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[quote user="CurtMc"] <P>Bums are bums. Go to Atlanta or Baltimore and they are all over. Kliens is a gaunlet of homeless looking for spare change that causes a guard to be at the door</P> <P> </P> <P>But in Denver it is the same thing with bums begging at the offramps . They must get cash given to them or else they would not be there.</P> <P>[/quote]</P> <P>Are they still in the same location down the brick street? (I forget the name, aint been there since the early 90's)</P> <P>Atlanta brings the Bankhead Petro Truck stop to mind. You have panhandlers on the Interstate Ramps around the traffic signals, up the hill all the way to the truck gate down into the fuel area and if that isnt enough you gotta walk past them inside the resturant arcade as well. Many a un-wary driver got scammed there. Even a few bums got left out with a few smart drivers who knew the area.</P> <P>Baltimore aint too bad as long youse stayed near the Harbor by daylight and away from the Block. Sometimes they will run up to you and do your windsheild for money and then claim that you did not pay for services rendered. I always used the weight of the big car I had to bull my way past these. If a foot or two got run over... oh well.</P> <P>Ive used the subway to go downtown and it was not the problem it was once.</P> <P>I remember one lucky bum in New York City. He was in a wheel chair. They had closed the GWB completely on the upper deck at the Manhattan Side and we ALL had to get off 95 and wind our way past 15 blocks worth of panhandlers. But that wheel chair bound person was the first hand everyone passed on that ramp and boy did he make a killing.</P> <P>I had a warchest of change and ciggies that night and it was one of the few times that they made a good profit, just hoped they went to get food and bed instead of good old thunderbird.</P> <P>Sometimes I think I should have been a Engineer and roll a train past all of those beggers blasting the horn to clear the track. It would not be a problem. (Shows how much I need to learn about the engineer's life doesnt it?)</P> <P>Cheers.</P>
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