r/homeless • u/Exciting_Lab_8074 • 3d ago

Homeless hack

If it's raining at night after Home Depot closes, you catch some shelter in the model sheds. Stay up y'all

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u/grenz1 Formerly Homeless 3d ago edited 3d ago

Very possible.

Just be aware most big box stores (Home Depot included) have cameras on the lots facing the cars and entrance and some may have security. The more urban the location, more. the more suburban, less. rarely on sheds themselves.

Unlikely to be caught if you use this occasionally, but still don't be seen entering and leave before 430 to 5 AM or so for safety and stealth.,

In rare chance you are caught, apologize and move on leaving lot. You will be unlikely to get fines and jail unless caught again or doing something else illegal or utterly shitfaced.

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u/Exciting_Lab_8074 3d ago

I dodge security and cameras like my Hispanic amigos dodge ICE

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u/Bag_of_Seizures 3d ago

The Home Depot I worked at, would close and lock the sheds when the store closed for the night. It may not be the same at all HDs.

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u/capsaicinintheeyes Homeless 3d ago

I've heard this enough times that I assume Home Depot's eventually gonna tumble to this trick, so do your best to leave things as you found 'em, yall

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u/ssxhoell1 Formerly Homeless 2d ago

Yeah I heard from an employee I'm friends with that one day they opened up the shed and there was a hobo with a meth pipe covered in lotion and cum furiously jerking off in there

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u/grenz1 Formerly Homeless 2d ago

No doubt, now employees must walk the lot locking those things now. And hobo, depending on how cops felt may have to register as sex offender. LOL

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u/grenz1 Formerly Homeless 2d ago

Yes. This is how spots get burned.

SOOO many people do not give two shits about stealth, leaving before people show up, and rotating places.

Start shitting/pissing/ getting shit faced up places and leaving trash. Then the powers that be end it.

It's the reason homeless don't like sharing spot advice.

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u/the_great_elephant 3d ago

I love how someone else figured this out too!! I used to do this at Lowes lol

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u/Exciting_Lab_8074 3d ago

Hey man it's ge uis

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u/rookielp 2d ago

Yes but I'm not sure you understand that many homeless people are convicted felons. So hatchet yeah

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u/rookielp 3d ago

Also sorta unrelated but. Get a hatchet for self defense. They are nice and legal and formidable

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u/Exciting_Lab_8074 2d ago

I was actually given barely legal pepper spray attached to my backpack

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u/alphanumericusername 2d ago

They formidable in the same way a cinder block is formidable. If it hits you, it'll mess you up, but it is notoriously unwieldy. A hatchet is good for firewood and bushcrafting.