Hollywood Common Decency

Friday, February 9, 2007

Jim Fell

A paraplegic man wearing a soiled hospital gown and a broken colostomy bag was found crawling in a gutter in skid row in Los Angeles on Thursday after allegedly being dumped in the street by a Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center van, police said.

The incident, witnessed by more than two dozen people, was described by police as a particularly outrageous case of “homeless dumping” that has plagued the downtown area.

“I can't think of anything colder than that,” said LAPD Det. Russ Long, who called the case the most egregious of its kind that he has seen in his career. “There was no mission around, no services. It's the worst area of skid row.”

Continue reading this story at Los Angeles Times

So, is this the kind of real compassion and sympathy that is generated by the Hollywood elite? I want none of it! They can keep their smut. I don't want it in my home, and I don't want it in my neighborhood!

Original contribution by Jim Fell for Correctness Commentary.
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