• Tesco to remove anti-homeless spikes from Regent street store after protests
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[quote] Tesco has agreed to remove its anti-homeless spikes from outside its central London store following days of protest. The inch-high steel studs provoked outrage when they were spotted outside the supermarket's Regent Street branch and in the doorway of a block of luxury flats near London Bridge. As protests against the spikes gathered pace this week, managers at Tesco insisted that they were designed to prevent anti-social behaviour rather than to deter homeless people from sleeping nearby. However, Tesco on Thursday said it would remove the spikes. : "Customers told us they were intimidated by anti-social behaviour outside our Regent Street store and we put studs in place to try and stop it," a spokesman said. "These studs have caused concern for some who have interpreted them as an anti-homeless measure so we have decided to remove them to address this concern. We will find a different solution and hope this clears up any confusion." The supermarket chain also called in police this week over planned protests against the Regent Street store, which was targeted on Wednesday night by a group of activists: a team of men wearing hi-vis outfits were photographed pouring concrete mixture over the spikes before running down a side street. A march against austerity cuts was expected to hold a demonstration outside Tesco's store on Regent Street on 21 June, with 600 people signed up to attend on Facebook. A separate Change.org petition calling for an end to anti-homeless spikes has attracted 113,000 signatures since its launch at the weekend. [/quote] [url]http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/12/tesco-spikes-remove-regent-street-homeless-protests[/url]
Treating them like pigeons, I see [thumb]http://www.cannonpestcontrol.com/images/productimages/thumbs/510_1_large.jpg[/thumb]
[QUOTE=Chinook249;45082429]Treating them like pigeons, I see [thumb]http://www.cannonpestcontrol.com/images/productimages/thumbs/510_1_large.jpg[/thumb][/QUOTE] Yeah, at Tescos homeless people are considered vile creatures that leap from roof-top to roof top, they must protect their property and shoppers by securing every inch with metal spikes as to keep the creatures at bay Otherwise they might lay eggs and it might become a nest.
[QUOTE=Killergam;45082557]Yeah, at Tescos homeless people are considered vile creatures that leap from roof-top to roof top, they must protect their property and shoppers by securing every inch with metal spikes as to keep the creatures at bay Otherwise they might lay eggs and it might become a nest.[/QUOTE] Dude don't joke, my father lost a few dollars when he accidentally stepped into a homeless nest and aggravated their mother.
[quote] "Customers told us they were intimidated by anti-social behaviour outside our Regent Street store and we put studs in place to try and stop it," a spokesman said.[/quote] Suddenly being homeless is anti-social now? I somehow doubt there was much if any anti-social behavior going on.
And if there was anti social behaviour they'll just stand next to the spikes instead. "Oh no I can't stand right next to the wall! Guess I'll behave then."
[QUOTE=Protocol7;45082568]Dude don't joke, my father lost a few dollars when he accidentally stepped into a homeless nest and aggravated their mother.[/QUOTE] Your pocket change or your life?
Hang on though, there have been "urban design" benches in tons of public places and I haven't heard anything being said about them, despite them being exactly the same as these. I am speaking about the benches with extremely low arm rests that prevents homeless people from sleeping on them, or the bus stops that use a slanted set of rails as seats.
People are also starting to get slege hammers at night to destroy them in protest, so its much smarter to just remove them.
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I saw the pictures, they should just move the windows to be flush with the outside wall instead of leaving a 2 foot gap. PROBLEM. SOLVED.
[QUOTE=James xX;45082628]Hang on though, there have been "urban design" benches in tons of public places and I haven't heard anything being said about them, despite them being exactly the same as these. I am speaking about the benches with extremely low arm rests that prevents homeless people from sleeping on them, or the bus stops that use a slanted set of rails as seats.[/QUOTE] there are complaints about those, it's just that the general public would prefer to keep homeless folks out of their minds as much as possible so they pretend not to notice shit like that. when it's something as direct as straight up installing spikes so they can't sleep somewhere relatively safe it's a lot harder to ignore.
[QUOTE=Smoot;45083072]I saw the pictures, they should just move the windows to be flush with the outside wall instead of leaving a 2 foot gap. PROBLEM. SOLVED.[/QUOTE] Even though that would work, I think its like that so if a car veered off the road, it would dig into that concrete gap rather than plow through the store window.
[QUOTE=Smoot;45083072]I saw the pictures, they should just move the windows to be flush with the outside wall instead of leaving a 2 foot gap. PROBLEM. SOLVED.[/QUOTE] This isn't The Sims, remodeling the wall of a building isn't that easy.
