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random girl

while in UCD I noticed a weird, old guy, in long coat, walking around the campus. Honestly he gives me creeps and im a little concerned, especially i see him and have to walk past him almost everyday.
who is he and should he be allowed to be on the campus?

Stabshauptmann

you've never seen a homeless person before?

cue urban myths about homeless guy...

Dave!

He's an (apparantly) homeless dude, and has been there for years. Leave him alone, he doesn't cause any harm.

Thomas_S_Hunterson

He's Hugh Brady's father

syklops

I have seen him too, and was wondering. Is it really ok to have a homeless man around campus, I mean it does not look that good?

He obviously scared the OP. Has anything been done to help him?

Seifer

I'ver heard this second hand from a few people but assume no liability for it. He's allowed stick around because he stopped some girl from being raped / attacked awhile back.

RandolphEsq

He has been wandering around these streets for at least 7 years. Apparently he is Jesus II

Handsome Bob

random girl wrote: »

while in UCD I noticed a weird, old guy, in long coat, walking around the campus. Honestly he gives me creeps and im a little concerned, especially i see him and have to walk past him almost everyday.
who is he and should he be allowed to be on the campus?

Ah he's harmless, don't worry about it. He keeps to himself too so it is not as if he's hassling anyone:)

Bubs101

Librocop pays him to be his informer and his eyes and ears outside the library. Inside his tranchcoat he has a list of stolen library books and he gets 3 free sandwiches for each one he tracks down.Librocop even invented the "rape" myth so the students would put up with him without suspicion .Next time Librocop catches you, you know who to blame

Stabshauptmann

syklops wrote: »

I have seen him too, and was wondering. Is it really ok to have a homeless man around campus, I mean it does not look that good?

He obviously scared the OP. Has anything been done to help him?

Well my heart goes out to you. I know its not easy for you and the OP; the homeless person is being awfully inconsiderate. How do you suggest we tackle the problem? Round up all the homeless people and put them somewhere out of sight?

Tayto2000

He's here at least ten years now...

Frisbee

random girl wrote: »

while in UCD I noticed a weird, old guy, in long coat, walking around the campus. Honestly he gives me creeps and im a little concerned, especially i see him and have to walk past him almost everyday.
who is he and should he be allowed to be on the campus?

He's been there a lot longer than you OP so he has more right to say he wants you out probably...
Seeing a homeless person scares you?
You must have lived a very sheltered life...

Sarn

He's been around at least 14 years. He's like UCD's mascot. There have been several threads over the years on this issue.

mloc

id say its probably the most discussed non-education topic along with LibroCop and Pat Patterson.

He's been there a good 15 or so years, I live beside UCD and he's been there as long as I can remember. He doesn't talk to people, he just walks around a bit of a route everyday. Think he likes the idea of having people around him, which is fair enough. Whether the rape thing is true or not, he has never caused any trouble and is as welcome in most buildings as anyone else.

elgriff

He is basically the last man you want to be afraid of. Known only as the UCD Bum, he has been dicsussed here many times. The thread that discussed his addiction to the pocket money game underneath the library:

http://squibble.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055241773

Mentioned here too:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=56674862

Seifer

elgriff wrote:

he has been dicsussed here many times.

Lol, sterling research into the archives. A thread from two weeks ago that barely mentions him and one from the start of the year.

Riamfada

Nothing screams D4 like some of the posters in this thread.

Oh my gawd.. A vagrant. I mean seriously loike, UCD is for people who can afford to be here. Loike.

I think the fact that he is treated well and tolerated on campus does alot more for UCD's image than swarms of "new money"

Seifer

Grimes wrote:

Nothing screams D4 like some of the posters in this thread.

That's such bullsh!t. Maybe you're a big, huge guy comfortable walking around on your own anywhere but take a second and imagine you're a girl and you're walking down some of the less travelled paths and he pops out. He doesn't exactly look friendly.

