Janet Fardette: To take back downtown, support downtown

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It's all just talk..
The reason other downs don't deal with it is they don't put up with it. You think ANY of the BS behavior we see from these filthy animals downtown would be out up with for ONE second in Los Gatos, Carmel, etc.
The cops need to do their job and enforce EVERY little law on the books EVERY time. There need to be new laws made. Make it so damed uncomfortable to be a "homeless by choice" Santa Cruz transient that they LEAVE! WHY is panhandling allowed? Even in limited places? MORE BS liberal crap.
It's a joke. Santa Cruz is known among the homeless by choice crowd as a "friendly" place to be.
Tell Becky, HUFF and that idiot Robert Norse to buy a giant tour bus, get on it and take all their "associates" with them.
We live in Aptos. Santa Cruz was never even in our sites when buying a home in the area. Why, because of the **** problem. I ONLY spend money in SC when I can ABSOLUTELY not get that item anywhere else around. Even then, it makes me sick that even a penny of my sales tax goes to the most inept government.
The best thing written in the article above is:
"Just say no!" Do not give panhandlers money and move on down the street. If you "feed them with money, they will come."
That is the truth. Don't yell at the panhandlers. They are just trained **** with a tin cup. You'd keep coming back if someone kept filling your till. It always amazes me to see people handing BILLS over to these perfectly able body 19 year old beggars. THEY are the ones that need a lesson.

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Ruh-Roh wrote:

Janet- it is everybody's downtown to share, not just yours to shape into a shopping experience outside of your small world living in Aptos
Pretty full of your self to get TWO "opinions" in the same paper in 4 weeks

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Jaded wrote:

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I just came from downtown 5 minutes ago and let me share my experience with you. A nice young Black man decided he didn't like the fact that the police talked to him like they do to all transients in Santa Cruz so he waited for them to leave and then he decided to dramatically express himself to the other visitors to the downtown area. He did this by taking a guitar(which I imagine to be his) and breaking it into smaller pieces on the curb all the while shouting F U Santa Cruz multiple times. He then did the usual 'you are all a bunch of racists' diatribe to assorted visitors to our beautiful cosmopolitan diverse downtown area that is probably standard for his rant and rave sessions in public. Yes it was quite a sight especially for the stunned mother walking her kids past him of course downtown doesn't just have one freak show we have many like the guy in the wheelchair drunk and babbling about hard times as he spit on the sidewalk and asking for money in the same breath. Classy! Then there were the other transient/homeless by choice/ pseudo alternative types(without any style I might add) smoking and saying F this F that F U as if they had taken a college minor in ways to use the F word for the appreciation of others to follow along and gasp about our 'Keep Santa Cruz Weird' theology. I can't weait to go back and bring my impressionable niece especially after seeing the quizzical look of those two kids being shielded by their mother from the man who was practicing his guitar deconstruction therapy. I can see why other towns are jealous of Santa Cruz...I really can...really I can