Comment on Why put a no trespassing sign on a bus stop

Mike_The_TV@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wouldn't even say that it's to be able to charge homeless people - how are they going to pay? It wouldn't be particularly smart financially.

  It's more about just not having them there. Say what you want, but if a bus stop reeks, it makes it much less attractive to take public transit. Of course, it just moves the problem somewhere else - but the transit authority doesn't have to worry about it too much anymore.

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  • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    charge them with a crime

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    • kn33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I swear some people on this platform are intentionally dense or something

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    • Mike_The_TV@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly. Them not being able to pay the fine is the bonus. That and its immediate probable cause for any officer wanting to cause some shit with whoever needs to take the bus that day.

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• Kintarian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s just mean

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  • DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Welcome to people. Instead of fixing the homelessness, governments would prefer to make the situation worse while doing their best to ignore it.

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  • lettruthout@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Welcome to today‘s USA.

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    • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Anti-homeless antics are neither recent nor limited to America.

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have never heard of a western democracy that has a witch hunt against homeless people to near the degree that is common in USA.
        So yes the evil against homeless people is mostly limited to America. USA has become the dystopia SciFi stories warned us against since a century ago.

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