Grimes wrote:

I think the fact that he is treated well and tolerated on campus does alot more for UCD's image than swarms of "new money"

This is twaddle too. Any potential investors walking around campus are in no way going to find him endearing and at best will be indifferent to him.

boneless

An unusual first post random girl. However, the man in question is completely harmless.

Handsome Bob

Seifer wrote: »

That's such bullsh!t. Maybe you're a big, huge guy comfortable walking around on your own anywhere but take a second and imagine you're a girl and you're walking down some of the less travelled paths and he pops out. He doesn't exactly look friendly.

Hold on now, that man has been there for many, many years. He has earned the trust of UCD. It's not his problem if a freshman or freshwoman crosses paths with him for the 1st time and they react badly.

Seifer wrote: »

This is twaddle too. Any potential investors walking around campus are in no way going to find him endearing and at best will be indifferent to him.

:rolleyes: It's UCD, one of Dublins headline University's. UCD has never had problems with "investors" before.

fish-head

The UCD Bum is UCDs prime investor. He just doens't like to show off.

tribulus

He mightn't look entirely friendly but the thought of him mugging someone is laughable, you could purchase and consume a roll from 911 in the time it takes him to stand up off his bench, never mind attack you.

DirkVoodoo

OP, grow up. I think if he were a problem he would have been removed from the campus a long time ago. Just because he looks a little scruffy and smells a bit like cabbage, doesn't mean he is thinking of ways to leap on top of you. Maybe like that girl, you will appreciate him being around some night when services are fecking around the other end of campus.

Jeez!

random girl

Seifer wrote: »

That's such bullsh!t. Maybe you're a big, huge guy comfortable walking around on your own anywhere but take a second and imagine you're a girl and you're walking down some of the less travelled paths and he pops out. He doesn't exactly look friendly.

thats exactly what I meant.
Maybe i didnt express myself too well, but all I was looking for was some sort of assurance he's harmless.
thanks for all the answers

RandolphEsq

Seifer wrote: »

imagine you're a girl and you're walking down some of the less travelled paths and he pops out. He doesn't exactly look friendly.

LOL he just ''pops out'' when you walk around does he? You walk along the main street walkway and he just jumps out at you shouting ''boogah boogah boogah''

Seifer

LZ5by5 wrote:

Hold on now, that man has been there for many, many years. He has earned the trust of UCD. It's not his problem if a freshman or freshwoman crosses paths with him for the 1st time and they react badly.

So he's got squatters rights has he? He doesn't pay to study there and he doesn't work there. He has zero rights to anything on campus.

LZ5by5 wrote:

It's UCD, one of Dublins headline University's. UCD has never had problems with "investors" before.

Yeah that's why it turns a budget surplus every year. You often see groups of people in suits walking around campus or people attending various conferences; he is not going to leave a good impression on those people.

DirkVoodoo wrote:

OP, grow up. I think if he were a problem he would have been removed from the campus a long time ago.

She was asking who he was, she didn't know. How is she to know how long he's been there? And as I said how does that matter in any way?

I couldn't care less whether he stays or goes but there's no need to get all high and mighty just because someone asked a question.

pretty*monster

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Hold on now, that man has been there for many, many years. He has earned the trust of UCD. It's not his problem if a freshman or freshwoman crosses paths with him for the 1st time and they react badly.

Gee whiz, I know I sure was shaking in my stylish yet affordable boots the first time I saw him shuffling around with a menacing aimlesness. Seriously kids, it's important that we discriminate against harmless people who look different because they may disturb the timid, and in the end, isn't that the real truth.

Dave!

That's deep, pretty monster.

ozt9vdujny3srf

I heard he was a total dick.

Pride Fighter

Valentin Zealous Soil wrote: »

I heard he was a total dick.

He prefers to be called Richard:D

The_Minister

Valentin Zealous Soil wrote: »

I heard he was a total dick.

Only when certain champagne socialists decided to be condescending and buy him dinner.

Without asking him if he wanted charity.

Or what he wanted to eat.