Stealth camping

On cheaprvliving.com you can find many people doing this. Interesting but I'g go stir crazy in my trailer, a van is out of the question.

What's funny is how other perceive them while getting irate if someone tells them that they are homeless, not just full timers going from one boondocking area to another.

Recently I read a article about the NFS cracking down on people abusing the forest by living in them. The rule works out to if you don't have a residential address that you can't spend even a night in a NF because it is illegal to live in them. You must be living there since you have no other home and it applies to even the big rigs since they full time. So the next time a ranger ask where you live and you proudly say your shiny motor home, you may be ticketed and asked to leave.

Escargot wrote:


The mentally ill were dumped, and half-way houses were closed by the "ketchup is a vegetable" President, who, ironically became a vegetable himself.

Yep. It was Reagan.

With regard to "They are either frauds, druggies, alcoholics, or mentally ill."

...or physically disabled.

I used to work for a government housing board. Through that job, i encountered a housing program where clients had to be provably veterans, homeless, addicts AND mentally ill -- every client had to be all four things. And there was no problem filling the beds. A lot of homeless people have multiple, serious problems. And are veterans.

mpierce wrote:

irishtom29 wrote:

LenSatic wrote:

I have no sympathy whatsoever for the so called "homeless". They are either frauds, druggies, alcoholics, or mentally ill. And the latter were released from institutions in the '70s by "compassionate" liberals because of movies like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Bill".

Actually most were released in the 80s when conservatives closed up government run or subsidized mental hospitals so they could spend money on other things.
You're quite the chest thumper, eh?

Your rememberer is quite different than mine. I remember them being closed because the "advanced" thinking at the time was that it was better to be out in the population than to be shut up into a "home". My brother was in one, and has been out since then. He is in a group home. If he were to be released totally, he could not cope.

However, if he was any worse off, then a hospital setting would be better.

But, it was the liberalized education people who closed them off.

The mentally ill were dumped, and half-way houses were closed by the "ketchup is a vegetable" President, who, ironically became a vegetable himself.

With regard to "They are either frauds, druggies, alcoholics, or mentally ill."
I think your generalization is missing a few other categories, nonetheless, spend a couple of months living on the streets and I am willing to guarantee you will end up having psychological challenges.

Anyway, how about getting back to the OP, and forego broadcasting our prejudices against humans living in unfortunate circumstances.

Phil..the devices don't belong to those reading the texts...they belong to those making the documentary.


Gary Haupt

irishtom29 wrote:

LenSatic wrote:


I have no sympathy whatsoever for the so called "homeless". They are either frauds, druggies, alcoholics, or mentally ill. And the latter were released from institutions in the '70s by "compassionate" liberals because of movies like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Bill".

Actually most were released in the 80s when conservatives closed up government run or subsidized mental hospitals so they could spend money on other things.

You're quite the chest thumper, eh?

Your rememberer is quite different than mine. I remember them being closed because the "advanced" thinking at the time was that it was better to be out in the population than to be shut up into a "home". My brother was in one, and has been out since then. He is in a group home. If he were to be released totally, he could not cope.

However, if he was any worse off, then a hospital setting would be better.

But, it was the liberalized education people who closed them off.

Hmmmm .... regarding the link about the homeless that Gary posted: Don't most of them reading the posts about the homeless look like they themselves are "homeless" - or at least on the lower end of the resources scale - and don't most of them look like they're reading the messages on iPAD/iPHONE-like devices? The last time I checked, the devices many of them are using cost $100's of dollars to purchase and their monthly data plans were $30/month on up.

Something is amiss here in that link. :h

LenSatic wrote:


I have no sympathy whatsoever for the so called "homeless". They are either frauds, druggies, alcoholics, or mentally ill. And the latter were released from institutions in the '70s by "compassionate" liberals because of movies like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Bill".

Actually most were released in the 80s when conservatives closed up government run or subsidized mental hospitals so they could spend money on other things.

You're quite the chest thumper, eh?

I rarely "stealth" camp but I overnight at a lot of places where I don't have to pay for 8-12 hours just to sleep. I live in the west and paying for an RV park is insane to me. I couldn't care less what the self-appointed rv.net nazis have to say about it. The only time I use a campground is in a national or state facility where dispersed camping is not allowed.

But the guy in the article is hardly stealth camping what with boards under his tires, etc.

garyhaupt wrote:
...you know that many are, right?

Gary Haupt

I do not know that because I refuse to take their word for it. That's why I "challenge" them. And, when I say that I challenge them I don't mean to imply "forcibly". I don't make demands but, through casual conversation and camaraderie, they show themselves to be fakes.

Homeless?

David Hannum said it best. (Not P.T. Barnum. ;))

LS

Forum etiquette question;
Is it okay to hijack a thread if it is the OP who does the hijacking? :B