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"From Romania to Connecticut, and now Tulsa."

Gypsies. Why did it have to be gypsies? No matter. First the left coast liberal trash invaded. Then came the beggars. Now, gypsies.

OK liberals wanted Tulsa to be like other big cities. I guess they got their wish.

1 posted on 11/30/2023 4:50:00 AM PST by LouAvul
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To: LouAvul

I suspect that virtually all of the ‘homeless’ are fakes where I live too. I specifically remember the “Will work for food” scam that literally popped over OVERNIGHT throughout the country decades ago, as I traveled a lot, and within a month I saw the same sign in 6 different cities.

But keep ‘giving’ people, they need your type.


2 posted on 11/30/2023 5:01:37 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: LouAvul
We had a bunch in a local small town, nearby.

I can see why they threw them out of Romania.

Let's just say that they wear out their welcome and goodwill real quick.

3 posted on 11/30/2023 5:01:49 AM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: LouAvul

Does anyone know what “soliciting without a vest” means? Apparently, you need to be wearing a vest to solicit money in Tulsa?


4 posted on 11/30/2023 5:06:40 AM PST by Fish Speaker (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Oh, and, "Let's Go Brandon!")
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To: LouAvul

I really don’t see the wasting of our time over these doing doings. Fretting over somebody stupid.
The angst be better spent going after the fraud wrought government prescribed gifting deserved program’s takings and stealings from of our tax monies that we don’t so freely give.


5 posted on 11/30/2023 5:07:08 AM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count )
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To: LouAvul

The one I saw do the best was a guy who was holding up a sign that said...

“I’m not going to lie, I need a beer!”

There was a four car line to hand him money out their window.


10 posted on 11/30/2023 5:44:19 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: LouAvul

I treat all panhandlers like there’s a scam like that going on. I.e, they never get money from me.

Simply put, I never gave someone money unless I personally know their story.


11 posted on 11/30/2023 5:47:33 AM PST by cuban leaf (It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he's being fooled. - Mark Twain)
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To: LouAvul

I’ve seen some homeless young women holding up a sign saying they’re pregnant and need money. I recall one girl holding such a sign up, off and on for over two years. I never believed her or gave her money. Her “baby bump” seemed to move all over her torso. I certainly was not going to roll my window down and ask her about it.


13 posted on 11/30/2023 6:31:16 AM PST by lee martell
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To: LouAvul

The gypsies have invaded my little town. The same scams that I saw when I lived in Europe. Dirty kids running around distracting people while the older kids pickpockets. The parents begging on street corners with the usual, “feed my hungry kids” signs day after day after day. The winter must have sent them down to Tulsa.


15 posted on 11/30/2023 7:21:24 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eye)
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To: LouAvul
There's several in my area. One was a family of 4 with the wife and two kids sitting under a shade tree while the husband was holding up a sign. They appeared to be Hispanics.

Recently saw another guy at an intersection who appeared to be middle eastern.

17 posted on 11/30/2023 7:27:05 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: LouAvul

Andy, Opie, Barney, chicken, apple pies, and Mr. Game-leg.


18 posted on 11/30/2023 7:34:07 AM PST by Varsity Flight ( See"War byc🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: LouAvul
five individuals were cited for soliciting without a vest

Better hope they do not decide to fight it because, according to the SCOTUS, panhandling is speech and putting restrictions on it is legally very delicate.

19 posted on 11/30/2023 7:38:49 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: LouAvul

They are likely part of a very organized group of beggars who set up shop at intersections and entrances/exits to places like Walmart.

Usually one pitifully dressed man with a sign and within sight distance, the wife and kids sitting on a blanket or something. What you don’t see is the nice van they have parked away from there. They pick a ‘circuit’ of places to go beg at and they make a pretty good living from it.


20 posted on 11/30/2023 7:43:20 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: LouAvul

These funeral (or “needs an operation”) scammers are all over my area.


21 posted on 11/30/2023 7:44:18 AM PST by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: LouAvul

Yep!


22 posted on 11/30/2023 10:31:40 AM PST by Zathras
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