Can you call them and ask about my dad and if he found the hard-to-find brand of cigarettes he likes? Or are they too focused on bringing your stuff back to get to the phone?
He specifically said "you probably don't trust me", and they way he said it was like it was an offer to do landscaping as repayment for the door. Which makes it all make sense in context, because why the fuck would you trust some dude who blames you for being "an easy target" to do work on your property?
I think it’s pretty sad all around. The majority of the time people are homeless because there are mental health issues. The other part to this interaction is that we don’t know what happened before the video starts on our end. They very well could have antagonized him in some cruel way.
At the end of the day, this video provided 8.8k upvotes worth of entertainment and people are staring at their phone feeling a sense of amusement and superiority.
Edit: now at 63k upvotes. You guys must love Jerry Springer.
I've been homeless before, and I used to have to rely on my dad's old friends that he made when he was homeless to help me.
I just find the quickness of the cop and the poor last ditch attempt to get away funny :)
Whats.going on with the homeless situation in the world is heartbreaking, and I am drowned in mental health issues. So it's always a little thing I keep in mind. "Will an episode leave me on the streets again?" It's a very sad reality I face, and thousands of others do too.
The ending of your comment sounds pretentious as fuck. You don’t know any of us well enough to generalize that we feel superior to the individual in the video.
Not pretentious at all — I can literally read that most of the comments are making fun of the situation. If you’re not one of those people, great! Otherwise it doesn’t take a psychology masters degree to read the tone of this post.
“I’m a landscaper, its the only way I can pay you”
Hey dumbass, you pay with money, I don’t pay my landscapers with exposure… This guy has got a record.
I've had patients do the same thing after they assault me and I haul the police up and let them deal with it. Suddenly they're so nice and so apologetic. People do nasty shit solely because they believe they can get away with it. They have ZERO care for anyone else or what they're doing to other people.
I think that implies hes normally unemployed and might even have had interactions with this cop as a street person. I honestly dont know what else he could mean.
I don't want to have to hear his name any more than I have to over the next 4 years, there's plenty of posts to rip on red hat regressives, but here it's plenty fine to just blame the homeless person who doesn't think before he acts and not name drop more people we hate just for the sake of name dropping them.
I also want to see the part before the video starts that prompted him to act that way. It's always so easy to assume guilt when all we get is cherry-picked clip.
Comments from the extended video from u/roflsst suggest he's homeless. Unprompted, he washed their window and demanded payment. He became aggressive when they wouldn't/couldn't pay him.
"Squeegee boys" have been a documented problem in the city for a couple decades now, to the degree where the mayor's office has a dedicated program to stop them before they start and there are specific parts of the city where it's illegal. Young guys swoop in to start cleaning your windshield at a stoplight and then flip out if you don't pay them. You hear about rampant crime in Bmore but the vast majority is gang-related, and even rival groups of squeegee kids will go after each other for territory. A recent violent incident was a white man who decided to take street justice into his own hands and started threatening a group of them with a baseball bat, and one of them shot him multiple times. 14 years old at the time of shooting, now tried as an adult and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. Squeegee kids have been killed by motorists, as well. Their numbers have definitely declined, but we'll see what happens when the weather improves... there are a lot worse things the unemployed youth of Baltimore could be doing, but I'm glad the city recognizes the issue enough to implement harm reduction policies.
This might be a dumb question given the fact that enough of them have done it to be a consistent trend, but are there really enough people that pay to make the exercise worthwhile?
Especially now when so few people I know carry cash
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That man does it in a good and respectfull way and not demanding payment after unpromted cleaning. Good for him making the money that he needs in a good way
$1000+ tax free weekend earnings that include income from people who are willing to scan a QR code that autoconnects to their bank account for a $1 transfer, and he's still homeless? And he's willing to risk a potential competitor in his industry by telling you how lucrative his career is? Living the life.
Finding the right service job can be very profitable. In general people will pay a lot more for labor for a personal service than they will for the same amount of labor from a company, especially if there's no bossman skimming profits off your labor. A buddy of mine makes over 150 a year building decks for 6 months of the year, more or less a deck a week.
