NYC considers putting homeless on old cruise ships

[aphex]

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Found this one interesting...

 

[NewSc2]

Originally posted by: aphexII
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Found this one interesting...

NYC will soon look like Hong Kong?!

 

[CubicZirconia]

Makes sense to me. What else are you going to do with the old ships? Destory them?

 

[Cyberian]

That's absolutely heartless, putting people on luxury ships in the Bahamas for the winter!!

 

[Eli]

Sounds good to me.

 

[Dacalo]

and then sink them?

 

[gopunk]

hmm... first thing that came to mind was conspiracy by ny city to sink the ships as soon as everybody was boarded.

 

[fatbaby]

titanic?

 

[PsychoAndy]

Originally posted by: gopunk
hmm... first thing that came to mind was conspiracy by ny city to sink the ships as soon as everybody was boarded.

Right when you thought the East River could be any more polluted.

 

[fatbaby]

i can only imagine what jerboy would post in reply to this : )

 

[klah]

Why not just let them stay in the thousands of empty cargo containers they have stacked up everywhere?

 

[Viper GTS]

I've heard people suggest using oil tankers for prisons. Run them aground, retrofit the interior with plumbing & cells, & call it good. Cheap (single hulled oil tankers are being retired), secure (like anybody's getting through the walls), and spacious.

Viper GTS

 

[PsychoAndy]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS
I've heard people suggest using oil tankers for prisons. Run them aground, retrofit the interior with plumbing & cells, & call it good. Cheap (single hulled oil tankers are being retired), secure (like anybody's getting through the walls), and spacious.

Viper GTS

Hell, dock it on riker's island. if the guards don't kill them, the water will.

 

[ThePresence]

hmm... first thing that came to mind was conspiracy by ny city to sink the ships as soon as everybody was boarded.

Sink it?? Nah. I was thinking more of outfitting the ship with mikes and cameras and cutting it adrift. Talk about reality TV!

 

[huey1124]

Originally posted by: ThePresence

hmm... first thing that came to mind was conspiracy by ny city to sink the ships as soon as everybody was boarded.

Sink it?? Nah. I was thinking more of outfitting the ship with mikes and cameras and cutting it adrift. Talk about reality TV!

now that is one Survivor show everyone will watch (if it was floating prison on oil tanker, the better. it would be like real-life OZ)

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Sounds like a good idea. Sign me up.

 

[Windogg]

NYC did have several prison barges but they were never used. I remember there were all sorts of protests saying it was inhumane and a throwback to merry old England. Mostly it was the NIMBYists that didn't want to docked on the Hudson River. I can see someone saying the same about putting the homeless on old ships.

Windogg

 

[irrigating]

including 16,000 children, stay in shelters each night in the city

 

[Que-TiP]

wait wait, i pay $700 for a cruise and these bums get to go for free?? They better not have midnight buffet!

 

[hungrypete]

yeah, put a pony on that boat and those kids would be set for life :Q

Seriously, that doesn't seem like the kind of enduring solution that we should be paying for. More money needs to be spent making sure that any of those people who are able and willing to work get another chance. And another. Whatever it takes to get them working, and spending money, and improving the economy in general. We need to spend less money throwing people in prison for smoking pot and more money educating and encouraging a strong work ethic.

 

[UNCjigga]

Nasty. Those things will be infested with rats, roaches and so much disease its not even funny...

 

[Dudd]

Originally posted by: hungrypete
We need to spend less money throwing people in prison for smoking pot and more money educating and encouraging a strong work ethic.

Tell me about it. I'm taking an intro law class at my high school (ah, my one easy class), and we visited our county court this week. According to the judge, around 80% of the cases in our county are drug related. All those tax dollars spent to protect people from themselves. We could be spending that money on education, researching new discoveries (weening ourselves off oil anyone?), or giving that money back to the public, where it would be used the best. But no, we can't have anyone smoking dope or poping some pills. We have to save them from themselves by incarcerating them. I fail to see the logic.

 

[Brutuskend]

DAMN..all the good comebacks are all ready taken......

 

[MichaelD]

OK. I put my ass out here for risk of flaming by the misinformed yet again.

1. It has been 9 years since I have lived there, worked there, paid taxes there, and hated being there.
2. I was born and raised in NYC. Took the #2 Subway Train (look it up, nerds) from the Bronx to NYC proper (i.e. Manhattan) 5 to 6 days a week
3. NYC has one of the worst homeless problems in the USA. They are everywhere. In the trains. In the trains stations. In the parks. In the alley you walk to throw away your garbage, etc.
4. This is for you snobby idiots in Manhattan who think I'm lying. You go to lunch. You go to Mickey D's or the Greek Deli on the corner to get your Gyro in pita. Do they or do they not: the bums!!! While your sitting at the little one-foot-square table w/that cute coworker, they come and hit you up for money, right? They stink like they sh1t their pants last YEAR and haven't realized it yet. AM I RIGHT?
5. You know I am.
6. NYC is evil. It sucks. I'll never go back


Oh, I'm sorry...did I digress? The whole point is: YES. Put them on the ships (voluntarily, of course) and whatever happens, happens.

The rest of you. Don't you damn dare say a word. Living in Cornrowbumfvck Iowa does not give you the knowelege to even COMMENT on such a situation. Move to, live in, work in, and commute to NYC...for a year. THEN you can talk.

Until you have danced and drank with the devil, you haven't earned the right to talk about it.

 

[Darein]

Seems pretty good to me.