The post 9/11 environment made freight train riding vastly more legally risky than it had been prior to that point, when people were pretty casual and relaxed about it all. It's a shame because there is nothing like it.
A New Look at the Hobo
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Re: A New Look at the Hobo
#12I started busking cause it's been hard to find enough gigs to keep me happy and practicing the accordion is both more fun on a street corner and less grating for the neighbors in my apartment. It's been kind of interested to meet some of the other folks who are on the street for various reasons. I did sound for a music festival a couple weeks ago and there were a bunch of folks who had just been at Rainbow... now tha…
A fellow I know from downtown, a busker, had a camp by a bridge. He disappeared for a week, and I got concerned. Met him again in a coffee shop. The local enforcers had cleaned out under the bridges and taken it all to the dump, leaving him truly homeless. They had 'put up signs' - small, on a wall a block away, down by the sidewalk. So as to make sure folks like him didn't see them, so they could terrorize them by d…
We spend an enormous amount of money keeping people homeless.
If we didn't spent that money to keep them homeless, those little encampments would slowly turn into villages. It's not that hard to build a house from scavenged materials over time.