Streets Of Plenty - 4 of 7 - Vancouver Homeless Doc

[SethHesio]

Is it wrong that I was kinda rooting for this douche bag to get Hep C... if Karma exists... then surely that would happen.

[hotgluegunfun1]

@1:17 watch the male in the black coat. Either he is part of the camera crew or suspicious. Watch from 1:10 on

[vmh1973]

at the 4 and a half minute mark this guy whos wearing a camoflauge coat i met while vacationing in vancouver.i was showing my girlfriend how bad it is compared to our city of edmonton when i got a flat tire on hastings.this guy i'm talking about was walking by when he stopped and asked me if he could help.to make a long story short we had the wrong type of jack and could'nt quite get the truck high enough. but we got it and i am greatful for his kindnes.if you see this bud thanks again ur #1 :)

[1xSpiike]

Notice at the end when he says, "Im homeless and high in the nastiest alley in the city" You hear his voice tone slightly higher than normal and you can tell he is smiling whilst he has recorded that. Whats there to smile about that ?

[mytotallyawesomename]

@1xSpiike FUCK YOU SPOILER!@@@

[1xSpiike]

@mytotallyawesomename WHY READ THE FUCKING COMMENTS BEFORE THE VIDEO THEN AND ITS ONLY THE END OF PART 4 FFS!!

[reidmeyers]

oh great stealing from charity too. This guys is such a saint...

[area51er6]

how come nobody steals his camera



[silentwinter]

flagged for child abuse

[richiejacklov]

@silentwinter crybaby bitch

[cfuller86]

fake a mental illness, try crack, steal from the homeless, take $10 bucks from a man who surely needs it more than you and we're only half way through. Did you THINK before you did any of this? PATHETIC!

[MrJeantina78]

@cfuller86 i think if making this document caused him to sympathize rather than judge and he has money then he is actually DOING more than he would have and more doing to help more people while at least he is not sick yet AND the document changed his mind on issues.

[theeturnone]

damn, you can actually tell when shit is starting to nosedive. . very good doc so far. . actually one of the best i have seen in awhile and im a doc junkie. . lol . . VERY GOOD

[joeblowthehot]

hey OK lets put `perfect Teeth `into the joint for a stretch..then toss his ass back on the street.. ( with a worker ) then he will experience a better quality Stereo of what it is truly like..oh the crack,,ha.. cracked me up..

[crackernumber2]

guy is a fucking goof, he is just a moron for smoking crack just to be cute

[LikesTruth]

And there's nothing "unprecedented" about exploiting those with less than you. It's called common practice. Though you are all quite self congratulatory, while you look at the mayor with such judgment as if he alone can and should solve the problem. What are YOU doing? Besides patting yourself on the back for this piece of shit?

Your cop friend said go and experience, not go take your fancy video equipment and exploit people who may never have the money to get video for a camera, forget the cam.

[LikesTruth]

"wish me luck"? Seriously? U know who I wish luck 2, u vulture, is Jack. He's way more empathetic to a rich white vulture than u r 2 them. Says a lot when a cop is more understanding homeless people than u dude.

I also "wish luck" 2 the guy/girl who's blanket u stole. What a douchey thing 2 do. Most of all I wish luck 2 Crystal. What a beautiful soul she is;I hope the most 4 her. How generous was she 2 u.& do u know anything about where she's at now? Or r u in ur warm bath in ur swanky apt?

[CCRider100]

Smoking crack for the pupose of this documentary is not a smart thing to do, many an addict has gotten hooked with just one toke.

[skateweedfun]

what is the adress of crack alley?

[PhantomFreakV2]

@skateweedfun Downtown Eastside, you can pretty much be harassed by any sort of drug dealer, bum or etc... around there...i don't recommend going around there at night.

[skateweedfun]

@PhantomFreakV2 Yes i've been all around the DTES when i was in vancouver two months ago,

it's a different world! Is "crack alley" the alley right across from the insight clinic on mainstreet?

[PhantomFreakV2]

@skateweedfun I'm pretty sure & i wouldn't want to go in that alley anyways, bunch of joneserz

[MrAudacia]

i cannot believe he fucking did that. i understand the whole wanting to experience something to understand it shit... but jesus fuck. you dont start on crack to understand addiction... thats just fucking stupid. beyond stupid. fuck.

[dubbedcrazy]

the cartoon homeless guy guy was given a rig and some capsules!! it was not crack!

he got burned :(

[Tonystarkes888]

this is great who made this documentry

[orion1979z]

You do crack ONCE, you do crack for life. DONT DO CRACK, it will **** you up. It is more addictive than heroine or tobacco.

There is a reason why it is so addictive. Heroine is candy compared to Crack. The reason it is so addictive because the dealer/crackchemist can make huge profit.

