeless out of Vail.

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    Image of WindowSeat WindowSeat
    03/21/09

    In reply to Is Buying Cardboard Boxes for Hobos a Good Use of Charity Money?
    A waxed cardboard box is nowhere as durable/useful as an inexpensive sleeping bag or a tent.
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    Image of Colander Colander
    03/21/09

    @WindowSeat: Yeah, if I was homeless, I would probably feel one peg further demoralized if someone handed me a cardboard box and was proud of themselves.
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    Image of ADismalScience ADismalScience
    03/21/09

    @WindowSeat:


    Right, but the point is they can hand out 1000 boxes before they can hand out 100 of whatever it is they hand out now.


    The real answer is rather boring - calculate the lifespan/cost utility of both solutions and choose the optimal one. And don't let bullshit variables like pride muddy the math, because this is about shelter.

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    Image of Shelwood Shelwood
    03/21/09

    @ADismalScience: So you were cool with Thain's million dollar office redo because he had to keep up his image, but for the homeless pride is a "bullshit variable"? Wow.
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    Image of Private Hangnail Private Hangnail
    03/21/09

    In reply to Is Buying Cardboard Boxes for Hobos a Good Use of Charity Money?
    Cardboard seems kind of transient. Regardless of how heavily waxed it is, eventually it will come apart at the seams. Plus, you can't write witty or heart-tugging messages requesting change on waxed cardboard.


    How about handing out tents that fold neatly into bindles?

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    Image of phlox✔ phlox✔
    03/21/09

    @Private Hangnail: I think that most permanent markers will allow these folks to 'decorate' the exterior of their new waxy cribs. A simple I can haz munnies??in neon pink should do it.
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    Image of jrhys jrhys
    03/22/09

    @Private Hangnail: But boxes are much more keeping with classic homeless brand positioning.
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    03/23/09

    @jrhys + phlox✔: It's too earl--in Los Angeles--for me to be laughing this hard...
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