I certainly wouldn't call them dumb either. And I agree what has our society come to, since many see problems like drug and alcohol abuse, as well as homelessness, to be societal problems. Our society sets the rules, such as allowing citizens to freely purchase alcohol, a substance that has many deaths on its record, as well as being highly addictive and destructive to the user.
When you're cold, you don't care where you go that is warm. If it's a Dumpster, then fine, it's a Dumpster...but it's a warm Dumpster. Possibly they had gotten street intel that this area wasn't picked up until later in the day, or maybe they just intended to warm up or sleep in shifts, so that one could wake the other if the truck came by. Then they both fell asleep.
We don't know why he was homeless. He was human. He may have had problems in his life. He had family, and he had friends. He had purpose. Let's not dismiss him so quickly. Look around at what the US has become, and what we are becoming every day; a third-world country. Today it was him, tomorrow it could very well be one of us.
