Homeless Men Off Streets After Internet Spoof

Pur48Ted · Feb 2, 2008

Homeless Men Off Streets After Internet Spoof

DENVER (AP) - A dirty, disheveled Keith Peeler had been living on the streets for nearly a year when a crew of 20-somethings with cameras jumped out of a van and headed straight for him. Some of Peeler's homeless buddies wanted to run.

But the young people had an offer: $10 a day, plus close to minimum wage, to appear on what they were calling "Homeless Real World," an Internet spoof of MTV's reality show.

Peeler and his pals took the cash. Over several weeks, the producers of the show had the cast members compete to build the best cardboard house, sent them grocery shopping in a well-to-do Denver neighborhood (The homeless got dirty looks) and paid for them to golf on a public course (They got kicked off).
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http://cbs4denver.com/local/homeless.denver.spoof.2.643750.html

379 Peterbilt · Feb 2, 2008

Hahaha too funny. Might be the one reality show I'd watch. Gotta see who gets voted off the dumpster.

leannamarie · Feb 2, 2008

That is not exploitation of the homeless, it is helping the homeless. Look at the lives that were changed because of the show. Did you catch that one guy became a truck driver?

bullhaulerswife · Feb 2, 2008

Denver had a real problem with homeless people. When I lived there, the amount of homeless people were staggering numbers. And supposedly they cleaned up Larimer Park, but my instincts tells me that they just moved them to another part of the city, farther away from the Capitol.

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