Baltimore's people of the woods

[Vile Shadow]

if you know where to look there are shanty towns in lexington park, la plata and waldorf. i am sure there are others all over i dont see but i have seen these three myself.

Northbound side of Crain Hwy, county line, right there at the bridge where N/B Rt 5 comes out. I think there's one there too.

 

[MikeSP]

The one at 8th and B&A merely migrated further north (behind 400 block of Crain N now). The cloverleafs around Rt.10 and B&A Blvd as well as along Furnace Creek at end of Langley N are now popular spots.

Why are the cloverleaf areas and ramps to highways popular?

I noticed along Rt 10 near Furnace Branch or Ordinance road (forget which) they pretty much cleared all the brush and trees only to leave a little clump with a tent/tarp camp set up.

I'm curious about certain things like where they get water, where they poop, etc. We had a drug addict guy that used to live in the community living behind an electrical transformer near the entrance to our street. I think the community trimmed all the bushes and tree branches to encourage him to move on and he did, but now he's living behind a restaurant. Brian Boru in Severna park.

 

[LoneRanger]

Why are the cloverleaf areas and ramps to highways popular?

I noticed along Rt 10 near Furnace Branch or Ordinance road (forget which) they pretty much cleared all the brush and trees only to leave a little clump with a tent/tarp camp set up.

I'm curious about certain things like where they get water, where they poop, etc. We had a drug addict guy that used to live in the community living behind an electrical transformer near the entrance to our street. I think the community trimmed all the bushes and tree branches to encourage him to move on and he did, but now he's living behind a restaurant. Brian Boru in Severna park.

Same place the bears poop......

 

[Half-cocked]

What does money and greed have to do with their predicament?

Absolutely nothing, which is why generosity and money will never help their underlying problems, only help to cover them up.

 

[jpk1md]

Some real shanty towns are springing up outside of Baltimore:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...crates-wooden-doors-tarps-outskirts-town.html

OweMalley should be ashamed

Shanty Towns=Obamaville's

 

[Sirex]

A friend of mine, in Westminster, has squatters living in the woods behind his house.

We do too. I never even noticed until my neighbor pointed it out.

 

[teratos]

It used to be that working a full time job earned you a living. Even if that job was working a cash register.

Then people need to have the ambition to do something more, don't they?

A lot of homeless folks are mentally ill. The government pushed to deinstitutionalize these folks decades ago. It seemed unfair to the Dems, and they opened the door of the bird cage and said "fly...be free!!!!". Didn't work out so well. Community resources for the mentally ill are almost non-existent. Even if there were resources, many people with psychiatric disease don't have the ability to seek them out and follow-up. If you take the mentally ill off the table, you are dealing with significantly fewer people.

I am a little perplexed by the camps where there are several people with full time jobs. If I were in that situation, I would talk with my homeless colleagues and say "hey, why don't 2 or 3 or 4 of us pool our resources together and find a cheap apartment or townhouse to rent?" Sure beats living in a tent. 4 people working 40 hours per week at $8/hr comes to over $66,000 per year. You can get a 2-3 BR apartment with heat, running water etc. It is ideal? No. Is is better than living in the woods? It is to me. There are a lot of programs out there right now for low-income people. Rent assistance, food stamps, Medicaid. This should work out pretty well.....unless you are mentally ill.

After you get yourself a place to live, you work on learning a skill or a trade. That is the way it always worked in America. It still does. There are plenty of opportunities out there for people who want them.

 

[pop-gunner]

Wish yall would stay out of my living room, and stop tracking mud on my carpet while taking your pictures.

 

[ma_deuce]

both - plus a lot of folks with mental illness.

The world is a big place and nothing really fits into neat little boxes.

