jail or the streets?

[alien girl]

if you had to choose between six months in jail with white-collar, non-violent criminals, no violence from staff, good food and medical care available, but NOT free to walk in the building freely, locked in a cell, allowed one hour a day in the yard.

and the streets in California weather, with enough money to buy food and a free hospital nearby, six months. can sleep on a park bench or in the woods. what would you prefer?

i'd take the streets, in a heartbeat. even if i was hungry and it was cold, as long as not cold enough to freeze to death, and as long as I wouldnt completely starve, hungry but not to the extreme.

 

[Etzelaire]

Jail.

 

[Harrison]

I've done the streets quite a few times, so at my age I choose jail.

 

[Spiller]

Done the streets, lived in my car, never tried jail.. but the thought of the loss of freedom.. nononono!

 

[Judge]

Sorry, can't give you a conditional response to that.

That sort of failure is not an option for me. I'll spare you the details.

 

[Ste11aeres]

Jail. I live in California, in an area with lots and lots of homeless, and that is enough to convince me that the homeless option is not a good one.
Not much freedom in either option, really. But mental freedom can't be taken away. At least I wouldn't get horrible sunburned in jail. I hate the California sun.

 

[Ian114]

Having been on the streets for a long time, I'd definitely take the streets over jail, as long as I have a warm sleeping bag.

I have a house now, to be clear.

 

[AsheSkyler]

I'll take my chances with the coyotes and squirrels in the woods. I've nestled up in leaves before and it shouldn't be that difficult to find a library that'd let me brush up on survival skills and what things I can eat in the wild. Jail? I'd go more insane than I am already! I don't do well boxed up and caged away.

 

[alien girl]

I'll take my chances with the coyotes and squirrels in the woods. I've nestled up in leaves before and it shouldn't be that difficult to find a library that'd let me brush up on survival skills and what things I can eat in the wild. Jail? I'd go more insane than I am already! I don't do well boxed up and caged away.

I'm not sure I'm completely sane either.

 

[Axeman52]

Considering the way homeless people are treated compared to prisoners in the UK, definitely jail.

 

[clg114]

Jail, I'm to old to live on the streets.

 

[Flinty]

Definitely jail. I can learn how to commit lucrative crimes in a mere 180 hours.

 

[Suiseiseki]

As long as I can dance in the streets

 

[babybird]

I'll choose jail. Have lived rough before and I've also been locked up a few times.

Living rough is ok when you're a kid but at least in jail you get a bed, shower, tv and three meals a day. The company's not too bad either.

I'm pretty easy going anyway, so six months wouldn't bother me that much.

 

[Spiller]

I'll choose jail.

Ooooh, I must be total wimp! I can live in the wild, but I'd crumble in there.. Respect!

 

[babybird]

I don't mind living in the wild as long as I've got a tent, a kettle and a camping stove. Oh, and a sleeping bag wouldn't go amiss either.

Under those circumstances then I would choose to sleep rough, but I'd call that camping.

 

[Spiller]

You sound like the perfect post-apocolypse surviver.. (non zombie-fodder) bit of a.. hobby of mine.. more respect, Dudess!

Note: Does this make me seem weird?
Feedback welcome!

 

[babybird]

You sound like the perfect post-apocolypse surviver.. (non zombie-fodder) bit of a.. hobby of mine.. more respect, Dudess!

Note: Does this make me seem weird?
Feedback welcome!

Personally, I don't often think about zombies, but that doesn't mean that you're weird.

 

[umbrellabeach]

Jail. I tend to stay in the same room for long periods of time anyway. I wonder if they'd let me bring my laptop, even without Internet.

 

[King_Oni]

I'm going on a limb here and it would take about a day before I end in jail if I were in the streets.. and another day to be in solitairy, lol.

The upside of solitary probably is that you can drop the soap...

So actually.. I guess I'd have the total package and be that kind of hobo globetrotter among the choices.