» Wed May 18, 2011 6:10 pm
Actually, another just came to mind. It's one of those disgusts that makes you ashamed to be a part of the human race.
the downtown area in my city has 4 methadone clinics [if you don't know what that is. They are clinics which distribute meth to addicts in small doses which are supposed to help them get clean over a period of time]. Now, you can walk from one end of my downtown to the other in about... 20 minutes, so it's not a large place. Now we also have a few homeless scattered throughout. They don't ask for money, they don't get in anyones way and they keep to themselves. A few of them are actually social as well. Alot of people talk to them on a daily basis, because they aren't homeless due to poor choices [one lost everything in a divorce, including his job because his wife complained to his boss about him -- never went in any deeper than that], and he never recovered from it. Another two were General Motors workers who lost their jobs due to the economy going bad and them losing their jobs. So they aren't bad people, just bad luck.
Well I used to work in the downtown area, i'd be at work by 6:30 am and I would leave depending how fast work would finish for me [run out of ingredients for the daily supply of candy I made [usually would end between 3pm-6pm]. After work one day, I had left to go get my bus around 4:40pm, or sometime close to that, and one of the homeless guys was sleeping against a wall [out of peoples way], holding onto a bag of stuff he had [small bag, not big]. And these two guys, probably about 19 years old each, walked up to him and started trying to take the guys bag, and harassing him. That bus route was always pretty busy, so I tapped the shoulder of a guy next to me [about 35 years old] and I pointed over to what was happening. [Keep in mind, these are homeless guys we all talked to before // after work], and needless to say. Mr.Giant there that I tapped wasn't to happy about it and ended up grabbing one guy by the back of the head and smashing it off the wall they were at, and then he pushed both of them away from the guy on the ground.
The guy who had his face hit off the wall tried to hit the guy and ended up getting throttled until he got up off the ground and ran away [was definitely awesome to watch a typical [censored] gangster get his ass kicked], and I went into a Coffee Time [on the corner of the bus stop] and bought Mr.Giant and Mr.Homeless guy a coffee.
Needless to say I was absolutely appalled at anyone who'd attack a homeless person who did not deserve it in the least. But I also feel better about it because it restored some faith in humanity, watching a guy who could of easily been charged for assault [and judging by how hard the guys face hit the wall] could of even been construed as attemped murder] stand up for someone whom he only knew from casual conversation a couple times a week, without any regard for himself.
I still have no respect for people who acts like gangsters.