6 Hidden Dangers Of Being Homeless You Didn't Know ExistedBy Carolyn Burke June 10, 2015 302,071 views

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Most of us assume the dangers faced by homeless people are straightforward: You have to stay warm, stay fed, and avoid the myriad falling anvils that you never realized materialize out of the sky when there's not a roof to protect you. And although all of those dangers are true for people whocall the sidewalks their home, there are also a ton of underreported traps and scams that no one ever tells you about.

#6. Psychotic Harassment Can Come From Everywhere (Including The Cops)

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For the world's shittiest humans, homeless people are fair game as a source of entertainment. By this point, you've probably heard of Bumfights, those terrible videos made by terrible people using the homeless for human cockfights. And not the kind of human cockfights that show up in the gay section of PornHub -- the kind where filmmakers pay transients cigarettes and booze to Jackass

their bodies into permanent disability for entertainment purposes.

Calgary's most disgusting citizens took homeless baiting a different route with Creature Sightings, aFacebook page where assholes post pictures of local homeless people ... to make fun of them. Another douchenugget uses a Steve Irwin persona to play pranks on homeless people "in their natural habitat." Someday, his "natural habitat" will be Hell, where he'll be sewn face-first onto Cerberus' taint.

The Bumhunter"Oh, Here no. I don't want that shit." -- Satan

Sadly, all of that is mild compared to what the homeless population endures from the boys in blue. Rather than protecting a vulnerable population of people, it's not uncommon for officers and authority figures to use their position for some good ol' fashioned bullying. Members of the Sarasota Police Department were caught "bum hunting" when police logs revealed messages like "I'm the Bum Hunter tonight son! UR a nerd and gonna get beat up by a bum when you wake up ..."

Officers from another police department skipped all niceties and went straight to pouring warm cooking oil all over homeless people in their jurisdiction. After all, as one officer admitted, "After time, it starts to get boring just slapping people. You have to devise new methods and new tactics to revitalize the hunt." Revitalize the hunt. Jesus. Is ... is this the new midlife crisis? When your sadistic torture games fill you with ennui?

Scott Olson/Getty Images News/Getty Images"There has to be more than tear gas and tasers. I need something ... exciting. You know?"

Sometimes, it's not the police force but the goddamn Army taking advantage of the less fortunate. The Arizona Army National Guard came under scrutiny when it was revealed that some of their recruiters were driving around in Humvees and shooting homeless people with paintball guns. These are the same people responsible for visiting high schools and convincing impressionable teens to join their ranks.

The lesson to take away from all this? The Earth's crust should be booby-trapped with giant hilarious mattress springs, so that we can fire entire acres' worth of assholes into the unforgiving vacuum of space at a moment's notice.

#5. Fines For The Homeless Are A Kafkaesque Nightmare

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Across the country, officials are instructed to fine the everloving hell out of the homeless, for no other reason than that they're homeless. As we've mentioned before, "Quality Of Life" laws ban sitting or lying on sidewalks, so that the unhomeless don't have to walk around the less fortunate. That's great for pedestrians, but not great for the people who are expected to live their entire lives on a never-ending urban hike. For them, the choices are to keep walking or pay a $50 fine. Not that anyone who found themselves resting their bodies on a sidewalk would be able to raise money to pay the fine -- anti-panhandling laws create restrictions on where and how people who are down on their luck can beg for money. And most of these laws are enforced with, you guessed it, fines.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images News/Getty Images"Sir, loitering is illegal. As is wearing dirty clothes and ... well, frankly, I'm jealous of your beard."

In 2004, San Francisco issued somewhere in the ballpark of 31,000 citations for actions like sleeping in cars and panhandling -- things specifically done by the homeless population due to themhaving as many options as a hot dog in a hamburger bun shop.

#4. It's Easy To Screw The Homeless Out Of A Paycheck

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It turns out that many people living on the streets actually do have jobs, thank you very much. There's just the little issue of nobody wanting to pay them. One homeless advocacy group in Floridarecently came under fire for expecting their beneficiaries to sell concessions, do landscaping, work in construction, and write grants ... for free. According to Tampa's New Beginnings, all of these work opportunities were "therapy" for the workers participating in their program. And by "therapy,"we mean cheap-ass bullshit. In exchange for food and shelter, New Beginnings participants worked untold hours doing WHATEVER the charity asked them to do work-wise.

Bernard Gagnon/Wiki CommonsWorst of all, they were forced to watch the Buccaneers.

And they weren't the only ones. A council member in Atlanta hired homeless people to help her campaign, which would be inspiring if they weren't paid in tax dollars and were given more than $5 an hour.

WSB-TV"We can't offer more -- we've got schools to not fund, you know."

