The truth is, I'm irritated by the intrusion. I just want to get to where I'm going without someone trying to guilt me into passing out coins like so much Halloween candy.
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But those moist blue eyes wouldn't leave me alone. They haunted me as I stood there in the rain, waiting for the bus. I saw that open face looking expectantly at me. I saw the immense effort of asking etched in the lines between his nose and mouth, visible in the tremor of his lip, audible in the hesitancy of his voice.
I recognized him, even though I'd never seen him before. I looked up the sidewalk to see if I could spot the tattered backpack.
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I imagined catching up to him and tapping his shoulder. I pictured surprise on his face as I slipped the bill into his hand and felt the gratitude of his smile as I walked away without a word. Still, I stood on tiptoe and craned my neck to get a better look up the street, past commuters and shoppers, around groups of teenagers gathered in packs, but I couldn't find the backpack.
I reached into my pocket and fingered the crumpled bill. It felt like a piece of scrap paper.
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It hadn't been that long, I thought. He couldn't be far. Maybe he'd turned at the intersection; he might be just around the corner. I hesitated for a moment, questioning the wisdom of chasing a homeless man down a dark side street. I considered the possibility of missing my bus and the dreary half-hour in the rain until the next one. But the corner was only a few steps away, it would just take me a minute to walk over and have a look. I paused and wondered, holding onto my indecision like an umbrella. I shuffled in insulated, waterproof hiking boots, remembering sock-less feet in lace-less sneakers, and looked up to see my bus splash to a stop at the curb.
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Just another sheep in the herd, I joined the queue of commuters jostling for position, hoping for one of too few seats. I caught my own reflection in the bus's fogged over window and, with throat and cheeks burning, lowered moist blue eyes against the gaze of strangers. The mash is a blend of malted barley and water that resembles a huge tub of cream of wheat. Beer to help the homeless? Galvan is a big supporter of a recently enacted ordinance that prohibits sitting and lying down on public sidewalks in Tempe. City council members approved the ban after business owners complained panhandlers were scaring off customers.
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The MIll's Mission campaign will launch with a tapping party from p. The Downtown Tempe Authority will plan future events where a percentage of sales will be donated to the Mill's Mission campaign. Custom t-shirts will also be for sale at the Authority's office and other downtown locations with percent of sales expected to support the non-profit agencies. And, it penalizes motorists who slow down or deviate from their lanes in order to interact with pedestrians violating the ordinance.
Officials say there have been more than pedestrian strikes in Dayton over the past decade and the measure is needed to improve safety. Law professor and volunteer ACLU attorney Joseph Mead says Dayton and many other cities began actively exploring ways to contend with panhandling about 20 years ago. He says cities began addressing street begging in a variety of ways.
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Some restricted panhandling to certain hours. Some forced beggars to get permits. Dayton passed ordinances incorporating many of these tactics in That set of laws required panhandlers to register with the city, restricted the practice to certain daylight hours and allowed police to jail violators.
But in , the United States Supreme Court ruled regulations like these, in effect, violated free-speech rights. But, the regulations are complex.