Homeless Boys

[Dodger]

There were reports in Pattaya yesterday of several homeless people being arrested for violating the curfew. They were apparently taken to the police station where they received fines - but didn't have any money, so the police released them with a strict warning not to violate this law again.

I can just imagine how this conversation went:

Police: You cannot be outside after 9:00 PM
Homeless Guy: But I live outside

Police: You must stay in your home
Homeless Guy: But I don't have a home.

Police: But it's a law that you cannot be outside.
Homeless Guy: If I do not have a home - where should I go?

Police: Up2U, but you cannot be outside.
Homeless Guy: If I stay inside a dumpster is that OK?

Police: No, because that dumpster is not you home.
Homeless Guy: Right now it is.

[christianpfc]

I wonder how those [Deleted text] have fared in lockdown..?]

Street trade was in decline anyway, with number of boys in 2018 between 10 and 20 % of numbers in 2013. Lockdown or not wouldn't make much difference. The only difference might be economical hardship, that there is more need for money from the service providers' side, so without lockdown numbers might be higher, but if there is lack of money on the customers' side, it's a lose-lose situation.

There were reports in Pattaya yesterday of several homeless people being arrested for violating the curfew.

Similar situation in Phnom Penh in April. Streets were mostly empty, except for homeless who have nowhere (a room) to go. During my daily round I suddenly realized that the few others on the street were all homeless! It was in the news, and in one case I witnessed, police riding mocy and (symbolically) hitting people on street with canes.