[manaboutown]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Here's how the conversation goes:
Cop: You'll have to leave now.
A back and forth conversation ensues. Eventually...
Homeless: Where should I go?
Cop: Somewhere other than here.

Homeless picks up his stuff and walks a few blocks away, and sets his stuff down again.

Rinse, repeat.

Until you have a place for them to GO, they will continue to go wherever it's convenient for them to go. And if that means your back yard, then that's where they'll go. When they're ordered to go somewhere else, they'll end up in someone else's back yard. And so on and so forth, til they're back in your back yard again. I use "back yard" metaphorically - meaning - your part of the Villages, the dumpster behind the nearest Winn Dixie, the woods under the nearest bridge, by the edge of the river, wherever you consider "your turf" to be.

The problem is as it now stands they are allowed to leech off society with impunity. For years I have had problems with them hanging around a couple of my businesses in another state - now literally a couple hundred of them camp nearby my business. It feels like a plague of locusts has landed there. They have ruined the neighborhood and negatively impacted my business. The useless powers that be have been ineffective. Homeless druggies have taken over parks so decent folk cannot enjoy them. Parents have to comb ball game venues for needles so their kids can play little league or whatever. It now almost feels like I am in a third world country when I go there.

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Do we want them here? I don't!