ummmm....miss rika... you might want to reconsider some of your...daily activities....
Better behave on the streets on Houston. The City Council has passed a "civility ordinance" to keep those sidewalks polite.
The Council voted 12-3 on Wednesday to ban "Dumpster diving," aggressive panhandling and sleeping on downtown streets during the day — that means no rummaging in garbage bins or snoring on the sidewalk, and no panhandling within 8 feet of automated teller machines, pay phones, parking meters, gas pumps or people who object.
Homeless advocates call the law unfair profiling, while supporters say it targets only offensive or dangerous behavior, not the homeless. The police are ready, though. They say they will not arrest violators, but instead will send them to social service agencies.
This is no doubt for their own protection. The only time I have ever removed my pistol from its holster with the intent of using it was when an aggressive panhandler wouldn't leave me alone as I was leaving an ATM. She (yeah, she) got the message real quick after that. First thing the next morning, the bank branch manager got the message, too.
Now watch, hobbes and dubya will mock me all day for pulling my piece on a girrrrl. She was about 300lbs, 6', carrying an umbrella and strung out on crack.