Originally Posted by smacketyanne

I'm glad you had food for the one in Hundreds that have come up to me in the last few weeks wanting money who actually really needed food. I haven't had anyone come to me telling me they were hungry or asking for food or diapers. I get those who give me the story about how their car broke down or ran out of gas around the corner and they just need $10 to get a cab to the south side. Then the next day the same couple of people will hit me up with the same story.
The problem is a big one and it is not only down town. I have had people start coming up to my door at all times of the night wanting $$. Men will stand in my neighbors bushes and pop out as I'm putting my kids in the car to go some where, or be waiting there when I pull up with my kids in the car. They are now lurking on my property and putting my family in danger. I can not even let my children play in our own yard now.
The thing is, I have NEVER given any of these people money and they continue to lurk around and beg. One of the women pretends to be in a wheel chair, ( I have seen her walking around the streets in the morn. while taking my kids to school), and if her target doesn't give her the money she begs for, she waits outside of the restaurant where I work and the businesses around it for someone to come out, and she positions her wheelchair by the car, where she is in the blind spot, and hits the car, and her accomplice comes running over saying he saw her get hit, and they try to bribe the target or guilt them out of money.
I think the police need to crack down on this. There are very few panhandlers actually needing food or real help. If no one gives them money and the law is more strick on them they will have no other choice but to get real help if that's what's needed, or GET A JOB.