“Aggressive panhandlers see the banners and they know when conventions are coming to town,” said William Pate, president and CEO of the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau. “They come to panhandle visitors to the city. That is where they are successful. That is why you don’t hear about panhandlers in Snellville.”You may not "hear" about a panhandling problem in Snellville, but I have. It's been a little bit of a problem in some grocery store parking lots in Snellville and Loganville. Not as big as Atlanta's panhandling problem of course.
From: No Walking Away from Panhandling Problem, AJC, October 12, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Panhandling only an Atlanta problem?
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The ones I usually encounter in the parking lots here in "the burbs" tend to be more of the "grifters", who put on acting jobs with some "sob-story" or another.
ReplyDeleteRight...they don't really stay in one place very long. They mainly say they are short on gas money and there's a family emergency and they really need the money, etc, etc.
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