Axeman wrote:
Yeah what's to stop physical retaliation against these people? Find the gutter where sewage man sleeps and go Batman on him.
Where I live, they're virtually a protected class, you'd be much more likely to catch a charge defending yourself from them than they would be for attacking you. A few years ago when I had my restaurant open, I had a homeless guy steal the tip jar off the counter, and as I was chasing him, my brain was literally running the scenario in my head: I'm going to catch this guy (skinny black guy), and it's going to get physical, and someone is going to videotape it just as I'm beating the sh*t out of this guy or worse if he pulls a weapon, and even if I get the money back it's not going to be worth it when the locals boycott me over it. So I stopped and went back to the restaurant and paid my employee's tips out of my own pocket that day and got a metal tip box that bolted to the counter, didn't even bother with the police.
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