Moco panhandling in intersections

[Anonymous]

It’s expanding. I saw a panhandler at shady grove and crabbs branch. How much worse is this going to get ?

[Anonymous]

Panhandlers close to metro stations come from other areas. They go where the $$$ is. Also true about bus depots.

[Anonymous]

My parents have lived in Derwood for decades. There's often a panhandler there - not new.

[Anonymous]

There’s a woman panhandling on the 29 flyover for Randolph Rd. She looks like a meth head.

[Anonymous]

Penn State ships them down here in the Fall.

[Anonymous]

Who is organizing and dropping these people off? I'm talking about Nova (not re: whatever that Penn State comment is) why doesn't law enforcement do anything about it? It seems to be an organized effort to place these people in certain locations

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s expanding. I saw a panhandler at shady grove and crabbs branch. How much worse is this going to get ?

Please explain what, specifically, is bad about this for you, sitting in your climate-controlled car at an intersection?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Panhandlers close to metro stations come from other areas. They go where the $$$ is. Also true about bus depots.

The people panhandling in the intersections in the Fairfax County burbs typically do not take the bus or metro to get there. Many of them are part of organized groups that drop people off (and I've actually seen a group of them chilling at Starbucks mid-day when it's slow and then getting back in their car to be dropped off), or they have their own vehicle they park nearby. (I've seen this.)

Same with the gypsy families that send the women and children to beg in shopping centers. I've seen them get picked up in a nice late-model SUV.

Some of these groups should register as small businesses, because that's what they are.

[Anonymous]

In fact, they call these groups "panhandling rings."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s expanding. I saw a panhandler at shady grove and crabbs branch. How much worse is this going to get ?

Please explain what, specifically, is bad about this for you, sitting in your climate-controlled car at an intersection?

Because it is anarchy and fraud. Also unsafe - on North Cap, the bums -- the really are bums here, not professional fraudsters -- wander between lanes of traffic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s expanding. I saw a panhandler at shady grove and crabbs branch. How much worse is this going to get ?

Please explain what, specifically, is bad about this for you, sitting in your climate-controlled car at an intersection?

Also, all the scammers harden people and makes them less likely to respond when someone is legitimately in need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In fact, they call these groups "panhandling rings."

I've seen them dropping off previously in the Norbeck / Georgia area. Just don't give them any money, the ones at that intersection have moved on.

[Anonymous]

There used to be “gypsies” dropped off in dwtn SS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There used to be “gypsies” dropped off in dwtn SS.

Yeah, they tend to get dropped off a shopping centers/grocery stores.

They will also run the scam where they try to get someone to pay for their (expensive) groceries in the checkout line.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s expanding. I saw a panhandler at shady grove and crabbs branch. How much worse is this going to get ?

Please explain what, specifically, is bad about this for you, sitting in your climate-controlled car at an intersection?

I don't want to look at them. That's what you're looking for, right? Besides being unsightly, panhandling on the median is dangerous for the person doing it as well as for drivers.