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  • Police: Oregon panhandlers raking in the green

    02/05/2008 6:03:07 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 40 replies · 668+ views
    KAFU-TV ^ | February 3, 2008
    COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) - A police survey says panhandlers outside a Wal-Mart here can make $300 a day. Inside, it takes a clerk a week to make that much. Police say people who have a problem with that needn't look to the law--asking for money is considered protected free speech. "We are not going to target panhandlers," said Coos Bay Police Capt. Rodger Craddock, who spoke a recent gathering of business owners about panhandling. "We can't do that. But if they aren't getting money from us, they aren't going to stand on that corner." He said most panhandlers are...