ExKiwilass

http://globalnews.ca/news/737370/abb...meless-people/

Abbotsford, where 1950's attitudes live on

bats

Well that's completely wrong. That chicken manure wouldn't smell any better.

Almost Canadian

Why don't you invite them to camp at your place?

ExKiwilass

Actually that's not a bad idea.

ExKiwilass

Actually I'm surprised they stopped at chicken manure. Maybe they should bring back the stocks and stick of few of the homeless in it -that would seem appropriately medieval for Abby.

bats

Seems a very petty method, the manure.

ExKiwilass

agreed, very petty and mean-spirited. Just nasty.

What great leaders Abbotsford must have, to have come up with an idea like that.

bats

Oh yes, pillars of the community.

caretaker

The whole lower mainland smells like manure, it's the nature of agriculture. I knew an Oliver girl, Roseanna Fedato, a wonderrful girl, a blonde from the north of Italy, and when her family moved to Abbotsford I hitchhiked out and visited, staying in their apartment. Roseanna's little brother had a job as a chicken catcher, climbing through a multi-storied chicken coop using ladders and hatches, harvesting the nasty chickens for Campbell's Soup, (easily 25 years before any mainstream animal rights campaigns). When he came home in the morning after work there was no doubt where he'd been.

ExKiwilass

it's true, a lot of the Fraser Valley/delta area smells like shit. It's terribly bucolic.

CanadaJimmy

It is a strange decision, I would like to know what the thought process was to dump the manure there - was it discussed in a council meeting

ExKiwilass

"Managers from multiple departments in the City of Abbotsford were involved in the decision to dump chicken manure on a known gathering site for the homeless, internal documents show."


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...re-emails.html

Oh, looks like Surrey ("the future dies here") and Port Moody also tried this tactic. Nice.

bats

Oh good, it wasn't just onne person on an off day. Good to know.

Mikeypm

Some really nasty people, its really sad in this day and age that people have this attitude . Homeless people are people like you and I and are somebodys son, daughter, mother or a father or cousin. For whatever reason life has gone the wrong way for them and they have ended up on the street, I would assume living on the street is tough enough without the attitudes of some very nasty people

Shard

Hard to know what the full story is on this one. I wouldn't condone this particular method, but if there is a camp drug users forming, then it's probably a good idea for the council to try and disband it. There are rehabilitation programs and hostels that they can go to.