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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (48036)	4/30/2006 1:18:44 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 90947

Most people who come on vacation to an area, don't like to spend lots of money, and feel as if they had visited a slum. They could do that already, and with much less cost, than going on vacation to an area to sink into a slum....

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (48036)	4/30/2006 1:22:50 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Respond to of 90947

Smithee, Time was, Seattle foolishly bragged about how well it treated its derelicts (bums, homeless). Other cities were listening and were buying one-way bus tickets to Seattle for their derelicts. On a side note, Reno (and maybe Las Vegas) has a police and sheriff substation in its Greyhound bus station. The policy is that the police department (city) will buy one-way bus tickets to the city of choice for its derelicts. The derelicts must promise not to return to Reno for a period of one year. Should they break this promise, they are promptly arrested (probably for fraud or some such). - Holly