Seriously, we’ve had several shootings, a home invasion, a bank robbery right downtown and a carjacking that the media downgraded to “car stolen at gunpoint” and the City Council is talking about aggressive panhandlers?
The City of Cedar Rapids is revisiting the issue of panhandling tonight. The City Council shot down a proposed ordinance to ban it three years ago. Coming up on CBS 2 News at 10, Gabe Erickson talks with one man who panhandles to make ends meet. What do you think? Does the city need to prohibit “aggressive solicitation”? http://www.cbs2iowa.com/shared/newsroom/top_stories/videos/kgan_vid_13745.shtml
My post the other day, “Times are Hard” was merely to shed light on what one panhandler said about another panhandler (who in the past has acted aggressive towards me over “his spot”). I want to make it clear right here and now I didn’t feel like either of them were being aggressive towards me at all in my video! If the guy I talked to in my video is right then the man interviewed in the KGAN video owns a house and is saving up to buy land!
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January 19th, 2013 at 12:12 am
Outstanding. I agree.