San Francisco's new signs-People Behaving Badly

[sjtom57]

To the endless amount of numbnuts telling those poor souls to get a job, die, leave, or whatever; just about all of you are only a few paychecks away from where they are.

[wannawatchu66]

My take on freeloaders (aka panhandlers) is this: they're standing there, so their legs work. They're holding a sign, so their arms and hands work. The sign itself tells me they know how to read and write, and can see. They stand there for hours on end, which means they have time.

Hmm...legs that work, arms that work, hands that work, eyes that work, and hours to stand around...everything they need to go find a job like I did.

I won't share the fruits of my labor w/someone who's lazy.

[einetutterauchen]

@wannawatchu66 Dude, maybe it's easy for people who have an education or a skilled trade to get a job. But even then, not in San Francisco. Maybe their legs and arms work, but that says nothing about their mental stability. If you ever find yourself with nothing, and limited financial resources, on the streets of San Francisco, you'll realize that it's hard to get to that point where you have a steady job that pays enough to make end's meet.  These people are almost beyond help, dude.

[wannawatchu66]

@einetutterauchen The thing is, einetutter, is that for these down-and-outters, there IS help available. There are rescue missions everywhere, with food and programs designed to help them get back on their feet IF THEY WANT IT. But they don't because it comes with RULES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.The ones I've seen just want money for booze. Just last week, I WATCHED a freelo...uh, I mean "panhandler," take money from someone and make a beeline for the liquor store across the street.

[einetutterauchen]

Panhandling equals people behaving badly? Easy for this news reporter to say, considering the fact that he's probably making 100K at his job at KRON. Fucking stupid asshole. Leave panhandlers alone. They just want a dollar to buy a freaking 211 beer so they can cope with their miserable existance.

[einetutterauchen]

Panhandling equals people behaving badly? Easy for this news reporter to say, considering the fact that he's probably making 100K at his job at KRON. Fucking stupid asshole. Leave panhandlers alone. They just want a dollar to buy a freaking 211 beer so they can cope with their miserable existance. Leave homeless people alone for fuck's sake!

[wannawatchu66]

@einetutterauchen "Leave homeless people alone?"  I do leave them alone; problem is, THEY don't leave people alone. "Panhandler" is just another word for "freeloader." There are other ways to cope with their "miserable existence," such as *getting a damn job*, like the rest of us did.

[BurlingtonNorthernRy]

I think they mounted the signs too high, try mounting them more towards eye level may help (or make it enforceable.)

[rjjunkmail]

I agree with oobxer! Drivers and/or their passengers are responsible for this ongoing problem! They keep panhandling alive. Cite the drivers, not the panhandlers! The driver/passengers obviously have extra money to give away!

[JTRILEY11]

i wish these faggots would get hit by the cars panhandlers are lazy scum bags who don't wanna work and take the easy way out when ever im walking to the city of san francisco and someone ask me for a spare of change i always reply with how about a spare of an ass whooping you lazy son of a bitch

[DeadPederastXXIX]

@JTRILEY11 WHERE DO YOU FUCKING WALK! I GOT A BIG OLE '72 SEDAN DEVILE CADDY, AN I WANT TO RUN OVER YOUR GAY ASS!

[ramblingmantis]

Why do you hate black people?

[DrRocksotheClown]

@ramblingmantis cuz they are lazy illiterate criminals...

[sfmasterkush]

leave em alone they obviously aint eatin as much as you

[waddleduckie1]

No signs created by the panhandlers are going to stop drivers for fishing their pockets for dollars or coins to give to panhandlers. Panhandlers, you either find a job, and stop treating us like your personal ATM. Drivers are just going to ignore panhandlers and simply obey signs that are enforced by the city. In the mean time, Panhandlers are pests and they need to stay out of people's way.

[oobxer]

If they didn't get any money from people, then they would stop begging! They know they can get people to pay them to leave them alone, tell them to get a JOB and you keep your hard earned money.

[ggbbgg123]

The signs don't do a thing to stop this problem nor does the law.  Police DO arrest and cite and absolutely nothing happens to the panhandlers. Homeless people are allowed to basically do whatever they want to in San Francisco and no one can or will do a thing about it. Thanks Chris Daly!

[waddleduckie1]

Face it ggbbgg, nobody is going to read any signs made by the panhandlers and they are just going to ignore these pesky panhandlers. These panhandlers better get off the street and out of reach of cars or they are at risk of being run over.

[mhs411]

Stanley for PRESIDENT!!!

[mikokat]

No sign is going to stop a Panhandler. I go into the city and there are literally HUNDREDS of panhandlers. If you go around Civic Center, you know what I mean.

[animefan6753]

@mikokat exactly it drives me crazy i am trying to focus on the road and these idoits are just standing there! God!

[dex123ter]

There is a law similar to this one in Atlanta: panhandlers aren't allowed to panhandle in the downtown commercial district; however, there are still panhandlers at Five Points, which is right in the heart of downtown Atlanta.