I also came across some inventive designs that I haven’t seen elsewhere, such as metal silhouettes soldered on top of warm ventilation exhausts at a CTrain station (below), a place where you could consider camping for the night.

Metal silhouettes prevent homeless people from sleeping over these CTrain grates in Calgary.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 13 points 13 hours ago (7 children)

It’s hard to believe you’re not trolling.

I swear I'm not. It's entirely possible that I'm being slow, but I'm really just trying to understand so I can identify these things better in the future. Because I seriously don't get it, there's still plenty of room to lie down between them?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

I think you’re confusing real life homelessness with a cartoon of a drunk who lies down to sleep it off for the night.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 13 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I assume what you're implying is that you can't put a tent there. Okay, why not fucking say that then? Homeless people around here rarely use tents, for reasons that I do not know because I am privileged enough to not be homeless, and they could probably just arrange their stuff around those shapes, put their mattress between them and go to sleep - which is why "tent" isn't the first thing that popped into my head.

Thank you for making me jump through hoops to understand a thing.

[–] Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 8 points 12 hours ago

That guy is tripping.your questions are along the same as the ones I have. A lot of unhoused people I have seen don't have tents either.

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago

Even so, you could drape a blanket over 3 of them and you've got yourself a free tent, so your question still stands. The dude's just an asshole

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