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Selfridges is under pressure to remove a row of anti-homeless spikes outside a doorway of its Manchester city centre branch.
Cathy Urquhart, a professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, spotted the spikes outside the store on Friday, and launched an online petition. It has already garnered over 3,500 signatures.
She told the Manchester Evening News: "I was so shocked when I saw the spikes. I just thought this is not Manchester. We are nicer than this." She took a photo and shared it on Facebook, and because of the overwhelming response she had from her friends, she started the online petition.
On the petition, she writes: "These spikes are an affront to humanity. They tell thehomeless that they are not welcome, that they are a problem to be moved on. We should be looking after the homeless, not demonising and scapegoating them. Manchester is better than this!"
Some of those signing the petition have added comments, such as: "The homeless are people in need; they are not pests to be deterred or shooed away. Anti-homeless spikes are at the peak of heartlessness," and, "I am disgusted that people have no compassion to people on the streets and install such hideous things. Help the homeless; don't do things to deliberately make their incredibly difficult lives even harder."
Selfridges said the spikes had been in place since the beginning of December. It insisted that they were not designed to have any impact on the homeless. They were in response to customer complaints about people smoking outside the staff entrance and dropping litter - so were designed to stop anyone hanging around outside there.
Source: money.aol.co.uk
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