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Originally Posted by CFrance
There's no Village Security, either.
I believe if you are "panhandled" and then followed in your cart and asked whom you're calling, that's threatening and grounds for calling the police.
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That would probably be a hard case to proof without more but it does sound like a point to call the police. Let them sort it out as to whether charges were filed.
I stick up for myself if faced with individual panhandlers. If there's a group of them though I look for an easier approach. I took a wrong turn while trying to get to the ferry station after attending the American Association of Law Libraries Convention in San Francisco in 1992 and wound up in a rather nasty part of the Tenderloin. The tables were kind of turned so I had to be the one looking for a quick exit. I do not know if they have cleaned up these areas of the Tenderloin by 2014.
http://www.sfgate.com/homeless/