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US needs to seriously ban panhandling/begging in the streets and public areas
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:05 pm
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:05 pm
It's a health hazard, dangerous, and a nuisance. Multiple times a week on the subway, either I have to listen to some dude begging me to swipe my card for him or have some beggar go between cars begging for money with some sob story. Not to mention all the people on the streets and sidewalks who harass commuters and tourists.
When I lived in BR, all the panhandlers on the interstate off ramps from I-10, especially on College and Lee going towards campus, especially that old dude in a wheelchair in front of that bank almost every day.
It's a nuisance because us hardworking people don't want to be bothered. Health hazard because these people will walk in between cars, some cars still moving, with a Dixie cup to ask for change. Dangerous because you have no idea what these people will do.
When I lived in BR, all the panhandlers on the interstate off ramps from I-10, especially on College and Lee going towards campus, especially that old dude in a wheelchair in front of that bank almost every day.
It's a nuisance because us hardworking people don't want to be bothered. Health hazard because these people will walk in between cars, some cars still moving, with a Dixie cup to ask for change. Dangerous because you have no idea what these people will do.
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Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:06 pm to Parmen
It's really bad in the area I live and where I used to work. Dangerous and frustrating.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:06 pm to Parmen
Your solution is for the federal gov't to ban panhandling?
Small gov't!
eta: it is pretty bad where I live to. I find it super annoying. the same guy asks me for change several times a week.
on that note, he actually disappeared for who knows why and I realized he disappeared. he is back. I saw him today, but he was far too fricked up to ask me for change.
Small gov't!
eta: it is pretty bad where I live to. I find it super annoying. the same guy asks me for change several times a week.
on that note, he actually disappeared for who knows why and I realized he disappeared. he is back. I saw him today, but he was far too fricked up to ask me for change.
This post was edited on 4/20/18 at 2:08 pm
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:07 pm to Parmen
Support.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:07 pm to Parmen
Or people could just stop giving them money
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:08 pm to Parmen
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US needs to seriously ban panhandling/begging in the streets and public areas
Amen
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:09 pm to Parmen
If by "ban" you mean "make laws against doing it" then you're too late.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:10 pm to Parmen
They are probably all spying for the Great Khan, anyways.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:11 pm to upgrayedd
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Or people could just stop giving them money
Let 'em die off?
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:13 pm to Parmen
It's getting ridiculous in Chicago. I see the same few guys on the same few corners every single day. No, I don't have money for to spare today. I didn't yesterday, I didn't the day before that, or the entire week before that, or the entire month before that, or the entire year before that.
However, this isn't a federal government issue. It's a municipal issue, and they should be doing shite about it, but they won't for whatever reason. It's not compassionate to let people panhandle, and it's a nuisance and public health hazard.
However, this isn't a federal government issue. It's a municipal issue, and they should be doing shite about it, but they won't for whatever reason. It's not compassionate to let people panhandle, and it's a nuisance and public health hazard.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:14 pm to Parmen
You really can’t. Pappachristou v. City of Jacksonville (1972).
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:14 pm to brian_wilson
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Your solution is for the federal gov't to ban panhandling?
Small gov't!
I'd rather each state government across the board do it. I know New York, California, and other lib havens won't though. They need them for votes.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:14 pm to Parmen
One of my friends is a barber in a low income neighborhood in Shreveport. For security he wears a pistol on his hip openly. He also has a mini-fridge where he keeps a couple of sammiches.
Periodically a panhandler walks in with a sob story and asks for a couple of dollars because he hasn't eaten for days. My friend says "Sure, buddy" and hands the guy two sammiches from the fridge.
They are always stunned and disappointed and just walk out without the sammiches. I guess they weren't really that hungry.
Periodically a panhandler walks in with a sob story and asks for a couple of dollars because he hasn't eaten for days. My friend says "Sure, buddy" and hands the guy two sammiches from the fridge.
They are always stunned and disappointed and just walk out without the sammiches. I guess they weren't really that hungry.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:15 pm to Parmen
Where would you like for them to go? Serious question. I know that conservatives don't actually think of solutions when it comes to people and problems but I am very curious to see what you have to say.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:17 pm to beachdude
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You really can’t. Pappachristou v. City of Jacksonville (1972).
1. The case dealt with vagrancy, not panhandling. Search my old threads for my mass homeless plan to redistribute the homeless from the coasts out to the interior Western states.
2. That statute was struck down for being vague. A law that is now vague and is not ambiguous that does not violate the Constitution would be upheld.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:17 pm to Parmen
Remember that dude that was making like 250k in NYC panhandling and at the end of the day would jump in his Benz and drive home to Jersey
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:17 pm to Ebbandflow
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Where would you like for them to go?
Maybe wherever they were 15 years ago or so, when there wasn't one on every single street corner?
Seriously, it used to be rare to see beggars. You'd see one every now and then, sure, but certainly not every traffic lighted street corner, and living by the hundreds in tents under elevated roadways. Now they are everywhere. What happened to cause this?
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:17 pm to Ebbandflow
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Where would you like for them to go?
To work. Like the rest of us. I see 'help wanted' signs all over.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:17 pm to Parmen
Tons of cities and towns ban it.
Where I live it's banned.
It's stupid though, they give these people tickets they can't pay...and being a vagrant they don't show up to court.
So long story short, you can't stop panhandling. It's a stupid cause to fight over and nobody is hurting anyone...if someone wants to help them they can.
Might as well ban tithes and offerings.
Where I live it's banned.
It's stupid though, they give these people tickets they can't pay...and being a vagrant they don't show up to court.
So long story short, you can't stop panhandling. It's a stupid cause to fight over and nobody is hurting anyone...if someone wants to help them they can.
Might as well ban tithes and offerings.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:18 pm to Parmen
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I'd rather each state government across the board do it. I know New York, California, and other lib havens won't though. They need them for votes.
if NY and California want to allow it, why should the federal gov't step in?
SMall gov't!
The city where I live banded asking for money at intersections it in downtown. All it did was move them out of downtown.
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