Dead Guy
I saw a dead man the other day. He was lying under a bridge and the Oklahoma CSI were out looking over the scene. I am guessing he wasn't murdered because by time I returned ( 2 hours max) he was gone and so was the CSI team.
Two thoughts on this:
1) Seeing a dead person away from a Hospital is always creepy, not that I do this that often. It makes you think things like, "Who was this guy?", "Does anyone even care that he's dead?", that kind of thing. I didn't see anything on the news about it. I am guessing he was homeless and died of one of those strange "Homeless disease" things like, an overdose, or starvation, something unpreventable like that... Maybe he just died of old age... The big question is how many people walked by him and didn't even care enough to stop and tell someone he was dead. More than we would like to know, I am sure.
He wasn't far from what the "Homeless guys" I drive around call "The Crack Fields"(this is a place you can get drugs. It is perfectly placed right off Hwy 40 for the truckers to make a stop, grab some Sonic, a bag of Crack, and then be off on their way.
The longer I am around Homeless people the more I question whether we need places like the Jesus House or the City Mission. I wonder if it doesn't just make it easier for them to be crack addicts and drunks. I know those places make a difference, but is it a good one is the question I would like to know.
They (the Homeless guys I take to work) all talk a big game, even to me, someone that they know isn't going to give them a dime. They say " I want to get my stuff together and find my way out" or "I am just down on my luck. I will get a better job and get on my feet". Then as soon as they get some money it is off to the Liquor store or the "crack fields" with a stop at McDonald's for Nourishment. It makes me sad... I think the government has made it hard for people that get DUI's, go to jail, or just get tickets and can't pay them to get back on their feet and get a jobs. I think we have made it to easy to ignore these people and let them be where they are. However, people always say, don't complain unless you have a solution, so I won't complain. Maybe that's why none of us complain. Maybe that's why we just walk on by give them a couple bucks and call it a day. We don't know what else to do.
It all just makes me sad that these people that I personally know are good people in bad situations are going to die on the streets with no one even caring.
2) CSI Oklahoma would make a boring show! On next weeks CSI OKC " look a dead guy under a bridge... Johnson, clean it up and let's go. This place smells of beer and cat piss"
Two thoughts on this:
1) Seeing a dead person away from a Hospital is always creepy, not that I do this that often. It makes you think things like, "Who was this guy?", "Does anyone even care that he's dead?", that kind of thing. I didn't see anything on the news about it. I am guessing he was homeless and died of one of those strange "Homeless disease" things like, an overdose, or starvation, something unpreventable like that... Maybe he just died of old age... The big question is how many people walked by him and didn't even care enough to stop and tell someone he was dead. More than we would like to know, I am sure.
He wasn't far from what the "Homeless guys" I drive around call "The Crack Fields"(this is a place you can get drugs. It is perfectly placed right off Hwy 40 for the truckers to make a stop, grab some Sonic, a bag of Crack, and then be off on their way.
The longer I am around Homeless people the more I question whether we need places like the Jesus House or the City Mission. I wonder if it doesn't just make it easier for them to be crack addicts and drunks. I know those places make a difference, but is it a good one is the question I would like to know.
They (the Homeless guys I take to work) all talk a big game, even to me, someone that they know isn't going to give them a dime. They say " I want to get my stuff together and find my way out" or "I am just down on my luck. I will get a better job and get on my feet". Then as soon as they get some money it is off to the Liquor store or the "crack fields" with a stop at McDonald's for Nourishment. It makes me sad... I think the government has made it hard for people that get DUI's, go to jail, or just get tickets and can't pay them to get back on their feet and get a jobs. I think we have made it to easy to ignore these people and let them be where they are. However, people always say, don't complain unless you have a solution, so I won't complain. Maybe that's why none of us complain. Maybe that's why we just walk on by give them a couple bucks and call it a day. We don't know what else to do.
It all just makes me sad that these people that I personally know are good people in bad situations are going to die on the streets with no one even caring.
2) CSI Oklahoma would make a boring show! On next weeks CSI OKC " look a dead guy under a bridge... Johnson, clean it up and let's go. This place smells of beer and cat piss"
posted by eddie | 2:01 PM
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