Thread: How is this possible?

Hirlau, when I said "people" I was referring to anyone who continues to make bad decisions and never learn from their mistakes. We all mess up in life and fall on hard times, but if you aren't willing to change for the positive than you can't expect other people to want to help you. JMO

InHonorofRay, o.k. I'm with you now,,,
Many things can contribute to a person finding themselves in the catagory of "homeless".
Many times it has nothing to do with lack of motivation or education.
Not all cases are alike & for a lot of people this is only a temporary state.
In the case of the woman in the OP, her condition has probably gotten to a point where it is out of her control. A person would have to sit down & review her case, to determine the best way to help her.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

InHonorofRay, o.k. I'm with you now,,,
Many things can contribute to a person finding themselves in the catagory of "homeless".
Many times it has nothing to do with lack of motivation of education.
Not all cases are alike & for a lot of people this is only a temporary state.
In the case of the woman in the OP, her condition has probably gotten to a point where it is out of her control. A person would have to sit down & review her case, to determine the best way to help her.

I agree completely, and my original post had nothing to do with her being homeless at all. I just think getting arrested 396 times is unthinkable.

So what's so special about this?

In this state there are people who have that many arrests for DUI alone and are still walking around.

There are loads of folks who have rap sheets that are like a book. they started getting into trouble as kids and it just extends through adulthood. Either they keep doing minor stuff and the system doesn't have the time or room for them so they just kick the can down the road or they eventually graduate to something serious and wind up in the big house.

Hirlau, thanks for your service, all of your service.

Originally Posted by lz6

Hirlau, thanks for your service, all of your service.

It was just a way to make a living, a family tradition.
Had my father been good with money or an engineer, I probably would have followed that path in life; then I would have been rich & I would have a real Shave Den, not my cramped bathroom.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

It was just a way to make a living, a family tradition.
Had my father been good with money or an engineer, I probably would have followed that path in life; then I would have been rich & I would have a real Shave Den, not my cramped bathroom.

It is an honorable way to make a living. Thanks!

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

So what's so special about this?

In this state there are people who have that many arrests for DUI alone and are still walking around.

There are loads of folks who have rap sheets that are like a book. they started getting into trouble as kids and it just extends through adulthood. Either they keep doing minor stuff and the system doesn't have the time or room for them so they just kick the can down the road or they eventually graduate to something serious and wind up in the big house.

The sad truth of it. We had many indivuduals in my city that broke the 200+ arrest mark.

Originally Posted by InHonorOfRay

Hirlau, when I said "people" I was referring to anyone who continues to make bad decisions and never learn from their mistakes. We all mess up in life and fall on hard times, but if you aren't willing to change for the positive than you can't expect other people to want to help you. JMO

Sometimes people do continue to make bad decisions, but sometimes life circumstances and other peolpes prejudice can make it very hard to turn your life around, particularly if that person was getting in trouble decades ago when society was less accepting. I don't condone crime, and it does seem that this lady is voilent however she has also been in and out of mental health facilities, so she may have been let down by this system as well.

Originally Posted by edhewitt

Sometimes people do continue to make bad decisions, but sometimes life circumstances and other peolpes prejudice can make it very hard to turn your life around, particularly if that person was getting in trouble decades ago when society was less accepting. I don't condone crime, and it does seem that this lady is voilent however she has also been in and out of mental health facilities, so she may have been let down by this system as well.

The only way she has been let down by the system is that she has not been permanently incarcerated, either in a penal institution or a mental institution. Knife attacks are violent crimes, if done by the sane it is time for the penal institution if done by the insane it is time for the padded room and the meds.

I have to wonder how many opinions would be different if she had put a gun to her victims heads.