well more to stop them retreiving stuff, but its also in part a "make it hard to hide a bomb in a trash can" too likewise a lot of big ugly benches in some places are also being used to stop ram raid type attacks on shops or the public
Your "thin" sidewalk pictures are incredibly dishonest. You focus on the part that isn't even a sidewalk even though there's a huge sidewalk right beside it.
That whole entry sounds fake to me. I really think they just read this stuff on some random website and didn't look into it at all. Half the entries are about benches and the spikes/anti-skater stuff is incredibly obvious.
And by thin - did they actually mean narrow? A thin sidewalk means that there is very little material between your foot and the ground... I don't see how that effects anything, other than making them less sturdy.
Kieran Quinlan I know it fuckin stupid. Why stop the homeless from lying there. It's horrible. They would want a sheltered please to lie if they were homeless. Think about karma
How to spot a fake security camera: ° Throw rock at security camera. ° If store managers, security guards, or police start furiously walking towards you, its real.
If the bench is too uncomfortable, I just sit on the floor. And use the bench as a table if applicable (obviously not for the round benches and half benches).
Yeah, cause it's easy to get a job when you don't have a house or clothes to go to an interview. Most jobs I've been to asked for proof of residence, even the shitty ones.
You're totally missing the point. Do you honestly think most of the homeless people are choosing this lifestyle? Do you really think they're wanting to be homeless and jobless? It's not always about being "lazy." There's a reason these things happen. You're just looking at the problem, not the cause. That attitude is a big part of the problem. This lack of education makes me so sad.
Merrida100 If you people condemn the installation of studs to prevent homeless individuals from resting there, why not do something about it? Give them money for a hotel, instead of complaining about studs that 'clean' the city. You know, pouring concrete over metal spikes won't give these homeless people a job or an actual home. You're not being humane, you're just being a pain in the ass for the business that installed them.
Whatever Yeah, great idea mate, let me just get some money from my tree here... oh wait, I don't have a tree of money. We are not being humane, sure you are by supporting this kind of thing to "clean" the city as you say.
I have to admit. It does work. I keep moving along to my house and to Amazon or some other online site to shop. And there's plenty of comfortable seating at my house as well.
I never noticed it until now, but when I was a kid my city used to have lots of great places to sit down and eat a sandwich or whatever. Now they have all these stupid benches which are uncomfortable, and nobody wants to eat outside anymore. Starbucks are happy, at least.
If I can't take a seat to rest my feet for five minutes between shop visits, I'm just going to go home where I can rest my feet for five hours, and buy whatever it was that I wanted in the first place on Amazon, benefiting some other municipality.
Yes, I remember when stores and malls USED to have benches and chairs :-( If the local dept store doesn't have a place to sit and rest, I clear off a spot on one of the product shelves and use that!
Absolute truth! This is one of many reasons municipalities are trying to regulate innovation economy components away. Taxi medallions are a huge income source - Uber and Lyft are not - but it's hard to meaningfully kill Amazon.
Don't be gullible. Every city has huge numbers of homeless shelters, soup kitchens and social programs. What they don't want is some junkie sleeping, sh*tting and puking in high traffic or dangerous areas; and contrary to what the moron in the video claims, that's what these measures are for. I swear you people are all so credulous.
LittleLordFancyLad I know some people just say whatever they think. homeless people r homeless bc theres no jobs and/or mental health issues. people that want help get it but the drug addicts stay addicts. I had to hand out sandwiches to the homeless in gr11 and one guy wanted money for drugs the teach told everyone not to hand him a sandwich..which I argeed with.
I dont know about wich cities this guy talks, but i never saw stuff like that in germany. You can skate wherever you want, sleep on benches and put your sticker on every fucking lantern.
I live in NYC and most of these are true. The city hates homeless people. You can get introuble for giving them food or swiping them into the train station. It's crazy. We don't have the stickerless street signs everywhere yet but I have seen a few. NYC is a horrible place to the people that live here so expensive prices for everything keep going up so hard to survive even with a good job
@Bracetty. Getting in trouble for helping poeple in need. That's just kinda fucked up. Here in Germany they don't want (mostly homeless) people to harass people by excesive beging in downtown areas too. But homeless people here get help if they search for help. A lot of people proudly say, that no one has to starve or be homeless. There a federal and non federal institutions who help those people
He seemed to be talking more about USA and some Asian countries, I mean, none of this practices are common in the EU. In Spain we do have the arm-rest things, but that's only on the most touristic spots as people do tend to fall asleep on them.
Making sidewalks slim to allow more cars through, is not controlling behavior. Lets be honest, the only person wanting to make money more than the cities is you...
I agree. Sidewalks are slim because there is little pedestrian traffic and it would use more land, cost more to build and maintain. So they make them skinny.
officer401 I hope that you're either not a real cop, or you're just joking. While it is true that some people are homeless just because they don't have jobs, most can't even get jobs. Imagine if a smelly guy with raggedy clothes and messed up teeth asked you for a job. Most wouldn't hire someone like that to greet and/or serve their customers, because they would start losing money.
Yeah, poor guys. They have to move their asses and walk a mile or two so that they aren't in the most central and active part of a city to sleep publicly.
That's obvious. It's not really a dichotomy, it's not a choice between one or the other but if you spend less on this shit and take that money and spend it on helping them, guess what? There is more money for helping them!
technology productions 2017 Well, I would too, if there were spikes everywhere. Having homeless people is their own fault after all, because of the lacking social system.
Lots of homeless people die in Poland, Romania, Ukraine and many other European countries when winters are particularly harsh. I once almost became homeless due to illness. It would have happened too if I didn't have such nice parents, that helped me back on my feet. This is in Denmark which is one of the best countries when it comes to helping people in a bad situation. So yeah, people have problems all over the world. No reason to see past local problems and gloat out of patriotism. It helps no one; especially the homeless.
