OK - I give up - even though I work for a living and have the money to go down and watch a Braves game (and pay for it) I’m saying “poof”...I’ll just watchem on TV. I have no interest in trying to go down and watch a Braves game if it requires having multiple “fivers” to pass along.
Everybody seems to be a smartass around here lately, DJlaysitup, but I know what you’re talking about. What you experienced is not mere panhandling by the down and out, but what the City of Atlanta calls “aggressive panhandling” - a polite term for intimidation that is just short of strong-arm robbery. It is a problem for Braves, Falcons and Hawks fans, and a huge problem for Atlanta’s enormous convention business. But nothing is ever done about it because the professional racemongers cry “racism” whenever the complaints draw the mayor’s attention - just as you alluded to the last few sentences of the AJC article.
I have no interest in trying to go down and watch a Braves game if it requires having multiple “fivers” to pass along.
Why don’t you just take some vaseline with you and let them have their way for free? You make me sick. You are a big part of the problem