Yesterday while we were watching the game, an interesting thing happened.\u00a0 A new panhandler was hitting people up across the street, and we were getting real tired of him because he was approaching families.\u00a0 So, all of us just started taunting him from our perch at the Saucer window.\u00a0 “Leave them alone!” we’d yell every time he walked up to a family.\u00a0 “He’s a panhandler!\u00a0 Don’t give him money!”\u00a0 He turned and looked at us.\u00a0 “Get out of here!” we all yelled at him.\u00a0 “Go on!\u00a0 Go away!\u00a0 We’re running the panhandlers out of this city!”\u00a0 We made it so inhospitable for him to do business that he had no choice but to leave the area.<\/p>\n
That worked really well.\u00a0 Several of us have individually yelled “Don’t give him money, he’s a panhandler!” from across streets, but we’ve never really done it before as a group, and we haven’t just hung around and harassed particular bums until they left the area.\u00a0 Maybe we need to start doing that, getting four or five of us together and walking around and shouting down the bums until they leave.<\/p>\n
New security patrols are about to start too.\u00a0 One way or another, we’re determined to get these bums out of Downtown Memphis in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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