Lack of Downtown Police Protection?

[voltopt]

i ignore them most of the time.  i also never carry cash, so if i decide to aknowledge a beggar, i'll just tell him no change. 

from my office i watch people walk across walnut street bridge over north loop I-70 and in the past three weeks have noticed the same four guys walk across and see them later at broadway and 5th/independence avenue or elsewhere, asking for money.

by the same token, i see the same young urbanites walking to and from work every day, so i guess its kind of the same thing.

[nota]

some counterfeit or monopoly money would be fun too. Give them a $10,000 bill.

What could they do?

[Thaine]

A few years back there was an aggressive panhandler at that gas/smokes station at about 37th and Main West side.  He asked a psychotic person for some change and the dude hit him so hard he killed him. 

Of course nobody deserves to be killed over something like that, but I'm just sayin'.

Sorry can get back on track now.

[Slappy the Wang]

Welcome to 1977.

[mean]

When I see the "shifters" standing at Rivergate or underneath Bartle, I get this irrational rage and want to toss them over the bridge.