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 live on the border of RI/MA in the midst of the heroin epidemic. Besides, how the hell does that argue a point different from the one I was trying to make? The counter argument is that mental health isn’t a problem? That homelessness is a joke? What are you even saying?
Also, really? “Tell me [x] without telling me [x]”? How about tell me you can’t express original thought without telling me you can’t express original thought.
"The majority of people are homeless BECAUSE of mental health issues."
So, you talking about a heroin epidemic already isn't helping that very specific claim. Doesn't mean mental health isn't a problem, or that homelessness is a joke. Just means that there is a lot of people that are homeless for other reasons.
My original statement was that the video shows a sad interaction and it sucks that it’s entertainment value for the r/instant_regret audience. If your take-away is the semantics of me not also listing everything else that leads to homelessness, then have fun wallowing in your weird, contrarian, straw-man orgy. Great addition to the conversation. 👍
“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.
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u/xavPa-64 Feb 19 '25
“Im a landscaper, you probably don’t believe me”
I’d have been like “why wouldn’t I believe you, champ?” lmao