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Surrey's Homeless: Fake or not?
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by cocopuffz | March 9, 2009 at 09:10 pm
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Surrey Central is the city centre of Surrey, BC. It is the place where thousands of people bustle along to carry on with their business. This is also the area where Surrey is infamous for drug dealers, homicides, and homeless people aka, hobos. Homeless people have always been an issue in Surrey. Being the heart of the city, Surrey Central is where most of them gather. To most citizens of Surrey, it is not be an odd sight to see homeless people asking passer-bys for money. However, passer-bys usually walk straight by or a polite few may apologize for not sparing a few change. Recently there are a few homeless people whose continual appearance has raised some concerns.
Growing up in Surrey and going to SFU Surrey myself, I pass by that area under Surrey Central skytrain station everyday. Walking by that area, a man around his forties consistently appears asking for some spare change. He usually sits in a chair, puts out a seemingly broken guitar and asks every person who walks by. I have seen a couple of passer-bys who walk pass and ignore him. When passer-bys ignore his plead, he replies with a mouthful of murmurs which sounds like unfriendly insults. This raises some concerns, are the citizens of Surrey lacking sympathy for these homeless people? Or are they correct in not giving them change because they are fakes? These are debatable questions but some things are for certain. If these homeless people are really in need of our help, and in thinking that they are fakes, we ignore them; we push them to further desperation. Are the citizens of Surrey becoming immune to those who are less fortunate? To young children who look up to adults as role models, if they see their role models ignoring homeless people, they would grow up thinking it is normal to do so. This is an important social concern not only to Surrey’s society, but to societies awide.
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at 08:51 on March 10th, 2009
I know your talking about the general homeless population, however looking at those pictures reminded me of the guy who sat their strumming his guitar and asking for change. (whom you talked about) Well, i saw him once walking out of Blenz coffee, holding a cup of coffee (duh), dressed in a blazer and dress pants and with a pair of sunglasses on his head and smoking....hmmm I don't know but at that moment he seems pretty well off......
at 10:27 on March 10th, 2009
1) If you give out money on request, it shows you support people being homeless and beg for money all days and night.
2) What are you teaching your kids by giving out money to beggers? That begging is a good thing to do and you fully supports it? Show your kids that money comes from working hard not sitting around and beg.
There are many ways to help homeless people, and one of the best thing you can do is to NOT show your support for sitting around, beg for money all day and curse those who ignored you. People who work hard always get their rewards. Karma.
at 10:46 on March 10th, 2009
I once helped this one guy who used to hang out outside of my previous workplace. He gave me this whole story where he found a program which could give him a bed and food for a few days and also had resources where he could find a job.
I ended up giving the guy $21.
Guess what? he was there when I did my next shift. Begging for more money from other people.
The one thing that is annoying is that they don't ask for food or help, they ask for money.
Who's to say they don't use it on drugs?
I had a friend who gave a homeless man some food because his sign said that he was hungry, only to be harassed by the man because my friend didn't give him money.