QUOTE(UofIChiSox @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 05:10 PM)
It's an unpunishable crime. I'm a homeless guy in the dead of winter, I beg for some money. Either I get money from people, and am cold on the street. I don't get money from people, and am cold on the street. Or I get picked up by the cops. Then what? They fine me? All the money I've got? or send me to a nice, warm jail and give me a meal or two?
Might as well beg, won't possibly be any worse off.
Yeah, but it doesnt change the fact that its illegal. And alot of the people that beg in chicago are not really homeless, especially the panhandlers who are on the train and in the loop every day. These people DO have home, and DO go home everynight. Therefor going to jail is not the picnic you are making it out to be.