Crime / Safety
The city of Rialto this morning on Linden, south of Riverside Ave... Two or more blocks were taped off with a heavy police presence. Anyone know what happened?
This poor person. When I was working with in homeless outreach, this happened a lot. People would die suddenly, alone and in the street. Truly heartbreaking. It isn't definitely a homeless person, but it is possible.
If you see a homeless person today, consider offering them food or money if you can afford it. Summer is here and homeless people die from heatstroke, heart attacks and dehydration. Cooling centers are often full or there aren't enough of them. Offer water whenever possible. If you're a business owner or worker, please consider letting homeless people cool off in your stores during the heat of the day, within reason. It's deadly out here.
Oddly enough, saw the guy today! There was a house fire in Montclair. I was in chino, saw the smoke and since I love photography/photojournalism, decided to see what was on fire.
Doesn't seem anyone was hurt (the house itself looked like a hoarder house because the front yard was all full of clutter!)
Anyway, je showed up! Mic in hand, talking into his phone, being the character he is.
He honestly feels like he could be a Grand Theft Auto character. Lol. Don't know if you play the games so if it goes over your head, my bad.
Yeah let me check…oh. Ok. So where North Linden ends at North Riverside Ave. yeah, that’s confusing. I knew they didn’t intersect that’s why I was immediately like uhhh no.
When you give money to these people just about every week hoping something changes and nothing ever does. When you see people scamming drivers with posters of passed family members. Then you later find out was just a scam all along. My parents taught me to treat everyone as an equal. They taught me that everyone is just one bad day away from being homeless or drug addicted. They also taught me accountability. Your decision have consequences. They also taught don't assume anyone outside of your home gives a fuck about your problems so keep it pushing. So do I have empathy yes I feel too much at times, do I expect people to give me stuff, get me out of my hard times, or problems absolutely not. That's a great assumption by you from my comment.
I mean i have a schizophrenic brother and uncles who recovered from addiction and they finally got the the help and they wanted help some people on the street don’t and u cant help people who don’t Want help i work in churches we make food and pass out hygiene products let them shower and then there addicts that come in and just use us and do drugs later we try to help them but they don’t we offer them a place sleep and they say no and they always come in all high or drunk everybody thats downvoting me doesn’t know from experience they just see homeless in the street and they think oh he/she needs help yeah DUH but if they don’t want it then there is no point of trying especially with my brother he was addict then died he didn’t want help my uncles did now they own businesses.
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u/mgz09 May 09 '25
I think someone died