First thing I thought was SUMMER VACATION when the building is vacant of students.

This is one of those cases where no one actually believes it’s a threat, but everyone involved mumbles something along the lines of “better safe than sorry”, and claims it can be construed as a threat. Then they make a big deal about how they “had no choice” but to pretend this thing they knew wasn’t a threat was a…

I just want to thank Deadspin and Jezebel for giving this the frontline attention it needs and deserves. Other outlets are giving it so little attention relative to its importance it is very disheartening.  I listen to the radio in the morning on the way to work and you would have little idea this was happening if…

We happily attacked them on sight in or out of the venue. NO patience for prejudice.

So, not wanting to get shot and killed is being a pussy. Got it.

So will that mask fit an adult? Just asking for a friend.

Homeless people in my neighborhood are appreciative of food, but cash can get them a hotel room.

Your assumption that most homeless people are drug addicts bothers me.

What irritates me about posts like this is that there’s no middle ground. I absolutely think it’s important to be nice to housed people and respect their private property, but the fact is that some of them act like assholes and attack/hurt innocent people with sweeps of homeless camps, defunding of needed services,…

We need to get people with mental illnesses into treatment and safe housing. We need to get families who are homeless into safe housing. We need to get minors who are homeless and alone into safe housing.

I agree. Houston had tremendous success (pre Harvey) with a homes first approach to homeless veterans. Veterans were a first priority both because of course we shouldn’t have homeless vets, but also because of additional funding from the VA. The reduction in homelessness also resulted in better physical and mental…

The “home first” initiative — providing living spaces where treatment can take place — seems to help the most. They need money, especially those with dependents, but simply having a place to live, with a service provider looking at conditions in the home, will diminish both animosity and mental illness. (You’d be…

It was Canadian experiment - made it coast to coast thru Canada, on it’s own.

yeah, building Daleks to police the homeless is not the middle ground

Exactly. I always say, when someone says they’d rather pay pretty much the same amount of money on security systems and a gated community that they would on taxes to address the problem in the wider community strictly out of some picky libertarian principle, then I know I’m dealing with a plain old asshole.

You can’t be responsible for your robot bashing actions when you’re lathered up on fight milk and riot juice.

The social compact has failed the homeless, ergo, they have no moral or social responsibility not to piss in our cornflakes. Should we want that to stop, we should fund the social services that would prevent it. But we don’t. So let us not whine about the consequences.

Then the company ought to hire a person who can recognize instances of middle ground and show the accordant empathy. Maybe the company could hire an athletic white man, though it probably would have to be one who’s not a pussy about saying “Sorry, I don’t have any change” to icky poors

There is something deeply ironic/dystopian/San Franciscan about an animal rights advocacy group using a robot to harass homeless people.