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FB: Missoula Targets Panhandlers

The Missoula City Council has enacted an "emergency" ban on "aggressive" panhandling, No more touching without asking, following someone around, or using violence. (I think there might have already been a law about that?) It bans soliciting near ATMs and within six feet of an entrance to a building. And it prohibits telling lies to get money which is going to put a serious kink in political campaigning over there in Montana/Tom Von Alten, Fort Boise. More here.

Question: Have you been accosted by an aggressive panhandler?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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