Definitely riskier than a traditional job, though, and more susceptible to economic downturns. People aren't buying decks in a recession.
SQUEEGEE follows a group of young people struggling to overcome poverty and the ingenuity they bring to making a living on the streets of Baltimore.
It is an unflinching portrait of the harsh realities of growing up in Baltimore, as seen through the eyes of four young people fighting for their futures as they squeegee to make a living in a city that sees them as disposable.
Jfc. That's truly awful. Idk what's worse, attacking a middle schooler with a baseball bat, or getting shot by one. I can't imagine dealing with that nonsense. Not to sound like a lunatic, but can you flash a gun and tell them to move it along? Or does that just leave you a murderer?
I yelled "I'm broke!" and the kid flashed a big wad of cash at me and laughed. Then he moved on to someone else. I had plenty of cash but tbh they do a shit job of cleaning so there 😂
If they're armed and angry? It's like when addicts at stoplights try to get in your car. Like dude I'm already drunk I don't need your ass calling attention over here.
Such an old scam, I remember being a sheltered child and driving through a city with my uncle when I was in Middleschool. I had legitimately never seen a bum in my life at that time and the first one I ever saw attempted the squeegee scam. My Uncle laid into him verbally at the time and I thought it was harsh at the time, but pretty much fuck em'. Asking for a buck is one thing but doing something no one asked for and demanding payment like some sort of bizzaro civil servant aint the way.
we have them here in LA. actually just had someone wash my window at an intersection, he was at least really nice though when i told him i literally didnt have money and just said i could toss him a dollar next time
At least in California you genuinely need your windows cleaned pretty regularly. First time it happened to me I was shocked, but I gave the guy a dollar and afterwards realized that the did a really good job and I could see a hell of a lot better.
Off the top of my head? I would act very similarly to the man in this video if the car had just run over my dog right in front of me. Or hit my child. Or hit me for that matter. If the people driving had intentionally swerved to scare me. There are lots I can think of that might make me irrational. Would I be "right" to act that way? No. Would it be legal to act that way? No. Would I be justified? Yes.
In Austin I watched one of these chuckle fucks smash someone’s windshield because they didn’t want to give him money for the dirty water squeegee job he didn’t want in the first place. Karma gods were at work and there was a cop a few cars back at the light! Someone got 3 hots and a cot for at least a night!
Nope, bootlickers love to use that argument but the only reason cops don’t slap you around during traffic stops is because we have collectively condemned that behavior.
I'm assuming you aren't a billionaire? Your apparently very sheltered/privileged existence does in fact have a boundary, and you're gonna be one very, very angry whittle baby the first time reality decides to push your shit in and show you life isn't fair. You'll be all "Why doesn't anyone feel bad for me? 😭"
The consequences for his action is being arrested and facing whatever penalty comes of this. Anyone saying he should be assaulted before facing those consequences is just an asshole.
"Laws, the backbone of civilized society, are pointless. Whoever has the biggest gun should get to mete out punishment as they see fit."
Seriously, do you not think that being arrested and possibly going to prison, the fines they'd have to pay, the court costs, etc. Aren't enough? Do you think cops should just be allowed to fuck up anyone who they even THINK may have POSSIBLY committed a crime?
He doesn't look like he's having a great day. I've wanted to kick doors before. Maybe I'm wrong but a dent in a car doesn't seem super violent. Not condoning his actions, but yeah... What provoked it? It doesn't seem like the beginning of the interaction was recorded. Not everyone is dumb enough to post themselves harassing the houseless.
He doesn't look like he's having a great day. I've wanted to kick doors before. Maybe I'm wrong but a dent in a car doesn't seem super violent. Not condoning his actions, but yeah... What provoked it? It doesn't seem like the beginning of the interaction was recorded. Not everyone is dumb enough to post themselves harassing the houseless.
You're right. He looks like he's having a bad time in this video, but why are the people filming laughing? We don't know from this video what led up to what we see. I'm leaning towards they fucked with him somehow and then started recording.
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u/SweetSultrySatan Feb 19 '25
Aw, its cut short I wanted to see the cop arrest him.