Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Transients from homeless camp break into local businesses. Austin Police clear out camp in February. Homeless creep back in.
Can you guess what happens next?
Small businesses in South Austin are trying to recover after having their windows smashed. This isn’t the first time the owners have dealt with homeless-related crimes in the area.
The employees in the area said a church nearby feeds the homeless, so they flock there every day, but they also linger and cause destruction at night.
Video shows multiple people walked up to the Headspace Salon in South Austin and threw rocks into the front glass.
In the last probably two months, we’ve had, easily, well over $10-15,000 worth of damages,” Headspace Salon and Co-op Owner Laura North said.
She said, as a small business, it hits hard.
“They’re just coming there and smashing things with rocks and just walking off and not understanding for small business owners that is a huge, huge financial hit for us, and it’s just not sustainable,” North said.
Oh they understand, it’s just not relevant to their need to get high and stay high, so they don’t care.
Other businesses nearby have been dealing with similar issues.
“The guy came around and that’s when we had the rocks, we saw him on camera, we got him right over here. He threw it on the second floor window and busted out the window in the hallway, and then he busted out the window around this corner, and he busted out that window,” said Jason Dawkins, an estimator who works in a building that was vandalized.
“We see a lot of drug use, a lot of open sexual behavior, a lot of defecation and urinating in public areas and a lot of that stuff, and I will say it seems like some of that has gotten better, but it seems like definitely the vandalism and the kind of destruction, especially later in the evening has gotten significantly worse,” North said.
Drug-addicted transients shitting in public: Your number one sign of social justice “compassion” for the homeless.
“‘The city will step in kind of help very briefly, and it does not last long, and then it just goes right back to how it was before,’ North said.”
Why it’s almost like the Social Justice allies of the Austin City Council make money off the homeless and don’t care what you think…
(Hat tip: Dwight.)
Tags: Austin, Austin Police Department, Crime, drugs, homeless, Laura North, Texas
Did you know that fentanyl is so lethal it isn’t a matter of if someone will OD but when?
Now I’m not saying it would be awesome if some unknown person had the bright idea that they didn’t actually need to spike the nation’s fentanyl supply with hot doses to begin killing these oxygen thieves, only that they had to sabotage the Narcan supply…but I’m certainly thinking it loudly.
Austin voters created this problem. I feel so sorry for them. Sob. May the diversity of SF; the goodwill of St Louis; the tolerance of Minneapolis; the drag queens of Seattle; the charity of Portland’s Antifa; the truthfulness of NYC; and the brotherhood of Chicago grace Austin. And may they elect Obama mayor.
This kind of crap is going to go on only so long as they haven’t pissed off enough of the normies that they manage to actually change people’s attitudes about “compassion”. Odds are, there’s a very self-righteous pastor behind that homeless feeding station, with some other numpties supporting him. About the time their church “mysteriously” burns to the ground, they’ll learn. So will the surrounding neighborhood; you don’t police your turf, it goes bad, real quick.
I dunno about the spiking of either fentanyl or Narcan, but I can tell you that there’s a sea-change in the wind, out there: People are getting fed the f*ck up with this BS, and they are losing all sympathy and compassion for the “homeless”. Don’t expect to see the status quo last; one day, fairly soon? People are going to demand that the folks like that wunnerful compassionate pastor pay the price for their “compassion”, and you won’t like what that looks like. You also won’t like what it looks like when all these so-called “homeless” are finally dealt with permanently.
Ya think things can’t change? Dude, how on earth do you suppose they used to get away with the things they did, back in the day? Workhouses, and what-not? Do you think those were just imposed by the authorities, or do you grasp that they existed and were operated with the full knowledge and consent of the general public?
We’ve had it too good, for too long; the numpties who’ve brought us to this state think that they’re going to be able to keep all this BS up forever. It won’t last, and I think that we may well be in the last decade of “compassion” before people say “F*ck this… Get a job. Or, die… Either one, but you’re not living on my sidewalk, in my town… Oh, and your enabling bastard of a pastor or social worker? Let me introduce them to unemployment, ‘cos I ain’t paying another damn dime to either one…”
“[A] church nearby feeds the homeless, so they flock there every day,..”
Pro tip: never feed a feral cat. Once they forsake the society of men, it is more compassionate to encourage them to forage for themselves.
Almost.
@Meatwood Flack
10 years ago, I remember I used to be the kind of guy that still had a shred of sympathy. I used to be the kind of guy that didn’t paint communities with a broad brush, and thought that among the homeless was still a cohort of able-bodied mentally beat-up-but-still-salvageable people that were down on their luck and needed a 3rd or 4th chance even if 2nd wasn’t enough, and that collectively, all of us shouldn’t begrudge that if anyone really wants to turn their life around.
I just can’t anymore. After 10 years of the most heinous destruction and complete disrespect and aggression short of war, watching these people take their millionth handout instead of a job, and watching video of activist minions cut them checks to riot that day so they can go buy fentanyl, I’m done with them. My Christian upbringing and sense of morality and community regarding these people is at an end. We cannot build a functioning society around and among huge swaths of people that have actively decided not only to refuse help and help themselves, but to actively attack the helpers.
To your point and worse still, is that even though these people are essentially killing themselves, shit like Narcan strings that process out, potentially indefinitely (there are stories of addicts getting Narcaned over a hundred times…just ask your local ambulance district who their high scoring ‘frequent flyers’ are, they’ll tell you because everyone knows), so you’re dealing with these people for potentially decades instead of months or a couple years.
Despite such claims being mostly keyboard soldiering and tongue-in-cheek, really ask yourself what other solution is there? Most of these people, if they can be saved at all, require hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to help. We don’t have to poison the Narcan, but everyone should ask tough questions about whether or not it is moral and ethical to dose a long-suffering suicidal with Narcan for the hundreth time because large numbers of us think it makes Jesus smile while they abuse and harm someone else at a later date, only to get high and get Narcaned again.
We don’t have to do what the Chinese did and kill addicts, dealers, and their family members to eradicate opioid abuse from our society, but we sure as shit don’t have to have open-ended mercy for eternity for these people. We shouldn’t have to have an obligation to keep reviving these people while everything falls apart around us, largerly thanks to them. This is insane.
As far as I can tell, the only social-welfare program that has helped a community deal with the homeless the last three decades or so has been this —
— a bus ticket to California, delivered with a nightstick.
The homeless person gets a choice; go to California and thus get out of town, or end up in the hoosegow with the unfortunate problem of tumbling down elebenteen flights of stairs.
That’s how a community would fix its homeless problem. It’s not right and it’s not elegant, but it sure did work.
We are being taken advantage of. On a massive scale. Compassion and sympathy have been completely weaponized by some of the worst people ever born. People in general might be slow on the uptake, but not forever, and what this will ultimately lead to – as the comments show – is a huge pullback of compassion, sympathy, empathy, and charity.
All I can say is people are really going to miss it when it’s gone. We’ll see it in our lifetimes.
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