Why put a no trespassing sign on a bus stop
from Kintarian@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 27 Nov 17:11
https://lemmy.world/post/39398397

I passed by a bus stop yesterday and there is now a no trespassing sign and a no loitering sign up. That seems odd for a public bus stop.

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Mike_The_TV@lemmy.world on 27 Nov 17:15 next collapse

It is literally so they can charge homeless people taking shelter there.

Kintarian@lemmy.world on 27 Nov 17:21 next collapse

That’s just mean

lettruthout@lemmy.world on 27 Nov 17:37 next collapse

Welcome to today‘s USA.

Nemo@slrpnk.net on 27 Nov 19:28 collapse

Anti-homeless antics are neither recent nor limited to America.

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 27 Nov 20:18 collapse

I have never heard of a western democracy that has a witch hunt against homeless people to near the degree that is common in USA.
So yes this level of evil harassment against homeless people is mostly limited to America. USA has become the dystopia SciFi stories warned us against since a century ago. And most Americans don’t even know it.

DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca on 28 Nov 01:21 collapse

Welcome to people. Instead of fixing the homelessness, governments would prefer to make the situation worse while doing their best to ignore it.

unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth on 27 Nov 19:15 collapse

I wouldn't even say that it's to be able to charge homeless people - how are they going to pay? It wouldn't be particularly smart financially.

It's more about just not having them there. Say what you want, but if a bus stop reeks, it makes it much less attractive to take public transit. Of course, it just moves the problem somewhere else - but the transit authority doesn't have to worry about it too much anymore.

Nemo@slrpnk.net on 27 Nov 19:27 collapse

charge them with a crime

Mike_The_TV@lemmy.world on 27 Nov 20:20 next collapse

Exactly. Them not being able to pay the fine is the bonus. That and its immediate probable cause for any officer wanting to cause some shit with whoever needs to take the bus that day.

kn33@lemmy.world on 27 Nov 22:54 collapse

I swear some people on this platform are intentionally dense or something

ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Nov 18:00 next collapse

sometimes people just go to home despot and buy signs and put them up.
i’ve it a lot with “no parking” signs on public streets when they want to reserve parking for themselves

MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip on 27 Nov 18:45 collapse

home despot

This is the perfect typo for this post lol

ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Nov 18:46 collapse

that was not a typo (:

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca on 27 Nov 21:00 collapse

Yup, I call it the same.

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works on 27 Nov 19:36 next collapse

Yeah my city has a lot of homeless around bus stops.

Is a bummer but it makes other people avoid those places like the plague and gives further bad names to public transport.

Kintarian@lemmy.world on 27 Nov 21:51 collapse

I get that but they take away everything someone owns, prevent them from sitting or sleeping anywhere, throw them in jail or put them on a bus and send them to another state. I don’t see how any of this solves the problem.

Sunsofold@lemmings.world on 28 Nov 01:14 next collapse

If the homeless all end up in prison, there are no more homeless, and a fresh supply of profitable slave laborers.

bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works on 28 Nov 16:06 collapse

Yeah thats terrible

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 28 Nov 08:18 next collapse

Trespassing what? Are even bus stops private property in the US?

thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Nov 08:59 collapse

Always remember homelessness isn’t a problem in America’s society, it a feature of it. To keep people in line and to fear going on strike/fighting back. They like to keep a bit around to keep the society working Out of fear of becoming homeless, and throw the “bad” ones into slavery (aka prison)