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A Worcester Line train faces delay; sleeping homeless man's feet in the way
By adamg on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 8:17am
UPDATE: Not an actual sleeping homeless person; just some blankets that appeared to be a sleeping homeless person.
There's a homeless guy asleep under the Yawkey Way commuter-line stop, with his feet hanging over the tracks. Dave reports train 506 has been halted just before the station so that police can remove him.
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I love this headline!
Reminds me of Shel Silverstein, sinister and sweet. Glad tragedy was averted!
Shel Silverstein
I know Silverstein gets a lot of respect, but his songs always sounded like novelty songs to me. "A Boy named Sue" (Johnny Cash has other much better songs than that), "Freakin At The Freaker's Ball", the awful "Sylvia's Mother" where the singer sounds like he's sobbing in the middle of the song. Just my opinion.
I guess
The sidewalk ended before it got to your house
Thank you Charlie and Marty
For your concern and efforts to shelter the homeless. Locking them in hospitals without court approval and getting judgemental about weed and alcohol is really helpful compared to replacing a state facility or an actually useful bridge!
Locking them in hospitals
Locking them in hospitals would be an improvement over dumping them in the gutter and saying "here's a list of prescriptions for you to try to take if you're not robbed by junkies".
You prefer mentally ill homeless men
sleeping on a freezing cold night at a commuter rail station with their feet hanging over the tracks? You prefer they basically be forced to use a shelter that's dangerous and trolled by drug dealers and other predatory creatures? You believe they should be given out-patient treatment, and sent out to live on the streets with their meds, hoping they'll take them as prescribed, hoping they won't sell them, hoping they'll show up at a clinic to be monitored?
That bridge was allowed to fall apart long, long before Marty Walsh arrived on the scene.
Because no one waiting for
Because no one waiting for the train could actually try to talk to the guy and wake him up.
You were there?
Did you try?
Few care about the homeless,
Few care about the homeless, so not surprising. Every time a person @ Back Bay asks for money for a T-pass (he lost his wallet) everyone ignores him.
People ignore sob stories
People ignore sob stories because the same sob stories pull the act 7 days week for months on end to feed their drug/alcohol/laziness habit.
My generous compassion is already spent paying for other people to not work while I slave away at a job to keep the dilapidated roof over my head from leaking.
You lost me at "laziness"..
you, see, anon, those who have issues with say drug and/or alchohol are not lazy, per se, but suffering from an addictive sickness. The same with the mentally ill. They are not lazy, per se, but suffering from an illness that prevents them from working. And couple mental illness with substance abuse, well, that is a double whammy.
Most homeless are not lazy but suffering human beings. Yeah, we all get jaded at the sob story guys but to equate them with bulk of those who live on the streets is disingenuous and wrong.
Whoever you are, thank you
Whoever you are, thank you for speaking the truth.
"I gave at the office" and
"I gave at the office" and pointing them in the direction of the welfare office is my go-to line when they pester me for money.
Lack of care about the homeless?
Or perhaps everyone at Back Bay is jaded since the same people use the same lines over and over. No, you are not trying to get to Plymouth, are you? And why does someone need train fare when they are on the Orange Line platform?
Commuter rail platform, where
Commuter rail platform, where it's free to stand.
Commuter Rail platform?
Well, since us Orange Line riders are sick of the repeated, hard to believe, sob stories, I would imagine when the platforms are open there must be more.
But to the heart of your gripe, we also actively ignore the Children International people in front of the station, so homeless, drug addicted, or whatever, if you are asking for people's money and not giving anything tangible in return, be prepared to be ignored.
I know a guy who has a flat
I know a guy who has a flat tire, you should go help him out...
Most people today are afraid of their own shadows
let alone attempt to talk to a 'scary' homeless guy.
A couple of homeless guys
A couple of homeless guys shot up a car in Arlington not too long ago. Yeah, I think there's a reason people try to steer clear.
Update
A conductor went down and checked it out and found it was just a pile of blankets in the shape of a person. No actual person. We departed Yawkey about 10 min late.
- Dave
question for dbperry
Was there anyone there waiting to board the train?
Too bad there weren't any
Too bad there weren't any philanthropic real estate developers out there who had the means and heart to want to build more housing. The waiting list is too long and the person could be dead before he or she receives their Section 8 voucher for housing. And 40B provisions still don't provide housing assurance for everyone. However, on the other hand, I do realize there are many safety and quality of life issues for other residents and abutters, not to mention potential expensive and exhausting summary process to evict such tenants when they let in their fellow homeless friends to sleep there, or let the drug dealer in with everyday his delivery.
"I hope that's the saddest thing I hear today"
was my reaction to the engineer/conductor coming onto the PA and saying that we were going to be stopped for a bit "to wait for police assistance to remove what appears to be a person sleeping under the platform at Yawkey". (I did not hear anything on the train about anyone or anything being on the tracks).
In other news, I was on the same train as the distinguished dbperry!!!!