So said Jeffrey Lebowski to The Dude in “The Big Lebowski,” and the phrase will apply to Berkeley next month. A group of volunteers patrolling Shattuck and Telegraph Avenues will try to help the homeless on said streets by providing literature on housing and city services. According to KCBS, the Cody’s Books on Telegraph closed (not the most recent closing, but an earlier one) due to a degradation so massive, it effectively kept anyone from shopping at Telegraph stores. Which would be a fine theory if, you know, people actually stopped shopping on Telegraph. But they didn’t stop then and they keep shopping now.

So why did it take this long for the foot patrols to organize? Perhaps rising food costs kept restaurant patrons from leaving their houses, and the homeless were unfairly blamed for a decline in business. It’s a bit of a stretch, but we couldn’t think of any way to fault the tree-people instead.

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Foot Patrols to Discourage Homeless in Berkeley [KCBS]

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Tags:homeless, misplaced blame, rising food costs, the big lebowski
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