Zombies on Skytrain

This is quite a spectacular piece of sophmoric journalism, wobbly logic and cynical indie kid posturing. Of all the people in this city you could have unleashed your embarrassing invective and tortured syntax on, you chose the vendors of free daily newspapers, many of whom (as you so callously pointed out) are street kids, disabled, or welfare recipients.There is an elderly man who hands out 24 a block from where I catch my bus everyday.He is unfailingly polite, whether it's raining, snowing or blowing. Most of his customers know him by name and recently when one the language schools nearby had a class of kids graduating they all came out and had their picture taken with him as they had come to consider him a good friend. For you to tell me his soul is empty makes me want to punch you in the mouth. If I were to employ your spurious logic that because of your encounter with '...a have(sic)crazed Metro vendor...' all vendors are soulless would lead me to conclude that because you are a horrible cunt that all Beyond Robsoners are and I know that this is not true.

It's just you.

They are probably bummed handing out newspapers most of them probably don't even read them. I have seen the metros job add on craiglist 30 dollars a day 3 hours work or whatever. Sounds like job for a kid or someone who is in a bit of trouble but maybe not,I am sure their are those that love people and the Metro who knows. But I also don't live some where that people hand me those things on every corner, that would get on my nerves and I would also hate to see all the unesesary litter.

i would like to comment. thank you thank you thank you, beckett.it truly shocked me to read this quick and practically incomprehensible jab at the people handing out the silly metro/dose/24hrs newspapers. yes they are dumb and empty, but by extending your feelings to the people making an honest buck handing them is simply ludicrous, sarah. your venom should be kept for the people truly interfering with your every day living, not just the people you oh so annoyingly have to pass by and maybe veer away from. what next? are you going to pick on the old people in wheelchairs and with walkers that walk too slowly in front of you? sheesh. be nice. smile a bit. stop being so miserable and taking out your hatred of non-sustainable economic decisions (like handing out newspapers for free) on the poor (literally not just metaphorically) people handing them out. or better, learn about the less privileged than you.

I agree that it is not the fault of the people handing out the flyers I never said it was. I have had jobs like that before(too many). I just hate litter I also don't like being handed things I would pick it up if I wanted one.That is fair... Most people take the papers only to toss them away on to the street a block later. I see them all over the place in downtown Vancouver. Metro should be charged a clean up tax.

I don't see where I called all these vendors bad or a bane on society, other than perhaps for the trash that ends up on the trains...

At least not enough to have the sort of insulting names you chose to use, Beckett...

They're News Zombies most of the time; the job is horrible and boring, so there's a gloss-eyed element to the job. In the morning at Waterfront, for example, there can be 4 or 5 vendors just for "24"... and they stand right in the middle of the flow to and from Seabus... they do get in the way, and I've seen them run into before.

My "jab" at these poor people handing out the paper was aimed at one ass who was pushing other people around while wearing his "Metro" smock. Did you stop reading after the first sentence?

Hey Richard, they thought I wrote it Eh! Listen Eli if you didn't even read the article enought to figure out that Richard wrote it then I can guess that you made your asumtions soley on what Becket said. And Becket obviosly did not read it either cause he also missed the point. If you didnt read it carfully I can see how you missed the point though.

I think I know where the confusion came from; the photo I used was by a girl named Sarah. Bolding the link called more attention to it... but in the wrong way.

yhea, I was like, what are they all yellen' at me for?

there are just so many worthy recipients of your vitriol than a BLIND metro vender. Maybe he pushed his way on because he was..........

BLIND.

Can't argue with that.

"as empty as the souls of those that are handing them out would appear to be."

That's not very nice, they're just people like you and me trying to make ends meet. I'm sure they would rather be anywhere else than standing on street corners in the rain handing out newspapers ... show some respect. YOU could be doing that job...

There's pushing where you go "Oh, excuse me, I'm blind" and than there's the pushing where you growl and push a construction worker that's twice your size physically out of the way...

And THEN you call security to turn someone in for what you just did....

As for the souless thing, it's an extension on ZOMBIES, but I guess people would prefer to see insult where there wasn't one intended.

Because being blind gives one the right to be an ass?

Do you get a little sticker you can wear if you qualify? because that would rock.

This being Vancouver, it's not surprising you have the insulted contingent wringing their hands and clutching their pearls and saying "can't we all be nice!"

tell it to the blind guy, man.

its not insuling...its just pointless.

i agree that it's a poor and pointless piece of writing. save your snobbiness for a movie review or something.

HEY JERKWAD - WHO ARE YO GONNA ATTACK NEXT? OLD PEOPLE ARE AN EASY TARGET, I BET THEY DO TERRIBLE STUFF TO YOU TOO. OH, HOW ABOUT BLIND OLD PEOPLE? IN WHEELCHAIRS - I HATE THOSE FUCKERS....

What if you became blind one day Richard. How would you act?

there's one guy at granville that does a jig and a little bow before handing it out, he cheers me up.

That is nice.

That is nice.

Wow. When I read this article I had kinda the same sentiments as the others.... didn't expect that it would explode like this, though.

Thanks for speaking up, guys.

Talk about people missing the obvious. while you're all wailing we should be "nice", the blind metro guy gets to shove people out of his way and be a jerk?

Good grief people. No one's yet able to say why blind guy gets special dispensation to be rude.

( nevermind which, I don't care if it's their effin job, the paper hander zombies are irksome. It creates a mess of paper everywhere, a waste of resources and it's a corporate feely good make work program.)

At least they're learning to NOT offer me their shitrag paper in the am, and to stay out of the way of people trying to GET to work.

Sorry to say, this really is a pretentious and amateur piece of work. Take this criticism as a feedback and try and improve your writing -- if you can't just give up. I have taken the time to post this as I came here from a recommendation on another site and have wasted the 30 seconds it took me to read this drivel.

Alot of people who go blind get very bitter and paranoid. Why? Because they can't see what the fuck is going on around them and they are stumbling around hoping they don't get hit by a car or someone doesn't rob them.

One of the reasons that not all blind people have dogs is because a lot of the time those dogs are BEATEN by the people that own them for fucking up.

Blind people are disabled by sight, they are able to be assholes like anyone else.

sure, disabled people have it rough, but it doesn't give them special dispensation to be a raging fucktard and shove people.

You don't have to be a disabled saint, but don't act like a fucking asshole either. Common decency.

You guys make me laugh.

J. your comment doesn't make any sence at all. Its just wierd!

THANKS WHOEVER WROTE THIS FOR PORTRAYING CITY DWELLERS AS ARROGANT, UNCARING ASSHOLES, INCAPABLE OF EVEN THE LEAST BIT OF COMPASSION FOR THEIR FELLOW MAN.

On my morning commute there are three blind people (not mice, as the song says). Sometimes they bump into people or accidentally smack them with their canes if they're in a big hurry and waving the canes too hard. When this happens, they say, "Oh, sorry about that," or "Oops, excuse me." Next time one of them apologizes for bumping into me, I'll be sure to tell them they shouldn't be apologizing, they should be pushing and shoving and calling names, as this is their right as blind people.

Richard, dude. You've got some real twats reading this thing.

the "writer" said: "these things are as empty as the souls of those that are handing them out would appear to be."

I think that's the most offensive thing I've read in a long time, I completely agree with all the negative commenters. You, sir, are the zombie. Take your pretentious white bread education and go get a life.

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