Studio City man injured in alleged attacked after confronting homeless men behind his home

[ripcord]

Guile said two homeless men set up a shelter in the embankment just beneath their home in the hills of Studio City on Wednesday. By Friday, Guile's husband attempted to get them to move.

She said he offered to help get them city assistance, but that made one man angry, and Guile's husband was attacked.

Guile said the man "tried to just drive a huge metal pole through his back.

Guile's husband suffered several serious injuries but is expected to recover.

"He had a fractured scapula and then 3 posterior ribs broken and a collapsed lung," said Guile, describing her husband's injuries

https://abc7.com/studio-city-homeless-man-attacked-homeowner/12291554/

Stay safe out there it is sad that you even have to watch your back at home.

[Gaugamela]

1. It's sad that in the supposedly richest nation in history that there are so

many homeless. Our homeless are a choice we make, and a huge national disgrace.

(Here’s the second verse that Waits doesn’t sing — it’s in the second version below, the better version frankly, as much as I like Tom Waits):

(female singer)
You say that girls may strip with your permission,
You draw the line dividing art from sin.
So first draw out the basic food position,
Then start your preaching, that’s where we begin.
You lot who bank on your desires and our disgust,
Should learn for once the way the world is run.
Whatever lies you tell, however much you twist —
Food is the first thing, morals follow on!
So first make sure that those who now are starving
Get proper helpings when we all start carving!

Brecht/Weil: What Keeps Mankind Alive (1928) covered by Tom Waits (from Threepenny Opera):

[tishaLA]

2. And there was the story last week or so about the unhoused guy

who'd made a woman's porch (in North Hollywood IIRC) his home and basically refused to leave and insisted that the woman who owned the home was his wife. The homeless situation in SoCal is so complex and most of the people spouting off about it don't grasp that complexity.