Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Are there homeless people in Finland? Of course, for the very same, familiar reasons that there are homeless people in America.

The caption runs something like this:

“A homeless person happened to find herself here in Kaleva one day; she slept long into the day. I’m not sure, but she looks like a woman who’s sometimes seen around the railroad station, whom I’ve christened The Birdlady, as how some Swedish police records named a certain homeless person. This Birdlady also feeds pigeons. Of course I didn’t disturb her, and neither did anyone else. Let the poor one sleep.”

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

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11:07 PM  
Blogger MSandt said...

Are there homeless people in Finland?

The number of homeless people in Finland is nearly 10 000 so I'm amazed that I still keep finding people who think that we haven't got homeless people.

6:24 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes but the reason he's sleeping on the street is because most shelters will only take in sober people. You can't force a person to stop drinking, sleeping on the street in Finland is a matter of choice. Either that, or the person in the picture is too stupid to go and ask the right people.

2:30 AM  
Blogger Finnpundit said...

It's a matter of choice for many in the US, too.

5:52 PM  

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