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      <![CDATA[LOL. Keep your paranoid self out in the county then.
        
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      <![CDATA[Here's the thing.<br><br>A creepy-looking guy is standing  confronting  myself and my family at a corner where I as a driver am *required by law* to come to a complete stop.<br><br>He's standing right at my driver's side window  within easy stabbing distance  and I am *required by law* to come to a complete stop.<br><br>Is he a car-jacker? An armed mugger?
        
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      <![CDATA[One has to wonder why it is a "better job" to panhandle rather than work. The minimum wage is a joke, no one can live on that.
        
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      <![CDATA[It is absurd to think the police department should be called for panhandlers. You can't arrest away this kind of social problem.
        
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      <![CDATA[I saw a cop driving around yesterday while texting. She looked super busy.
        
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      <![CDATA[I would encourage anyone who truly cares about the homeless to donate to a local food bank or shelter and not give in to the feel-good, misguided mentality that suggests that by allowing panhandling or actually giving to panhandlers you are somehow fixing the issue. On the contrary,  giving to panhandlers only creates more panhandlers and enables the successful ones to continue this lifestyle.
        
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      <![CDATA[Is it just me or has the corner of West Broad and Staples Mill become a panhandling hotspot over the last few months?
        
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      <![CDATA[The National Coalition for the Homeless has stated that homelessness is not the problem (and subsequently the need to beg) but a symptom of a failing in the larger social structure. When you are alone and in need, somtimes you need to ask strangers for help.
        
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      <![CDATA[I agree that its protected speech and that truly needy people should feel free to ask for help. <br><br>This article is focusing on the parasites who will keep begging even though they have plenty in their pocket- you know, like the Baby Boomer corporate ceos who expect their businesses to be bailed out while they play golf with their Social Security money.
        
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      <![CDATA["If everyone would stop giving them handouts of any kind, they'd give up and leave."<br><br>I  was kind of hoping you were talking about bankers and corporate CEOs, but I see this is under the article about 'street homeless'. Regardless, I doubt your statement would be true in either meaning- <br><br>A wide spectrum of people have no problem with taking advantage of society and have no intention of stopping - look at all the Baby Boomers playing golf with Social Security money while the country goes broke.<br><br>Yes, both panhandling and corporate welfare in their many forms (hello Center Stage!)
        
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      <![CDATA[Who said panhandlers had to be homeless? Assumptions are based on generalizations and generalizations are based on ignorance.
        
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      <![CDATA[If everyone would stop giving them handouts of any kind, they'd give up and leave.
        
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      <![CDATA[If anyone really feels the need to ensure that the law is upheld, they could perhaps find it in their heart to tell a pan-handler before (or rather than) calling the police.<br><br>Obviously, "ignorance of the law is [technically] no excuse" but I'm sure most panhandlers aren't so hell-bent on occupying a center median that they wouldn't simply cross the street.
        
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      <![CDATA[If City Code Sectio 66-317 does indeed state that panhandling is against the law, then perhaps a sign stating so could be place in areas where these people like to stand such as at the end of the Boulevard exit ramp (just to mention 1)
        
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      <![CDATA[Yes, because if there's anything the police in Richmond need, it's to be inundated with calls to issue citations to panhandlers. Seriously, the police love when finicky, uptight people with nothing better to do clog up their workday with calls for petty offenses.
        
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      <![CDATA[And remember it is against the law to solicit in any center median. Call 911 when you see a violator for the Richmond Police to make an arrest.
        
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