<p>They ruined my day today..
Morning - Hobo whips out his junk and starts taking a **** on the side of the street. Do not want to see. </p>
<p>Afternoon - Different hobo does same thing, except on someone's lawn. Kinda rude; I did laugh though in hopes that the people would come outside and be in shock. </p>
<p>Mid-Afternoon again - Trying to have a conversation with a friend on the bus and this hobo sits next to me and yells a string of cuss words non-stop. I tell him to stop and he flips me off and starts cussing me out. Luckily had to get off on the next stop..grrrrr</p>
<p>Damn it Berkeley. It was such a nice day too.....</p>
<p>LOL some homeless dude kept making creepy comments to girls on a late-night bus ride i was on. “what’re you ladies doing tonight? you wanna have some fun with me? hehehehe.”</p>
<p>1) Midday. First week of school, I saw a hobo running away from his own shadow yelling “Get away from me!”. In hindsight, this was a very fitting welcome to Berkeley.</p>
<p>2) 2am. A huge hobo sorta pressed me against a window and whispered ‘boo’ in my ear and walked away. W*F.</p>
<p>3) 1am. A really old Vietnam vet hobo calls me a ■■■■■. I call him an old man. He proceeds to do a f***ing headstand in front of me to prove that he is not that old. I take a photo, confess that I indeed am a ■■■■■ compared to him, give him a dollar and bid him farewell.</p>
<p>there’s this female hobo on Shattuck near the Berkeley Public Library who to this day always asks, “Can you spare some chaaange?” One time this past summer, being the kind soul that I am, I offered her some fruit and she refused, responding, “I’d rather have some change…”
Then I said, “Okay, suit yourself” and I was about to walk off.
She asked what kind of fruit it was, and I told her it was a banana. She said, “Okay, I’ll take it,” took the banana, and I left</p>
<p>Damn u krazy wit a k cavilier! That just boggles my ****** mind mayne.
Once a hobo asked me for a 20 after I took a few steps from the ATM and I said I didn’t have any money even though I was holding the bill in my hand.</p>
<p>These hobos on the streets make me dislike berkeley every minute I live here. Disgusting. Where do we actually see this many hobos in socal even in the day? Not the city I come from.</p>
<p>Have you been to the shady parts of Downtown LA? There’s a whole street full of them. But yeah, Berkeley definitely has a bigger hobo population than from my So Cal hometown.</p>
<p>They are all pretty friendly though. Until some creep smiles at you if you’re a girl. Then that’s weird but for the most part, it’s not too bad.</p>
<p>I don’t know man, NYC’s the kind of place where a guy in 3-piece suit is just as likely to go ape-s<strong>t on a hobo as vice versa. Spent some time there (NYC) last summer and it seems the homeless are kept on a very tight leash in most areas. The homeless around Cal have seemingly evolved into a very pi</strong>ed off group over the years. Of course we can trace the origins of this to Grandpa R’s decision to reduce mental health services over two decades ago. No doubt Berkeley homeless are a whacky bunch.</p>
<p>@SunDiego: Sometimes the guys in suits in NYC are bigger headcases than the hobos (wound up way too tight). The homeless aren’t as visible in the touristy areas in Manhattan anymore, thanks to the aggressive campaign waged against them by the police department. I believe this policy started when they ‘Disneyfied’ the Times Square area. I remember it before, when the whole place was seedy (porn shops/strips clubs, street fights). </p>
<p>I believe that the problem with Berkeley lies with the city counsel’s ‘hands off’ policy with regard to policing. In most cities the police move them along if they loiter in an area too long. This is not the case in Berkeley. The only times I saw the police get involved with the homeless (and/or headcases) was if they wandered onto campus and started scenes (aggressively panhandling, selling dope, harassing student/visitors, urinating on buildings in the middle of the day) or accosting people as they were withdrawing money from ATMs.</p>