Homeless Day Shelter Idea

Started by triclops i, June 29, 2012, 02:33:10 AM

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June 29, 2012, 02:44:45 AM
Larry Rice is an old religious guy who runs a homeless shelter here in St. Louis. My parents used to threaten to drop me off there as a kid. I thought they were dead serious. I was like four.

Years later, Larry Rice famously sued the city for not letting bums sleep in the park on weekends when there were gonna be a lot of white people downtown, and won a shedload of money.

His latest stunt, set to begin this Thursday, involves bringing bums from downtown, via shuttle bus, to spend the day in the Galleria. He's gonna give them a few dollars worth of WAM, as it's known in the business and/or the movie Made (walking around money), to buy lunch and so they can't get kicked out for not having any money to buy anything, via plausible deniability.

I think technically, they can't kick you out of the mall just because you don't live indoors. If they try, I'm sure Larry Rice will sue the shit out of them. He'll fuck around and end up owning the Galleria, and it really will be a homeless shelter.

Presumably, Rice will give them bums tips on how to avoid getting kicked out of the mall, before the bus ride out there. For example, there's no reason to take a piss on a wall or a potted plant in a building that has public restrooms.

The reverend is also encouraging the bums to fill out job applications. Who know, maybe a homeless person will get a job out of this. Reliable transportation to work won't be an issue. The stores won't have any choice but to seriously consider homeless applicants, unless they wanna get sued or something. Maybe the reverend can catch them in the act, Freakonomics-style, purposely not calling back applicants with hobo depression-era black guy names like Woodrow and Otis.

I encourage the reverend to put the entire system on trial, if necessary! If I had any money, I'd even consider donating. Larry Rice is the only real Christian CAC in America.

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June 29, 2012, 03:02:01 AM
WOW. Looks like a cheap publicity stunt to me. But, at least the homeless get an afternoon in the AC and a free meal out of it. Don't know how "christian" his actions are as they appear to be with some underhanded intent. Certainly he did not have to pick a "posh" mall, any locale would have met the needs of getting the homeless out of the heat. He could have taken them to his parish and fed them for for the day and maybe had some kind of entertainment or something but the "shock value" would not have been the same.  This stunt has malice behind it. That is not "christian" behavior.  To do something right because it is the right thing to do without expectation of reward or acknowledgement is what I would expect... Not a blatant publicity stunt with a press release made in advance.
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