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re: US needs to seriously ban panhandling/begging in the streets and public areas
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:31 pm to AbuTheMonkey
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:31 pm to AbuTheMonkey
It was a joke. 
If I walk to the grocery store, I probably will be hit up at least once. Twice if it is at night, or during other busy foot traffic times. It is quite annoying, especially the same dude that I tell him I am not giving him money.
I don't really have a solution for the problem though. Banning panhandling won't make it go away. All it will do is force the cops to spend time arresting them, and then put them in jail to let them out shortly after.
And you can't really put most of them in shelters due to drugs/alcohol. Personally I liked atlanta's solution to the problem before the 1996 olympics, put them on a bus to Birmingham.
If I walk to the grocery store, I probably will be hit up at least once. Twice if it is at night, or during other busy foot traffic times. It is quite annoying, especially the same dude that I tell him I am not giving him money.
I don't really have a solution for the problem though. Banning panhandling won't make it go away. All it will do is force the cops to spend time arresting them, and then put them in jail to let them out shortly after.
And you can't really put most of them in shelters due to drugs/alcohol. Personally I liked atlanta's solution to the problem before the 1996 olympics, put them on a bus to Birmingham.
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Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:32 pm to Ebbandflow
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lizard brain Republican moron
Ah, the poliboard. Where "civil discourse" is less used than conversational Latin.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:38 pm to brian_wilson
What Houston did seems to be working.
We shouldn't arresting them or ticketing them, but I wouldn't mind a policy in which the police immediately take them and drive them to a shelter.
We shouldn't arresting them or ticketing them, but I wouldn't mind a policy in which the police immediately take them and drive them to a shelter.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:39 pm to Parmen
Nashville has bums everywhere now. It has always been bad but now it is disgusting.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:41 pm to upgrayedd
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Or people could just stop giving them money
Correct, if it wasn't profitable to be out there, they wouldn't be out there.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:44 pm to Ebbandflow
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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.
Good point, it's well known that liberals have all the answers and conservatives none, that's why liberals run nearly every state , both houses of Congress and the WHite House................oh wait.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:48 pm to brian_wilson
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put them on a bus to Birmingham.
Weird, this wasn't super popular in Birmingham...
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:49 pm to brian_wilson
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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.
He had to get him some of that free Starbucks coffee, and then pour some whiskey in it.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:50 pm to Parmen
Take a trip to Albuquerque and you'll probably reconsider how bad it actually is where you live.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:51 pm to skrayper
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Weird, this wasn't super popular in Birmingham...
And I should care about that b.c?
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He had to get him some of that free Starbucks coffee, and then pour some whiskey in it.
he is doing Heroin (i think), not drinking. Although he is black. I have never seen him with a drink in hand. And one of his friends he hangs with is always drinking a beer.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:57 pm to AUsteriskPride
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Take a trip to Albuquerque and you'll probably reconsider how bad it actually is where you live.
The only city that probably has more beggars than were I live is probably Los Angeles.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 2:57 pm to Parmen
With all of the other stuff to be really concerned about, you worry about this? Don't give them anything and ignore them.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 3:01 pm to Parmen
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The only city that probably has more beggars than were I live is probably Los Angeles
L.A. is full up with takers, but I hear San Fran and the whole bay area is worse.
10 or so years ago Louisville, KY had a big beggar population. Never figured out why L'ville was attractive to them.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 3:12 pm to Parmen
The laws on the books just need to be enforced. It's so bad in Nola between in the CBD and Warehouse District. Let's not even talk about the tent city under I-10.
Some of them are ballsy, too. The other night I was running around the Bayou and some bitch was panhandling people who were running/walking/biking.
She tried to obstruct my path while simultaneously screaming " 'scuse me, I can get some money?" frick off a million times.
A) No, I'm not giving you shite. B) Who runs with their wallet or cash?
Some of them are ballsy, too. The other night I was running around the Bayou and some bitch was panhandling people who were running/walking/biking.
She tried to obstruct my path while simultaneously screaming " 'scuse me, I can get some money?" frick off a million times.
A) No, I'm not giving you shite. B) Who runs with their wallet or cash?
Posted on 4/20/18 at 4:17 pm to Parmen
It's a 1st Amendment right. Some of you need to just get over it and learn how to say NO.
Posted on 4/20/18 at 4:35 pm to Parmen
Had this fricker walk up to me yesterday as I’m approaching my truck in the parking lot. He waves me down and he comes pretending to be talking in a cell phone. Starts the classic “my car is out of gas” hustle and how he has a grand baby blah blah blah. I stopped him and asked what did he need. He said a few dollars. I told him I have no cash, what else can I do to help. He literally turned around and walked away without even acknowledging my offer to help. These dumb fricks think come up jaundiced and smelling like alcohol and think they can lie to me—and I’m supposed to help them?
Posted on 4/20/18 at 5:07 pm to Parmen
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US needs to seriously ban panhandling/begging in the streets and public areas
The best approach: make it illegal to give to them,in certain areas.
If you think you want to give 10 bucks,but the fine for that is 500 bucks,you might think twice.
And have some undercover bum cops.
This post was edited on 4/20/18 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 4/20/18 at 5:11 pm to Parmen
I get hit up for money when I’m out shopping all the time. Gotta admit though - those thin mints are great!!!
Posted on 4/20/18 at 5:17 pm to Ebbandflow
Great post...
Until this part
Until this part
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a lizard brain Republican moron
Posted on 4/20/18 at 5:31 pm to Parmen
The effect of the decision in Pappachristou has been that local governing bodies gave up trying to craft vagrancy ordinances. If you read the history of the decision, you’ll find Douglas wanted to create some constitutional “right to wander” and Brennan backed the vagueness rationale. So, you are correct. But, in practice, it has resulted in the situation I mentioned.
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