08-19-2015, 08:03 AM
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Originally posted by pahoated
It was tourist killing tourist. This is going to be the consequence side of tourism as the violence on the mainland starts being carried over, thanks to Republicans wanting gun battles across America. The cost of jet fuel is going to go way down, and air fares are going to become a lot more affordable. That will be, things are crap here, I have a few hundred bucks, where can I get away from it all? The woman wasn't homeless, she lived in Pahoa before her boyfriend with the house had to go back to Florida. The daughter is living in California and was coming back for the trial. He has asked for mental evaluation. This is one tourist that is going to cost the island hundreds of thousands of dollars. As sad as this is, it is J.A.T. (just another tourist).
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
Just because someone once had a home with a boyfriend does not mean they aren't homeless in the present. And someone who has lived here for will over a year is NOT a tourist.
This was not a tourist killing tourist deal. This was a "tourist" killing a Hawaii county resident who was sleeping in a doorway because they had no where else to sleep, like all the other people who sleep in downtown doorways. I go into work as early a 5 AM on the bay front and virtually every doorway has someone sleeping in it, sometimes whole families. The only exceptions are the doorways that are gated or wet, those aren't tourists sleeping in the doorways, those are Hawaii county residents.