[T4RAWR]

"hose"

Originally Posted by MindBomber

IMO.

T4 - It's not uncommon for a person to be charged with assault for spraying another person with a garden hose.

1. Bear Mace - assault with a weapon.

2. Water House - assault.

3. Water House (likely event, victims die of hypothermia) - manslaughter.

If you don't want them chilling out there, install a gate and remove access.

The call will never be a high priority for police, because no one is in immediate danger.

The police will never make a serious effort to prevent the people from using the area, because all that would achieve is displacing the problem to another stair well to no real effect.

Homelessness is a reality of life in large population centers, accept it, or move to the country.

To be quite honest, your concern over dirty needless is warranted, but your desire to bear mace a group of people doing you no immediate harm affords you less respect than the addicts, in my eyes. A better solution would be taking a stroll through the area in the morning to ensure no needles have been left behind, and disposing of them in a sharps container.