Controversy as metal spikes are put outside upmarket London flats to stop homeless people.
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The solution is revolution.
Those spikes are disgusting and dangerous. Hopefully if a homeless person becomes injured they will bring a law suite and win. It wouldn't be legal here.
I wish my city had these.
And they want to take refugees and they have homelessness
That's bullshit
I’m all for it
Its not just about the sleeping there, it's about the feces, urine, syringes etc. They don't like it, go trash the canyon… out of sight.
I love the idea of homeless spikes.
I'd use a cot problem solved
A sheet of plywood would render these spikes useless:[
There worse than pigeons
Most Homeless People Have About 20 to 30 BLANKETS. The Spikes Won't Stop Them.
Uhh.
Are those Urban Campers not defacto Human Pigeons?
They look like upside down bed feet. So?
Put a small rock garden looks better
good idea
Excellent idea. London suffers under their pathetic worthless mayor.
No spikes for refugees..oh yeah..they get modern home n welfare while driving mercedes cars…good life while regular homeless get spiked.
Homeless? As if they had one attached at birth. Their problem is not a lack of a house or apartment. "destitute" and "indigent" would be a better description and better indicate the solution: mental health institutionalization.
Listen slag
Both sides to this argument are dumb, oh to hell with the dirty homeless or the homeless are homeless because of others and not themselves stop being bigoted. First of all no one should be homeless but most can go to shelters and if they’re not physically or mentally disabled then they need to get off their asses and work, problem solved.
card board boxes. fuck your spikes!!!
These spikes should not be installed on public property, but on private property i can see why they should
this made me want to throw up. what kind of people think of these ideas? if there is a line to get into hell i bet these scumbags wont have to wait in it
Fucking stupid bitch @00:40, funny how people are different, now me if there was a guy sleeping outside my block of flats I would bring him a sandwich and a drink ffs, no wonder the world is fucked with stupid bastards like this in it.
what is the matter with humanity .so what if a homeless person is sleeping outside your apartment ,it isnt like they brokeinto your home or are demanding you let hthem into your home. quit being cry babies you greedy bleeding people
If the worst part of your day is you have to see a homeless person then guess what, I'm sure your doing just fine.
2014 and this way of thinking still exists…wow
lol we shoud burn all those places with spikes
this is pretty sick and scares me
This might be an unpopular opinion, but it's their property. If they don't want people there making the place look less classy, then let them put the fucking spikes down. Although many including myself may think it's harsh, move the fuck on and find another spot…
I see homeless people all the time sitting outside of walmart or walking up and down the street wanting a hand out fuck that if you can sit outside a work place you and walk in and get a Job have you seen some of the people that work at Walmart… Just saying. I know cuz i used to work at Walmart had a apt power water cell phone… I had bills and i got buy fuck the homeless how do you walk up and down the street all day long asking for shit and live with yourself there is no excuse and if you got a job and blew it then you deserve to be homeless stop making hard working people that work for our money feel bad… Uncomfortable when you beg for a few dollars. I also saw where they kicked out alot of homeless from under a bridge that they did not pay for or pay rent or help build or give anything to be able to stay there its nasty shitting behind buildings and shit im to broke and lazy to get a job? What? damn!…
That really sucks… The very residents are horrible people… One day they could be homeless people too then they won't feel the same way anymore
Matthew 25:41-45.
Whatever you did not do for the least of these, you did not do for me.
just wait until a kid runs closer and falls on there, wtf was thinking that people
I want to see the people that created this, in the middle of a storm with no shelter and the only place to get cover is in the spikes and i want to see their reaction
Rough Sleepers. HA! You" lads" are hilarious……Sleeping rough is sleeping on a Bad Mattress, these people are freaking HOMELESS. No place to live, receive mail, shower, relax and raise a family. No place to rest at the end of the day. Their screwed already and now we give them spikes. Way to go London. and any other place using this shameful tactic.
The only way the homeless people will stop sleeping there is sharks with laser beams on their heads.
people have lives.if your homeless.still human.pigeons eat and shit on cars thats it
why is it OK to do it to pigeons but not humans? Are we more important than pigeons?
Well… If someone had a fight in that area, someone could quite easily lose an eye.
it is WRONG!!! all it takes is a child to fall on them an a lawsuit slapped on the building's owner!
so, the anglo-american empire is treating homeless people the same way as they did in nazi germany before the war.
and you are for freedom and democracy? or rather for control and hypocrisy?
Nothing a couple of cardboard layers can't resolve.
Someone throw that self entitled blonde tart on these spikes please. Plot twist: it now attracts a BDSM orgy every Friday night Source : I'm one of the spikes.
Check out the story, THIS is true sodomy. Just before the ultimate fire.