Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Caffé Vita Employees Say They're Getting Fired for Giving Old Pastries to Homeless People

Larry Parrish posted:

people are always like ugh the homeless camp is getting bigger!!!!! why dont they get a job???? and they never have an answer for me when i point out that even mickey d's and walmart wont hire you if you dont have an address or reliable access to a shower. guess we'll just try to get the soup kitchen and the woman's home shut down again

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Barbara Bradley, an editor with the Memphis Commercial Appeal, moved into the River City’s reviving downtown about a year and a half ago, loving its “energy and enthusiasm.” But a horde of invading panhandlers has cooled her enjoyment of city life. Earlier this year, she recalled in a recent column, as she showed some visitors around the neighborhood, “a big panhandler blocked the entrance to our parking area and demanded his toll.” Now a nervous Bradley avoids certain downtown areas, locks her car when fueling up at local gas stations, and parks strategically, so that she can see beggars coming before getting out of her car. “When I hear someone call out ‘ma’am, ma’am’ anywhere in downtown or midtown, I run.”

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Unlike their predecessors in the seventies and eighties, many of these new beggars aren’t helpless victims or even homeless. Rather, they belong to a diverse and swelling community of street people who have made panhandling their calling.

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A big part of the cities’ woes is the professionalization of panhandling. The old type of panhandler—a mentally impaired or disabled homeless person trying to scrape together a few bucks for a meal—is giving way to the full-time spanger who supports himself through a combination of begging, working at odd jobs, and other sources, like government assistance from disability payments. Some full-time panhandlers are kids—“road warriors” who have largely dropped out of society and drift from town to town, often “couch surfing” at friends’ homes, or “street loiterers” who daily make their way downtown from the suburbs where they live.

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Anecdotal surveys by journalists and police, and even testimony by panhandlers themselves, suggest that begging can yield anywhere from $20 to $100 a day—though police in Coos Bay, Oregon, found that local panhandlers were taking in as much as $300 a day in a Wal-Mart parking lot. “A panhandler could make thirty to forty thousand dollars a year, tax-free money,” Baker says. In Memphis, a local FOX News reporter, Jason Carter, donned old clothes and hit the streets earlier this year, earning about $10 an hour. “Just the quasi-appearance of being homeless filled my cup,” Carter observed. That all the money is beyond the tax man’s clutches adds to the allure of professional panhandling.

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If it seems unlikely that a homeless person would surf the Web for advice on how to panhandle, that’s exactly the point: many aren’t homeless and are lying about their circumstances. A reporter for KUTV in Salt Lake City followed and filmed panhandlers for several months, documenting their scams. One twentysomething woman wielded a sign informing people that she was homeless and needed a bus ticket back to Seattle. The reporter followed her one day, however, and discovered that she lived in a nearby suburb. Confronted by the reporter, the woman explained away her deception: “I don’t say anything to anybody. I hold this sign. I don’t make anybody give me money.” Her story isn’t unique: homeless advocate Pamela Atkinson told KUTV that some 70 percent of panhandlers in Salt Lake City aren’t describing their situations accurately.

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Yet even as cities experiment with new approaches, those traditionally opposed to restrictions on panhandling are fighting back—notably, civil liberties groups and some homeless advocates, who oppose any actions that might criminalize conduct by even a minority of the homeless. In 2003, San Francisco residents overwhelmingly passed a ballot proposition authored by then-supervisor (and now mayor) Gavin Newsom outlawing in-your-face panhandling. But the ordinance has been ineffective because scores of volunteer lawyers, many from the city’s biggest law firms, have fought every citation. People cited for panhandling don’t even need to appear in court. They simply drop their citations in boxes at various advocacy groups, and the lawyers pick them up and appear in court, where judges have ruled that cops must file lengthy reports in order to get a conviction. The courts are dismissing about 85 percent of all tickets handed out under the ordinance, frustrating police, prosecutors, politicians, and residents who voted for it. “If you had been here several years ago, before the ordinance passed, and came back today, you wouldn’t see a difference in the level of panhandling. There’s as much as ever,” says supervisor Sean Elsbernd.

Such battles between civil libertarians and those who want to limit panhandling remain common. Austin civil rights advocates got the city’s ban on panhandling along roadsides overturned; the court ruled that the city hadn’t adequately demonstrated that panhandling was a safety issue. Even New York City, which has long been able to stave off court challenges to its panhandling ordinance, isn’t immune. A local judge has ruled that police have sometimes overstepped the bounds of the city’s aggressive panhandling legislation and arrested people for peaceful solicitation. Last year, a court awarded $100,000 to a beggar arrested eight times in the Bronx.

