Saw the local seedy homeless guy Will around my neighborhood again tonight just wandering around my block puffing his cancer stick. Might have been looking to meganef some items for sale/cash (meganef=petty theft here). Another few similar guys hanging aroung the Ashby BART.
Seems that I run into similar types of guys on a daily basis in an area going from Downtown Berkeley all the way towards and into North Oakland. The type is a lean, lanky, "hungry"-type African-American, typically in his low-40's to mid-60's. Partially unshaven look with short-white whiskers. Lingers around people trying to make eye contact, asking questions, sometimes asking for spare change, sometimes ignoring those who are onto him, sometimes getting hostile and giving those that challenge him an icy stare. Sometimes these are the guys I see smoking on the street or hanging arouund stores late-night to buy alcohol. One word: trouble!
Keep away from such guys and if they hassle me, get the info on them and report their behavior to the police. Tabulate a history of their annoying behavior and their confrontations.
This character type reminds me exactly of the type of guy I regularly saw going from car to car on the NY MTA subway trains asking for money or food. Only difference with the subways is that you could never report such guys (or gals) because they would always manage to panhandle during areas of the lowest cellphone coverage (e.g., tunnels, underground stations, bridges)
Just like for the NYPD, the Berkeley Police are also spread thin and will more readily respond to actual acts violence, altercations, or use of weapons.
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