We have really aggressive beggars (smackheads, dustheads and alchies from the local Sally Ann) who sit around the cash machines at Sainsbury's trying to intimidate people into giving them money. More than once I've been threatened with a dirty needle because I told 'em to go. Sainsbury's security won't fo anything because every time they move them on they come back and smash windows on the shop, so it's costing them money. The police won't do anything because, and this is straight from the mouth of a local copper, once they do they then have a duty of care to look after these parasites and to keep them fed and watered only for them to be let out again in a few hours with no charges.
They also have a new tactic now too, if somebody falls for their act and does stop to give them cash then another one tries to lift whatever they can out of the person's shopping trolley.
It's got to a point now where a few of my Mother's friends feel too intimidated to go and do their shopping alone.
This one even has a ******* laptop/tablet.