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A stranger secretly lived in my home

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Re: A stranger secretly lived in my home

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Post by stevezsa8 »

whirlingdervish wrote: post #24

A couple years ago one of the devs I work with came in to the office very early for some reason and discovered a man sleeping in one of the conference rooms. After the fact we discovered that an emergency exit door wasn’t locking properly. He didn’t take anything even though he could have easily made off with tens of thousands of dollars of electronics. He just needed somewhere to sleep.

Your office got off lucky.

We had a guy walk into our office behind employees. No one challenged the trespasser... he walked off with a stack of laptops.

Re: A stranger secretly lived in my home

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Post by SkipperCat »

whirlingdervish wrote: post #24

A couple years ago one of the devs I work with came in to the office very early for some reason and discovered a man sleeping in one of the conference rooms. After the fact we discovered that an emergency exit door wasn’t locking properly. He didn’t take anything even though he could have easily made off with tens of thousands of dollars of electronics. He just needed somewhere to sleep.

Sadly that person could be charged with a crime instead of being recognized as a person in need.

We should be viewing these situations as a cry for help instead of a criminal activity. This is what I hoped the "Defund the Police" movement was targeting. Sadly that phrase had good intentions but pretty bad optics.

Re: A stranger secretly lived in my home

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Post by nelsondev »

throwdecro wrote: post #30
kelp wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Living in one of the worse parts of San Francisco, for the past few years (west SOMA), I can say that people going through your trash is quite a nuisance. You'll put your trash out for pickup day, and a significant portion of the time, someone will come and go through it. And often as they are going through it, they will just throw random things on the ground. So our little side street kind of has a constant layer of…

It's a city, not a mall. If you want to keep alcoholics away from your beverage, it would make sense to not have it out by the sidewalk when they stroll by. Otherwise, that's life in the (sorta) big city.

You are victim blaming, and have low standards.

I, for one, would like to live in a city where I can eat/drink outside without fear of someone stealing my food.

Re: A stranger secretly lived in my home

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Post by julianh95 »

SmkyMt wrote: post #27
lisper wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> there, but for the grace of god go I You might be interested in this: https://graceofgodmovie.com/ [Disclosure: that is my movie.]

I look forward to viewing it this evening. And FWIW: It could motivate me to _buy_ ($20) rather than _rent ($4) [from Amazon] if I knew the respective portions that go to (your) production company rather than just to Amazon.

+1 on this. I’d much rather spend more money if I knew it directly supported the creator/maker/etc. I often do this with my purchases where I look for their direct website and purchase from there.

Re: A stranger secretly lived in my home

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Post by pengaru »

whirlingdervish wrote: post #24

A couple years ago one of the devs I work with came in to the office very early for some reason and discovered a man sleeping in one of the conference rooms. After the fact we discovered that an emergency exit door wasn’t locking properly. He didn’t take anything even though he could have easily made off with tens of thousands of dollars of electronics. He just needed somewhere to sleep.

Did your employer offer him a job as night security guard?

It appears he really badly wanted the position...

Re: A stranger secretly lived in my home

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Post by pbourke »

throw1234651234 wrote: post #17
pen2l wrote: post #7

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I visited SanFran a couple of years ago, and this reminded me of a homeless guy, in his late 60s I imagine, that I saw at a fast food chain. So I was I think at in-and-out, and a homeless guy was going through the garbage bin to find food. When I came over to dump my stuff in the bin, he was immediately considerate and stepped aside so I could dump the covers and napkins, whilst making sibilant sounds and keeping his…

Pro-tip on charity - see someone eating out of the trash? They could probably actually use your money. Much more effective than giving it to panhandlers.

Or at least a meal from the restaurant.

Re: A stranger secretly lived in my home

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Post by jmclnx »

bserge wrote: post #5

Wasn't there a similar story in Japan? Also multiple stories of people secretly living in office building and warehouses. Gotta make do, I guess.

Many years ago this happened in my area, it was in a grocery store (part of a large chain), but not as bad as in her house.

When workers showed up, they would be 1 or 2 wrappings on the floor and other minor things people would not take major notice of.

He got caught because the night crew schedule was changed and never posted, he was found walking in his night cloths.

He was a in his (low 20s) lived in a forgotten attic above the main store. Seemed he was an ex-employee who had setup a nice small apartment up there. Had a bed, small frig and a TV. He lived there for years.

They never prosecuted him because the company would be embarrassed.

These days I would think that would be very hard to do with all the cameras around.

I know this because I worked at that store right after he got caught when I was very young.

Re: A stranger secretly lived in my home

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Post by pengaru »

nelsondev wrote: post #33
throwdecro wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a city, not a mall. If you want to keep alcoholics away from your beverage, it would make sense to not have it out by the sidewalk when they stroll by. Otherwise, that's life in the (sorta) big city.

You are victim blaming, and have low standards. I, for one, would like to live in a city where I can eat/drink outside without fear of someone stealing my food.

And I want a pony

Re: A stranger secretly lived in my home

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Post by bjelkeman-again »

melenaboija wrote: post #26
tarun_anand wrote: post #21

How did this comment make to the top of HN? The quality is deteriorating...

This works with votes and flags, the more votes a post or comment of people visiting HN the higher it gets, inverse to flags and some other factors but you will find more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html About quality I guess is subjective but I would say there are two options here: - use the voting system to accommodate it to your quality standards - don't visit the page

Also weekends have had a quite long tradition of having more general interest subjects posted.

Re: A stranger secretly lived in my home

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Post by watwut »

noasaservice wrote: post #28
lisper wrote: post #25

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> people going through your trash is quite a nuisance. Sure, but who is ultimately responsible for this, the people going through the trash, or the people who have structured our society in such a way that there are people who think their best option in life is to scavenge other people's trash? Because I'm pretty sure that the people going through the trash would stop in an instant if they were offered a better alter…

> Because I'm pretty sure that the people going through the trash would stop in an instant if they were offered a better alternative. Mostly, yes. Having been homeless myself for an extended period, I saw just how much mental illnesses impact so many people experiencing homelessness. In my completely unscientific lodgings with them, I'd say its probably around 30% of the people have some sort of debilitating mental i…

AFAIK, it is kind of cycle. Being mentally ill makes you more likely to be homeless. Being homeless makes all your mental health issues much much worst.
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