To new depths sunk
I witnessed a heartwarming display of the irrepressible kindness of strangers and the glorious truth of human nature earlier. I walked to a corner store a few blocks away; on the way back, I was waiting to cross a busy street. One (short) block over was a bus stop, and left leaning against the bench there was a pair of crutches. As I waited for a lull in traffic to cross, an apparently homeless person came walking up, stopped by the bench, looked around, then picked up one of the crutches…
…set it up against the bench, and stomped on it a few times until it had snapped in half. He repeated this activity with the other one, then gathered up the pieces and stuffed them into a garbage bag he was carrying, and wandered away.
Leaving aside the puzzle of how someone forgets a pair of crutches on a winter day with more than a foot of fresh snow on the ground, the whole thing was an interesting insight into the worldview of a true social outcast. Rather than seeing a pair of crutches, and wondering how they came to be left there, he apparently saw instead two pounds of aluminum, free for the taking. Go figure.
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