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Reader Poll Replies:
* I find those people very offensive
and would love to see them removed from the sidewalks. Dave
CA
* What ever it takes to get those
annoying people from bothering me and my friends as we walk down the Strip
is perfectly fine with me, constitutionally or not. Linda
Los Angeles.
* They should not be allowed to pass out
adult literature, because if someone really wants it, they will find out where
that particular action is. The people invade your privacy and invade your
space. It is crowded enough on the walks etc. without adding to it.
June Colgrove
* I don't believe they should be able to
stand on a corner and pass out that material...you find this stuff littered all
over the sidewalk and streets...makes Las Vegas look like a dump and not a
vacation spot...also walking with your children and seeing
this trash all over the streets is not very good...well anyway that is my take
on this subject. Frank Bogardus
* I don't think they belong on the
streets. I get tired of walking down the street with my husband and having
them shove them in your face. Put them someplace where if people
want them they can go get it but why should I have to be bothered and my husband
also. Another thing a lot of them end up on the sidewalks. It makes
the city look scurvy. Nan
* Its about time sanity prevailed and the
handbill cretins get pushed to the curb.....pedestrians have rights too and the
unknowing get a real shock when the local smut peddlers hand them something that
definitely IS NOT FROM THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE! Passing by the string of
purveyors you would think they would be bright enough not to offer over and over
when you just refused the same thing from his buddy standing next to him. This
is probably my worst peeve about Vegas....next to the timeshare sales people.
Don't get wrong, I am still coming every chance I get but eliminating the smut
peddlers is a fantastic development. rscott0437
* We have been to Vegas a few times
and every time we leave our hotel we are harassed by '' snappers''. To have
someone snap and shove anything in our face is rude and very
annoying. I can not understand how they are allowed to get away with what
they are doing. Everyone should have be able to walk the strip without being
harassed by anyone. And to see them do it to a family with small children really
has gotten me totally disgusted. Who can chase them away? Who is willing to take
responsibility for having them make me or anyone else uncomfortable while I
am on vacation? Why can’t anyone do any thing to make them go away and stay
off the strip? Where are the police, these people are harassing everyone , aren’t
they loitering ? Do they really have the right to stand around "
snapping " in everyones face? I don’t think
so. l. Spero
* If the street people of Vegas were
handing out newspapers, Bibles or currency, would there be such an effort to
remove them from Las Vegas Blvd. ? I would very much doubt it. It is the nature
of the hand out that is objectionable to so many. A newspaper is full of
advertising and for that matter so is a Bible. To some, the nature of the
message delivered in a newspaper or the Bible is objectionable and in conflict
with their beliefs. I do respect the rights of business, religion and even
Republicans to promote their ideals. The laws of our nation have consistently
given us all rights to express ourselves. I do have the right to disagree in
this case on moral grounds, but not to ban these card carrying hustlers from
their promotions. If the services and entertainment describe in these
objectionable card are legal, can one expect that their advertisement should be
banned. I am not always happy about time share promoters and others wasting my
precious moments in Vegas. But, I guess that I should not expect the law to take
them from my sight. Yes, the brazen forwardness of their approach is unnerving
to someone new to Vegas. Yes, the smut they promote has very questionable value.
Even the clicking sound of their card flicking can get on ones nerves. The
littering of the sidewalk and construction fences does distract from the beauty
of Vegas. In my opinion Las Vegas would be better if card flicking were left to
the dealers in the casinos. Ban the street people. No! Fine them for
littering and give them community service to pick up their mess. Thanks for this
opportunity to give my opinion. My wife and I will be at Imperial Palace
enjoying our third trip to Vegas. Bill
Gray
* I feel the "sidewalk
snappers' who hand out smut on the strip should not be allowed to be there
for a few reasons. Las Vegas wants to become more family friendly then this
would be a good place to start we can keep our children out of the casinos and
the nightclubs or any where else we feel is not a good place for them to be but
we still have to walk out of our hotel to get anywhere we want to go. Should we
be harassed by them as soon as we hit the sidewalk? I think not! How
many times have I felt very upset by the fact that no matter how many times
you try not to look at them they are all over the strip. You can really see that
they have no reason to be there other then to benefit themselves not Las Vegas,
they are a major part of the litter on the sidewalk, the crowded strip is hard
enough to move around on without having to play " dodge the snapper"
you really have to get the people who want Las Vegas to be a really good
place to vacation with family to see the "snappers' as a big
drawback. Lenny S
* They should be stopped not because of
there sexual content but because of the mess they create on this beautiful city
or better yet make the ones that hand them out clean up the mess when people
throw them away and the wind gets them. Gary Kern
* Why not. no matter where your from
some one some time has handed you a flyer for whatever cause was going on
in your town. From school fundraisers to bone marrow transplant donors to
political candidates. So why not let these poor souls make a buck.
you don't have to buy let alone look at the material. leave em be.
Watcherboy * We want them
off the street! Heather
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