Two Yorkville Panhandlers, One Corner. What to Do?

Two Panhandlers discuss what corner to occupy in Yorkville at Cumberland and Bellair. Friday August 24, 2007 around 6:20pm.

Two more panhandlers were working both ends of the the alleyway on the west side of Remys.

The cyclist in the red jacket with the dark backpack visible at second 17 and again at second 22 is their controller. He assigns the corners for each panhandler in Yorkville. Wonder what his take is?

The panhandler with the baseball cap and blue backpack carries a tattered copy of Outreach. He has been around for 3 years.

As soon as they had any money, they would dart into the corner store on the south-east corner of Bellair and Cumberland and buy cigarettes or soft drinks.

So much for panhandling for food and shelter.

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• panhandlers
• Torontodecays
• Toronto
• Yorkville
• Bellair
• Cumberland

[LarryFent]

I was at that very corner two weeks ago, and a guy in a suit asked me for a club sandwich and the deed to my house.

So much for panhandling for pop and cigarettes.

[uncleraviolijoe]

shelters are bad nobody wants to go their its too much like a jail and believe me i been thier before if you think sshelters are good then try to go to one and see what a happends

[80ynniv]

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[Alien3nema]

if we could all get the help we needed from homeless shelters and government programs to re-enter society on a productive level where we are all self supporting then there would be no need to panhandle. However these shelters and other re-education programs are often already swamped. if by some chance the people that have had to panhandle can no longer get help or work in an area they will just move to another. if not there then forced crime where your tax dollars can help you more.