California: The city of San Diego is seeking people willing to sit on park benches for three hour shifts in an effort to keep drunks and any of the city's 4,400 homeless people from occupying them.
Many of the benches are donated by merchants and they are reportedly unhappy that transients are using the public benches as places to sleep. Attempts to discourage the practice with metal dividers failed - the transients slept upright instead.
In an email sent to community activists asking them to take part it was emphasised that no toilet breaks were allowed. "After all, you MUST OCCUPY THAT BENCH continually for three hours to prevent that homeless person from sitting on that bench."
Source Metro.co.uk
4 comments:
How come no one offered me this job?
I want this job once I retire.
Oh wait, then I'll probably be one of the people they don't want there.
Bummer.
Why don't they hire the homeless people to do it? They would be pefect for the job!
I'd think that if you worked the job long enough you'd become one of the people they're trying to keep off the benches.
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