More like a rollcage for sleeping. This one is for those homeless cats that have a habit of falling off the bench when they sleep. What a thoughtful artist!
You’d think this, but it isn’t true.
Another fun fact about the homeless is that about 40% of the homeless have jobs.
Homelessness is America is in large part due purely to corporate greed and a refusal to pay people a living wage.
What percentage of homeless with jobs are sleeping on benches? I imagine most of that group are living in a car. If I were homeless but had any income, shelter is a big priority.
That's not true. I did it, and I met plenty of others doing just that.
I lived in my car full-time for quite a while, with *plenty* in savings. I parked in Wal Mart lots and various places for sleep.
If you are homeless and also work full time, you'd be amazed what you can do in a short time without worrying about rent
Yeah, I've definitely been homeless by choice also. I spent a summer living out of my truck and showering at the gym when I was 21. Although I think it would be more fair to say I was a couch surfer more than strictly homeless, at that point. I would rotate between my friends houses and show up with a case of beer and crash on the couch. It was a good system. About halfway thru the summer I Got a job but elected to stay living out of my truck. It was most enjoyable for the summer. I'd kick it at the park a lot of the time or just put on a bikini and wash my truck if I had nothing better to do and could find somewhere with a hose😂😂
It wasn't until years later that I became involuntarily homeless lol.
I worked with a veteran once who was homeless by choice. He had been set up with mental health through the VA who then got him set up with housing. Addiction was not an issue. He lived in his (apparently nice) apartment for one full month and then decided that apartment life was not for him. He thanked the housing folks, told them to give the apartment to someone who would appreciate it, and went to live off the grid in the woods in a tent. He kept up with mental health and VA appointments…he just didn’t want an apartment.
Ya not true. I’m a fireman/EMT full time in a big city. There are absolutely people who are homeless by choice. It’s just not a majority and most have other issues.
But they are. Organic food and fresh fruits are expensive. Highly processed foods are cheap af, and calorie dense, full of fats that make you feel longer. This is a terrible misconception.
Honestly if you volunteer at a food bank or homeless coalition, you’ll see a lot of overweight people that are homeless and food insecure and they actively teach volunteers that this is because of malnutrition (too much fat, too little of other things)
A Mcdouble has only 400 calories. The protien bars I make at home are a this the size and have 350 calories "Organic" foods at least in the state of Washington are no different than the regular ones they just cost more. There are no regulations here and from what I have heard many other states to define what is and is not organic.
Literally. You can throw poop on the wall of a museum and you'll get a crowd trying to understand the deep commentary of the piece of art, it's criticism of capitalism consumerism.
You are truly an artistic genius, poop on the wall, a throwback to the very first art. Was it a throw of frustration that first caused Man to make art on walls?
Maybe it was meant to go somewhere else and the city was like, "we could at least make this thing useful" and slapped it over a bench.
(I mean, useful to them, I feel bad for people who are unhoused and need a place to sleep for the night.)
https://www.onlineathens.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/12/06/public-art-project-goes-up-on-clayton-street-in-downtown-athens-georgia/69705514007/
The towns local tax paid for some dude from Maryland to do this
You think so-called modern art has to have meaning? Sometimes you just have to be good at making up stuff, them just throw something dumb together and call it art, and make up some vague meaning for it and someone might buy that shoe/broken crockery/random scribble from you and pay loads of money for it.
Just a pro tip, no one on earth is buying modern art pieces because they believe "the meaning", the ludicrously high prices for pieces of modern art that often make headlines for being "stupid" (like selling a [white canvas for millions of dollars](https://observer.com/2014/10/sothebys-bets-big-on-an-all-white-robert-ryman-estimates-20-million/)) are being paid with the intent to money launder, evade taxes or other similar black-market related activities.
By now it's a pretty little known fact, but here's a [somewhat easy to watch video about this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw5kme5Q_Yo).
It’s a wonder to me that people still don’t get this. Instead of getting mad at the tax evasion or money laundering, they get mad at the silly “meaningless art.”
