Comments on: Fight Between Homeless Men Over Liquor Ends With Stabbing

By: call someone

call someone — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:56:27 +0000

Here is the truth: I am part of the ECSO that you want to enforce the homeless people! WE CAN’T!!! Did you know that for a while the County Commissioners told us to stop enforcing the ordinance that allows the homeless to Panhandle… They have more rights than we do!! So here is what we have to do, catch one of them taking money from a driver, make sure they have had four warnings to not do that and then and only then can we arrest them!!!!! Better yet, citizens of Escambia County, quit giving them money. No money, no stay! No Money, No booze!! Better yet, businesses that pay taxes and citizens that pay taxes, CALL YOUR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS!!!! TAKE OUR STREETS BACK, BECAUSE TRUST ME WE HATE IT TOO!!!

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:46:19 +0000

I feel that euthenics, not euthanasia, is the solution. I see as our institutions begin to falter from lack of funding, this problem only getting worse. Daily more people are losing job, home, family. I know a percentage of these people are lazy bums, others sufffer from mental illness and just plain bad luck. I feel that instead of complaing we should give thanks to God for sitting us safely on the high ground. One never knows, your face could soon be in that crowd. I wish I had a solution and a positive one.

By: CEDRIC

CEDRIC — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:10:08 +0000

It’s not as easy as you think. Once these people are arrested, they go to court and released with a fine. They then manage to find their way back to a intersection where they continue begging. If motorists stop giving them money they will go away. Like the old saying. If you feed stray cats they will hang around. STOP GIVING THEM MONEY.

By: Logan

Logan — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:36:41 +0000

Has anyone heard the new politically correct term for homeless people lately? They’re called “Outdoors-People” now…let’s make sure we don’t offend them. They choose to take refuge outdoors.

But I’m with Bob on this one…I live in Downtown Pensacola (I’ve litereally had to scury drunken hobos out of my courtyard with promises of cops and unrelenting fury) and I drive the Brent/Davis corridor multiple times daily. The Outdoors-People population is exploding. I think Pensacola should adopt a program that Panama City created in 2009…local businesses contribute to a fund raising money to send the homeless folks (gasp) back to their hometown on a bus. Pass the buck? Sure, yes.

By: Everett

Everett — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 04:56:09 +0000

Knife fight at the Hacienda.

To answer the Patriot. The local ACLU controls what crimes that can be enforced concerning panhandlers and transients. The ACLU has filed numerous legal suits against the sheriffs office. Most of your larger cities law enforcement agencies tell the ACLU to “bug off” and “go ahead and sue us”.

By: Just wondering

Just wondering — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:24:52 +0000

Where do you propose they go? Shall we lock them up for being homeless? That would only add to the prison overcrowding problem we have already.
This is ridiculous. It’s ridiculous that two people would be fighting over alcohol, but it’s even more ridiculous that people think they all to have a place to go (what do you think “homeless” means?) or that the police should do something about it. It’s not a police problem…….it’s a societal problem. SOCIETY has to solve it…not the cops.

By: Patriot

Patriot — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:29:42 +0000

In response to: ECSO needs to clean out the homeless from that area. They
are an obvious risk to public safety.

How do you propose that they do that? What statute would you charge them with?

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:55:53 +0000

The worst part about this is that ECSO is doing nothing about the homeless congregating in this area. I drive by here several times a day, and see the exact same panhandlers up and down Davis Hwy. On top of that, there’s a hobo camp directly by the interstate ramp in-front of the Coca-Cola plant. It;’s clearly visible from the road and you can see these homeless sitting there. The area is getting trashed. Why can’t we get some laws passed in this county to actually do something about these vagrants?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:16:19 +0000

The homeless people are making this otherwise safe area
a dangerous place to be. La Hacienda Restaurant is a very
popular spot where many people eat.

ECSO needs to clean out the homeless from that area. They
are an obvious risk to public safety.

By: theangrydolphin

theangrydolphin — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:10:50 +0000

Seems they would have been better off fighting over a taco, doesn’t it?