How can we move vagrants from our door?

[eyeshade]

Well they have now taken to sitting on our door step every night, sometimes one, two, three, last night four with food, begging hat, beer (in a no alochol zone). When the two community officers went by as we were all leaving, I asked them why can't them move them from the door as we have to manouver through them. They said the police took one pissistent user to court but the magistrate said it was not in the public interest for them to be moved. Well I beg to differ!! How can that be??.
The copper said that one chap spends it on drugs as well as booze and yet people still keep giving them money? Why? Is there nothing we can do to move them from our door, which opens out on to the high street of all places!!! Whatever we do, i.e. put bleach or anything down, they just come along and urinate on it. We tried talking to them sensibly but one girl got very mouthy. Any sensible suggestions please?

[TTG]

Get a few mates to put on black cloacks together with "Scream" masks. Run up to them screaming and shouting. They should move on then.

[ummmm]

Move.

[beejay1124]

one pissietent user ^ eyeshade--haha
i dont know if you are male or female-- but i suggest giving them a thumping (or get a few goodmates / family to do this)-and let them know if they persist on returning then they will get a bigger thumping-

[tonyav]

Throw a bucket of petrol over them followed by a match.

[Postdog]

Sensible suggestions. In here...............Hahahahahahahahaha

[mccfluff]

do you have a large dog or can you borrow one for a bit? keep ring in the police just harass them. ring your local paper, ring the council?

[Bobbisox]

eyeshade , was it David Cameron who said, Hug a Hoodie?
send them on their way to his address, tell them theres much richer pickings there for them!

[Bobbisox]

another idea just came,
wire up a speaker system, inside the door of cause, play Daniel O'Donnell songs all night, as an alternative, you could play Des O'Connors greatest hits?

[jake-the-peg]

Not pleasant but you'll probably only have do do it for a few nights.

Spread dog muck over the step

Depends on how desperate you get

[mccfluff]

or foaster and allan, or roger whittaker whistling mind you you ocould get done for gbh on that last one

[David Black]

Yes this works!

Sprinkle on some plain white sugar on the spot, not too much for them to notice but just enough to get the place to get progressively sticky. It will make the place very uncomfortable and eventually attract ants. They will move on without ever knowing why.

Just remember only a bit at a time but every day and be polite even if it is killing you.

[eyeshade]

Well, thanks for these ideas, I personally like the O'Donnell music Bobbi! The Ants, not so good, dog much, nah!
Troube is we have guide dogs coming in as well and we don't want to hurt them above anything. Whatever grim thing we put down there, has a reflection on us and our visitors, mainly who are blind. We did try asking one to whack em with his cane but you have to be careful these days what you say..! David B, I take what you're saying and we are still polite even though we are seathing. As we are a charity, we did think of dressing up as tramps and putting ourselves down there, seeing as though we actually have to pay for a licence to collect money but these "things" can do it for free, but we did think of doing it ourselves so to speak but nobody wanted to volunteer! Des OConnor sounds good though .

[ELVIS68]

Vibrasphere, they have to sit or the sh!t will fall out of their trousers

Eyeshade, bucket of water should do the trick

[TheEqualizer]

Put a pair of speakers outside and play the crazy frog on loop.

They'll scatter in no time!!.............:0)

[smudge]

Apart from the ibrilliant idea of playing Des O'onnor songs through the letterbox, here's a few more ideas:

http://www.gorskys.com.au/articles/keep-bums-away.html

[vulcan]

Begging is illegal,therefore the police should be involved.If they are not interested, try the all powerful health and safety act.Surely blind people trying to negotiate steps with an unknown number of bodies sprawled across them would be covered under H & S ?

[eyeshade]

Smudge, like these a lot. Am thinking about the eBay one seriously trouble is, who on earth would buy one? Vulcan, thanks, will find out about the H&S issue.