Anonymous wrote:Virginia has seen a huge increase when Yougkin came to power.

You have it backwards. The Fairfax county study found the big spike started in mid 2019.
And the data also show most of this is organized gangs of illegals. VA portion is generic homeless, but the majority and the growth of it is illegals. Thankfully it has been flat in Virginia trhe past year, with growth only in Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria ("sanctuary cities").
Also the ACLU has fought local authorities attempting to control this

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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.

My claim: Rudy could start to redeem himself by volunteering to help clean up Baltimore.

He is too drunk to get out of bed. His brain is fried.

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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.

There is a man who panhandles everyday at the Bradlee Center McDonalds on King Street in Alexandria. He lives across the street in the bushes which is across the city/county line in Arlington. In those bushes he’s accumulated so much trash, including countless beer cans, a traffic cone and a red propane tank. When it gets windy the trash just blows all over the place. When he’s in the bushes, he’s usually standing there drinking beer (often with one foot in traffic). When he’s across the street in Alexandria at McDonalds, he’s at the end of the drive through lane right after you pay and collect your food.

He’s filthy, usually drunk. Neither Alexandria nor Arlington will do ANYTHING about him. I’ve contacted both jurisdictions and they say there is nothing they can do. Why is he allowed to litter like that? And you know he’s probably peeing/pooping in those bushes as well. Those poor people in Fairlington whose house/yard backs up to the bushes where he’s living. It must smell awful. I don’t know how he hasn’t died of exposure, alcohol poisoning or been hit by a car.

And now sometimes there is a second person begging at the McDonalds (a woman with a rolling suitcase who I believe lives off of the 395/King Street exit ramp bc we saw her yesterday walking around there). We drive down King several times a day and the man is always there, always, and now often the woman.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Buskers are scammers now too. So many pretending to play.

There are some buskers who are legit. As opposed to things like the spackle bucket drummers who were fun to watch the first time but then you realize there are 57 more of them and they are all tapping out the same stale old beat for hours and hours with hardly any variation or anything interesting.

And don't even get me started on those fake monks around the national mall. It's gotten to where they turn around and go the other way when they see me coming.

The President has the Marine Band, aka “the President’s Own.”

The DC Mayor has the the Spackle Bucket Drummers.

Come on now... DC has had some awesome buskers, like Dupont Brass, Spread Love Band and others.

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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.

My claim: Rudy could start to redeem himself by volunteering to help clean up Baltimore.

I was just in NY and some of the big headlines were the panhandlers on major roads and medians and how dangerous it was.

Anonymous wrote:Really hate to say I agree with Trump, but he’s right on this:

“‘Open up large parcels of inexpensive land in the outer reaches of the city,' Trump said of his plan for the homeless, calling his real estate developer background into the forefront. 'Create thousands and thousands of high quality tents.'

He said it was the 'only way you're going to remove the hundreds of thousands of people, and maybe throughout our nation millions of people,' referring to the homeless.

'It can be done in one day,' Trump said.

He also boasted about having the Secret Service round up homeless encampments in the nation's capital as president and suggested doing so again, stating: 'I’d send people out immediately. Secret Service, by the way, did a phenomenal job.'”

So, like a permanent Burning Man but with mental illness and without the money?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Buskers are scammers now too. So many pretending to play.

There are some buskers who are legit. As opposed to things like the spackle bucket drummers who were fun to watch the first time but then you realize there are 57 more of them and they are all tapping out the same stale old beat for hours and hours with hardly any variation or anything interesting.

And don't even get me started on those fake monks around the national mall. It's gotten to where they turn around and go the other way when they see me coming.

The President has the Marine Band, aka “the President’s Own.”

The DC Mayor has the the Spackle Bucket Drummers.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Buskers are scammers now too. So many pretending to play.

There are some buskers who are legit. As opposed to things like the spackle bucket drummers who were fun to watch the first time but then you realize there are 57 more of them and they are all tapping out the same stale old beat for hours and hours with hardly any variation or anything interesting.

And don't even get me started on those fake monks around the national mall. It's gotten to where they turn around and go the other way when they see me coming.

Anonymous wrote:There should be a fine on panhandling at intersections and on stopping to give money. Its dangerous for everyone.

Totally agree. Enough, already.

Really hate to say I agree with Trump, but he’s right on this:

“‘Open up large parcels of inexpensive land in the outer reaches of the city,' Trump said of his plan for the homeless, calling his real estate developer background into the forefront. 'Create thousands and thousands of high quality tents.'

He said it was the 'only way you're going to remove the hundreds of thousands of people, and maybe throughout our nation millions of people,' referring to the homeless.

'It can be done in one day,' Trump said.

He also boasted about having the Secret Service round up homeless encampments in the nation's capital as president and suggested doing so again, stating: 'I’d send people out immediately. Secret Service, by the way, did a phenomenal job.'”

Anonymous wrote:There should be a fine on panhandling at intersections and on stopping to give money. Its dangerous for everyone.

If it’s so dangerous where are the stats? I don’t stop to give money. I give money when I am stopped at a red light.

There should be a fine on panhandling at intersections and on stopping to give money. Its dangerous for everyone.

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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.

Ah, the idiot devil's advocate with nothing worthwhile or smart to say.

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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.

My claim: Rudy could start to redeem himself by volunteering to help clean up Baltimore.

Anonymous wrote: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.

Buskers are scammers now too. So many pretending to play.