Panhandler Shot Man Who Told Her to "Get a Job"

Hope he's ok :(

Weird to see where I work (UCD Medical Center) in the news.

She has a job now, making number plates.

Sounds like one of the mentally ill who have no place to go but the streets. A lot of those people need to be locked in institutions for their own safety. Looks like this one needed to be locked up for ours.

Nice to see that mental illness doesn't stop people from being able to exercise their right to bear arms.

Well atleast now she doesn't have to worry about where she will get her food, bath or sleep. What a punishment.

Oh yes and we know nothing of her mental health so we can't just pass this off on that. Sane people shoot people every day for no good reason.

Ugh..... skidmarks on the underwear of our society.
Hope the guy is ok and I hope she gets what is coming to her.

This is why I don't say a word.

Sweet Violet
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Sounds like one of the mentally ill who have no place to go but the streets. A lot of those people need to be locked in institutions for their own safety. Looks like this one needed to be locked up for ours.

Unfortunately when the Liberaloons went crazy themselves in the late 70's and turned out by the droves tens of thousands of mentally impaired and disabled patients onto the streets without a safety net, they created this problem.
Now with ACLU meddling, you can't even consider involuntary committal for theirs and society's safety

wpdunn, don't talk out your ass. i work in a homeless shelter. while i agree that too many people were put out on the street with no safety net, it is possible to have people committed for their own safety. A fellow was involuntarily committed recently for not treating his tb, which was putting the general population at risk.

the idea of armed panhandlers scares me, though.

Hmmm...I seem to recall that the loonies were let out of the asylum due to budget cuts under...the REAGAN administration. And he wasn't exactly a liberal.

Anyway, yes she will likely have a job to do in jail!

This is nothing unique, unfortunately. There are a lot of aggressive panhandlers in Vancouver. Many of them are on crystal meth. The news has captured footage of them screaming at people walking by. I can't imagine what would happen if everyone carried guns like in the U.S. We'd either have a lot of dead tourists or a lot of dead panhandlers. Neither of those sounds like an ideal situation.

The guy was an idiot. He should have just kept his mouth shut. I work in a metropolitan area with lots of homeless people. Some of them are crazy, some are whacked out on drugs or who knows. You never know, so just steer clear of them

Man. I used to think that homeless people were okay people.

Hoover, I agree. While I don't agree with violence in solving problems, the guy was an ass to say 'get a job'. Maybe jerks like him won't go shooting their mouth off so flippantly, especially since he did not know the situation of why this person was reduced to begging. At the very least it is uncharitable. But he did not deserve to be shot either.

Yes, "wpdunn71901" you are misinformed ...you have Ronald Reagan to thank for the armies of homeless. I remember that happening in real time in a certain SoCal city in the 80's, our safe streets turned into an insane asylum literally overnight. Now, years later living in downtown LA, I can see how much worse it has gotten. Lied to by a realtor about the "new, gentrified, hip" downtown, I see proof daily that this story about the aggressive panhandler is the standard, not the exception. I get chased, mugged, screamed at, sexually and racially harassed, walking through urine, blood and dead bodies in an area that is supposed to be worth a million-dollar loft. It gets worse everyday. It's a hellhole, and it's only going to get worse after the Treasury gets raped by Bush/McCain. The bodies will keep piling up while they buy another mansion. But, hey "wpdunn71901", keep playing political pattycake and frothing about pigs and bibles and blastocysts, I guess you won't have anything to worry about as long as you're another multi-millionaire like Bush/McCain.

If you check the statistics of violent crimes committed by non-mad people that have stable housing, you'll find the rate is far higher than homeless mad people.

"It is not by confining one's neighbour that one is
convinced of one's own sanity."
Dostoievsky

this is 'neato' news?

It's best to avoid the internet during American Election season if you don't like seeing depressing or negative topics. Things get dark and sad.

>wpdunn71901
I thought Neato was troll free now?

@Larfin Jackarse, what rock have you been living under, Neatorama has had trolls for a while now, and I see no change. If anything, I see more.

Am I the only one that thinks if a homeless person has a gun they should at least be able to sell that to get money? Those are expensive yo....what would make you choose a gun over food money?