Poeple who abuse/mock the homeless then laugh about it later C/D

but you know what I meant

Schmuck, eh?

The homeless who abuse/mock people then laugh about it later C/D.

Lol that's classic tbfttl

and "that" refers to?

Well, this for a start:

everyone goes about like this story is the bee's knee.

I feel like this would be less likely to happen now. Not because people are nicer, but because sadism toward the downtrodden is more taboo. Obviously there's a flip side to this -- we are living through a massive "anti-pc" backlash

being cruel to the homeless is so evil. i have to imagine that when it's done it is bc of discomfort around the homeless (i can relate to unease or feelings of shame when interacting with someone homeless) and an inability to just deal w/ those complex feelings and instead just becoming a total fucking degenerate.

tbh i don't think it would be at all less likely to happen now

I have my doubts this even happened tbh.

Far be it from me to impugn the good name of, er, Lurker McLurkenstein but...

Not that it doesn't happen, after all there are still Tories in the world...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/10/cambridge-student-filmed-burning-money-in-front-of-homeless-man

When I was in high school, I knew people who might well have done this. The age of the OP and his cohorts is not given, and could easily be in that age range, since high school students do have jobs, sometimes at fast food chicken places, and also attend classes, and can be notoriously cruel, especially when ganged up together.

that scene in american psycho where he attacks the homeless man is one of the most haunting things I ever read :/

i fear the thread starter still runs at large amongst us

pretty frequently in vancouver people beat up or assault homeless people. sucker punch them in the street when they're out drinking. one guy offered to pay a homeless dude to let him kick him in the crotch, he agreed, got kicked in the crotch and the guy welched on the deal.

in nearby abbotsford the city did the following to an illegal homeless camp on public land: slashed and bear-sprayed tents, spread chicken manure

in glasgow homeless people sleep on the underside of a bridge 30 metres above the river clyde, despite the fact that they may fall to their death if they roll over in their sleep to avoid being randomly attacked if they slept on the streets http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/revealed-the-homeless-scots-sleeping-in-a-railway-1085845

xpost. Life expectancy of a homeless person in Vancouver is around 45 years old. The general life expectancy is 82 years old. It's basically a death sentence.

I once interviewed a homeless kid (as in, late teens/early 20s) for a local free alt-monthly I used to write for. Bought him lunch and gave him some cash for the interview, and generally made a point of talking to him and occasionally buying him a coffee for a year or so afterwards whenever I saw him around. When the article published (complete with his picture), he was clearly enjoying his bit of celebrity, and was actually autographing copies of the paper for people!

Anyway, some time in there, I was out barhopping with some people one night when he asked one person in our group for some spare change, to which she screamed "Get a job!" and walked off. I ended up going home, pissed off, soon afterwards that night, but I always felt bad for not directly telling her off or at least letting anyone else in the group (minus my boyfriend, at the time) why I didn't feel like hanging out with them anymore that night.

So, yeah, fuck people who do this.