By Anonymous - 22/09/2015 05:09 - United States - Boston

Today, I tried to be nice and let a homeless man have a place to crash for the night. He repaid me by pissing all over my new couch. FML
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princessbloky 12

No good deed goes unpunished

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A07 48

Didn't you show him where the toilet was?

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Comments

reeper147 14

Sorry but helping homeless people like that never ends well. Most of them are homeless for a reason, and can not fit in polite society anymore. That isn't to say there aren't people worth helping, because there are, but you just can't trust most of them. I work in a grocery store and there is this old creepy homeless ****er who harasses all the girls, puts urine filled bottles in our machines (Which breaks them) and throws pee at other people. They kind of are animals and I have no desire to help them as a result of my experiences with them

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VeganDarkLight 31

I'm sorry about your experiences, but there's no 'them'. They're all individuals, some of them having issues and some just being normal people who didn't have a lot of fortune. So please don't discriminate against homeless people in general.

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johncage 14

All we can really do is act on the information we have. Unfortunately for many it's a probability thing. Whichever study you go with mental illness is universally accepted to be more prevalent in the homeless community. As is drug or alcohol abuse. Inviting someone to sleep in your home places a great deal of trust in them, as well as your personal safety. Inviting a stranger from a community with significantly higher risk factors is not giving someone the benefit of the doubt, it is gambling with everything one has. Good intentions are well and good, but every action has consequences which are not always impacted by them.

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DoomedGemini 37

You have no idea why someone is homeless. They all have their own story, some are bad but some are just extremely unfortunate. How can you get back on your feet when most employers wouldn't want to hire you? I've seen many stories about how people helped homeless people and they turned out successful. Because they were given a chance and helped. I'm not saying you should go out and help them, that's your own choice, but don't discourage it. Warn, perhaps, but they're people. People who could end up dying on the street because no one cared. They aren't just nuisances.

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hoosiergirl94 31

Or...take him to the homeless shelter

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team_hale 11

Why would you let a homeless man into your home, yet alone stay there

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tamesenicole 27

In this day and age you can't just let anybody in your home. I understand that you were doing a good deed but you can't fully trust strangers now. Sorry about the new couch OP

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tlnorman 18

Seriously? You don't let homeless people in your home dumbass. You could have taken him to a shelter or bought him a meal but you don't do that. You deserved it.

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khrystwiztidkid 15

OP doesn't deserve 'YDI' votes?! He took in a man in need, and that man abused the privilege offered to him. OP was doing a really nice gesture, especially when you consider the normal stigma about the homeless. Sorry about this mishap OP, but remember how awesome you must be to help a person in such need. Props to you, man.

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Elban 20

Least now you know why he was probably homeless. Couch pissers get kicked to the curb everytime. Hey all things considered, still got off easy.

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LittleRich 10

This is probably one of the reasons why he's homeless.

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blargblah 12

Being nice is one thing, but YDI letting someone you don't know into your home.

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