Meanwhile, Japanese gangsters hired a group of homeless men to help clean up the 2011 nuclear spill in Fukushima. Yes, for the equivalent of $100 a day, homeless people were asked to clean up the shit that spawned like 45 percent of Godzilla's rogues gallery. And guess fucking what? The workers who were mopping up radioactive sludge didn't make the money they were promised. Oncethey were docked for housing, food, and spacesuits, some of them only ended up making $10 a month. Others left the cleanup in debt, probably because they went a little nuts on the Fukushima cafeteria offerings.

4 Famous People Who Get Away With Being Total HypocritesBy Adam Tod Brown March 20, 2014 1,186,118 views Viral

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Hypocrites and the entertainment industry have always gone hand in hand, but the relationship has become noticeably more intense in recent years. At least it seems like it has, because the Internet exists now, and we don't let people forget about anything. If a celebrity made an off-the-cuff comment in an Entertainment Tonight interview six years ago, it damn well better fall in line with whatever shit they're talking these days, because people will pounce if it doesn't.

People like me, for example! I talk about hypocritical entertainers on this week's Unpopular Opinion podcast.

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I'm joined by comic Billy Bonnell and Rotten Tomatoes editor (and my former Cracked co-worker) Sarah Ricard. We kick things off by talking about ...

#4. Jimmy Kimmel

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Back when all the tensions surrounding Conan O'Brien and his ill-fated stint on The Tonight Show erupted, most of the country split into two separate camps, unofficially identified as "Team Coco" and "Team I Work for Jay Leno So I Can't Really Say Anything but I'd Totally Find Another Job if I Could if That Tells You Anything."

What I'm saying is, Leno didn't have a lot of supporters. He had a ton of critics, though! One of the most outspoken was Jimmy Kimmel, whom you might know as the host of the other late night talk show you don't give a shit about. In the big scheme of things, there was really no cause for Jimmy Kimmel to get involved in that situation at all. He did, though, and since Conan O'Brien was mostlyquiet about it at the time, a person with limited knowledge of the situation could be forgiven if they mistakenly believed that Jimmy Kimmel was the one who'd lost his job at The Tonight Show.

Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Reminder: It was actually this guy.

Kimmel talked about his hatred for Leno during an interview on Larry King Live. He did a scathing impersonation, complete with prosthetic chin, on his show.

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Leno attempted to make peace after that last incident by inviting Kimmel to appear as a guest on The Tonight Show, which he did, but he also used it as an opportunity to shit on Leno a little more.He saved the worst for a 2013 Playboy interview, where he said this:

"I have a filter mechanism in my head every night when I put together the monologue for our show:If I can imagine Jay Leno telling a joke, then I won't do it, even if it's a good joke."Harsh! I don't fucking buy it for one second, but harsh nonetheless! Here's the thing: Aside from tracking down funny ads and headlines (something the Internet still loves to do in all sorts of variations), Jay Leno's most "renowned" skit on The Tonight Show was called "Jaywalking." Have alook:

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Because it's Jay Leno and your grandparents' Internet abilities haven't expanded to YouTube yet, thevideo has just over 20,000 views. To give you an idea what kind of company that puts it in, I have a video of a growling dog on my YouTube page that has almost twice as many views (as I'm writing this, anyway). If you've never watched a "Jaywalking" skit and aren't inclined to start today, basically it's a man-on-the-street kind of thing where Leno asks clueless people really simple questions and then basks in the laughs as they fail terribly. It's a really simple premise, and it's been a staple of the Jay Leno comedy show for a long time. Now have a look at this video:

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That's a video from a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, and it's beating that Leno video by a margin of more than 1.2 million page views. It's also the exact same thing as the Leno video. In Kimmel's skit, a reporter asks dipshit hipsters at the SXSW music festival if they're excited to see bands that don't actually exist. Said hipsters, not wanting to appear as if they don't know everything about every band in town, just lie and pretend they know exactly who the prankster in front of them is talking about. In both cases, though, it's just a matter of numbers. If you ask 50 people on the street to tell you the name of the current vice president of the United States, participants who give answers as entertaining as those on display in the Leno video are going to be few and far between.

Mark Wilson/Getty Images News/Getty ImagesI don't know his name, but I recognize the character from House of Cards.

That's all you need, though. It's a four-minute video; an all-star batting average isn't required to make it work. The same applies to the Jimmy Kimmel skit. If you were to check the raw footage, you'd probably see way more people who either know they're being fucked with or at the very least don't pretend to be familiar with a band called "Contact Dermatitis."

Whatever the case, Kimmel has a lot of nerve shooting down anything Leno would consider funny as off-limits for a comedy talent of his caliber and then turning a variation of one of Leno's few well-known bits into a staple of his own show. Speaking of borrowing things from other people, let's talk a bit more about Kimmel's famous appearance on The Tonight Show.

