Bum's knock, knock, knocking on your door
Written by The Boxman   
Tuesday, 30 December 2008
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Phipps put out anti bum flyers
Pushed off street corners, out of parking lots and away from stores, some panhandlers have started going door to door. Police report that the problem has cropped up across the city, but it’s been more highly publicized in Meadowbrook, where neighborhood associations and Citizens on Patrol members have been working with police to curtail it."It seems to be a very small group of people who have adopted this style of panhandling because of our enforcement of the panhandling ordinance on the streets," said Capt. Bryan Sudan of the Police Department’s East Division.

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Homeless answer to housing collapse
Written by The Boxman   
Monday, 29 December 2008
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Take back this book

$400,000 homes being foreclosed on with no buyers in site. What is a bank to do in these hard economic times to protect their investment. Just let homeless people live in the houses. It seems like a much better solution than collecting some level of income from a tenant, renter, or all that messy paperwork of reworking a loan

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Welcome To Street-People.com
Written by The Boxman   
Saturday, 01 July 2006

 

The BoxmanYou will find them in nearly every city:  the homeless, the disenfranchised, panhandlers, hobos and bums.  Street people.  They will ask you for absolutely anything:  spare change, a cigarette, a light, the time of day.  They may even tell you an elaborate story about their plight involving a broken down car and a pregnant wife.

Every time you walk down the street, you are almost certain to be accosted by a street person begging for something, and each encounter raises a personal dilemma: "Is this a scam, or is this person truly needy?"

Street-People.com was created to chronicle the stories of the homeless and raise awareness of the continuing problem of homelessness through the use of humor. Here they are entertainment, like creatures in an online petting zoo without the urine smell.

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