Could a homeless person live in a tall shrub?

You sound like a fucking idiot OP. Just sayin.........

One of DL's best EVER thread titles.

I give it 1.5 out of 10, OP.

Pardon me for not being a hobo expert

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Was he carrying a dildo?

What strain of dope did you smoke, OP?

If people do it all the time out in the middle of the street in San Francisco sure why not. Thousands of them.

Just look for the litter and piles of human shit, it's usually the giveaway, isn't it? Here in San Diego we had a hepatitis outbreak because the homeless who pour in here from around the country use streets and alleys as their personal toilets. Everyone in the city was being urged to get a hepatitis shot.

They also like to panhandle (which is legal in San Diego) often at the end of off ramps of freeways leaving their rubbish and garbage all over the place.

I imagine that if someone is sleep on the group, rough, they're very vulnerable to attack if they're in a more accessible area. So finding a spot underneath a large shrub would offer some privacy and shelter. But I can't imagine anyone actually living inside a shrub, like a songbird in a nest.

OP is a hobophobe.

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Is he skinny enough to hide behind said shrubs, OP?

Leave a glass of milk and a plate of cookies beside the shrub and see if they disappear overnight.

I say prance over there to that shrub, drop the caftan, and present hole.

Then you'll know.

Actually r11 here in San Diego there were a series of bizarre murders of homeless men a couple years ago. They couldn't find the murderer for quite a few weeks and police were trying to warn these homeless guys to not sleep alone outdoors. They finally caught the guy, who was in his 20s if I recall correctly. His victims were often older men and he would do stuff like pound nails into their skulls as his "calling card". It was almost a Jack the Ripper thing in a way.

Hon, that's where he shits, your precious shrubs are his toilet.

No but a gargoyle can live in a bush.

Sort of like the Keebler elf living in an enchanted tree baking cookies all day.

Having worked with the homeless. I am guessing he doesn’t live within. Behind or underneath the shrubs. He could be taking a shit, or he could be using them as coverage to case the neighbourhood. Poverty and homelessness do correlate with mental health issues, health issues, and in some cases where necessity dictates, criminality.

No idea why I inserted full stops. Apologies for terrible punctuation.

Look for a TARDIS, OP.

Oh, and if your homeless friend looks like Peter Capaldi I want you to suck his dick on behalf of gay nerds everywhere. Use lots of spit, too.

I also found needles lying around in front of the bushes

OP, there's a slight chance your homeless man is actually a closeted married man attempting to score Truvada without his spouse's knowledge.

Heroin addiction is part of his ruse.

I love you R23. And OP - your homeless man is a diabetic, snow dropping voyeur

He doesn't live in a shrub. That'll be where he keeps something he uses but doesn't want to carry all day. Sometimes homeless people need to hide their sleeping gear or other stuff because otherwise the council workers will clear it away/chuck it out.

Thanks for all the insight

A bush? Impossible! A tall shrubbery, on the other hand . . . . Most certainly. And quite comfortably, too.

Maybe he's in there having the hobosex?

We had a giant shrub in the yard when I was a kid. It was intact and full looking from the outside but the inside was completely open. It was our clubhouse. We could have easily lived in there with a sleeping bag and a tarp to keep the rain off and no one would have seen us. If I was homeless, I might try to find a giant shrub to make it my own little place to hide away.

This is a sad state of affairs.

Where is this op?

I’d live in the woods if I were homeless. I’d try to get out to the country.

Except, R34, any resources you might need are in the city. We have homeless people that live in the forest preserves around here and the police keep taking them to the hospital and dumping them there, instead.

Time for pics of hot homeless men...

For R31 :

Couldn't a hobo live off berries or learn to grow corn?

Berries? When did I eat berries?

I'll never look at shrubs the same.

The Hobos near me like to live in the historic burying grounds. The ones where there are no longer active burials, and no family visitors.

In one, they broke into a number of the tombs and slept in them, to get out of the rain. I assume they cleaned out the bones, first.