A LOT of people with mental illness. We get them frequently in our practice - people who essentially fell off the grid, some of them decades ago, because of mental illness, often combined with drugs and alcohol. They come into the hospital, the hospital can't just put them back on the street, so they get guardians to try to do for them what we can. I've spoken with many psychiatrists who can't answer the chicken and egg question of whether the drugs come first, then the mental illnesses, or the other way around.

 

[xcavater]

Does anybody besides me wonder why the Daily Mail would run this story?

 

[BigSteve57]

Does anybody besides me wonder why the Daily Mail would run this story?

I wondered that and why there seems to be no coverage here.

I would have assumed that coverage of this would create lots of interest in great new entitlement programs. You know the kind of program where everyone gets a house. And a nice house with a nice big yard for the dog too.

 

[AntiGun]

Does anybody besides me wonder why the Daily Mail would run this story?

Considering how bad our home sourced news sources have become it's no wonder a foreign company would jump in to grab audience share.
Daily Mail as well as The Guardian devote significant reporting to internal US stories. Many of their articles are fandom/hollywood appeal stories but when they leave that realm they are normally in depth with the reporting.
Everything else has been outsourced, why not the reporting as well?

 

[Ganegrei]

Then people need to have the ambition to do something more, don't they?

Not everyone has the privilege of going to medical school.

But yeah the mentally ill population skews the numbers.

 

[pbharvey]

Not everyone has the privilege of going to medical school.

Ben Carson did.
Raised by a single mother in Detroit who only went to the third grade.
She worked hard though.

 

[DC-W]

Then people need to have the ambition to do something more, don't they?

A lot of homeless folks are mentally ill. The government pushed to deinstitutionalize these folks decades ago. It seemed unfair to the Dems, and they opened the door of the bird cage and said "fly...be free!!!!". Didn't work out so well. Community resources for the mentally ill are almost non-existent. Even if there were resources, many people with psychiatric disease don't have the ability to seek them out and follow-up. If you take the mentally ill off the table, you are dealing with significantly fewer people.

I am a little perplexed by the camps where there are several people with full time jobs. If I were in that situation, I would talk with my homeless colleagues and say "hey, why don't 2 or 3 or 4 of us pool our resources together and find a cheap apartment or townhouse to rent?" Sure beats living in a tent. 4 people working 40 hours per week at $8/hr comes to over $66,000 per year. You can get a 2-3 BR apartment with heat, running water etc. It is ideal? No. Is is better than living in the woods? It is to me. There are a lot of programs out there right now for low-income people. Rent assistance, food stamps, Medicaid. This should work out pretty well.....unless you are mentally ill.

After you get yourself a place to live, you work on learning a skill or a trade. That is the way it always worked in America. It still does. There are plenty of opportunities out there for people who want them.

DITTO

 

[RegularJay]

Wasn't too long ago I was sitting in the Double T Diner in Bel Air and could see an encampment out the window in the woods to the south

 

[llkoolkeg]

There is a small Obamaville in the woods just east of the traffic circle in Taneytown; really sad situation as I've seen the guy collecting cans along 140 for the aluminum. I'll take that form of squatter any day of the week over the type this soldier is having to deal with=> http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews...fice-says-it-can’t-do-anything-210607842.html

 

[SRD]

There is a small Obamaville in the woods just east of the traffic circle in Taneytown; really sad situation as I've seen the guy collecting cans along 140 for the aluminum. I'll take that form of squatter any day of the week over the type this soldier is having to deal with=> http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews...fice-says-it-can’t-do-anything-210607842.html

There are quite a few stories of that happening in Fl.,some are "high end" houses (think Scarface/Frank Lopez type of homes).

 

[Mr H]

Turns out there is now a tent in a wooded area not very far from the house, behind the Rite Aid on Crain Hwy.

Might have been there for a while, but we just noticed it recently because a grocery cart suddenly showed up there a few weeks back.

 

[eruby]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/oddnews...fice-says-it-can’t-do-anything-210607842.html

If I were the soldier in this squatting story, it would likely end with deaths and probably prison time.