Panhandlers are like pigeons....stop feeding them and they'll go elsewhere.
We had one at the intersection of the dealership at S Glebe and Rte1 many years ago. Our parts manager went to him and offered him some honest pay for honest work helping to clean up the warehouse. He told him they couldn't pay him what he made panhandling. It wasn't unusual to see him panhandling with a venti Starbucks in his hand....
Do you get those losers dressed in army fatigues up there collecting for troops? DO NOT GIVE THEM A PENNY!!! They are just your regular bums and not collecting for a good cause. Well, the 'good cause' get about 15% of the takings from what I read. The local paper here did an investigation on them.
I used to have fun with the windscreen washing bums
up there...just as they got close enough I would zap them with my washer fluid...oh happy times!!