Jackson Jambalaya

Jackson only has the perception of homeless

Obviously this woman is in need of help. That being said, the first time anyone attempts to provide her with what most of us would consider "help" and she chooses to not accept their offer, it raises the question - what is done next? If she simply refuses "help", and the federal, state or local governments step in, they will be quickly followed by the ACLU and other "well meaning" organizations to "protect her rights". Society cannot have it both ways.

I've seen her all over that part of Jackson - from High Street to Fondren. I'm told people have tried to get her help but she doesn't want it. I'm honestly surprised she hasn't been hit by a car. She often sleeps/passes out very close to the street over by Baptist Hospital and on High Street.

David Archie Is the only elected offical that tried to stop the homeless problem in Jackson.

Don’t know how anyone could get mad about a post like this. You don’t solve problems by ignoring them or pretending they don’t exist. As for the individual involved, she clearly has no concern about privacy. What she does in public is fit for comment.

Arby's ad: "Come on down to Arby's where we have live entertainment."

Jackson has all of the problems of New Orleans, but none of the charm.

@12:49. Bingo! Nobody comes to Jackson for a weekend getaway.

Solution: Give her a one-way bus ticket to Kalifornia, where they will gladly house and feed her. Alternatively, she could go to NYC and claim that she is an illegal. They would gladly feed and house her also.

"Come on down to Arby's where we have live entertainment." And, don't forget they have the meat. Just sayin.....

If they refuse help then help them to a remote location in an extremely rural county and drop them off in the middle of the night. Nature will take care of them.

In the new vernacular she is not homeless; she is “shelter challenged “. Poor woman…hope she somehow allows someone to help her.

Yes, at first it was "homeless," and then the PC crowd changed that to "unhoused," and now the woke crowd changed it to "shelter challenged." You can't make this stuff up. What's next?

Mayor Lock Away and his crew of incompetents have no interest in solving this problem. It's been my experience that this problem in cities like Jackson are exacerbated by the surrounding law enforcement agencies practice of driving any of their own problems into the city limits...

Drugs, alcohol, STDs, abuse all take their toll on her mind and body. Many homeless actually prefer risky, dirty lives to getting treatment.

Sad but true.

Don’t forget Seattle

I spoke with a well known business owner in fondren months ago he told me other cities & towns are sending their less fortunate to Jackson. I know for a fact this is true it's a guy i use to give money when i saw him out i asked about the people i see he said none of us know any of these folk out here so if the local less fortunate don't know these folk you know it's bad.

Did the police make the panhandlers leave Lakeland at the I-55 exit? Weren't there last week or today.

Okay, I’ve seen ‘em. Roll ‘em back up.

A famous YouTube Keto doc (the one with the hot Nurse wife, and 3.3million followers all over the planet), just this week, as an adjunct to the topic of 'Informed Consent', was discussing the addictive nature of psychotropic drugs - the prescription kind - the kind one is given as a troubled teen. These drugs are almost impossible to get off of, without substituting some other mind-altering substance (which, of course, is no solution).

So, yes, to dull the pain of withdrawing from prescribed psych drugs, people DO turn to booze and to no-telling-what-else.

In my extended family, there was the beautiful cousin, who'd grown up as the 'Designated Victim'. A mixed salad of abuse, from her immediate family, sent her into crisis care/psych care, as an adolescent. The rest of her miserable life, was spent trying to get psych drugs, or substitutes for psych drugs. The initial drugs had broken her brain.

She was beautiful. She was brilliant. Between the ridiculous amount of money bouncing around in our trashy family, and the money she got out of an array of boyfriends and husbands (some prominent, some trash), she managed to patch-over her broken brain's need for substances to dull the pain.

Even after the meds turned her into a manatee too ugly to be kept by anybody, and everybody was sick of her endless quest for drug money, she stayed off the street - but just barely. Assistants WERE sent, to extract her from drug dens, though. Toward the end, her motor skills were gone, and she could barely get meds into her mouth - the twenty or so meds prescribed to her. Her death-by-sepsis, was long and too horrible to describe.

And through it all, NOBODY understood WHY this was. NOBODY had traced her life's miserable trajectory to those initial psych drugs following suicide attempts following family violence. That's why I'm writing this: so that we CAN understand how those shaking, stooped homeless people end up on the streets. I've started saying prayers for them. And maybe we all should do that, rather than blaming them.

This is getting out of hand. I literally saw 2 homeless fighting in the right lane of 55 south this morning. Traffic managed to stop but I’m still surprised they weren’t run over

These people have schizophrenia. They used to be cared for at Whitfield. However, the do gooders decided it was cruel for them to be separated from society and now they cannot be cared for in an “institution”. What you now see is really cruel.

Some of you bleeding hearts say how you feel bad for her and someone should help her. Why don’t YOU go and help her? Truth is you don’t want to put your time and resources to help her. As for me I would rather help stray dogs.