Dang homeless camps!
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01/18/21 09:52 PM
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A submerged tarp from an upstream homeless camp caused me a lot of grief today. As I pulled away from the bank after making a set the engine suddenly quit and I found that the end of an underwater tarp caught up on something had wrapped around my prop. Every time I tried to lean over the transom to get it off I took on water. Eventually I called 911 for a water rescue....but as fate would have it the current that kept wagging me like a dog's tail eventually gave it some slack and it unwrapped on its own. Then I had to call back the sheriff's marine rescue team and let them know I didn't need them after all. This is what I discovered about 300 yards upstream when I untangled.
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My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Dang homeless camps!
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01/18/21 09:56 PM
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Am I seeing things or is ;part of that a TeePee???
I BELIEVE IN MY GOD, MY COUNTRY AND IN MYSELF.
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Re: Dang homeless camps!
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01/18/21 10:15 PM
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We have a New Democrat Mayor in one of NH larger cities........and all of a sudden there is a homeless boom....even out of staters are moving in......they get Porta Potties...and 24/7 police baby sitting at the larger bridge i cross on my way to work.... and the trash is unbelievable
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
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Re: Dang homeless camps!
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01/18/21 11:15 PM
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I used to run my beagles on the scrub land by State Route 35 and the railroad tracks, when I lived in Dayton. There was lots of rabbits and other game. The City acquired the land, built a bike path and made the area a park. The homeless people moved in and built several camps, one that was huge, hidden in the woods and brush. The City went in and bulldozed out every tree and bush for miles and kept the grass cut short to give the homeless no where to hide.
Many of the homeless people huffed paint and could barely talk. They had gold paint around their lips from sniffing paint out of a bag.
While the homeless camps were close, most of my neighbors and I lost our downspouts, that were most likely sold for scrap. All the aluminum cans were taken from the recycling bins. My neighbor, who left his truck unlocked, had sound systems stolen 3 times. I sicced my dogs on someone coming in my front window and someone else who dismantled part of my privacy fence. Those homeless guys can run!
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Re: Dang homeless camps!
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01/18/21 11:26 PM
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At different times I have tried to employ homeless folks. Most only want handouts and won't work, and the few that did take me up on a day job never lasted the day.
I think I could actually admire homeless people (living life on their own terms etc, etc) if they didn't trash up everything. I have zero tolerance for that kind of thing.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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Re: Dang homeless camps!
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01/18/21 11:27 PM
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The joys of socialism. Glad you got out of that mess
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Re: Dang homeless camps!
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01/19/21 12:45 AM
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Interesting that I remember the hippies and communes and how time and need forced them to grow up and face reality. Now the government does all it can to keep these people as they are. At our expense of course.
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Re: Dang homeless camps!
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01/19/21 08:52 AM
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All of the homeless I have arrested or thrown off of properties were mentally ill, drugged or both.
Keith Agreed, a symptom of mental illness. All homeless people living on the streets or in camps in Canada are doing so by choice.
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Re: Dang homeless camps!
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01/19/21 01:20 PM
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The part I don't understand is, if it is purely mental illness and or drug/alcohol related, why is there a huge national problem in the last decade or so and prior to that hardly any? Not saying that wasn't homelessness before but I would say around here it is at least tenfold over what it was 20 years ago.
My fear of moving stairs is escalating!
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