Lived On The Street
Meet Mike Myers. Myers couldn’t pay for himself and didn’t have any family or friends he could ask for help, so when he lost his job, he had no choice but to live on the street. He tried to make money by playing the guitar and begging on street corners, but neither worked. Myers turned 67 in 2017, and up until that point, he had spent his whole adult life living on the streets. He was used to living that way, so he forgot everything about his old life and lost hope.
Lived On The Street
The sad fact is that he is just one of the thousands of people who live their lives in the same way. In 2017, the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development said there would be 554,000 homeless people in the United States. Twenty-five percent of all homeless people in the United States live in the state of California. After talking to one person, he started to question his thoughts.
Strangers Coming Across
Myers didn’t have a place to live, so he had to beg and play his guitar on the side of the road to make money. Myers was put in a situation where he had no choice but to do what Alameda County Deputy Sheriff Jacob Swalwell told him to do. He had to come up with a way to make money.
Strangers Coming Across
Swalwell didn’t know at the time that he would change how this man’s life would go. He only knew that he was homeless, played guitar, and asked for money on Foothill Boulevard.