+Lemonz1989 +Medizo Pony: I live in Finland and I think the more harsh climate at winter indeed is the "magic word". While in some countries you can live outside all year around without freezing alive (you basically only need to find some food), here in Finland that's not possible. Our society just can't ignore homeless people (at least not to the same extent than some other countries), because of it would be loss of lives every winter. So our officers are more "motivated (= forced)" to help people out. Of course some still die (for example passing out at winter at remote location). But it's because of our police don't have resources to see every corner of the country, rather than a common mentality of ignoring homeless people.
ENDLESS ETHAN I think they meant like you trip on the normal path. Afterall you saw spikes next to the enterance of a shop or just in front of window displays.
Nooo. According to the fascist-left we are only supposed to help the illegal immigrants and turn a blind eye to American citizens. That is why illegals always live in a house with food stamps and free medical care and you only see American citizens living on the streets. Like La Fam who commented to your post. Most likely this person has or would protest the banning of illegal immigrants, yet bashes an American citizen down on their luck. They're anti-American and I certainly hope you take the time to really, really think about how things actually are, and why a lot of us made the move for change at the voting booths. If we don't take care of ourselves first we become unable to help anyone in the end.
You live in an interesting reality, Karen. Generally, people who care about others ('fascist-leftists' as you call them) care about all people's well-being, not just the people you blame for everything that's wrong in your life (immigrants, that is).
@gammaxana, as a former Walmart employee, who happened to work in security, I can say that there are indeed fake cameras. There were 6 in my store, and we were told to replace them with real ones when someone stole a major item right underneath one, and we didn't have the security footage to prove their guilt or innocence. Our AP guys were able to catch the thief, but only based on a tip from our associates, who happened to be helping the "customer" with the merchandise before the thief took off with it.
public space is soooo underrated, a place where people come together, debate, get to know one another, create idea's, it's a baseline for every society... no wonder we're so alienated from one another sometimes, only/most of the time we get together is to consume or to produce (work), I guess religion isn't that bad after all...
Kinda like the comment you didn't just leave( Sarcasm). Sorry about your grandpa, I'm fairly certain he wouldn't like seeing you being rude to someone grieving.
If you give a company shit because they put spikes outside to prevent homeless people from sleeping there, maybe you should let them sleep on your couch and give them a place to stay? Whats that? You'd rather they slept outside a store potentially losing it money from customers? Ok.
Thin sidewalks to drive more cars? The hell is the government thinking? We are trying to lower the environment hazard not making the air polluted with more cars, and plus people NEED to exercise more often since almost everyone is on their electronics and BARELY go outside and walk.
i half agree with you, one thing for sure is i jsut wont like or dislike, or dislike if its stupid. What the fuck is up with everyone wanting a "like" on their video? If your product is good you will get a review
Many homeless people start out with jobs and stable residences, but then social and economic factors intervene, causing a rapid change in their living situation. The two biggest factors driving homelessness are poverty and the lack of affordable housing.
the war on homelessness is fckd, instead of addressing the issue of poverty let's just put spikes and masochistic benches everywhere and call it modern art
Anybody else got really mad after watching this? Those poor homeless folks! Although many of them got there because of their stupid life choices, I thought that they would be treated with a tad more humanity, but no governments are willing to spend millions to pretend they don't exist than do something to help them get back on their feet.
MAKINICO WO. Do you really think that I would unironically call somebody a commie fuc- and I now see why you think that I'm being sincere because I'm a complete stranger that you know nothing about
Now that whole spike thing, doesn't that just make a city look even more evil? That's really adding insult to injury. "Oh yeah those spikes are just decorative... because decorative spikes are stylish."
Yep. All the benches could have easily been combined into a single item, making room for other things - like crosswalk buttons that don't actually do anything except give pedestrians a false sense of agency.
So cities spend tax payer's money specially to make poor homeless people even more uncomfortable than they are...this is so pathetic. it's about being humble and helpng others, not about looks, impressions, arrogance and pride. Everyone of us could be homeless due to events that we couldn't control. Nothing you have achieved or have in life is because of your own doing, it's all a gift from God and He coulkd take all that away in a heartbeat. "Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." - Matthew 22:37-40 "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." - Matthew 7:12 "And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." - Job 1:21
Society needs to shift its efforts from "controlling" homelessness (as if being forced to sleep on a bench or under an overpass or on a heating vent will ever be a picnic) to better dealing with its root causes, from mental illness to drug addiction, a better VA to jobs--because moving people along doesn't get rid of them, it merely shifts the problem somewhere else.
If I had money raining down on me. I would go to all the different countries, sit on their different benches and then rate them. Then write a book about the comfort level of benches around the planet.
a secret for skaters on the last one. back when me and my homies used to skate, we kept a crowbar and wax around so that if we came across one of those blocks on a surface wanted to skate, we could actually just knock it off. it doesnt pry, it can only be knocked out of place. And then we used the wax to make it easier to skate of course lol
Not just a city thing, but public restrooms use a pointed framework across the top of the stall doors, presumably to prevent people from doing pull ups on them.
benches in Sweden don't have a lot of armrests on them to keep people from sleeping on them. instead they tilt so that you slide slowly off it even if you're awake lmao
don't see how spikes prevent hobos from sleeping in places, in fact it just makes it more comfortable, like a spike massage, most of the spikes aren't really sharp so it is perfect for sleeping
6:55 The metal studs on the ground are there for blind or visually impaired people. The studs are placed in a path from one pedestrian crossing to another. As such, one can independently follow the studs by walking on them or feeling them with a cane and safely get from one crossing to another without the danger of walking onto a street or falling of a sidewalk.