Shame Boy posted:

I'm surprised they don't mention one of those totally legit honest news stories about how so and so """homeless""" guy is sitting on such a lucrative street corner that he's making $70k a year!!! Or about how this other guy actually has a house and just pretends to be homeless because it makes him so much money!!!

https://www.city-journal.org/html/professional-panhandling-plague-13101.html


OH GOD A POOR PERSON AAAA


See unlike the poor people that you boomers gave to when you were younger, the poor people today are evil.


Wow you could make barely over minimum wage on a good day and all you have to do is sit outside in the weather constantly and get spat on by assholes!


You heard it here first folks, homeless advocate Pamela Atkinson says 70 percent of panhandlers are actually twenty something liars who live comfortably in suburbs!!

Shame Boy posted:

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"The old type of panhandler—a mentally impaired or disabled homeless person trying to scrape together a few bucks for a meal—is giving way to the full-time spanger who supports himself through a combination of begging, working at odd jobs, and other sources, like government assistance from disability payments"

Tunicate posted:

Remember that lady who claimed she got catcalled hundreds of times, then put up video as proof and it turned out when she said 'catcallers' she actually meant 'panhandlers'

Tunicate posted:

Remember that lady who claimed she got catcalled hundreds of times, then put up video as proof and it turned out when she said 'catcallers' she actually meant 'panhandlers'

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Was that the video that was 90% nonwhite people?

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Was that the video that was 90% nonwhite people?

Flayer posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1XGPvbWn0A

Forceholy posted:

Growning up in a Hispanic culture, if you are a guy, you are encouraged to be sexually aggressive. In fact, in certain countries in South America, you will be turned down if you are not persistent enough chasing after some girl.

I understand that big cities have a danger factor and race relations are a thing, but having all the offenders be POC seems like bad form.

Shame Boy posted:

The end of that article deserves its own post because lol


The evil poor people have teams of high-paid lawyers to help them, and our poor honest city council keeps getting its ordinances overturned because of silly things like "you've not actually shown that panhandling is unsafe", doesn't everyone know that poor people naturally exude crime miasma wherever they go that causes people to fall into lives of lawless depravity??

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is giving way to the full-time spanger who supports himself through a combination of begging, working at odd jobs, and other sources, like government assistance from disability payments. Some full-time panhandlers are kids—“road warriors” who have largely dropped out of society and drift from town to town, often “couch surfing” at friends’ homes, or “street loiterers” who daily make their way downtown from the suburbs where they live.

Doggles posted:

https://twitter.com/CriticalRole/status/1179811625651429376

Paladin posted:

I hope they didn't run out of kickstarter money and suddenly need to take multiple deals like this.

bike tory posted:

Their Kickstarter money is all going into the cartoon iirc, they just do obnoxious promo poo poo like this to make money now because it's increasingly a full time job for some of them.

DragQueenofAngmar posted:

the internet poo poo enrages me. a bottom of the barrel prepaid smartphone costs like 20-30 bucks, and you can’t get a job without a phone anymore so guess what, homeless people have phones

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

Caffé Vita Employees Say They're Getting Fired for Giving Old Pastries to Homeless People

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The new deal means parents will have to sign up for HBO Max in order to get access to new Sesame Street episodes as they air, according to Vulture. Episodes will air for free on PBS “at some point” after the episodes debut on HBO Max, Vulture reports, but WarnerMedia plans to use Sesame Street to build out its family content offerings.

The new Sesame Street deal will go into effect in 2020, alongside the premiere of the show’s 51st season. HBO Max does not have a launch date or price at this time, but it’s expected to debut in spring 2020 for a minimum of $15 a month — the same cost as HBO Now.

Pastry of the Year posted:

oh my GOD gently caress you ghouls

The Nastier Nate posted:

this actually isnt new. HBO started producing new episodes of seasame street years ago and they made their way to PBS roughly 9-10 months later. It's not that big a deal because little kids are dumb and they're happy watching the same episode of their favorite shows over and over and over and over again. I've never had my 4 year old complain about watching reruns.

The Bloop posted:

I mean there are like 40 years of good Sesame Street episodes. The kiddos don't need to see the latest Game of Thrones parody, they need to see muppets count in Spanish

Empress Brosephine posted:

lol just lol if you think most parents don’t just give their kids a tablet and let them watch YouTube now a days instead of loving Sesame Street

Empress Brosephine posted:

lol just lol if you think most parents don’t just give their kids a tablet and let them watch YouTube now a days instead of loving Sesame Street

Marx Headroom posted: