{"id":56770,"date":"2023-01-10T03:19:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T08:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=56770"},"modified":"2023-01-10T03:19:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T08:19:47","slug":"concerns-over-increased-panhandling-in-lehigh-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2023\/01\/concerns-over-increased-panhandling-in-lehigh-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerns over increased panhandling in Lehigh Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Men and women are selling flowers along busy roads like Lee Blvd and Colonial Blvd. Pushing limits with some drivers and authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/florida-panhandling.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56771\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Some drivers say sometimes when they stop at an intersection, sellers knock on their windows at the red light trying to sell roses.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sarah-nbc-1_9-350x250-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sarah-nbc-1_9-350x250-1.png 350w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/sarah-nbc-1_9-350x250-1-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Others say it\u2019s a sweet reminder to do something nice for someone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Panhandling in Lee County is against the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/panhandler-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/panhandler-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/panhandler-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/panhandler-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/panhandler.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>County judge upholds Lee County restrictions on panhandling at intersections.&nbsp;A Lee County Court judge has upheld Lee County&#8217;s ordinance prohibiting pedestrians from approaching vehicles at public intersections to ask motorists for money. Sep 23, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men and women are selling flowers along busy roads like Lee Blvd and Colonial Blvd. Pushing limits with some drivers and authorities. Some drivers say sometimes when they stop at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":56771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2060],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56775,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56770\/revisions\/56775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}