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Acceptable to call the police to report "panhandlers" at a neighborhood market place?

Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:20 pm
Posted by Smalls
Southern California
Member since Jul 2009
10245 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:20 pm
You shouldn't have to be bombarded by these con artists anytime you shop for groceries.
Posted by Slinger16
Not Louisiana
Member since Jun 2007
21868 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:21 pm to
Free speech. Cops can't do much.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
71114 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:21 pm to
Yes, because they're

quote:

con artists
Posted by PearlJam
NotBeardEaves
Member since Aug 2014
13908 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:21 pm to
Probably a waste of time.
Posted by eScott
Member since Oct 2008
11376 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:22 pm to
quote:

Free speech. Cops can't do much.


They can but they won't. No money in it.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
124266 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:23 pm to
Step up and chase the bums out yourself. Round up a posse
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98188 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:23 pm to
Just give them a Salvation Army token amirite?
Posted by JETigER
LSU 2011 National Champions
Member since Dec 2003
7081 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:23 pm to
Search "Cemetary" and you will find the thread that answers your question.

Baton Rouge dispatcher will ask "did they do anything to you"
Posted by Paddyshack
Land of the Free
Member since Sep 2015
8317 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:26 pm to
I just needed $5 for gas, mane. I was just trying to get to my job interview.
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:28 pm to
Ask them for money before going in.
Posted by SeeeeK
some where
Member since Sep 2012
28059 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:29 pm to
quote:

Free speech. Cops can't do much.


Uh no, it's called trespassing, loitering, etc

The Market is private property
Posted by LSUvegasbombed
Red Stick
Member since Sep 2013
15464 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:29 pm to
i discovered there are 2-4 sleeping under bluebonnet between the two walls getting onto the interstate.

They use the electrical outlet at the gas station right there by Cadillac Cafe to charge their Iphones
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
113952 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:33 pm to
If you do, wait until right before you go back next time. Because if you call them now and they actually do something, it will give them enough time to get right back to where they are the next time you go there.

Just ignore the frick out of them. That's what I do. I don't even give them the time of day.

You can't call the police every time there is something that makes you feel uncomfortable, but seriously. Once you start to ignore the frick out of them you will get used to it and it will eventually not even bother you anymore.
Posted by ThuperThumpin
Member since Dec 2013
7323 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:36 pm to
A few weeks ago I was at the College Drive Walmart. Now I was expecting to be hustled at least once but I was stopped several times on the way out and way in. They were and I'm not exaggerating lining the side of the building without even a sob story just asking for money. Several seemed very intoxicated. An officer with the BR Sherrif was standing inside the entrance and I asked him if he could do anything b/c this is getting out of control and in one of these confrontations someone is going to zig when he should've zagged and well it wont be pretty.
He told me he agreed but there is nothing he can do. Really? He then in a pissed off manner said Askin for money aint illegal son. So at least at that location the cops dont give a shite.
Posted by LSUJML
BR
Member since May 2008
45583 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:42 pm to
quote:

Free speech. Cops can't do much.


It’s bs when someone walks up to you on an aisle pushing a buggy with a box of diapers & a couple of cans of formula & hands you a note asking for money
They have to use a note because they don’t speak English

Has happened to me twice
Posted by LSUvegasbombed
Red Stick
Member since Sep 2013
15464 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:42 pm to
lets start a go fund me for two billboards on I10 at highland and one right before college to tell motorists to stop giving money to the bums
Posted by Nicky Parrish
Member since Apr 2016
7098 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:43 pm to
quote:

Free speech. Cops can't do much.

Now if they had a dog . . . . .
Posted by MikeBRLA
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2005
16464 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:44 pm to
quote:

He told me he agreed but there is nothing he can do. Really? He then in a pissed off manner said Askin for money aint illegal son.


Loitering is illegal in Louisiana however.
Posted by Anaximander
3524 Third St New Orleans, LA
Member since Jun 2018
3412 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:49 pm to
I had one woman outside of Walmart in Harahan give me this sob story about having just gotten to New Orleans to stay at her sisters but her sister had an accident and they had no where to stay and no money for gas to get back home. She threw in a lot of details. Problem was she had hit me with this same story at least six months prior. When pointed it out she got verbally violent and tried to come after me until I reached in my car and grabbed a bat.

The ones on the corners who go in and out of traffic annoy me because one is going to get hit and you know some PIECE OF GODLESS EXCREMENT plaintiff attorney will take their case and some PIECE OF GODLESS EXCREMENT judge will award them money.
Posted by Ponchy Tiger
Ponchatoula
Member since Aug 2004
45131 posts
Posted on 8/14/19 at 12:51 pm to
quote:

Ask them for money before going in.


That is what I do when I see one coming. I ask them for money before they can ask me. Some laugh it off, some get pissed off.
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