Time for you to get a little bit of understanding on what makes Poop Knife function. The year was 1999 give or take in wonderful sunny south Florida. I worked at a local business in the classic downtown area that was trying to revitalize as many towns were doing in this era. The idea being to celebrate local businesses and the heritage of main street USA.
The only problem with this wonderful idea is 90% of the homeless population also resided in the downtown area as well. All the shop owners and workers became very close to each other as we had to watch out for each other on a regular basis.
One day a new member of the homeless transient (the homeless just like birds migrate south for the winter) population decided to call our little town "home". Only this one was a little different then the rest.. very mentally unstable.. scared the hell out of everyone including the rest of the local homeless We nicknamed him Uni-Manson as he wore the same style mirrored sun glasses and hoody as the Unibomber but had the wild Afro like Charles Manson.
Nothing could be done, as even though everyone knew this guy was insane he had not broken any laws.
A plan was formed to remove this dangerous element from our little corner of society. Being this was a small town our plan was leaked to other well placed members of the community... and as scary as this is they supported what we were going to do and were willing to provide what ever assistance we needed to complete our self appointed vigilante mission.
Equipment was gathered and funded by various contributors (made Z look like Mr. Rogers) and a few dry runs or "rehearsals" were performed to make sure everything would run smoothly.... the plan was open to interpretation as force was going to indeed be used but we were willing to let Uni-Manson slink off into the night to become a problem of another community.
A few hours before "showtime" we were given an intervention by one of the prominent members of the local church who had also learned what we were about to do. His words were wise and true... It was not our place to do what ever we wanted to a man who had committed no crime other then scaring the living crap out of everyone who encountered him. We agreed to stand down and find a legal route for the situation.
Three weeks later on a Tuesday..... I will never forget this day for as long as I live. Another boring day of no business, most of us decided to close early due to it being a rainy day. One store owner decided to stick it out on the chance she would make some desperately needed money. Uni-Manson must have noticed that all the stores were closed except for hers. She was stabbed 27 times by him and died on her showroom floor after bleeding out. Uni-Manson was easily found by local police who followed the trail of stolen goods he dropped on the way to a wooded area a few blocks away.
I left town shortly after.. I could not stay there anymore.
Now you tell me "Heroes" you rally around a woman you would have no clue about if it had not been written about in some damn comic book. How do you think I feel? I had a chance to do something about the problem and did not because it was morally wrong. I would have become a vigilante or possibly a murderer, but instead due to my lack of action an innocent woman died for no damn reason at all.
You feed the homeless without understanding their nature... you are not part of any solution but are part of the problem. At any given time you can volunteer at a legit homeless outreach center... but oh no we can't have that can we because your a "Super Hero" and that would not satisfy your twisted ego of being the attention whores that you are. You go out after hours to "patrol" to find your Kitty Genovese to save.. but oh no you don't want to be a legitimate part of law enforcement because they are all "corrupt". You know better then them with all your advanced training of reading comic books.
Your entire sub-culture makes me sick to my stomach, with the very few exceptions of a handful of honest people who do know how to correctly do charity work. As for the rest of you pieces of human waste.... get it through your thick heads that you are not freaking super heroes.. you are a mockery of the word hero.
I was pulled back from the brink. Most of you are too stupid to be saved....
I used to think they were all cuddly hobos too, until something happened too close to my place here in Jet City to ignore. The murder was street-person-on-street-person crime, fought over a city park that was "turf" to one gang of drug-addled homeless miscreants who wanted to keep the newly homeless victim out.
ReplyDeleteThere's a reason fairytales put monsters under bridges.
If the RLSH could dig up Kitty's corpse and string it up like a puppet, they would. I'm sure Master Legend would even go as far to squirt his 'Legend Sauce' on her dried up husk, seeing as dead things are way funnier with condiments on them. Who knows, maybe she could even take a spin in to Hero Mobile or be used to scare dealers out of Dark Guardian's parks. Either way, playing 'Weekend At Bernies' with ole Kitty would be way more than the RLSH have ever really done in her memory, what for a woman they personally know zero about.
ReplyDeleteI had to laugh at the Legend Sauce dig.
ReplyDeleteThis story is sad and emotionally charged and there's really not much I could say to it. "If only" is always a painful thing.
But the sideways conclusion here that it might be wrong to give homeless people food -- even on a small scale and wearing a stupid looking outfit while you do it -- doesn't quite seem justified.
And there are guys who sit in their rooms all day making videos of themselves inflating their rubber cat suits and popping balloons for sexual gratification and what not -- I wonder what dead lady they have to wave around on a stick to justify themselves.
The only thing I personally rally around is my right to do whatever the hell I want as long as it's not hurting anybody. If it literally gives me wood to give a homeless guy a nutrigrain bar... well, that's pretty weird, but it's not immoral, evil, or even illegal.
I have some very unpopular opinions about the homeless problem. Many of us are just three paychecks away (or less) from homelessness, but that's assuming you have no support network whatsoever. I can think of a dozen people who wouldn't dream of letting me spend a night on the streets, and I'm not even a very like-able person....just how bad does it have to get? How many reality checks does one have to miss to end up in such a horrible place, unable to dig your way out?
ReplyDeleteIt happens. It happens a lot. It happens to a lot of kids. It also happens to horrible disconnected people capable of horrible acts, and it's a problem that should be dealt with very carefully and not by well meaning amateurs calling their own shots.
The Guardian Angels used to get a lot of the same sentiment (they still do, but not as much as they initially did) as the RLSH do now. But over time they grew and matured, having learned from their mistakes. There are a few loose cannons, but as a whole the RLSH Movement is gaining sincere and genuine adherents.
ReplyDeleteAs with all evolution, it will be a slow, at times painful, process.