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There have been literally hundreds of people who have commented online about not being aggresively panhandled and who have either lived or worked downtown for years and I'll bet almost all, or all, of them are not "large men."

At Veto Announcement, McGinn Says He’ll “Accelerate” Neighborhood Policing Even Without Additional Officers « PubliCola 2010

Justin Hansen, a project manager at a production company five blocks from the center, says he is panhandled at least one or two times a day on his way to work and more often when he ventures deep into Chinatown.

In Portland, Art Therapy and Other Lures for the Homeless Ethan Epstein 2011

According to the Stiglitz-Sachs theory, decisive and benevolent dictators powered by massive amounts of panhandled Western aid could pull Ethiopia and Africa out of the darkness of poverty into the sunshine of development.

Alemayehu G. Mariam: Lessons From Columbia U. Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010

In all this discussion, I haven't seen one actual report of this so called "agressive panhandling" and never have I been agressively panhandled.

DSA: Panhandling Proposal Isn’t Rich vs. Poor « PubliCola 2010

I don't like being panhandled at an ATM machine, or in my car in a drive-through, or ... well, really at all.

Mike O’Brien Talks About his Panhandling Flip-Flop « PubliCola 2010

They panhandled, got into fights, and put a burden on the encampment's fragile network of security and system of sanitation.

Stanley Rogouski: The Untouchables of Zuccotti Park Stanley Rogouski 2011

Maybe it was as simple as John Huston's American in Tampico rebuffing Bogart's mooch in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with "From now on you have to make your way in life without my assistance" after being successfully hit-up by Bogie twice before and now panhandled a third time.

Stephen J. Gertz: You Will Be Devoured by Seven Horrible Demons Stephen J. Gertz 2011

According to the Stiglitz-Sachs theory, decisive and benevolent dictators powered by massive amounts of panhandled Western aid could pull Ethiopia and Africa out of the darkness of poverty into the sunshine of development.

Alemayehu G. Mariam: Lessons From Columbia U. Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010

I get panhandled in the Safeway parking lot on Rainier all the time.

There Are Reasons to Support Burgess’ Panhandling Crackdown « PubliCola 2010

Now, after having panhandled the world for decades to enrich themselves, they want to tell the OAS to shove it.

Jules Siegel: Honduras Supreme Court: It Was "Common Knowledge" That Zelaya Was No Longer President UPDATE 2009