[CheStillFighting]

that philosopher is a joke, typical of academia, the arrogance and hatred towards the poor. "those bastards chose to live in horrendous conditions, they dont need help, they need punishment". that typical ignorance of intellectuals is sickening.

[lastmondaypast1]

it's so hard to watch someone do crack for the first time. i almost want to cry. its just terrible and nobody should ever do it even once. It's so hard to kick it feels like your gonna die.

[cgraf420]

Smoke some fags and play some pool pretend you never went to school still you'll never get it right cos when you laid in bed at night watching roaches climb the wall if you call your Dad he could stop it all Youll never live like common people youll never do what common people do you'll never fail like common people you'll never watch your life slide out of view laugh along with the common people even though theyre laughing at you and the stupid things that you do cos you think that poor is cool

[devolutionone]

That is the best documentary I've seen! Damn the guy is doing it all he even goes too far in my opinion. I'm scared for him now... But very original material, whatever anybody says,not so many people would have done all that..

[jackrowet1234]

"The price is one 10-rock" hahaha totally DTES

[DJChibbs]

Hes fuckin gonna get high? what a lunatic. some people can be hooked INSTANTLY to crak and dope. what a fucking idiot.

[Lucailey]

I really hope he gave those clothing and such back to the homeless people in the end...

[tymarie28]

Oh bah!!! I was very expiermental in my 20's and I had tried crack a few times in the good ol' days. You STOP when the party's over if you don't CHOOSE to be homeless crackhead! Get it? I didn't CHOOSE to end up like that so I DIDN'T!!! Went on to have a fabulous life so far in fact :)

[lesterclaypool1]

@tymarie28

I'm guessing that you probably didn't get turned loose from a mental facility when the funding was cut off, or get thrown out of the foster care system at 16 with $220 unable to afford the medications that were fed to you and with no life skills to market?

You smoking crack in your parents home doesn't compare to what put a lot of these people on the street.

[wannaknowit]

I haven't yet watched all parts of this,but I'd never ever jump into a trash can not being aware what is inside...serious,even lethal diseases he can get.I'd never wash my face in mud puddle water,no way. Also he did other certain things I'd never do,he simply jeopardized his health/life. Even if I was offered stacks of dosh I would not do any of these things. I am too choosy.

[sablebrusqueEH]

if yo crazy enough to do crack n heroin u probs smoke weed.

[mark84j]

When you make a documentary about a distinct segregation of people, in this case the homeless in Vancouver, you don't your focus to be "Here I am. Here I was." You want it to be "Here they are."

This guy made HIMSELF his project.

[campbpar]

Look at this faggot batting his eyes for the camera. Totally unfucking professional documentary.

[vherman24]

I think this movie is disgusting. A rich boy trying to understand what it is like to be homeless, yet he goes through the whole movie judging everyone he encounters, and I don't think taking it very seriously. I think it must be because he knows his situation is temporary.

[greenhorns99]

@vherman24 very true, i agree

[dorweber1]

that is a foolish move doing crack on camera for the first time and you did finish what you had didnt you well you wantedto big time

[saisumimen]

You guys criticized him in the beginning because he wasn't using drugs like the other homeless, but when he does it, you get mad and yell "OMG WHY IS HE SMOKING CRACK!!!1".

Youtube has bipolar disorder.

[cgraf420]

@saisumimen that's not exactly it. we are just criticizing every aspect of this documentary because it is a piece of shit.

[Blunted206]

OMFG he actually smoked crack I almost didn't think he would but wow :O are you insane?

[BeyondChange]

1st time you try crack, you are hooked. Everyone is! Dumbest mistake anyone can make is try it out once

[nonfoods1]

2 weeks on opiates this guy would despise

Socialist canofduh.

[CellarDoor06]

Ain't nothing like a big blast of crack...Thank whoever I was able to give it up. (:

[donttrustany1]

You seriously stole from an actual homeless person.

A homeless persons bedding none the less?

again and again and again... fuck you!

[one9nik]

sloppy journalism.

[Donkolopis]

Oh that guy is a "philosopher" so he knows about the problems of homelessness, well i am a "philosopher" and like most of our profession (excluding him obviously) I am dirt poor, and as a philosopher i can say that making things easier for the homeless is not the cause of homelessness, this is obviously false because there would of never of been services for them if homeless people hadnt come first, it also ignores that people oppose regular society and escape to the streets out of protest

[johndang604]

PLZ TELL ME HE DIDNT SMOKE CRACKK

[JoJo12522]

@johndang604 OMG! IKR? How is that helping his 30 day experiment? Fuck up your life for a month long thing.

[aquilinonyc]

@johndang604 I hope it doesn't turn into a full-blown addiction.

[Shukria123]

Dr. Kurt Preinsberg is a flaming prick. 

