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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 07:30 AM Original message |
Police: Oregon panhandlers raking in the green |
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depakid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 07:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. I'd be very suspicious of anything I heard on local "news" |
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mahatmakanejeeves (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 08:20 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Coos Bay |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 11:48 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. No, Newport/Lincoln City/Maybe Waldport is (from Wakonda beach) |
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montanto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 01:02 PM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Part of the movie was filmed in Toledo Oregon, |
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mahatmakanejeeves (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 05:18 PM Response to Reply #16 |
30. Oh, really? |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 01:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
27. I think it's Florence, personally. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 01:15 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. I think they get more money from bottle and can collection. |
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thunder rising (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 07:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. Fucking Police, why talk, just go shake the panhandlers down like they have always done |
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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 08:13 AM Response to Original message |
3. I'm calling bullsh*t. n/t |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:24 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. Indeed. Bullshit & shenanigans |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 08:38 AM Response to Original message |
5. even at 300 a day -- i wouldn't trade places with |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
6. Kind of like the "police seized two lbs.of marijuana valued at $100,000" |
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catrose (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
7. I don't live in Oregon |
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NashVegas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 09:24 AM Response to Original message |
8. Pandhandling Is Self-Employment |
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Master Payne (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:03 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. It's Called Busking Not Panhandling |
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Runcible Spoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:23 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. good point. When I lived in Boulder, CO there was a street performer, |
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happyslug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 11:03 PM Response to Reply #18 |
31. Busker is a British term, in the US "Street performer" is used instead |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 12:11 AM Response to Reply #8 |
34. i think that pan-handling money should be considered capital gains... |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
9. Gee, next they will want to tax panhandlers. Making being homeless sound like a good thing. |
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all.of.me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
10. I know some panhandlers. |
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Cronus Protagonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 11:10 PM Response to Reply #10 |
32. I know one who takes his kids with him |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 12:14 AM Response to Reply #10 |
36. "They bring in $400/day at a busy intersection in a small town." |
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MissB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
11. Coos Bay is not exactly Portland. |
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pattmarty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
12. Bush can handle doing that when he leaves office. |
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momster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 10:08 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. He'll Be The Charlie Brown |
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carincross (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
14. Read Sherlock Holmes' "The Man with the Twisted Lip" |
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here_is_to_hope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 11:07 AM Response to Original message |
15. I live in Coos Bay... |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 11:50 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. I agree, it doesn't add up. |
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bean fidhleir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:59 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. "there is no way those two guys pull in that kind of cash!" |
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montanto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 01:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
26. I used to live in Coos Bay, went to H.S. there, |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
21. Source? |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
22. So are oil company executives; raking it in. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
23. Please note the presence of a key weasel word: "can" |
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noel adamson (353 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
29. Coos Bay is an arm pit and this is typical of the "police" in this neck of the woods. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
33. and A LOT of them double-dip by marrying welfare queens... |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 12:13 AM Response to Original message |
35. I'd rather give my money to panhandlers than to bush for his war |
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