Post by pavel on Jan 18, 2016 19:52:34 GMT -6
Nearly every afternoon, Annette Sims watches as panhandlers ask for money at the busy intersection of State Road 436 and Hunt Club Boulevard close to her neighborhood in southwest Seminole County.
Most of them quietly hold up signs that read "homeless" or "hungry" or "God bless." And drivers waiting at a red light will sometimes open their car windows and hand them a few dollars or bag of food.
"But there are some that are aggressive," Sims said. "They are tapping on windows and they are running across traffic if someone is holding out a donation …. Somebody is going to get hurt."
Now Sims and other residents have formed a group called "Taking Seminole County Back" in an effort to urge county leaders to tighten Seminole's year-old panhandling ordinance so it would require anyone asking for money on a street to first obtain a permit.
Read more: www.orlandosentinel.com/news/seminole/os-seminole-county-panhandlers-permits-20160118-story.html#nt=outfit
Most of them quietly hold up signs that read "homeless" or "hungry" or "God bless." And drivers waiting at a red light will sometimes open their car windows and hand them a few dollars or bag of food.
"But there are some that are aggressive," Sims said. "They are tapping on windows and they are running across traffic if someone is holding out a donation …. Somebody is going to get hurt."
Now Sims and other residents have formed a group called "Taking Seminole County Back" in an effort to urge county leaders to tighten Seminole's year-old panhandling ordinance so it would require anyone asking for money on a street to first obtain a permit.
Read more: www.orlandosentinel.com/news/seminole/os-seminole-county-panhandlers-permits-20160118-story.html#nt=outfit