Post Azat4a7Y7FkM9u5eAy by Gabble@spinster.xyz
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 (DIR) Post #AzZu3o4qe8m9wz3qlM by Flick@spinster.xyz
       2025-10-25T20:03:59.814540Z
       
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       Major doubt on this. I live in Staffs Moorland, and know of at least three in the only town in the area. (But yes, pretty unlikely to have any up here on the moors!)
       
 (DIR) Post #AzZumzVH0jDcQ3y0KO by Sherri_Ingrey@spinster.xyz
       2025-10-25T20:10:28.374266Z
       
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       @Flick this sounds like bullshit of the first dirty water.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzZusqV9OPoCEnhX28 by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
       2025-10-25T20:08:14.138105Z
       
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       @Flick I notice that there is a big uptick in Inverness again these last months, much more sitting in doorways again.
       
 (DIR) Post #Azat4a7Y7FkM9u5eAy by Gabble@spinster.xyz
       2025-10-26T06:45:45.680350Z
       
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       @Flick Are they definitely there overnight, though? Some homeless-but-not-rough-sleepers sit begging (even in sleeping bags) during the day.And some people are trafficked and placed in positions in towns to beg, being taken there by bus each morning and collected in the evening. Sometimes their traffickers rotate them, to try people in different spots. It’s a new reason to only ask if people need anything from the shop, and never to give them money. It’s also a reason to make conversation with them and offer assistance (which they will refuse), especially if it is a young woman who is more likely to tell you things by mistake in my experience, because then you can report the trafficking to crimestoppers and hopefully get them some help.
       
 (DIR) Post #AzatpDxyIsSf3fqpl2 by Flick@spinster.xyz
       2025-10-26T07:36:04.857227Z
       
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       @Gabble I’m told they are, by people likely to know (eg the greengrocer, who keeps very early hours).