Metal Anti Homeless Studs Removed

[DrFilth]

if they don't use some prickly shrubs will there be fights for these places in the winter months

http://news.sky.com/story/1281835/anti-homeless-metal-studs-removed-from-flats

[pastafreak]

Most of the comments below that article are just as brutal as those studs. No one wants rough sleepers in their doorway...fair enough...but some useful suggestions would be better than nasty comments.

[kvalidir]

Good. Of the two sceanario- stay or go- this is by far the proper course of action, although there are difficult balances to be made. More needs to be done to tackle homelessness full stop.

[Baldric]

What are they going to do now,
put nice soft fluffy bedding down for them?
Bunch of Wimps!

[DrFilth]

pastafreak i would imagine that most homeless people have no access to a computer so would never see let alone answer some wazzocks posting nasty stuff on the web

some kind of plants outside the building would look nice and also deter a rough sleeper

[DrFilth]

kvalidir
> More needs to be done to tackle homelessness full stop. <

i would agree with you

[Peter Pedant]

I am just amazed that no one has linked the cute arty studs to this:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/27/spain.arts

There were photos - where the beds were so picasso-esque like that you fell off them if you tried to lie on them, and the floors were uneven so you couldnt pace them....

in 1936 the nationalists who won, shot him.

[sandyRoe]

The studs might have deterred rough-sleepers but they attracted bad publicity. Putting a sloping surface where they are would have done the same job without branding the management company of the flats as heartless monsters.

[DrFilth]

> where the beds were so picasso-esque like that you fell off them if you tried to lie on them <

i think i may had some picasso like beer in the past or the jamaican woodbine was iffy

[pastafreak]

True sandy. There are better,more humane ways to deter rough sleepers without making a building entrance look intimidating and dangerous.
Maybe some of the big management companies could contribute towards setting up a few more shelters.

[jomifl]

The installation of the spikes outside the doorway of a block of flats to stop rough sleepers had been described as "brutal".
Now where are the fakirs going to sleep?

[RATTER15]

I dont see them as intimidating or in-humane. I don't like them and wouldn't use them when there are far more aesthetically pleasing alternatives, like large potted prickly plants.

I don't have any issues with the homeless, but if they decided to sleep in my shop doorway and use the vicinity as a toilet and the general public do find them intimidating then I would need to act promptly. Preventing someone entering a private area by use of spikes is not nice to look at, but no more intimidating than a sign saying "KEEP OFF"

[anotheoldgit]

Wait for the complaints from the homeless Hindu community.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/14/article-0-0796A471000005DC-300_468x286.jpg

[ludwig]

At least the spikes were honest in the sense that they were obviously there to make rough sleepers *** off somewhere else.
Now they'll just replace them with less controversial looking things.

[youngmafbog]

//Maybe some of the big management companies could contribute towards setting up a few more shelters. //


Oh, right-on. And then pass the cost onto working joe public.

What a splendid left wing idea.

[Zeuhl]

/contribute towards setting up a few more shelters. /

we already do: they're called Taxes

[Baldric]

Check the link, think about it . . . . NO spikes!
;-)

[Baldric]

Forgot to add, Nice One Aog!