NEEDCOM:   How do you feel about using a sign to panhandle?     ROBERT G:   People want to hear you. A sign don't do nothing. You make more money without a sign. 'Cause people want to hear you verbally.     RICHARD G:   Oh, don't let me get started, okay—     ROBERT G:   People can tell why you by the sound of your voice, and what type of personality you have—     RICHARD G:   And how you're a bum! You're a crackhead! Next!     ROBERT G:   If you putting a sign up, they don't know what you are.     RICHARD G:   I don't use no sign!   ..........   ROBERT S:   And there's nothing wrong with a lot of people out here with them signs, panhandling. Nothing wrong, and they out here, just playing on people's sympathy. And that's wrong, I think it's wrong.     Talking to panhandlers?   Law Drugs How You Present Yourself

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