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Hobobeque

Posted June 25, 2007 10:05 AM

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The hobo, Americas last great nomad. Whether its jumping onto boxcars or strutting around city streets hobos have always been true wanderers, and what stereotypical image of a hobo would be complete without a shopping cart. The average grocery store shopping cart is the perfect accessory for todays hobo on the go. It contains just the right amount of space for all of their possessions. The shopping cart has ample room for bottles/cans, dirty blankets (for those extra nippy nights on the streets), random treasures found while scavenging, and even enough room for relics from a broken former life; however, there comes a time in every hobos life, when they will ask, if this amazing creation called a shopping cart, is capable of more than just storage?"

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06/26/2007 9:18 AM

Over privileged, under-challenged, urban white-trash with nothing better to do with their time than to mock the homeless. This is the giggling white underbelly of America who pay bums to fight each other on camera.

I've lived in Southern California. I have nothing but contempt for these jokers. It just adds to my belief that everyone should be beaten bloody, once. Everyone should know that they are alive today because someone else got tired or board.

Teach these chowder-heads some humility.

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06/26/2007 1:32 PM

Bravo to -A- I totally concur with everything you've expressed. Please add all of the lazy sloths living on government money while others work and struggle to survive. This forum is no place to glorify these losers. To whoever posted this: "Can't you read? This is a forum for engineering discussions." Now go play on the tracks and leave us alone.

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06/26/2007 2:27 PM

I Think that the point was missed on this one, the amazing engineering versatility of the shopping cart. I for one find it amazing what they can do with them. It shows great ingenuity. I do not mock nor downplay the conditions of those that are homeless for I too have been there. They eek out a life in the shadows, forgotten and unseen by most or downplayed as mentally ill. Here in the Keys the populations of homeless has increased greatly. And it is not a laughing matter that they have slipped through the cracks of our society. But I have been else where and seen the true poverty and homelessness in other lands as well, it is the same every where just as tragic and a great loss of potential all around.

It is like the story I heard today a Polish emigrant came to the states but spoke limited English so became a janitor for a college chapel. He asked one day if it would be possible to play the chapels piano, he was given permission, the minister logged on to the chapels Internet camera, and was amazed at what he heard being played, he contacted others who logged on and the janitor ended up playing for the concert group of the college. The emigrant had been with a famous polish orchestra in the home land, but was relegated to the obscurity of being a janitor to make a living here. There are many such people on our streets with skills and abilities that because of how they talk, look or act are relegated to the shadows of our society, as little more than just homeless wanderers of our back streets and alleyways.

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06/27/2007 10:01 PM

Your name fits you well...

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