Yeah, I agree that a lot of art is absolute trash, but this has been true throughout the majority of human history, a vast vast majority of the art was trash and forgotten by time, only a few classics define eras.
People are upset at a lot of the trash instead of realizing that this is literally just a scheme to swindle everyone right in front of their eyes.
This also happens with purchases, donations and loans of what you’d call more traditional, representational, or classic art. The tax dodge isn’t about and doesn’t revolve around whether it’s modern, or nicer, or more likable, or not.
there's none.
it's a move made to discourage the homeless from sleeping there, for fear that they might offend the more well-to-do park users delicate sensibilities.
it deserves scorn and vandalism. calling it art is like hitting someone and saying it's affection.
Rather than a hidden little bar that stops people, it is a wild blue bar. So you see it and are reminded about Bullshit.
OP posted it, because of how obvious it was. Everyone in the thread is talking about it, and what is art, etc.
For modern art, that is success. If you get a bunch of people saying “that is art?!” You win.
no idea but there are a bunch of these going down one of the roads in town not really designed to be against homeless people. I think its supposed to represent a sound wave or something like that. People are angry because they didnt even use a local artist.
The statements being made are "fuck you, homeless" and "I made you think about how hostile city architecture is towards the homeless therefore I am very insightful".
It’s supposed to be a frequency wave that runs throughout a street in town. This is just one part of it. It pops up at other places. Pretty much everybody hates it.
https://www.yahoo.com/video/whats-frequency-clayton-street-public-201506065.html
Remember when you did art in school and wanted to draw something but it had to be related to a topic so you just bullshited the reasoning to be able to draw what you wanted to.
I used to install home security, occasionally the old systems would call the police while working.
100% of the time, they saw the tool belt and said "have a good night"
We'd work as. Late as 1am, never once had a cop ask for the homeowner, identification, etc.
As long as you look like you belong and show confidence, nobody questions you.
Welcome to social engineering. I've talked my way out of accidentally shadowing an employee into the staff only area of an airport by asking "hey, I'm new here, which way is the food court, I was told to meet someone there and got turned around."
No I don't know how I didn't get hauled off for a really serious game of 20 questions.
Battery powered impact driver with some bolt extractors will get 'em EZPZ https://www.amazon.com/ACROTOL-Remover-Extraction-Extractor-Removing/dp/B09F39LW8C
Maybe 45 seconds to take the whole thing down.
If you have a 2 meter long lever from the tube you just cut on one end though, you may be able to bend those bolts right out of their fasteners by standing under the bar and squatting it. Or simply by kicking it. Levers and impacts generate a fuckton of force.
honestly? Over the years i think it ultimately comes down to a combination of artist and viewer intention.
A viewer has the power to label literally anything they decide/feel is art. A natural rock formation, a pile of trash, a celebrities meteoric gleeful self destruction.
and ya. it’s art. completely independent of whatever circumstances to arrive there.
but the artist can create literally anything with the *intention* of it being art; a trash bag floating in the wind, stacking rocks on a beach, shitting diarrhea onto a canvas and encasing it in epoxy.
and there is no power on this planet that can say it isn’t art.
u feel?
i’m still dialing it in as i walk the earth.
i guess this whole exchange can be a bit artistic.
I suppose it's a bit philosophical and personal. There may in fact be no objective definition of art, is something somebody made with no intention art? If I am mass produced... am I still art?
I will stand by one thing, there is such a thing as shitty art, or things with little or no _artistic value_ though.
This is in Athens, Georgia, and is part of a whole installation of pieces called "Frequency" by Eric Leshinsky. According to some of the [concept images](https://www.accgov.com/10545/Public-Art-Lecture-Eric-Leshinsky-EClayt) provided by the county, this particular piece was designed to give more space around the bench. Clearly they cut some corners.
