Tim wrote:
(We have a few here in Santa Cruz. Bums and winos make a token effort to stand around and rake. Mostly it's an excuse for community money to be handed out to the "farmers." I've also walked past the weed-choked community garden in Berkeley, on the site of "People's Park," IIRC. Skanks and bums. New slogan for these urban community gardens: "Hoes fo da hoes!
Here, in a city that shall remain unnamed, we have constant war between the community gardeners and the city's homeless population. The gardeners roust the homeless people in the morning by turning hoses on them. They then try to wash away the urine, feces, hypodermic needles, and used condoms. The homeless, meanwhile, find out where the gardeners live, and place spit and other less mentionable homeless-generated organic substances on their doorknobs and steps. It's always amusing when some little old lady surprises a crack ho performing oral sex on a customer in the middle of her plot. Yet, very little is done about the problem, because that would be discrimination against a whole slew of people we are told are disadvantaged. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"