Sunday, February 10, 2013

No soliciting

Well done, East Marlborough supervisors! Those of us who just like to be left alone while running our errands greatly appreciate the anti-peddling ordinance that you approved, as reported in last week's Kennett Paper.
Back in July 2011 I complained in this column about two panhandlers in East Marlborough, a man and a woman standing at the entrances to two shopping centers along Route 1, holding white buckets and soliciting money from motorists: "The guy is well dressed, wearing a tie and a traffic safety vest, and he was approaching motorists with great enthusiasm. Their buckets say they are collecting for a religious organization I had never heard of."
You can bet they got no money from me. Let's hope this ordinance is enough to discourage these annoying panhandlers. (Of course, legitimate groups like our local fire companies are still allowed to solicit, and I'm happy to drop a few bucks in their buckets.)
(By the way, according to Yahoo! the term "panhandler" comes from "a supposed resemblance of an arm stretched out to beg to the handle of a pan.")



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