SF News Panhandling and Busking Ban Gets Thumbs Up From BART Staff Report A proposed ban on all panhandling and busking on BART trains appears to be moving forward as a new report from the transit agency's legal staff finds that a ban should pass muster if it's only for paid areas like platforms and trains.
SF News Bartender At Popular Oakland Restaurant Allegedly Beats Homeless Man To Death With Bat A bartender an an upscale Oakland restaurant is behind bars today, after witnesses say they watched him beat a homeless man to death outside his place of business. The alleged homicide happened outside
SF News Crew Of Panhandlers On BART Turn Out To Be Roma, Living In Hayward There's been an apparent uptick recently in the number of panhandlers working on the BART system, some of them women carrying babies and others men who seem to speak little English, pass out
SF News BART Defends Panhandling As Free Speech, But Says 'Aggressive Panhandlers' Will Be Arrested A man was arrested at the Bay Fair BART station Tuesday, after he allegedly battered a patron who refused to give him money. The incident was detailed in a Facebook post published by
SF News Some SF 'Homeless Moms' Neither Homeless Nor Moms, Chronicle Finds Homeless mom panhandles on Market Street with newborn baby: “I’m not harming her in any way.”https://t.co/nSmkszW1qZ via @hknightsf pic.twitter.com/2NItA9gsLe— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) July 30, 2017 Pitchforks
SF News This Just In: Local Panhandlers Are Not Getting Rich For people likes Fox News' John Stossel, who believe panhandlers are really raking it in for upwards of $80K/year, here's a news flash: according to a survey funded by the the Union
SF News Free Puppies Used To Stop Panhandling In San Francisco With sit-lie proving more or less ineffective at curbing the city's panhandling problem, San Francisco's Homeless Czar Bevan Dufty launched a new program that he hopes will get beggars off sidewalks and into
misc Relevant Facebook Status Update of the Day Via Brian Monnier: "Just saw a homeless guy bum $2 from someone and then burn it in front of the guy. Just awesome, I love sf."
