Breakfast brigade trying to resume feeding homeless at Washington Jefferson Street Park. News

https://kval.com/news/local/breakfast-brigade-volunteers-eugene-city-council-permit-feeding

Breakfast Brigade, a homeless outreach group, is asking the City council tonight to restore its special use permit which allowed them to serve meals at Washington Jefferson Park four days a week. What say you?

262 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

View all comments

138

u/Fantastic_Gene1023 Sep 24 '24

I’ve seen some of the homeless people who get burritos from them litter the garbage and then just hang out at the park all day and leave a mess. Seems like a idea with good intentions but maybe the park isn’t the place to do it since it makes the park hard to use and messy

25

u/uhgletmepost Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24

What does that gotta do with it?

I've seen parents birthday parties litter with their kids and not pick up afterthemselves

Would we promote banning kids from parks? No (well reddit would it has that sorta brainrot)

One weekly event does not make a trash filled park, if anything the park is kinda the point of these sorta spaces

Edit: just realized this isn't the burrito brigade which is weekly, this is a daily breakfest group..

Hmm... maybe doing it in rotating park locations might be better 🤔

-6

u/Musiclover4200 Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24

The park next door has a table families often eat at and pretty much every time I walk by there's food/trash around it from messy kids or parents who just don't give AF. Last time there was french fries all over along with some fast food trash. There's also a trash can very close but it doesn't seem to help.

Seems like there has to be some simple solution aside from "don't use the parks", and yes it's definitely not just homeless folks who litter in parks.

11

u/TelepathicTiles Sep 24 '24

Maybe they should ban McDonald’s then? /s

Or I dunno. Maybe just a blanket ban on throwing trash on the ground that applies to everyone 🤯

2

u/uhgletmepost Sep 24 '24

It is called littering that is already a thing just hardly enforced when Cops are busying wanking off at proud boy rallies

3

u/TelepathicTiles Sep 24 '24

That was kinda my point. Lmao! You think they take turns licking each other’s boots, or do you think it’s more of a 69 type bootlicking situation? Lol

0

u/Moarbrains Sep 24 '24

would you like cops to hang out at the park giving people luttering tickets?

I mean that might work on the types who pay tickets.

3

u/uhgletmepost Sep 24 '24

They said make it illegal, I'm telling them it already is lol

I could see a "leave our parks how you found them" sorta buzz weeks but I would not want meter maid type of position focused on such things, but I could see such during 4th of July type weekends.

2

u/Warthog_Orgy_Fart Sep 25 '24

I mean, I wish I could have the same complacency at my job that cops have at theirs. They absolutely should be ticketing people for littering. It’s illegal right? It’s up to the judge and the courts what happens after they’re ticketed. Whether they’re going to pay or not has no bearing on whether or not a police officer should do their job.

-1

u/Moarbrains Sep 25 '24

Talk about complacency and then talk about assigning the most useless of work. You should probably take a ride along sometime.

1

u/Musiclover4200 Sep 25 '24

Or I dunno. Maybe just a blanket ban on throwing trash on the ground that applies to everyone 🤯

The point is it's not just homeless people who litter, we clearly need better enforcement of littering fines as well as calling people out when they litter. The park I'm talking about would resemble a homeless camp if not for the considerate people cleaning up after others and it has pretty much 0 homeless presence.

Also I agree with the posts that giving out food from places like churches makes the most sense but using parks once a week really shouldn't be such a problem. It shows just how extreme the housing/homeless issues have gotten.

3

u/TelepathicTiles Sep 25 '24

100%. I was agreeing with you. I was literally cleaning up a huge pile of trash one time on 8th and Monroe and some douchebag in a truck drove by and threw a cup at me and told me to get a job and called me a bum. The ironic thing is that I was on my home from a ten hour shift. I just happened to already have a bunch stuff in the back of my truck that was going to the dump and thought I’d help out a little. I guess that’s only loosely related to what we are talking about here though. It’s just that there are so many straight up morons in this town.

2

u/Musiclover4200 Sep 25 '24

Yeah a significant chunk of trash around town is from people who toss stuff out their windows or just can't be bothered to find a trashcan when walking around.

The homeless issue has obviously gotten a lot worse over the years but it feels like this sub has such a hate boner for them that people won't admit that a lot of the litter is from inconsiderate assholes which includes plenty of non homeless people.

Ultimately littering is a symptom of other issues and not something unique to the homeless, and it won't improve until we improve the housing situation & have better enforcement around littering.