Lost all respect and sympathy for homeless in St. Cathrines
I have, in the last few weeks, had two occurrences where the homeless people of St Catherine’s have directly impacted my life in a completely negative way.
- Living and parking off of Welland ave is obviously not the best situation in the world, but it’s what I can manage. Last week a crackhead or homeless person (let’s call a spade a spade I am not certain if they are “homeless” but we all know.) broke into my locked car and stole my jacket, wallet and backpack.
I already see the comments coming. Yes I understand I shouldn’t have left any of that in my car I just got off a long day of work and class coming home at 12:00 PM and I simply forgot.
I know my car was broken into because the doorframe was bent. Like someone used a lock out kit, for $34.99, at Canadian tire, to open it. How my alarm didn’t go off is beyond me though.
My biggest problem is that the monetary value of what was stolen equated to about $0. My jacket was a gift that I got many years ago from my girlfriend and torn to shreds pretty much. My backpack had nothing in it but blueprints and 2 final projects that had been completed finished. My wallet had my debit card that simply just doesn’t work, no cash, a photo of my parents and the only prom photos that I have of my girlfriend and I, and health card, drivers license, etc.
- My girlfriend and I shop at Nofrills and there’s this homeless guy out there. Apparently “I gave him a dirty look”. I found this out because that guy came into my girlfriend’s store and recognized her from being with me. This guy started ranting and raving about how “I’ve killed people” and “I’ve done time” and how he “wanted to stab me for looking at him like that”.
I don’t remember ever looking at this guy. But to terrify this 90 pound girl all alone working at night over a “look”. It’s really sickening and makes me scared, not for myself but for my loved ones.
All this along with the random screaming, kicking over my mailbox. I have ZERO sympathy for any of these people. Fuck the system, fuck the drug abuse, fuck the trauma. I have never seen anyone with less acknowledgment for humanity than the homeless population in St. Catharines.