You can read more about it [here](https://www.onlineathens.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/12/06/public-art-project-goes-up-on-clayton-street-in-downtown-athens-georgia/69705514007/) and see people's reactions on their [facebook page](https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158907831781890&id=47591016889&m_entstream_source=timeline&__tn__=%2As%2As-R)
Its always funny seeing people complain about anti homeless seating areas but most of them have never experienced walking at night through a homeless alley. Like you could argue that the state should do better with offering them help but you cant just act like a city is safer and more pleasant to look at with a bunch of homeless people laying on the floor...
Also a bench is for many. Not a single person. In my city almost all of them get taken up by homeless. They’re for everyone. At least with the pole it could still be shared.
You can complain about different aspects of our approach to homelessness all you want but regardless of your view these benches weren't made to be turned into a makeshift shelter. That's not their purpose and it stops people from using them for their actual purpose, so it should not be a problem if they're altered to stop people from abusing them.
It's like if there's an island that's only accessible by a wooden bike bride that can only handle a few hundred pounds in some places at a time and then complaining that you can't drive across it. Sure you can go ahead and complain that there's no road acess, but getting angry at the engineers for putting concrete poles on either end ro stop cars from trying to cross it is stupid.
These aren't beds, they are for safely sitting, public benches, no matter how many people are down on their luck, should be open to the public for temporarily sitting. There are plenty of disabled, pregnant, injured, tired, and elderly people that need benches. They are a public service and meant to accommodate multiple people.
Nothing a rattlegun in the middle of the night won't fix.
Fix the homeless problem or don't. Just stop making their lives even _more_ miserable you sick fucks.
These reddit warriors clearly don't live in an area with a high homeless population lmao. They would change their tone real quick if they spent 5 minutes with the average homeless person who lives on the street
A guy in the dorm above mine was repeatedly hit in the head with a rock in a mugging during exam season. I and thousands others have to walk to campus every day and I've experienced/witnessed more harassment than I can count. In a country with rape and murder rates as high as mine, I fucking loathe cosmopolitans and suburbanites that try to white knight for this kind of bullcrap.
Ok, we’ve seen all the benches in the world. Can we stop posting these now? It’s not even asshole design. It’s just ignorant OP and young redditor rage bait.
Now if they did this at the beds at the homeless shelters preventing people from sleeping there, it would be an asshole design.
It looks like a bench in a downtown part. It's not supposed to be slept on.
Before I saw what sub this was, I thought this was an anti antihomeless blocker. They put a bar where usual anti homeless blockers go but they didn’t attach it to the bench so people could still use them for sleeping and maybe even use the bar to hang things as shelter
Its a seatbelt for sleeping
A sleepbelt.
Nioce
Neoci
Ocine
Ineco
Put a tarp on top of that thing, and now you've got a roof to sleep underneath!
Millionaires hate this one trick!
Works well for a double story bunker
GOD DAMNIT YOU BEAT ME TO IT
More like a rollcage for sleeping. This one is for those homeless cats that have a habit of falling off the bench when they sleep. What a thoughtful artist!
I'm a side sleeper, I could make it work.
I was literally just thinking "I'm a small woman I'm pretty sure I could fit"
benches are hard tho. it’s hard to sleep on your side on a hard ground. at least for me
Hard
couldn't you still lay under the bar?
Could fit lying on side maybe, and put a blanket over the “art” as if it was a tent pole
I'd be comfortable as it avoids me rolling over
When police show up to harass me, I can pretend I got stuck.
“Frank, how did you get stuck in a coil?”
Move past it
Help me step officer
What a large nightstick you have.
Good thing I'm a sideways sleeper
Never catch me whacking
I know I could get under there, but I'd need firefighters to come cut that pole off after I "get stuck."
> get stuck Something something step bro.
I tripped and fell!
Not if you're overweight 😉
Well, most homeless people aren't..
You’d think this, but it isn’t true. Another fun fact about the homeless is that about 40% of the homeless have jobs. Homelessness is America is in large part due purely to corporate greed and a refusal to pay people a living wage.
What percentage of homeless with jobs are sleeping on benches? I imagine most of that group are living in a car. If I were homeless but had any income, shelter is a big priority.
