Jackson Jambalaya

When you get hungry for chicken, only one thing to do...

This is our capital city?

If my memory serves me correctly, isn't that KFC adjacent to the medical mall?

Vagrant at corner at St. D over the weekend was so high on whatever sitting on his bucket wobbling all over doing all he could do to not fall off the bucket. It's sad the City allows this essentially by having so much dilapidated shelter for them.

Just a simple case of no AC at home and a sudden hunger for chicken.

Send all of these wackos to San Francisco. They will receive them with open arms.

In all fairness, it has been a hot mofo outside.

The person who filmed this video was about ten minutes too late. When I saw her she was hanging onto the side rail of the bridge twerking with every bit of energy she had.

This all goes back to JFK and his ruling that mental patients could not be committed to an institution without their agreement. Then there is the problem that in our area we have no where to put them, anyway.

Im not sure why this stuff is posted and people react like it's ground breaking. Go drive around Jackson... this is the norm in some areas. This is neither shocking nor uncommon. (Yes, I work in all areas to Jackson in the medical field - I see this daily)

Mom?

@12:52 PM - Fake news!

I did not view the video, but content is obvious from the comments. This is nothing to joke about. Real solutions are needed for our homeless, especially those who arrive in that condition through bad circumstances and poverty. Addicts require a whole additional level to get them off the streets! Law enforcement and the government turning a blind eye is not the answer.

That's why you don't see any police on Jackson Streets. They would have to arrest this person & the po po ain't going to put something like that in their squad car to stink it up.

Don't be judgmental, it is hot outside.

"Addicts require a whole additional level to get them off the streets! Law enforcement and the government turning a blind eye is not the answer."

By definition, Law Enforcement enforces the law. And the legal profession has given us laws that make any sort of incarceration or institutionalization impossible without consent. And even when a family can get a judge to have someone like this institutionalized, that can only be for a matter of days before the patient demands a ham sandwich and a new toothbrush and walks out the door.

Please tell us about that 'whole additional level to get them off the streets'.

@12:52 - It was Ronald Reagan, not JFK.

@7:22 - The Legislature makes laws, not the legal profession.

@12:52

Bless your heart.

We need more rehab and mental health capacity in this state, and it needs to be easier to put someone in one of those facilities. Non-consensual institutionalization doesn't need to be too easy, but if you're walking around naked you've forfeited the right to have a say in the matter. Even getting that misdemeanor holding facility downtown up and running would be a step in the right direction. These people, for their own sake, need to be off the streets, even if it's just for 24-72 hrs. Public indecency needs to be consistently confronted to be brought under control. Every person in this town needs to know if you get high or undress in public you are ending your day in a cell.

Wtf is “psychological nudity”?

This state does nothing to address mental health.