Every Spring in Chicago the homeless people start to appear in large numbers. The winters are awful, but they're peaceful and the homeless disappear for a while along with all of the tourists. But it's May and a little warmer and already I've had several run-ins with drunken homeless bastards. They're seriously pissing me off. At one of the towers that I work at, the homeless like to set up a camp under the interstate and harrass the shit out of us workers when we park our cars near their area. Well, I'm sorry you homeless fucker, but this is my fucking parking spot and I've got to go to work. Go drink your fucking beer and shout at people eslewhere! And no I don't have any fucking cigarettes to give you! And no I'm not going to pay you to watch my fucking car! We recently had a camera installed at work that points at our cars and rotates 360 degrees so that we can monitor them since the homeless often fuck with our vehicles. A couple of weeks ago I was working up in the tower and I started hearing loud whistling and popping noises. I swivled the camera aound and caught a homeless guy smoking a joint and lighting off bottle rockets and firing them up at the tower while tossing beer cans over the fence towards my car. I called the police but nothing was done. I couldn't leave the tower to confront him because I can't leave moving trains unattended. Yesterday, while walking down Michigan Avenue with Myriam and her mom, we stopped to look up at some building or something and I heard a mumbling and angry sounding voice coming towards me while we were all staring up into the sky. I looked behind me and saw some drunken homeless fucker coming at me with his fist clinched and cocked back as if he were going to take a swing at me. Instinctively my first reaction was to push Myriam and her mom along and out of the way of this approaching angry drunken bum. He was staring me right in the eye and saying something that I couldn't understand but it was obviously very threatening shit. I wanted to lay him out so fucking bad but rather than cause a scene I just walked off. Seriously, he was so drunk that I could have just simply pushed him down and he probably would have blacked out. Everyday when walking down Diversey to go to my gym I get asked for money on an average of about 3 or 4 times per day. And they don't take no for an answer. They always have something smart to say and sometimes even follow me for a bit until I stop and yell "no" a second time to them. But today, however, today was the breaking point. I was in the laundry mat, minding my own business, when a homeless guy that I've seen around the place several times before who I've seen on a few occasions come in and just shout "fuck you" at the people doing laundry, this guy walked by today and stuck his head in the door and tossed his empty beer can right into my damned laundry basket! I grabbed the beer can and ran out the door with it and threw it back at him as hard as I could. Luckily, the owner happened to be there collecting money out of the machines today and he ran out with me and yelled at the bum and threatened calling the police, etc. So, the owner of the place apologized to me and offered to let me re-wash all of my clothes for free, which I did, even though I didn't notice any spilt beer on them. Now I certainly feel sorry for some homeless people and I believe that they really do need help, but I rarely see them. Most of the homeless around here are just cocky fucking drunks who decided to stop taking their medication and ended up on the street because of it. There are free programs out there to help you get your ass off of the street, but these assholes would rather roam around fucking with the public instead. I'm fucking sick of them all.