A little gutwrenching: I think when you're a woman, poverty and social desperation mainfests itself in some pretty awful ways. Looks like there may be some mental health or drug issues there also, or just a messed up enough childhood and young adulthood to not be able to support herself in a non-destructive manner.
I get what a lot of y'all are saying in terms the dude being messed up for calling the cops on this SOL woman...but it's hard to draw a solid conclusion without context. I could totally buy that this guy was being a dick. I could also totally buy that this girl wasn't some starving woman that needed to eat...she could have easily been some cracked out ho that was hassling McDonald's patrons.
No need to reward ultimately assaultive and repellant behavior. Even coming up to another person's car, for almost any reason, seems completely inappropriate.
Where the **** did you read that? If it was me starving to death and desperate I would rob that person. That woman could be desperately starving and probably been living in a immorally position and you would think of her to be thinking clearly? I'm sorry man. I think of her as a human being who was once a child that could have been neglected and somehow ended up in a hard life. Sex-for-McNuggets suspect was hungry, homeless, police say
I dunno, he could have been helping her out. It seems more like a person with mental problems than financial ones.
The ****ing thing is even more funny is that they will be kicking her out of jail because it's overcrowding so they can feed and the fatten up the real criminals. The criminals are being more well fed than some of these homeless and neglected people.
After reading the article Bebop posted http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lan...mcnuggets-was-hungry-homeless-police-say.html it seems like the original story was just misstated info attention grabbing bs. Anyhow, as a sbo that encounters homeless people everyday, jail isn't the worse thing. Police do sweeps every once in a while and get people for trespassing or pandering...and according to the one whitey in our center "they take care of you...you get meals, showers, and a hair cut".
Since we're talking hypotheticals here I might as well say I wouldn't try to rob a person. Not necessarily because of the ethics involved but for the same reason I never argue with a cop: I don't have the muscle, resources or social credibility to win any stage of the conflict, and since I'm not a JD I can't handicap my options. You don't proffer unsolicited sexual activity to people, not even once, outside of a legally appropriate or socially relevant framework. If you're already harassing people to begin with, then the social contract is broken and the "village" is entitled to contain and deter your behavior in a standardized and well-defined manner. Feel free to let the judge or parole board give her a break on the sentencing or even the verdict - heck, give social workers ad litem status in indigent criminal cases; pray to the cosmos that we as a society committ to a fully functioning anti-poverty infrastructure, do whatever, but go ahead and get this transgression on the books.
