Monday, 2 February 2009

A Beggar's Foot

I've read and seen two separate accounts of how beggars are controlled in cities now and they were both the same. The money goes to a master who takes them off the street and employs them in begging.
But they are given horrific injuries in order to make more money.

Today I walked past a man who's foot was in the shape of a globe with bones coming out at all different angles. And it looked to me- I might be wrong, I hope i'm wrong- like it had been done a long time ago, and like it hadn't been broken in a natural way, but it had been smashed repeated times until completely deformed. As in by a human.

But I think the key words there are "walked past." Hundreds of people "walk past" him every day. They can't really do anything else. That's the really horrific thing.

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