The issue of bums, panhandlers and other assorted dross accosting and pestering taxpaying citizens on what is considered the street where most downtown workers walk, has been covered plenty of times in this forum. I’d like to see the installation of a newer and more aggressive SGR Cop, one with the full backing of the downtown merchants and support from the Mayor and Council. He/She should be given sufficient resources, paddy wagon (apologies to the Irish), tazer and a vicious but well trained dog.

It’s long past due that this lovely thoroughfare is cleansed of the professional parasites and taxpayers are allowed to walk in peace and not be accosted by the untermensch. —Basil Fawlty

This article appears in Jan 23-29, 2014.

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  2. why not put those people to work surely there’s windows that need squeegee attention .
    After all the store windows are on the sidewalks , so the ticket nazi’s won’t get them for traffic flow squeegee problems ~;p

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  3. I nominate Bro Tim to be the new SGR cop to get rid of panhandlers, hipsters and squeegee kids.

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  4. dross? what the fuck is dross? Had to google that shit … and ….. ‘Metallurgy. a waste product taken off molten metal during smelting, essentially metallic in character.’

    So, we going to taser the shit out of the wrought iron fencing along the Public Gardens?

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  6. They could do like the Argentinians used to do, just make them disappear, a trip out past Sambro Light in a Sea King and out the fucking door for you buddy, with some DROSS weighing them down, of course.

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  7. I know it’s annoying to have to deal with.. but the only trouble with your suggestion is that freedom of speech includes the right to ask random strangers for money as far as i know.

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  8. Dross is a great word… but to describe a person?? These “bums” and panhandlers are fucking human beings, asshole, not garbage. Really, poor people struggling to survive bug you so much that you need to write a bitch like a self-entitled sociopath? We should taze the homeless and cart them off to jail in paddywagons? There, but for the grace of God, goes you. I hope one of the bums finds your spring garden shop and drops a steamy shit right on your stoop.

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  10. What the fuck is wrong with you people? What happened to us? These are human beings who have, through mental illness or abuse or just dumb shit bad luck have found themselves in a horrible situation. No one wants to be a panhandler, no one wants to sleep in the freezing cold, no one wants to beg. To the original poster, obviously something in your life went right. Congratulations, you have a job and a computer and instead of being grateful you act like this? I hope the Coast calls the cops are your stupid dross ass because threatening human beings with death is illegal and those people are human beings so why don’t you find another place to take out your failures and inadequacies (which you have many apparently). And to everyone that agreed and made jokes, what the fuck has happened to us? When did this become acceptable? Aren’t we Canadians? Remember when that used to mean we looked out for the little guy? It used to mean something. What the fuck happened?

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  11. no_fool I don’t own a shop on SGR, and they probably have already taken a dump or a piss on some poor taxpaying store owners front door. Struggling to survive? More a case of the easy way to feed their addiction.
    Thanks to the taxpayers, there are multiple avenues and resources to get them off the streets and cure them of their addictions, but they have to make that choice and take the outstretched hand.

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  12. “I’d like to see the installation of a newer and more aggressive SGR Cop, one with the full backing of the downtown merchants and support from the Mayor and Council. “

    First, all cops have the full support of mayor and council.

    Second, you want to give someone the green light to violate rules of civilized society so your privileged old ass isn’t reminded that nearly half of Canadians are a mere 3 paycheques away from homelessness.

    Third, no animal should be trained to be vicious, ya ass!!!

    You’re a sad old, right wing douche. If you hate Canada so much, and the rights we have as Canadians, the door is only a 20 min drive away. Buy yourself a one way ticket and, bu bye!!!!

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  13. “Aren’t we Canadians? Remember when that used to mean we looked out for the little guy?”

    Somewhere along the way the little guy got smart and figured out that someone else would always be prepared to do the heavy lifting and the only effort he would need to expend would be whingeing about the quality and amount of the free shit to which he felt entitled.

    After cleaning up the filth, Sgt. Pepper can sort out the Bleeding Hearts Club Band
    http://curtrees.com/files/2011/11/beatles-…

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  15. What does the welfare state do when everyone …or the majority decide to let “someone else” aka the government take care of them ?
    The entire system collapses & NO ONE gets any help any more ! ! !
    Which is why welfare should be like EI , a temporary type of assistance. you go on welfare, then you go to school/training to be able to collect it. you finish & you go to WORK.
    There are way more able bodied on welfare , then there are people so fucked up they can do nothing all the time & as for women who decide to use their uterus to make money , aka go on welfare to provide for the child. Take the kid’s away from them or unless you can provide for a kid , a government paid for abortion, you do it up to 3 times & then its a government paid sterilization.
    I for one, as a life long worker in this country , am tired of seeing my taxes & costs go up ,up , up & hearing those who suck the systems tit ,I help pay for, complain we ain’t doing enough …go Fuck yourself & get a damn job …because if their wasn’t any other way to feed yourself except to work for it, only the severely mentally challenged would be a welfare case.
    The government can give nothing to anyone …unless they have taken it from someone else first !
    I for one am sick & tired of being taken from.

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  19. I remember a panhandler standing at the corner of Wyse and Nantucket holding a sign ” Need money for a new penis, I’m a little short ” thought it was quite funny but still didn’t part with my cash, but would have given him some advise. If you can walk back and forth thousands of times a day, no reason you can’t put those legs to good use and get a job, lol.

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  20. There used to be a little shitbag outside the Library with a sign that read “At least we’re not robbing you”. I generally try to avoid the whole internet tough guy thing, but that was one time I really wanted him to try.

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  21. THE UNTERMENSCH

    “It’s long past due that this lovely thoroughfare is cleansed of professional parasites and taxpayers are allowed to walk in peace and not be accosted by the untermensch.” Basil Fawlty

    By coincidence my new avatar picture shows the way. They sure knew how to cleanse the professional parasites, and some others as well! Sieg Heil!

    A pleasure as always.

    Cheerio!

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  22. This is in every city in the world and everywhere I’ve been has been much worse. It really doesn’t bother me one bit. If this is all you have to complain about count yourself lucky, ya wanker.

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  23. Worldwide there is supposedly a shortage of organs available for the well deserving taxpayers, but there’s also a glut of parasites that have organs. I’d love to see a nocturnal squad of Doctors willing to do a Burke and Hare, where the corpse still breathes, to correct this imbalance. We can kiss off the organs destroyed by solvents, other than that, it could be a Walmart of slimy stuff available to the highest bidder.

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    Go-lanka? Thank an Ivan (01/27, 9.08PM)

    We could always get Hitler from Argentina to come up and take Bro Tim’s place, instead of confiscating sandwiches and donuts, he’d have the evil stink eye for anyone not of the Arian race. That alone would keep the Untermensch away from inhabiting the store doors and bothering good shoppers on SGR.

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    Col. Ivan Sonofabitch (01/28, 7.15AM)

    Be careful, be very careful Ivan, when you go to MTP to show the stinko pinkos your wolverine spirit guide, it will invoke their defense mechanisms. They will come out armed with crack pipes, meth pipes, weed, oxycontin, diluadid and any other means to disarm your spirit guide.

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  31. Jesus, just ignore the bums. I do. After years of being asked for change to feed someone’s addiction, I just ignore the lot of them. Follow any of them at the end of the day and you’ll find most will hit up the liquor store or buy some smokes/weed/crack, etc then go HOME! One group splits rent on a nice place on Queen street, in fact.

    Sure there are real homeless folks out there, but most won’t be bumming your money with cutesy signs.

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