Politically Incorrect but Its Gotta Be Done

I just came back from the coffee shop where I was backing up one of my housemates who works there but has today off. It seems that a homeless guy, who was obviously drunk, decided to take a piss out in front of the laundromat up the street. Whipped his wanger out in public and pissed all over the sidewalk. And then proceeded to head into the coffeeshop to harass and pester the employees and the patrons. All that while sitting and drinking his 40 ouncer in a bag on the coffee deck, the issue there is that if the cops happened by then the coffee shop would be held liable and fined (and not a penny ante fine, it would be five digits most likely).
So my housemate basically rousted him, called the cops and berated him into finding another locale to squat in. There are places in town where people can hang out.

And no, this isn't some harangue against homeless people at all. Its against fuckos who mistreat my town, my neighborhood and my friends. This is where I live, this is where I plan on putting some roots down and that means its part of my civic duty to protect my neighborhood. And that means rousting disreputable types who don't have the basic manners to not piss in public, in an area where people with their kids might be walking by.

Its just nasty and completely avoidable.

And I know that in today's touchy feely happy society we're supposed to be nicer to everyone but that's crap when it comes to people disrespecting our 'hood. It may not be nice but if you've had to deal with the human detritus that litters our town then you'd eventually come to the same conclusion.

If we all live and let live then things are cool but when homeless drunks invade and disrupt honest businesses and make life less than easily bearable then something has to be done. And it will be. I'm sure my housemate is filing his complaint with the cops as we speak. Of course, nothing will really be done but that's alright. Its on file now and the guy's pretty well marked off another spot he can go back to.

I could tangent off and try to empathize with him but why? Nobody's forcing him to be absolutely shitfaced by 10 am. Nobody MADE him urinate in public. Nobody MADE him harass patrons at the coffeeshop.

Literary Sidenote

Not very many people have heard of one of Orwell's books about tramping, which is just a britishism for homeless. Its called Down and Out in Paris and London and I suppose if you're going to go hobo style then Europe wouldn't be the worst place to do it. But a few things to bear in mind. He did this more than 50 years ago, woops sorry 1933, almost 70 years ago. And the main gist is that it pretty well sucked to be without a home, though he did this voluntarily (sort of). But it is a worthwhile read. Actually almost everything by Orwell's a worthwhile read in my mind.