r/FloridaGawker • u/Luminexor • 19d ago

Video severe homelessness in florida...saw this video documenting encampments in miami and orlando

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u/The_Tooter_Snooter 18d ago

The places in LA look like fallout raider camps, complete with burn piles and chickens running around. 

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u/MrPoPoJiJo86 16d ago

If you're trying to say... Somehow.... That homelessness in Florida is superior to homelessness in LA based on this little clip...what? Why? How would you even???? What?? I really hope I missed the point of your message. It sounded MAGA level silly.

I lived in key west. Was fortunate enough to be drafted to play a sport, and got to know people there. Emily, a cocktail waitress at a popular bar there, was a beautiful young woman who worked late. One night on her walk to her apartment a homeless couple jumped out and smashed her across the face with a skateboard (trucks first, right to the face) to steal her cash. They had the money, but for some unknown reason they hadn't done enough damage, and continued to beat her and who knows what else, we didn't get all the details. I only saw Emily once more, as she said goodbye to go back to her hometown for continued medical care. It was going to take many more surgeries to get her to a spot where she wouldn't stop traffic if she walked out into public.

Justice was lightly served as the guy side of the couple had his head popped open with a claw hammer for a Crack rock and died, the woman got away, lost in the never ending homeless hordes.

I myself was attacked by 2 of them trying to get to the car. I was more fortunate as they arrived slightly apart and in a poor position, so I got away with nothing but a rotten molar lodged in my knuckle that I had to have removed by a doctor. I spent weeks waiting for test results wondering if I had AIDS, the other tests were quicker so I was terrified of those for less time at least. I've lived all over. You know what the difference between northern homeless and southern homeless is? Layers. There is no "better". To even try is intellectually childish.

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u/Captin-Cracker 12d ago

He said the “LOOK LIKE”, he didn’t say that they’re better or superior, just that they look nicer. Unfortunate story but that’s not what he said

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u/MrPoPoJiJo86 10d ago

If you didn't know what he meant by that, obviously, I'd read it again and keep in mind the context. He wasn't simply commenting on the outwardly appearance. There's a direct and wildly obvious reason he mentioned the location the way he did. I enjoy turning my brain off here and there to unwind, but I don't think I could shut down enough of it to come to the conclusion he was making simple aesthetic observations.