[QUOTE=Helix Snake;45083913]This isn't The Sims, remodeling the wall of a building isn't that easy.[/QUOTE] I work at an architecture firm and moving window mullions and some facing to the outside face of the columns is a weekend project
[QUOTE=Killergam;45082557]Yeah, at Tescos homeless people are considered vile creatures that leap from roof-top to roof top, they must protect their property and shoppers by securing every inch with metal spikes as to keep the creatures at bay Otherwise they might lay eggs and it might become a nest.[/QUOTE] pff homeless don't nest, they lay eggs that hatch into homeless larva which them pupate in some doorway for 7-8 hours and hatch into a fully formed homeless person. i mean they can't be real people after all since they are treated like vermin or pests
[QUOTE=James xX;45082628]Hang on though, there have been "urban design" benches in tons of public places and I haven't heard anything being said about them, despite them being exactly the same as these. I am speaking about the benches with extremely low arm rests that prevents homeless people from sleeping on them, or the bus stops that use a slanted set of rails as seats.[/QUOTE] People do complain about those, but they're less of a risk to people than covering the front of your building with hazards from a sonic the hedgehog level
"Anti-homeless spikes" is an amazing sentence.
My views are mixed about the spikes. While its unfair on genuinely good people who are homeless, I've run into a lot of homeless scum. One guy told me my jacket looks nice then decided to tell me he'd fuck my foreign ass up. Another wanted to punch me in the face. I don't think its unreasonable for private establishments to want to deter those kinds of people, especially when there are many that get drunk and do drugs.
[QUOTE=agentalexandre;45090643]My views are mixed about the spikes. While its unfair on genuinely good people who are homeless, I've run into a lot of homeless scum. One guy told me my jacket looks nice then decided to tell me he'd fuck my foreign ass up. Another wanted to punch me in the face. I don't think its unreasonable for private establishments to want to deter those kinds of people, especially when there are many that get drunk and do drugs.[/QUOTE] I know more non-homeless people who drink/do drugs/pick fights than homeless people that do those things so we are at an anecdote parity and therefore we're all winners
[QUOTE=Zeke129;45090654]I know more non-homeless people who drink/do drugs/pick fights than homeless people that do those things so we are at an anecdote parity and therefore we're all winners[/QUOTE] Drugs, drinking and fights? More like anecdote party. All Homeless people are just chavs who survived uni?
[QUOTE=agentalexandre;45090643]My views are mixed about the spikes. While its unfair on genuinely good people who are homeless, I've run into a lot of homeless scum. One guy told me my jacket looks nice then decided to tell me he'd fuck my foreign ass up. Another wanted to punch me in the face. I don't think its unreasonable for private establishments to want to deter those kinds of people, especially when there are many that get drunk and do drugs.[/QUOTE] this is the same kind of mindset people who are against welfare use. put up something that could prevent somebody from staying in shelter during the night just because like, one out of 500 is violent and might have a knife or something. or we could just like have better/more accessible shelters for the homeless instead of [I]literally treating them like vermin[/I] [editline]13th June 2014[/editline] and anecdotes [I]really[/I] don't work when talking about the homeless, because anyone can be homeless for a bazillion-infinity different reasons. for every personal anecdote crazy hobo with a shank, there's one about the nice homeless guy who donates his begging money to charity.
[QUOTE=mac338;45086794]"Anti-homeless spikes" is an amazing sentence.[/QUOTE] Makes it sound like they're supposed to live in the spikes.
They've had spikes like this on the Barclays ledges opposite Harrods as long as I can remember. They're probably just there to discourage people from sitting on it though. [url]https://www.google.com/maps/@51.499138,-0.164433,3a,60.8y,204.09h,88.79t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sOBpJmj3ZWP2ulf3poN1DuQ!2e0[/url]
[QUOTE=Zeke129;45090654] so we are at an anecdote parity and therefore we're all winners[/QUOTE] Yeah, a friend of mine uses anecdotal evidence all the time, and it always works out well for him
The entire term "anti homeless" sounds really futuristic and terrible. We should be doing something for the homeless people instead of fortifying our fucking houses and stores with spikes like they're bunkers in a zombie apocalypse or someshit. It's retarded. It's also really uneffective because humanists will protest/break the spikes every time.
Im waiting for Banksy to create some amazing art work on them
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