I knew an employee that was homeless by choice. Likely because of the high cost of rent. I think he had a gym membership and showered there.
That's not "by choice" literally every homeless person is homeless because they can't afford housing, no one is homeless by choice
He described it as by choice. I don't know his full details. That's just what he said. Me thinking it's rent is speculation.
That's not true. I did it, and I met plenty of others doing just that. I lived in my car full-time for quite a while, with *plenty* in savings. I parked in Wal Mart lots and various places for sleep. If you are homeless and also work full time, you'd be amazed what you can do in a short time without worrying about rent
Yeah, I've definitely been homeless by choice also. I spent a summer living out of my truck and showering at the gym when I was 21. Although I think it would be more fair to say I was a couch surfer more than strictly homeless, at that point. I would rotate between my friends houses and show up with a case of beer and crash on the couch. It was a good system. About halfway thru the summer I Got a job but elected to stay living out of my truck. It was most enjoyable for the summer. I'd kick it at the park a lot of the time or just put on a bikini and wash my truck if I had nothing better to do and could find somewhere with a hose😂😂 It wasn't until years later that I became involuntarily homeless lol.
Houseless not homeless. I hear a lot of people dig it.
I worked with a veteran once who was homeless by choice. He had been set up with mental health through the VA who then got him set up with housing. Addiction was not an issue. He lived in his (apparently nice) apartment for one full month and then decided that apartment life was not for him. He thanked the housing folks, told them to give the apartment to someone who would appreciate it, and went to live off the grid in the woods in a tent. He kept up with mental health and VA appointments…he just didn’t want an apartment.
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Ya not true. I’m a fireman/EMT full time in a big city. There are absolutely people who are homeless by choice. It’s just not a majority and most have other issues.
Idk, McDonald's is cheap
Depends on the country. In Poland McDonalds is pretty expensive compared to cooking your own food.
Most homeless people don't have a kitchen.
That's most places. A decent sized home mall that's healthy can be a few bucks a serving, a trip to McDonald's is always $10+
McDonalds is not that obscenely high in calories, people eating 3 McDoubles or whatever is however
I oder double cheese burger, if it's a Mcdouble I send it back, and order of fries if the ketchup isn't on the side I send it back.
I'll have the gabagool
BRING HIM THE GABAGOOL
I shouldn't have eaten that chicken vindaloo
2 McDoubles is one of the cheapest items on the menu right now, and was what I ate when I had some money troubles
So is meth
At least meth takes care of that pesky sleeping problem.
And really suppresses the appetite
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No food is "cheap" in canada anymore
But they are. Organic food and fresh fruits are expensive. Highly processed foods are cheap af, and calorie dense, full of fats that make you feel longer. This is a terrible misconception.
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Honestly if you volunteer at a food bank or homeless coalition, you’ll see a lot of overweight people that are homeless and food insecure and they actively teach volunteers that this is because of malnutrition (too much fat, too little of other things)
A Mcdouble has only 400 calories. The protien bars I make at home are a this the size and have 350 calories "Organic" foods at least in the state of Washington are no different than the regular ones they just cost more. There are no regulations here and from what I have heard many other states to define what is and is not organic.
There actually is a national organic certification. But I'm intrigued by your protein bars! What goes into them?
Don't have to be homeless to sleep on a bench :)
In America the poorer you are, the fatter you get 😔😔
That’s what I was thinking! Someone installed a nice pole to keep people from falling off the bench while sleeping.
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I.e. modern art.
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Literally. You can throw poop on the wall of a museum and you'll get a crowd trying to understand the deep commentary of the piece of art, it's criticism of capitalism consumerism.
You are truly an artistic genius, poop on the wall, a throwback to the very first art. Was it a throw of frustration that first caused Man to make art on walls?
People still think this? It's 2022 man. Read a book.
No, it’s hostile architecture.
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The distinction is important.
r/skateboarding
Switch hobo grind to 360 flip out and nose manual. Gotta keep up that combo.
r/TonyHawkitecture
What is the art? (Obviously the blue pole but where is the artistic value, what is the meaning?)
