What? This guy is a awesome! You guys must not actually pay rent. If he can happily maintain his life living in the back of his pickup truck, he IS a fricken genius. I don't live in the land of fruit and nuts where the only thing higher than the cost of living is the populous, and I still feed $1200 a month that I'm never going to see again to a rent monster. If we say this kid was dumping $800 a month into rent, that's almost ten grand a year, plus utilities. There's no way he's making more than $25 a year, so even if it COST him $1000 to set up his truck for his "homelessness," he's still freed up 40% of his total income. I suppose it's better to blow that money on rent because you all think he should.
Oh, and let's not douche about with the word homeless. It means one thing: HOME (meaning a domicile,) and LESS (meaning without.) Usually when we hear the word "Homeless" we assume it means "homeless and destitute," like your garden-variety panhandler. It was also a label that was probably applied by the LA Times, and if there's anything true about the press, it's that they take something that happened and MAKE news out of it. If that means embellishing something to make it seem more or less than it is, they do it. Just like the witch-hunt for W's head, this is one more thing that the rampant a$$holes in the media blow out of proportion for a reaction from you guys (read: the mindless masses.) It's really too bad that some bottom feeding reporter turned this guy's ingenious (though incredibly odd) way of saving money in a state where living expenses are out of control into a public interest story portraying him as a little disenfranchised and crazy.
Oh, and let's not douche about with the word homeless. It means one thing: HOME (meaning a domicile,) and LESS (meaning without.) Usually when we hear the word "Homeless" we assume it means "homeless and destitute," like your garden-variety panhandler. It was also a label that was probably applied by the LA Times, and if there's anything true about the press, it's that they take something that happened and MAKE news out of it. If that means embellishing something to make it seem more or less than it is, they do it. Just like the witch-hunt for W's head, this is one more thing that the rampant a$$holes in the media blow out of proportion for a reaction from you guys (read: the mindless masses.) It's really too bad that some bottom feeding reporter turned this guy's ingenious (though incredibly odd) way of saving money in a state where living expenses are out of control into a public interest story portraying him as a little disenfranchised and crazy.