Posted on 06/14/2007 5:16:45 AM PDT by rhema
They probably winter in FL.
How can I lose my land if I beat the crap out of a POS downtown?
If they ask for money and will accept ****-off as an answer fine. If they continue then it is assault and I will respond.
If I run into one per week, your assessment is correct. But try 30 times DAILY!
That's the response I've usually encountered. Once, however, a young man did take me up on my offer and walked about two blocks with me down Hennepin Ave. (Mpls.) to a McDonald's, where we had hamburgers and french fries. (This was quite a few years ago.)
LOL! Nicely done.
I agree with this statement. If illegals can start a lawn care service with an old lawn mower and a can of gas.... so can these panhandlers.
Several years ago in Dallas, we had the same problem. The more you ignore this... the more aggressive they get. Anyway, one of the local news personalities did an undercover story on beggars who stand on the corner with signs. He would go up to those that said, "Will work for food" and offered them a job. Almost all declined and got agitated.
I personally watched a group in Austin get out of a brand new SUV, gather their signs.... spread out and walk down to their "corner".
There are panhandlers in the skyway, but they’re usually playing a guitar or something, and they don’t seem to be as aggressive as the ones on the street.
I work at Target HQ also-- but in the City Center building. There used to be a food court in City Center. God help you if you tried to eat breakfast there. At least 75% of the people sitting in the food court would be homeless, and any number would come up, while you were eating, and ask for money.
I have to laugh at some of the "performers". Usually, it'll be a guy with a guitar, a harmonica, or even a sax. One time, I had to walk past a guy that was blasting a tune on a trumpet. A couple of weeks ago, a guy was blaring away on bagpipes! The noise was deafening.
I was born and raised in Minneapolis. I am a third generation Minnesotan-my family is from the Iron Range and at one time owned a thousand acres or so on Lake Vermillion. I spent every summer up north at the lake.
It was a wonderful place to live and a wonderful place to grow up at the time I was growing up. It is no longer. You couldn’t pay me enough to live there now. It breaks my heart because I knew Minneapolis when it was wonderful.
PS-Don’t feel bad about leaving. All my family and friends (naive Minnesotans all) have left except one. My brother will be leaving as soon as he can sell his house. The Lutheran and Catholic charities ruined Minnesota by bringing all those Islamists from Somalia and the DFL are the Islamist’s whores.
I was recently accosted in a local town by a beggar. When I politely declined she proceeded to curse me.
I followed her for 4 city blocks, ordering her to leave each parking lot she went into, until we got to a gas station that all the ghetto punks hang out at. She walked across the parking lot screaming at her ghetto brothers to come beat me up, that I had robbed her, etc.
She missed noticing the police sitting there who QUICKLY inserted himself into the situation. She threatened to hit him for it and got a free ride downtown out of the deal.
Made my day.
The young man who was killed by a random stray bullet downtown last year was a close friend of my husband’s. We went to the funeral. It was a tragedy that many people are still grieving over.
They carry knives, tire irons and rubber hoses (They sting like hell). I used to hang out with these panhandlers. I even panhandled with them at one time. They’re not anybody who you would like to fight.
Even money says those panhandlers all have an Illinois state ID card.
I don’t fight fair and I carry.
I will not take any crap from bums and they won’t make me stay inside.
Now they have hordes of shoe-shine bums accosting you on the sidewalk at all hours.
I don’t doubt that for a second. I’m told Las Vegas and Los Angeles do the same to Salt Lake City. Round up the homeless and stick them on a bus to somewhere else.
I was asking a guy here at work about a local restaurant I had heard about that is supposed to be pretty special. He told me all about it and I was curious as to where it was. The following conversation is real......
Me: “So, where about in downtown Minneapolis is this place?
Him: “Um....it’s....ahhh.... right across from ‘Block E’”
Me: “So, bring a gun?”
Him: “Bring a gun.”
LOL, great response.
The bums in SF have always been agressive especially downtown. I remember when the city was distributing food coupons so you could give them to the homeless and there was a big to do about it at the city council. The folks wanted cash.
I don't know what can be done about this if you live in such a city, what with liberal city officials and judges. Perhaps the business owners united will be enough pressure to get something done.
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