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Suggestions on what to do with growing homeless/panhandler problem?

Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:35 pm
Posted by Parmen
Member since Apr 2016
18317 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:35 pm
I've lived in Baton Rouge and NYC, there's too many homeless bums lying on the street begging for money. The amount of times I go on the subway and there's a person going car to car, asking for money with their "pity" life story or seeing some panhandler on the I-10 off ramps in BR... it's annoying.

Here's my idea, round up all the homeless in our major cities (NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston, NOLA, etc) for vagrancy and being a nuisance (when they walk in between moving cars with a cup for coins, when they start washing your car windows when they didn't ask, etc). We get their info and post it on a website. Their family is notified and have a week to come claim them. If not, they are bused out to states like Wyoming, the Dakotas, or any other state with low populations (under 1 million) for the opportunity to start their new life or be hired on as a laborer and sent to down to the Mexican border to perform construction work on the Trump Wall.

Posted by VADawg
Wherever
Member since Nov 2011
44668 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:36 pm to
Ignore them
Posted by IceTiger
Really hot place
Member since Oct 2007
26584 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:37 pm to
quote:


Here's my idea, round up all the homeless in our major cities (NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston, NOLA, etc) for vagrancy and being a nuisance (when they walk in between moving cars with a cup for coins, when they start washing your car windows when they didn't ask, etc). We get their info and post it on a website. Their family is notified and have a week to come claim them. If not, they are bused out to states like Wyoming, the Dakotas, or any other state with low populations (under 1 million) for the opportunity to start their new life or be hired on as a laborer and sent to down to the Mexican border to perform construction work on the Trump Wall.


I've seen this before, in...Soviet Russia...

I lived in North Dakota for years...its our Siberia
Posted by Parmen
Member since Apr 2016
18317 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:38 pm to
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Ignore them



Hasn't happened to me, but I've seen homeless try to get a moving car to hit them so they can get a lawsuit and bankrupt a hard working class member of society for free cash.
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45790 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:40 pm to
The land of the free and the home of the concentration camps...
Posted by Dale51
Member since Oct 2016
32378 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:41 pm to
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Suggestions on what to do with growing homeless/panhandler problem?


Hobo stew?
Posted by Parmen
Member since Apr 2016
18317 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:41 pm to
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I've seen this before, in...Soviet Russia...

I lived in North Dakota for years...its our Siberia


I'm sure apartment rent there is cheap since no one wants to live there. They could go 10 ways on a single bedroom for dirt cheap and get bunk beds.
Posted by Robin Masters
Birmingham
Member since Jul 2010
29611 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:42 pm to
Soylent Green
Posted by Stingray
Shreveport
Member since Sep 2007
12420 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:43 pm to
Beat em.

Bonus points if you beat up anyone trying to give them money.
Posted by LSUconvert
Hattiesburg, MS
Member since Aug 2007
6229 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:46 pm to
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it's annoying.


Aww, you poor snowflake.
Posted by Bard
Definitely NOT an admin
Member since Oct 2008
51444 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:49 pm to
Guiliani cleaned up a lot of that shite in the subways but it's seen an uptick under de Blasio.

In the decade-ish I've been in Baton Rouge I've seen the amount of repeat panhandlers shoot up quite a bit. These are people that aren't just down on their luck but are panhandling for a living. It's why I never give beggars money. Ever.

All the city-parish has to do is make panhandling within 10 feet of a street or highway a low-level crime that incurs jail time and a fine. The professionals will magically find something else to do and somewhere else to do it.
Posted by narddogg81
Vancouver
Member since Jan 2012
19660 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:50 pm to
Soylent green
Posted by Parmen
Member since Apr 2016
18317 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:51 pm to
quote:

I've seen this before, in...Soviet Russia...


Homeless redistribution. Break them up and use them to populate the underpopulated areas. They obviously can't find jobs where they are at (supposedly). Hire some to work on the Trump Wall, send some to Puerto Rico and the other outlying territories to be hired as laborers, etc.
Posted by Mulat
Avalon Bch, FL
Member since Sep 2010
17517 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 6:54 pm to
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The land of the free and the home of the concentration camps...


Please Leave,go to Mother Russia or some other Utopia, we like it just like it is and baby we ain't through yet
Posted by EA6B
TX
Member since Dec 2012
14754 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 7:05 pm to

quote:

I'm sure apartment rent there is cheap since no one wants to live there. They could go 10 ways on a single bedroom for dirt cheap and get bunk beds.


Due to shale oil and fracking, ND has had a housing shortage for years, and some places have the highest rent in the U.S.

"According to a recent survey from Apartment Guide, the region around the town of Williston, North Dakota has the highest average rent in the U.S., beating out other traditionally expensive areas such as the Washington D.C. and New York City metropolitan regions. A renter in Williston can expect to pay an average of $2,394 a month for a 700-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment?—?space that would cost $1,504 in New York and $1,411 in the Los Angeles area."


LINK

"The booming economy has led to some less exciting effects, though – rising housing costs and a lack of housing availability. With local populations doubling in just a couple years, the housing markets have been unable to keep up with the demand for housing. In some areas, $3,400 a month for a three-bedroom apartment is typical..
This post was edited on 10/14/17 at 7:07 pm
Posted by Parmen
Member since Apr 2016
18317 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 7:06 pm to
Okay, to South Dakota it is then!
Posted by Kentucker
Cincinnati, KY
Member since Apr 2013
19351 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 8:48 pm to
Posted by Parmen
Member since Apr 2016
18317 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 9:18 pm to
That’s hilarious!!!
Posted by Bushwackers
Ridin' shotgun with Reese Bobby!
Member since Dec 2006
3787 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 9:48 pm to
Just pull a Kramer on them and tell them "sorry, all I got is $100s"
and drive off when light turns green.
Posted by Loserman
Member since Sep 2007
21855 posts
Posted on 10/14/17 at 10:23 pm to
Ricin
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