Notes » July 2004

Stone Cold

Want to prevent itinerant people from camping out beneath an overpass?

View large image Plant a field of upended, oblong stones.

That's cold. It would take two mattresses to deflect the discomfort of lying there, but discarded beds are uncommon. Cardboard wouldn't work. Vagrants wouldn't try; they'd move elsewhere.

Hong Kong has about 500 homeless people; wouldn't the money poured into protecting this overpass have been better spent helping house some of them?

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