Anyone noticing more intersection panhandling?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes everywhere and now in parking lots and drive throughs, they come right up to your window aggressively. One guy mocked us two days ago! Really getting crazy around here.

some racing driver got murdered at a CA gas station I think by a panhandler

Yup, big NASCAR star.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some are dressed very well- nice new shoes, backpacks etc. The ones who bring their children really concern me, especially at intersections. I’ve had a few knock on my car windows on streets and at parking lots. It does seem too organized. I’ve seen them leave the granola bars given by good samaritans on the median.

I wish it was against the law, but until then it’s best to give nothing.

The police in Fairfax County will tell you straight-up its organized and where people are dropped off, etc. No one needs to speculate.

[Anonymous]

it's horrible around here now. At little river turnpike and 495 there is the same 4 people on each corner they all work 8 hours a day, the same older guy with the elbow brace and cane "works" there constantly. Why can't he get a job if he's out there 40+ hours a week? Also they leave their trash everywhere on the corner even though in 10 feet there are trash cans. Don't pay these people to litter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some are dressed very well- nice new shoes, backpacks etc. The ones who bring their children really concern me, especially at intersections. I’ve had a few knock on my car windows on streets and at parking lots. It does seem too organized. I’ve seen them leave the granola bars given by good samaritans on the median.

I wish it was against the law, but until then it’s best to give nothing.

The police in Fairfax County will tell you straight-up its organized and where people are dropped off, etc. No one needs to speculate.

There’s a guy on buckeystown pike infrederick who does this. I’ve seen his car in the shopping center lot

[Anonymous]

I think the ones near us on Georgia Avenue and Norbeck have moved on. It was obviously a scam, and I wish people would stop donating to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:it's horrible around here now. At little river turnpike and 495 there is the same 4 people on each corner they all work 8 hours a day, the same older guy with the elbow brace and cane "works" there constantly. Why can't he get a job if he's out there 40+ hours a week? Also they leave their trash everywhere on the corner even though in 10 feet there are trash cans. Don't pay these people to litter.

Drives me nuts! They leave so much trash at the corners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some are dressed very well- nice new shoes, backpacks etc. The ones who bring their children really concern me, especially at intersections. I’ve had a few knock on my car windows on streets and at parking lots. It does seem too organized. I’ve seen them leave the granola bars given by good samaritans on the median.

I wish it was against the law, but until then it’s best to give nothing.

The police in Fairfax County will tell you straight-up its organized and where people are dropped off, etc. No one needs to speculate.

And the police (at least in my county) are instructed to leave the panhandlers alone.

[Anonymous]

Yes and they intimidate me. Still not as bad as the squeegee boys in Baltimore though.

I wish I could take my kids to the aquarium but it's not worth the aggressive panhandlers at every intersection and the squeegee boys at every stoplight.

[Anonymous]

I don't give panhandlers money. I give my money to the neighborhood kitchens that feed the homeless and occasionally give a few bucks to a couple of homeless people I've seen for years in the neighborhood - and they don't panhandle. I'll also happily give money to buskers. But never random panhandlers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes and they intimidate me. Still not as bad as the squeegee boys in Baltimore though.

I wish I could take my kids to the aquarium but it's not worth the aggressive panhandlers at every intersection and the squeegee boys at every stoplight.

Same. Especially with kids in the car.

[Anonymous]

I sat through three rounds of red lights and observed a gypsy woman panhandling. In about the five minutes that I saw, she collected from several cars, conservatively I estimated she made about $8in those five minutes (when I could see the fanned out dollars). If you extrapolate that you can make a educated guess of how much tax free cash they’re pulling in. More power to them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:it's horrible around here now. At little river turnpike and 495 there is the same 4 people on each corner they all work 8 hours a day, the same older guy with the elbow brace and cane "works" there constantly. Why can't he get a job if he's out there 40+ hours a week? Also they leave their trash everywhere on the corner even though in 10 feet there are trash cans. Don't pay these people to litter.

Drives me nuts! They leave so much trash at the corners.

And not just trash - water bottles filled with urine. I do not understand how this is allowed/legal - it's disgusting.

[Anonymous]

What enrages me are the panhandlers who use their babies/children as props, and in the hottest of weather.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What enrages me are the panhandlers who use their babies/children as props, and in the hottest of weather.

You'd be pissed off if they left the kids unsupervised, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes and they intimidate me. Still not as bad as the squeegee boys in Baltimore though.

I wish I could take my kids to the aquarium but it's not worth the aggressive panhandlers at every intersection and the squeegee boys at every stoplight.

In the days we’ll before Rudy went batsh&@ crazy, at least as NYC mayor he got the squeegee gangs under control.