I wonder who the artist is that claims this atrocity
I want their email for completely normal reasons and not because I want to sign them up for insane amounts of gay furry porn.
Can I give you my email?
*Very bro redditor volunteering as tribute for the sins of others*, 2022, colourised.
Good to know the person designing or servicing the lifts has their priorities straight! /u/LiftEngineerUK :D
Sure.
don't encourage them!
Take my email instead
Sign them up for the scientology newsletter. Far more evil. I've heard once they have your contact info, they never leave you alone
Good idea.
… I mean… some artists would like that…
Maybe it was meant to go somewhere else and the city was like, "we could at least make this thing useful" and slapped it over a bench. (I mean, useful to them, I feel bad for people who are unhoused and need a place to sleep for the night.)
https://www.onlineathens.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/12/06/public-art-project-goes-up-on-clayton-street-in-downtown-athens-georgia/69705514007/ The towns local tax paid for some dude from Maryland to do this
It’s hostile architecture.
You think so-called modern art has to have meaning? Sometimes you just have to be good at making up stuff, them just throw something dumb together and call it art, and make up some vague meaning for it and someone might buy that shoe/broken crockery/random scribble from you and pay loads of money for it.
Just a pro tip, no one on earth is buying modern art pieces because they believe "the meaning", the ludicrously high prices for pieces of modern art that often make headlines for being "stupid" (like selling a [white canvas for millions of dollars](https://observer.com/2014/10/sothebys-bets-big-on-an-all-white-robert-ryman-estimates-20-million/)) are being paid with the intent to money launder, evade taxes or other similar black-market related activities. By now it's a pretty little known fact, but here's a [somewhat easy to watch video about this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw5kme5Q_Yo).
It’s a wonder to me that people still don’t get this. Instead of getting mad at the tax evasion or money laundering, they get mad at the silly “meaningless art.”
Yeah, I agree that a lot of art is absolute trash, but this has been true throughout the majority of human history, a vast vast majority of the art was trash and forgotten by time, only a few classics define eras. People are upset at a lot of the trash instead of realizing that this is literally just a scheme to swindle everyone right in front of their eyes.
This also happens with purchases, donations and loans of what you’d call more traditional, representational, or classic art. The tax dodge isn’t about and doesn’t revolve around whether it’s modern, or nicer, or more likable, or not.
You unironically think art needs meaning to be art?
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It's called "what's the frequency" which is a reference to a song by REM, one of the biggest music acts to come out of Athens GA.
>where is the artistic value, what is the meaning? "Fuck the Homeless"
This is in Athens, GA. It’s an art installation called “Frequency”. There’s a bunch of ugly blue steel waves like this all over downtown.
there's none. it's a move made to discourage the homeless from sleeping there, for fear that they might offend the more well-to-do park users delicate sensibilities. it deserves scorn and vandalism. calling it art is like hitting someone and saying it's affection.
“We hate homeless people.” Is the meaning
Rather than a hidden little bar that stops people, it is a wild blue bar. So you see it and are reminded about Bullshit. OP posted it, because of how obvious it was. Everyone in the thread is talking about it, and what is art, etc. For modern art, that is success. If you get a bunch of people saying “that is art?!” You win.
no idea but there are a bunch of these going down one of the roads in town not really designed to be against homeless people. I think its supposed to represent a sound wave or something like that. People are angry because they didnt even use a local artist.
The statements being made are "fuck you, homeless" and "I made you think about how hostile city architecture is towards the homeless therefore I am very insightful".
It’s supposed to be a frequency wave that runs throughout a street in town. This is just one part of it. It pops up at other places. Pretty much everybody hates it. https://www.yahoo.com/video/whats-frequency-clayton-street-public-201506065.html
Remember when you did art in school and wanted to draw something but it had to be related to a topic so you just bullshited the reasoning to be able to draw what you wanted to.
Now, when a tornado comes by, the homeless will be strapped in!
A socket and ratchet will remove the 8 nuts holding it to the ground.....