[prismviolet]

thats such a shame that people's donations are sold for crack :(

sigh, oh well

[Georgie2500]

this doc doesnt do one bit of good with all the mis information

[T3hRedSkullNinja]

@Georgie2500 this documentary is the most realistic i have ever seen. show me a better one

[Georgie2500]

WHY THE HELL WOULD HE SMOKE CRACK...

[mookixox]

@Georgie2500 To prove that people who are addicted to crack WANT to be addicted...

[nelosw20]

this is a pretty amazing piece. Well done guys and big props to Mischa for being a guinea pig. Ironically I think the hardest part to do would be the bit at the start where he's walking around in *just* his underwear and backpack haha.

[mahound9]

I do know everybody in this. When Steve is talking while walking over Cambie bridge, the guy in the front in the red jacket, I once witnessed raising a stink in the old Burger king on Granville and when the cops showed up, he got on the pay-phone to call 911 and complain. From his side of the conversation with whoever was on the other end, I don't think that they were being very responsive.

[Dutchyks]

this guy is actually intellectually challenged

[shelski72]

I not in fauer trowing mone - we ge too gaaanrous - fuck

[tigerchild1986]

this philospher is a fckin retard i lived out there as a homeless crack head n now i got an education with a good career and a family i was young wenough to do a turn around but fck he is a tard

[IdunCareLesSn00b]

bullshit he smoked crack

[gamefan405]

@IdunCareLesSn00b I've smoked crack before...And all I've got to say, is if he didn't hes a very very good actor.

[XCJimmyXC]

thanks for the upload

[gnomit]

man, at the start of the video i was like, this guys a tool... but man does he ever have balls!!

[oxycodonez]

@gnomit

shut up

[billnyethe1742]

@gnomit same here man I thought he would never do the shit he does.

[GoldDontMould]

Thank you guys for being so brave and showing the harsh reality that is part of Vancouver. Addiction does seem to be the real issue that needs workable solutions.

[Quasione]

Waht a wake up call!

[gagundi55]

dude, i can use a thesaurus too. Douche

[omgiheartpie]

It's called expressing your thoughts lucidly, "Douche"

[omgiheartpie]

It's very discomposing to know that a fucking Miley Cyrus video on youtube has more views than a thought - provoking video like this. There are masses of ignorant, disinclined idiots who choose to dissipate their time on inconsequential and frivolous things instead of being aware of major issues internationally. This world is going to hell. My worries are, however, mitigated as this film won an award.

[MAKER6450]

@omgiheartpie you're the one wasting time lookn and bitching at views on a damn youtube vid ect ect.

your comment is pathetic.

[omgiheartpie]

@MAKER6450 what's really pathetic is you commenting on a 4 month old comment and asserting your "internet toughness". Way to contradict yourself by the way, talk about wasting time.

[MAKER6450]

@omgiheartpie you know im right.

there is no "internet toughness" in my comment...thats all in your head.

[mariaisabelvermelho]

right on dr

[charmeyn2]

that Philosopher needs to stick his philosophy where the sun don't shine

[UniQueLyEviL]

It's so interesting observing the exact moment that someone gets high like that...O_O

[oxycodonez]

@UniQueLyEviL

go try it, it's fun

[t0nyc0lin]

who held the camera?

[OscarLimaMike]

Bill Bennet and his fiscal restraint horse shit of the eighties supported by the voters of this province pushed the mentally ill out on the streets and kept the money that used to fund their treatment and housing to give away to their private financial backers in the form of tax cuts conning the public with the old Reagan B.S. of trickle down economics. The facts bear that out. The Liberals ARE the Socreds, having changed their label to fool a gullible public, it was NOT the NDP.

[OscarLimaMike]

The Social Credit vermin slithered under the Liberal banner they claimed to hate back in the eighties because it reminded all the ignorant rubes and politically illiterate hicks of Trudeau giving them the finger. Most of the clowns of this province support conservative politicians even though it goes against their own interests because they are too dim witted to realize where their interests lie. They swallow any shit the corporate owned media shovels into their mouths unquestioningly

[OscarLimaMike]

And this situation among others is what you get when you sleep walk through the political process. At least conservatives go out to vote.... that's why they win that and the fact they are supported by wealthy banking corporate and media interests. I know why Trudeau gave the finger... he knew and didn't keep it a secret that the rural hicks in this province are not worthy of respect. Unfortunately we all pay the price of political illiteracy.

[stogieman2]

the de-institutionalization of the mentally ill was started during the regime of Premier Bill Bennett and continued unabated through the subsequent Socred, NDP and Liberal regimes. It has been going on since 1986.

[DavieWestmacott]

While I agree in part to what the philosopher is saying there is a huge exception. Mental illness (actual, not the one you faked). Closing riverview was one of the biggest mistakes grodo and friends ever made, and there have been some good ones.