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"The right-wing city council of Angouleme in southwest France has come under fire for banishing homeless people from its city center, after it installed cages that completely cover benches used by local hobos.

The municipal deputy responsible for security, Joel Guitton, told AFP that the benches were “almost exclusively used by people who consume alcohol on a regular basis,” and claimed the decision was taken in concert with local traders, who complained that threatening behavior was driving away customers."

http://rt.com/news/217679-france-homeless-bench-cages

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angoul%C3%AAme,
https://www.google.ca/search?q=Angouleme,+France&safe=off&es_sm=93&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=BFWgVMSfKNO7ogTAp4DoCQ&ved=0CCoQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=971

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Angoul%C3%AAme,+France/@45.645821,0.1450394,12957m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x47fe2d85032bc499:0x405d39260eec0f0

"The experiment began with Los Angeles-based video blogger Josh Paler Lin giving a homeless man named Thomas $100 with no strings attached."
http://rt.com/usa/217719-blogger-homeless-man-money

{"He quit his job to take care of his parents, who both fell ill. After they passed away, the insurance company did not cover all the medical care costs, so their condo was sold to pay the bills, leaving Thomas homeless.

“There's a lot of people that are just victims of circumstance and they didn't go homeless because they're lazy or...it could be a divorce, one thing leads to another and the man sells his boat, his home, everything, and all of a sudden he finds out he's got no money. There's a lot of good people that are homeless,” the man told Lin."}