Why are homeless people so messy? Is it really so hard to find a trash can?

@PoetryNEmotion You assume an awful lot. I spent a few years homeless, as a child. I doubt you could say the same!! My father beat the fuck out me when I was 11 years old!! I left, and I was still able to test at the top of my class in school! I know how hard life can be!
Point of interest, when I was on my own the rule was nothing in sight. Trash attracts attention.

@PoetryNEmotion I believe you are suffering from a bad case of stupid as it does not take much effort to clean up after one's self. I would also guess you are either a liberal or socialist.

@acpguy You are an idiot. Politics are stupid as you are. Be gone.

@PoetryNEmotion I have never worked with street people who refused to come in to a shelter, but I did work with families with children who were homeless, and having a big heart does not really help. Tough love helps, education, and not allowing the family to endanger their children. (I am thinking of one family living in a tent in the woods, and the only reason they EVER came in to the shelter was the mold that started growing after 3 weeks of rain, on all their clothes. Their children were almost feral, had lice, and foot fungus from three weeks in wet rubber boots with no dry socks.)

I did know one man, who no longer works at the shelter, who worked with the street people, giving them sandwiches and blankets and so on...and he was NOT stupid. I also know someone from my church who used to do that, and HE was not stupid...(just an a-hole).

BUT I would like to tell all three of you that homelessness can and does sometimes arise from mental illness and tremendous depression. It's not right to leave them out there unmedicated, but they do have the same rights as all citizens. And allowing trash to accumulate is a health hazard for them, and for the cities in which they live.