Comments on Sample-Snatching Homeless Horror at QFC!

AUGH!

I woulda posted that on the internet too, but I wouldn't have told anyone in the store. Maybe just backed away and watched until some elderly lady helped herself.

heh heh heh.

Huh? Wha? Who? Where?

Poor homeless guy.

Didn't he take any Wheat Thins? How can you enjoy mayonnaisey goop without Wheat Thins?

OH MY GOD it's so gross when hungry, homeless, mentally ill people don't have the good taste to steal properly appealing food. how desperate! how gauche! especially when he could have stolen the nearby fancy cheeses instead!

Maybe he’s an anal fister and couldn’t afford the Crisco.

This is the Internet. Take photos, next time.

eating anything from a sample plate in a grocery store is just begging for illness, germs, or worse. even from fancy grocery stores.

being so callous and cold-hearted about another human's sorry plight, no matter how skanky or filthy he may be, is equally inexcusable.

Feeling sympathy for the homeless does not mean you can't also feel horrified by the sight of a homeless man dipping his hands into a vat of goopy, communal cheese/food product.

Where in that post did Adrian express sympathy for the [in bold]"SKANKY HOMELESS MAN... [with] his cracked, filthy, crack-blackened hands"?

Being so clinically PC and callous about another human's need for catharsis, no matter how well-intentioned she may be, is equally inexcusable.

evidently, i muddied my point. allow me to clarify:

i am mother fucking teresa. believe that shit. i love the homeless. fucking love them. (baring the human scab and the 'spare any change for a hungry man' man, as i mentioned. i hate them. personal reasons.) i feed the homeless, i talk to the homeless, i know them by name, god fucking dammit. i’m so nice to the homeless that it pisses my friends off. (they have to beg me to keep my change.) don't get on ME about the homeless. got it? okay. i'd take the homeless over the super-awful hordes of aggressive and cute early-twenty-somethings that try to get you to join La Rouche or Save The Wetlands or whatever that infect every corner of broadway like festering sores any day. yay homeless. get it? my POINT, @8 (et al) was that as i stood wondering just how horribly unhygienic that WRETCHED SAMPLE OF GOOP probably was, i was answered in the most dramatic of possible ways---with THE filthiest man on broadway, who also happens to be homeless (yay the homeless!), plunging his scabby mitts into it. it was astonishing. it was repulsive. it was enlightening (never eat the goop!). For everyone whose ever stood over a goopy sample and wondered, “should i?”, wonder no more. NO. that is all.

Beauty is skin deep.

Apparently so is compassion.

Adrian, welcome to Slog.

To unconditional homeless defenders: just like people with houses or apartments, there are good decent homeless people, and complete crazy asshole homeless people.

Hungry man takes free food, disturbs yuppy shopping for gormet cheese. Live on the Slog. Great

I laughed. Fucking sue me for laughing at something hilarious.

Sure, I feel bad for said homeless guy, but try a little humor on for size, people...

I wasn't offended by his revulsion to a filthy person sticking their hands in a vat of cheese-jiz. I probably would have busted out laughing and then puked on the floor next to me.

I was offended by his obvious indignation that someone that disgusting dared wander into the fancy-cheese aisle at the deli. In my mind's eye I conjured a vivid image of some pansy-ass clutching a package of Bergenost to his chest and screaming like a girl. Ok, I guess I'm not offended that's fucking hilarious.

Put your outrage where your mouth is: Go to QFC, demand the bowl back and eat the stuff. Rrrright On!

I'm so happy that you name dropped Mr. "spare some change for a hungry man" in this post. I lived on the hill for several years but have been off of it for quite a few now. When I was up there the other week I was amazed to see him still alive and still using the same line.

I know it isn't PC to say it, but I think in the aftermath of a nuclear war that all you'd see is a bunch of cockroaches and Mr."spare some change for a hungry man". He's a survivor...

Maybe some of you haven't been on Broadway recently and seen the skanky homeless guys? I used to be one. I was homeless (and on Broadway) for 2 years. I know that some people really need the spare change. I know that some people really are mentally ill. I also know that the skeaziest, skankiest are the homeless guys that just don't care. They're going to do their drugs because they want to, ignore rehab because it's inconvenient, and be a burden because they can be.

They know there's soup kitchens and clinics and that they'll be taken care of without having any responsibility for anything themselves, short of showing up. If he was the type who'd sneak into a QFC he's been kicked out of, and violate the social code of free samples so grotesquely, then I can tell you from my experience he was most likely the bad type of homeless guy.

In addition, he didn't need the food, nobody goes hungry on Broadway. He was stealing because he wanted to, because in his methed-out mind, it was a good idea. Do not feel pity for this man, he is responsible for everything he did in the above story, up to and including being totally fucking skanky. A lack of compassion for those who don't deserve it? There's nothing wrong with that. Keep it up, Adrian. Keep it up. :)

Adrian,
As much as I quiver with lusty passion at the very thought of your youness. I’m afraid I must object. Surly the vertebrate (?) you describe can only be a Barnett-Mudede lovechild, and even it must suckle, and really, having swum out of that gene pool, I think it should be applauded for having reached such elegance in comportment.

Anybody dumb enough to eat from a common sample tray in a grocery store deserves whatever pathogens are thereby transmitted. As far as I can see, the samples are out there for anyone to take as they like, whether they meet our aesthetic standards of hygiene or not.

Ever seen the bakery section of a grocery store that offers samples right after the high schools let out? You want to talk feeding frenzy - that's worse than Costco on Sunday after church, when the herds of hippos all graze from aisle to aisle, devouring samples and harassing the sample ladies to cook more...

Geni -- I think the reverse is true, too: Whoever DOESN'T eat from a common sample tray in a grocery store is just getting WEAKER.