Post by SPLASH on Feb 6, 2012 21:32:16 GMT -5
Had a tile job today in Downtown Flint at the old Durant hotel that has been redone and turned into upper scale apartments.
the place looks great inside now, but I couldn't understand who would want to spend all that money to live there suurounded by boarded up building, drug addicts, mentally ill homeless people roaming the streets, etc. After seeing a few of the tennants I realized it is most rich foriengn College students living there.
Well, I then saw the eyesore of eyesores directly accross the street from this beautiful building that millions of dollars has been put into renovations.
I introduce you to Hippie encampment party place/homeless shelter/ghetto squatter campground/upper Michigan deer camp AKA OCCUPY FLINT!
Notice the luxurious building they are huddled up to. This is a rundown brick crumbling off vacant business that the owner allows these squatters to camp on the next lot and run non code enforced electrical lines from solar pannels on it's roof to their camp. Notice the 1970's Winnebago against the building that must have a rotted roof because hippies had to crawl under the tarp to get into the winnebago. Next to that are the summer tents that you and I use when we PAY to camp. These have been protected from the wind by straw bales.
To the left is a small trailer that also has a tarp over the roof. Notice the main building also with a tarp on the roof. This building is why they were to be sutdown by the city manager from the state takeover of Flint, but later a deal was reached. To the left is the smoke stack, they burn wood in this "warming/kitchen/strategy building" and the wood among other donations have been rummored to have come via Michael Moore, aka a 1%er.
At 11:30am I was running the hoses for the job in the side door of the building while listening to the first hippie up today yelling through a traffic cone "Wake up, we have a corrupt Government to defeat, there is no time for sleep" followed by a squatter in a tent yelling back "EFF YOU"! Then the arguement began about staying up all night partying when they should be up early protesting (you know, because this is a movement, not just an excuse for people who grew up not getting enough attention from Mom and Dad to beg for attention, surely not an excuse to have a Flint born Millionaire support you financially while sleeping in a tent, smoke pot and meth all day while shooting heroin) this is an important and serious movement.
While taking a break and smoking a cigarette loudmouth hippie comes over in his shin length black worn out trench coat with white paint all over it of " we are the 99%" etc while his strungout girlfriend stays accorss the street in her vietnam era camo coat torn to shreds and asks me for a cigarette. ;D Let the games begin! I say to him " Do you see what I'm doing here"? His reply was "some kind of construction"? Me- "It's called working, if you did this instead of illegally camping in the city limits living off of Michael Moore's donations, you too could afford to smoke cigarettes". He starts boohooing about the "Corrupt Government and greedy corporations" making it impossible to find a job. My reply "I guess I must have outsmarted the Government and corporations to get this crappy part time job". He then starts whining about how he has a record with 2 felonies on it and nobody will hire him. My reply "Did the corrupt Government and greedy corporations force you to break the law"? "What makes you think I have no record? I'm still working as much as I can". He then said the unthinkable "Look at me bro, do I look like someone that anyone is going to hire"? I am looking at an early 20's year old guy with hair past his shoulders that is turning into dreadlocks on it's own (white guy) things in his ears nearly the size of hockey pucks, a ring in his nose like you see on cartoons of bulls having, a beard only an Alaskan gold miner could appreciate, the coat I already mentioned that HE modified to look like crap, and old black combat boots with pink laces in one and orange in the other. My reply to him was "Here ya go, let me light that for you" and gave him a cigarette. ;D
I left a little before 2:00pm and still most all squatters were sleeping it off. It was when I reached the middle of Downtown Flint where the professionals and College kids are walking from place to place that I see 4 hippies with one sign on the corner. When I got home I read on the Flint Police Operations page that 2 of them had been arrested on weapons charges right after I left.
The 2 hookers I saw on Fenton road on my way home looked cleaner than these people.
the place looks great inside now, but I couldn't understand who would want to spend all that money to live there suurounded by boarded up building, drug addicts, mentally ill homeless people roaming the streets, etc. After seeing a few of the tennants I realized it is most rich foriengn College students living there.
Well, I then saw the eyesore of eyesores directly accross the street from this beautiful building that millions of dollars has been put into renovations.
I introduce you to Hippie encampment party place/homeless shelter/ghetto squatter campground/upper Michigan deer camp AKA OCCUPY FLINT!
Notice the luxurious building they are huddled up to. This is a rundown brick crumbling off vacant business that the owner allows these squatters to camp on the next lot and run non code enforced electrical lines from solar pannels on it's roof to their camp. Notice the 1970's Winnebago against the building that must have a rotted roof because hippies had to crawl under the tarp to get into the winnebago. Next to that are the summer tents that you and I use when we PAY to camp. These have been protected from the wind by straw bales.
To the left is a small trailer that also has a tarp over the roof. Notice the main building also with a tarp on the roof. This building is why they were to be sutdown by the city manager from the state takeover of Flint, but later a deal was reached. To the left is the smoke stack, they burn wood in this "warming/kitchen/strategy building" and the wood among other donations have been rummored to have come via Michael Moore, aka a 1%er. At 11:30am I was running the hoses for the job in the side door of the building while listening to the first hippie up today yelling through a traffic cone "Wake up, we have a corrupt Government to defeat, there is no time for sleep" followed by a squatter in a tent yelling back "EFF YOU"! Then the arguement began about staying up all night partying when they should be up early protesting (you know, because this is a movement, not just an excuse for people who grew up not getting enough attention from Mom and Dad to beg for attention, surely not an excuse to have a Flint born Millionaire support you financially while sleeping in a tent, smoke pot and meth all day while shooting heroin) this is an important and serious movement.
While taking a break and smoking a cigarette loudmouth hippie comes over in his shin length black worn out trench coat with white paint all over it of " we are the 99%" etc while his strungout girlfriend stays accorss the street in her vietnam era camo coat torn to shreds and asks me for a cigarette. ;D Let the games begin! I say to him " Do you see what I'm doing here"? His reply was "some kind of construction"? Me- "It's called working, if you did this instead of illegally camping in the city limits living off of Michael Moore's donations, you too could afford to smoke cigarettes". He starts boohooing about the "Corrupt Government and greedy corporations" making it impossible to find a job. My reply "I guess I must have outsmarted the Government and corporations to get this crappy part time job". He then starts whining about how he has a record with 2 felonies on it and nobody will hire him. My reply "Did the corrupt Government and greedy corporations force you to break the law"? "What makes you think I have no record? I'm still working as much as I can". He then said the unthinkable "Look at me bro, do I look like someone that anyone is going to hire"? I am looking at an early 20's year old guy with hair past his shoulders that is turning into dreadlocks on it's own (white guy) things in his ears nearly the size of hockey pucks, a ring in his nose like you see on cartoons of bulls having, a beard only an Alaskan gold miner could appreciate, the coat I already mentioned that HE modified to look like crap, and old black combat boots with pink laces in one and orange in the other. My reply to him was "Here ya go, let me light that for you" and gave him a cigarette. ;D
I left a little before 2:00pm and still most all squatters were sleeping it off. It was when I reached the middle of Downtown Flint where the professionals and College kids are walking from place to place that I see 4 hippies with one sign on the corner. When I got home I read on the Flint Police Operations page that 2 of them had been arrested on weapons charges right after I left.
The 2 hookers I saw on Fenton road on my way home looked cleaner than these people.