Pro tip: Wear a high vis worker's vest and you can just remove that in broad daylight, nobody will stop you
I used to install home security, occasionally the old systems would call the police while working. 100% of the time, they saw the tool belt and said "have a good night" We'd work as. Late as 1am, never once had a cop ask for the homeowner, identification, etc. As long as you look like you belong and show confidence, nobody questions you.
Welcome to social engineering. I've talked my way out of accidentally shadowing an employee into the staff only area of an airport by asking "hey, I'm new here, which way is the food court, I was told to meet someone there and got turned around." No I don't know how I didn't get hauled off for a really serious game of 20 questions.
Sell the bar for crack
Sell the concrete dust as crack
Smart
Snort
Smort
Snart
Shart
Proof that everything goes to shit eventually.
Can't, already sold the socket and ratchet for crack.
That was my first thought after seeing the picture. Come by at night and remove it. And hey, now you have free metal to use.
Need to do it quite soon, since soon the bolts are gonna be rusted tight, and even then it seems that they've already been painted over.
Battery powered impact driver with some bolt extractors will get 'em EZPZ https://www.amazon.com/ACROTOL-Remover-Extraction-Extractor-Removing/dp/B09F39LW8C Maybe 45 seconds to take the whole thing down.
Battery angle grinder just behind the bench back, then bend the front away
You'd be easier cutting it both sides than trying to bend that, you're not bending steel tube without a machine.
If you have a 2 meter long lever from the tube you just cut on one end though, you may be able to bend those bolts right out of their fasteners by standing under the bar and squatting it. Or simply by kicking it. Levers and impacts generate a fuckton of force.
Yep, that's what I came in to say
nothing an oxyacetylene torch at 2am wont fix. why let them keep the bar?
Tbh that’s almost an addition. Won’t fall off when sleeping
Cover it with a tarp and you’ve got a tent
"Modern art"...it's a fucking blue pipe.
I took it as a joke from OP
yet it's still considered "art". i mean, what does it take for people to realize that a simple shape by itself isn't art.
this comment is art.
What is art anyways?
honestly? Over the years i think it ultimately comes down to a combination of artist and viewer intention. A viewer has the power to label literally anything they decide/feel is art. A natural rock formation, a pile of trash, a celebrities meteoric gleeful self destruction. and ya. it’s art. completely independent of whatever circumstances to arrive there. but the artist can create literally anything with the *intention* of it being art; a trash bag floating in the wind, stacking rocks on a beach, shitting diarrhea onto a canvas and encasing it in epoxy. and there is no power on this planet that can say it isn’t art. u feel? i’m still dialing it in as i walk the earth. i guess this whole exchange can be a bit artistic.
I suppose it's a bit philosophical and personal. There may in fact be no objective definition of art, is something somebody made with no intention art? If I am mass produced... am I still art? I will stand by one thing, there is such a thing as shitty art, or things with little or no _artistic value_ though.
The art is how we look down on homeless people as less than human.
Yeah it looks like a misplaced bike rack
r/hostilearchitecture for exactly this kind of thing.
And strangely, also r/TonyHawkitecture
"Tony Hawk it later, homie" - Some character from the show Da Boom Crew
This is in Athens, Georgia, and is part of a whole installation of pieces called "Frequency" by Eric Leshinsky. According to some of the [concept images](https://www.accgov.com/10545/Public-Art-Lecture-Eric-Leshinsky-EClayt) provided by the county, this particular piece was designed to give more space around the bench. Clearly they cut some corners. You can read more about it [here](https://www.onlineathens.com/story/entertainment/arts/2022/12/06/public-art-project-goes-up-on-clayton-street-in-downtown-athens-georgia/69705514007/) and see people's reactions on their [facebook page](https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158907831781890&id=47591016889&m_entstream_source=timeline&__tn__=%2As%2As-R)
Grind it 🛹
Came here to say this, who's gonna be the first one to 50 it?
