Voluntarily Vagrant, Homeless Youth - a New and 'Crusty' Urban Challenge https://bescapevelocity.runboard.com/t2097 Runboard| Voluntarily Vagrant, Homeless Youth - a New and 'Crusty' Urban Challenge en-us Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:25:13 +0000 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:25:13 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Re: Voluntarily Vagrant, Homeless Youth - a New and 'Crusty' Urban Challengehttps://bescapevelocity.runboard.com/p31709,from=rss#post31709https://bescapevelocity.runboard.com/p31709,from=rss#post31709Time for those robot cops for sure, now. Cops in LA are risking a very serious skin infection now from handling homeless peeps. It's called MRSA. I ran into it while in Navy Medicine. At that time MRSA was the tip-top riskiest infection we worried about in hospitals. This big, problem infection we worried about was one of the hospital infections that we often worried about - a "staph" infection. These are skin infections. The one we worried so much about was a worry because it was one of these already very easy to catch skin problems, but one that had NO drug that could kill the bacteria. It's a skin infection that's very resistant to the class of drugs that they almost never use. The last-case, most hot, current, best class of drugs for Staph. That drug class is the "M" in MRSA. The rest is "Resistant Staph Aureus." Now I spot those letters - MRSA - years later in a news story. LA cops catching this due to skin contact with the homeless they have to deal with now, maybe a lot, some of them, LA probably being one of the big homeless hot-spots: "LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Three Los Angeles Police Department officers have been infected with a highly contagious staph infection after what a union official says was an encounter with a homeless person at a police station. The outbreak started sometime within the last week at the LAPD West Valley station in Reseda when officers arrested a transient and was brought to the station, which has since undergone cleaning of all surfaces to stop the MRSA from spreading. The three officers who were infected are on medical leave pending treatment and testing. All are expected to make a full recovery. The LAPD released the following statement Tuesday: “The health, safety, and well-being of our Los Angeles Police Department officers is critical and we are ensuring the officers exposed to this disease are cared for. First responders throughout the region and especially here in Los Angeles are constantly responding to incidents that put them at risk of potential exposure to various diseases, and that’s why the Department takes this incident very seriously. All of the work areas that may have been exposed have been disinfected.” nondisclosed_email@example.com (greendocnowciv)Wed, 08 May 2019 08:11:57 +0000 Voluntarily Vagrant, Homeless Youth - a New and 'Crusty' Urban Challengehttps://bescapevelocity.runboard.com/p7880,from=rss#post7880https://bescapevelocity.runboard.com/p7880,from=rss#post7880Thats a title of a Fox article here - http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/11/voluntarily-vagrant-homeless-youth-crusty-urban-challenge.html A taste _ "From the parks of Berkeley to the streets of Brooklyn, and in most every large city in between, they have become an almost inescapable part of urban life. Known by many names – “crusty punks,” “crusties,” “gutter punks,” “crumb bums” and “dirty kids,” to list but a few – this group of young adults has rejected a more traditional 9-to-5 lifestyle in favor of train hopping, panhandling and voluntary homelessness. And while traditionally tolerated by police and urban residents, these transient groups of the unshaven and unwashed have been involved in a series of incidents in recent years -- accompanied by an abundance of bad press -- that has municipalities across the country puzzling over how to address the problem. In New York City's East Village, they have been spotted doing drugs in local parks, making camp outside of apartment buildings and sleeping outside storefronts. One crusty traveler’s pit bull even attacked a man and his small dog - killing the other dog... In Berkeley, famously known as one of the country's most liberal and homeless-friendly communities, the City Council recently voted to implement new regulations including: limits on sitting down and lying on sidewalks; a ceiling on how many dogs a person can have along a commercial strip; and designations for what homeless people are allowed to sit on. “No one in this room believes homelessness is a good thing,” Councilwoman Sophie Hahn said, according to the news site Berkeleyside. “Yet, through massive failures of our society and our way of life, it is a persistent reality in California, and across the United States.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Actually, Councilwomen Sophie, it is not an equally nutball problem across our society and way of life. Just as Berkely is doing, many cities and towns eventually figure out exactly how a particular judge will allow them to get the Homeless out of the way, and they then do so. In Cali, they work with Judges to raise taxes to build housing projects for them in some places. Outside of Crazy Cali it's headed in the same nutty direction - "get out of town" as Rambo was told is hardly ever used anymore, apparently. Some el-cheapo basic camping sites at the town edges are needed for peeps who insist on slumping down and doing little or nothoing for themselves. Gee - "Wont you be a "mensch" and pick them up, feed them, and give them a sponge bath?" The robot cops from THX 1138 are looking better every day! nondisclosed_email@example.com (greendocnowciv)Tue, 12 Jun 2018 14:53:23 +0000