The Vent / Atlanta/South Fulton

What the Shriners do isn't panhandling. I've never had a Shriner shake their bucket at me and ask for money. They always stand a safe distance away and accept donations. There is a BIG difference.

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Some of the "hippies" you trash didn't get stoned, but went on to develop the companies that pay your salaries.

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"Don't walk in downtown Atlanta 10:30 pm-6 am. Crime will go down." Let's just live in fear and give the city away?

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Wow, some people are bitter about hippies.

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It isn't illegal for the shriners to ask for donations. Can't speak for everywhere, but they get permits allowing it where I am from.

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If more (not fewer) people walked in downtown at night, crime would go down. Crowds are safe.

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Oh to be robbed twice. Once when you pay your tuition and fees, and then by a less creative criminal.

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Tech has their OWN police force. It's time they earned their paychecks!

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It is not the Shriners that get me. It is the little kids in their football uniforms, using their helmets to collect money. What do we call that?

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The police force gets cut and to make money they are keeping the roads safe/generating revenue - so there isn't anyone to protect the Tech kids. Sucks, doesn't it?

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How interesting that someone can tell me what I do or don't remember from the 'old hippy days'. Are you in my head? Just nod if you can hear me.

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Great idea, undercover dressed like college students and get robbed. Problem solved, the crooks will move to another area.

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Hippies? Really people.

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Robbers who prey on college students aren't expecting money, it's a technology thing.

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Would the police do a better job apprehending criminals if UGA was located where Tech is?

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Could you give us the actual 'law' that prevents people from begging on the right a way? Oh, please tell that to the cop doing the same thing

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Ask Dylan about memories of the 60's. He was your prophet then and your funeral orator now.

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The hippies were all fakes and frauds. As Kartman says..."Damn Hippies."

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