Came upon this on the way home from the supermarket. The little insets, presumably once to hold garbage, then fenced off against the homeless and junkies, and once again retaken...
The radio playing, it only wants a TV, a painting and some books for the shelf. I take a picture, then immediately out of nowhere I'm confronted with some 30 year-old broken-toothed bleeding-gummed crackhead, who wants to fight until I agree, then confines himself to swearing at me and backing away...
I'm taking pictures of his house. Now, there's no law against this, he's not inside, and I doubt very much he owns or rents this...but...
Not a regular on the streets, but the alleys attract the more hardcore junkies, and I'm a little pissed, there's no winning with a crackhead, no chance he'd win but you'd be hard-explaining taking a (very legitimate) swing at him.
They rather exploit a disadvantage that's entirely of their own making, I have to say...