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Jimmy Kimmel Skewers Jay Leno from Bahstarde on Vimeo.

He's referred to this as one of the highlights of his career so far, which makes about as much sense as George Bush saying the lowest point of his presidency was when Kanye West said he didn't care

about black people (which he totally did). When I watched the interview again while researching this article, I couldn't help but notice one spot that might not be cause for as much celebration. At one point, Leno asks Kimmel to describe the best prank he's ever pulled. Kimmel thinks for a second and then says something about painting his aunt's house green and orange while she was away on a trip. I'm not saying that didn't happen, but I am saying I'd like to see some sort of time-stamped video or photo evidence that he didn't steal the idea from Tom Green.

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Not that I give a shit, of course. Keep that in mind. Not about Jimmy Kimmel, not about Jay Leno, and not about late night television in general. This is an article about hypocrites, and damn if JimmyKimmel isn't one. Oh, and one last thing: Celebrating the fact that you fooled the Internet with a fake viral video made using a major television network budget ...

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... is like an able-bodied person celebrating after they pump up on steroids and dominate the SpecialOlympics.

#3. Miley Cyrus

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What did Miley Cyrus do to get on a list of the biggest hypocrites in entertainment? Everything, that's what. She did everything to get on this list. Her crimes are so numerous in that respect that listing all of them here would take an article all unto itself. I can prove that, actually, because when looking for potential entries for this column, a mere search for "hypocritical celebrities" turned up this exhaustive rundown of Miley Cyrus' extensive catalog of flip-flopping and going back on her word. I encourage you to read it all, you know, at some point, and only if you're interested. Until then, here are a few of the most heinous examples from their investigation:

This video of Miley Cyrus declaring that not only will she never do drugs, but that she doesn't live in fear of looking like a hypocritical idiot should her stance on the matter ever change, because, guys, it's just not going to. Miley Cyrus is not that person.

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Well, you know, not in real life. This song that's totally about doing all of the drugs begs to differ onthe career side of things, probably. Good luck explaining away the next video as the product of a studio session, though.

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That's Miley Cyrus smoking "salvia" with a bunch of friends, all while having the good judgment toask that someone video the proceedings, because, you know, what could possibly go wrong?

Well, we know what went wrong. That video was leaked to the Internet, and Miley Cyrus, at that exact moment, began her transformation from Disney princess to "Blurred Lines" sexual assault victim. I'll let you make the call as to whether breaking with the strict anti-drug policy was a good one, but the fact remains that the policy was broken, and everyone suddenly had solid proof that Miley Cyrus was the worst kind of hypocrite ...

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... the kind who gets drunk or high with you and then lectures you about being fucked up until they finally sober up and realize they've been an asshole for the last eight hours. I don't care how rad her songs make them seem, a Miley Cyrus party sounds awful now.

Even worse, one of the most memorable lines from one of Miley Cyrus' most beloved hits is a simple thing right before the chorus that says "And a Jay-Z song was on," which gets repeated a fewtimes.

Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty "And this party was happening where?"

Really catchy stuff. So much so, in fact, that Miley was asked about that specific line during one famous interview, when she was asked to name her favorite Jay-Z song and gave what has to be the douchiest of all possible responses to such a simple question:

"I've never heard a Jay-Z song," the singer, 16, said in an interview before her Halloween concert -- in which she was dressed as Pocahontas -- in Louisville, Kentucky, this past Saturday. "I don't listen to pop music."Honestly, I don't even need proof that she's lying about never having heard a Jay-Z song before. This is America, Miley Cyrus. You've heard a goddamn Jay-Z song, nobody is that cool. Also, saying you don't listen to pop music when the only thing you make is pop music ... it does not make you look like a rebel; it makes you look like a soulless corporate robot who just records whatever bullshit your label puts in front of you.

Christopher Polk/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Not that I'm questioning her integrity or anything.

In the way of an update, we have received confirmation that this particular sticking point in the relationship between Miley Cyrus and the most powerful man in America has been resolved. Jay-Z mentioned Miley Cyrus in a song called "Somewhereinamerica" and then tweeted about her shortly thereafter. It wasn't particularly flattering in either case, but who is Miley Cyrus to mind a detail likethat? She's such a badass, you guys. She embraced the controversy in the way only a person adept atembracing controversy to further their career truly can.

6 Hidden Dangers Of Being Homeless You Didn't Know Existed#6. Psychotic Harassment Can Come From Everywhere (Including The Cops)#5. Fines For The Homeless Are A Kafkaesque Nightmare#4. It's Easy To Screw The Homeless Out Of A Paycheck

4 Famous People Who Get Away With Being Total Hypocrites#4. Jimmy Kimmel#3. Miley Cyrus