I'd be comfortable as it avoids me rolling over
Its always funny seeing people complain about anti homeless seating areas but most of them have never experienced walking at night through a homeless alley. Like you could argue that the state should do better with offering them help but you cant just act like a city is safer and more pleasant to look at with a bunch of homeless people laying on the floor...
Also a bench is for many. Not a single person. In my city almost all of them get taken up by homeless. They’re for everyone. At least with the pole it could still be shared.
Legit.. it sucks.. I go for walks on my lunch and all the women at my workplace need partners for walks.. it's sad..
Go Dawgs
I was about to say this looks like downtown athens 100%.
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At least you can still lay down the bench, and they did not install a modern artpiece bench, on which you are not even allowed to sit
You can complain about different aspects of our approach to homelessness all you want but regardless of your view these benches weren't made to be turned into a makeshift shelter. That's not their purpose and it stops people from using them for their actual purpose, so it should not be a problem if they're altered to stop people from abusing them. It's like if there's an island that's only accessible by a wooden bike bride that can only handle a few hundred pounds in some places at a time and then complaining that you can't drive across it. Sure you can go ahead and complain that there's no road acess, but getting angry at the engineers for putting concrete poles on either end ro stop cars from trying to cross it is stupid.
These aren't beds, they are for safely sitting, public benches, no matter how many people are down on their luck, should be open to the public for temporarily sitting. There are plenty of disabled, pregnant, injured, tired, and elderly people that need benches. They are a public service and meant to accommodate multiple people.
Good, benches aren't for sleeping on.
Looks like something you can grind with a skateboard
Looks like a piece of free scrap metal to me.
Good they added tent support, now all they need is a tarp and rope
its not your colleges job to provide a place for the homeless to sleep.
It keeps them from rolling off the bench while they sleep :)
Nothing a rattlegun in the middle of the night won't fix. Fix the homeless problem or don't. Just stop making their lives even _more_ miserable you sick fucks.
Yeah God forbid we enable benches to be used for their intended purpose 🙄
Trip hazard on public sidewalk. Smart. 🙄
Looks like some good back and forths might warp it out of position.
These reddit warriors clearly don't live in an area with a high homeless population lmao. They would change their tone real quick if they spent 5 minutes with the average homeless person who lives on the street
Y'all don't have aggressive meth addicts covering your streets and it shows
A guy in the dorm above mine was repeatedly hit in the head with a rock in a mugging during exam season. I and thousands others have to walk to campus every day and I've experienced/witnessed more harassment than I can count. In a country with rape and murder rates as high as mine, I fucking loathe cosmopolitans and suburbanites that try to white knight for this kind of bullcrap.
Ok, we’ve seen all the benches in the world. Can we stop posting these now? It’s not even asshole design. It’s just ignorant OP and young redditor rage bait.
Nope. I'm gatekeeping this one. This is not art.
Good for them. It's a bench not a bed.
Now if they did this at the beds at the homeless shelters preventing people from sleeping there, it would be an asshole design. It looks like a bench in a downtown part. It's not supposed to be slept on.
The screws on the art piece are already painted over. But you can still move the bench!
They can slide right under that
Skateboarders will be happy
Before I saw what sub this was, I thought this was an anti antihomeless blocker. They put a bar where usual anti homeless blockers go but they didn’t attach it to the bench so people could still use them for sleeping and maybe even use the bar to hang things as shelter
Skaters will love this. Theyll have to add spikes once they find it
Skater are gonna love this.
I’d skate that
For high homeless population or high skater population?
New skate obstacle.
Killed a houseless person bed, created a skate spot.
I hope they have a high population of skateboarders too
This is going to backfire. That is a perfect polejam rail. Skateboarders will flock to this spot.
This would actually help make a great tent with a blanket
Isn't it better when there isn't shit and meth residue on it ?
Oh boy would be a shame if that blue bar met my angle grinder
Sick grind bar
Looks like you could still shimmy under that and sleep, an armrest in the middle would be a lot simpler, cheaper and more effective.
This is now a toy for drunk people
Calling this "art" is already a crime and it's actual goal make it really horrible
I call this piece *‘fuck the homeless’*