New Orlands Gutter Punks

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New orlands gutter punks.

A gutter punk is a homeless or transient individual who displays a variety of specific lifestyle traits and characteristics that often but not always are associated with the punk subculture. New orleans businesses tour guides and citizens are up in arms about a spike in what they re calling aggressive gutter punks in the french quarter the tourist area of new orleans. A group of gutter punks in new orleans louisiana in december 2019. Our city s new crusade to stop them however could wind up threatening us all.

Distinguish between legitimate homeless persons who are sincerely in search of shelter and or housing and gutter punks or travelers who are too often found plopped down with their pitbulls in front of storefronts and spare changing in commerical districts creating nuisance for everyone. For those unfamiliar with the term i ll defer to wikipedia to describe this millenial genre. At issue here are the gutter punks that vast unbeloved subculture run roughshod over the french quarter. New orleans is proving itself an admirable model for left coast cities who haven t yet figured out how to do this simple thing.

Those of us in uptown are thankfully spared from the infestation of unruly transients that mostly afflicts the quarter and marigny but nevertheless we ve all seen them at one time or another begging for change getting in fights and making an all around nuisance of themselves.