Been Homeless
Been Homeless
Thuggin4Life said:
you couldn't be more right. I have even hung out with bums before. Maybe its because of my shady past but i feel for them. And for karma i give bums change and smokes and beer all the time if and when i can and it pays off. Gave a guy like $1 in change a week ago and i ended up giving a guy a ride in my boat and towing him last weekend and got $20 Karma that's the proof.
I ended up homeless for a short time in Coos Bay due to a series of unfortunate events. This was in the late '70s. I lived in a bird sanctuary up behind Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston near the old Coos Head Navy Base. I was by myself, there was a hobo jungle in town on the tracks but that was the old school hobo who traveled & drank & did odd jobs for $. So I can tell you first hand about finding yourself on the street. I hit the boat basin twice everyday, landed a job at Alaska Packers & got back on my feet.
I fished this spot just a couple weeks ago. A couple of the homeless guys were about & were good natured, like JJ's post. All you need to do normally if you are in their camp is basically let them know you are just passing through to get to the fishin' hole. It's their "home" so it is like asking permission from a land owner to cross his lot. But as some of us have discovered there are some locations as JJ found in the Semi-success on the Willamette in Eugene thread that you can find yourself in harms way.
Like Bucknasty & Drice posted there are a growing number of incidents that has made me wonder if we
Offers shouldn't start a thread "Danger Zones" to give notice when one of us has found themselves in a bad situation so others will not be caught off guard or will not go alone to these spots.
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