{"id":3544,"date":"2012-08-24T23:58:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T23:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/?p=3544"},"modified":"2012-08-24T23:58:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T23:58:04","slug":"watch-out-for-the-beggars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/watch-out-for-the-beggars\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out for the beggars!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Wroc\u0142aw is suffering a plague of aggressive beggars (<strong>agresywni \u017cebracy<\/strong>), making life misery for the owners and customers of the city\u2019s beer gardens. Attempts to move them on result in violent confrontations (<strong>gwa\u0142towne starcia<\/strong>), while official fines make no difference.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2012\/08\/5028d0c795597_p.jpg\" aria-label=\"5028d0c795597 P 300x189\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3545\"  alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2012\/08\/5028d0c795597_p-300x189.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWe\u2019ve intervened over eighty times this month in cases of persistent begging\u201d commented Slawomir Chelchowski of Wroc\u0142aw\u00a0City Guard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The owner of Piwnica\u00a0\u015awidnicka, Pani Beata (Mrs Beata), complained that attempts to move on gypsies\u00a0women with small children who constantly pester guests are always met with aggression. They swear, they spit, they scratch. It\u2019s an almost daily torment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cNear the restaurant, there\u2019s a fountain where the beggars like to go to the toilet, right in front of our customers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">City Guards are struggling to deal with the problem, particularly as even the highest fines they can impose have no effect. \u201cWhere we intervene, we can fine people up to PLN 500, but most of the gypsies\u00a0pay up immediately, even using debit cards to do so\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Visiting Poland every year, I always see that problem in city gardens (In Warsaw, Lublin, Wroc\u0142aw and most of other cities). It usually happens in old towns, where there are the most tourists sitting outside&#8230;It is really annoying and it is true: if you say &#8220;no&#8221; or tell them to go away (even as a customer), they swear, spit, get in fights&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">What do you think about this?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Do nast<\/strong><strong>\u0119pnego razu&#8230; <\/strong>(Till next time&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wroc\u0142aw is suffering a plague of aggressive beggars (agresywni \u017cebracy), making life misery for the owners and customers of the city\u2019s beer gardens. Attempts to move them on result in violent confrontations (gwa\u0142towne starcia), while official fines make no difference. \u201cWe\u2019ve intervened over eighty times this month in cases of persistent begging\u201d commented Slawomir Chelchowski&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/watch-out-for-the-beggars\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3544","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3544\/revisions\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/polish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}