Does the woman who was bothered by the panhandler actually exist or was she invented as a cover story?
I should beat up a random homeless guy or panhandler for arbitrary reasons sometime.
I never knew it was legal!
The mob - arbiters of street justice.
And @ DB
It isn't just gambling though. In cases such as this, gambling is almost always intertwined with extortion/drug dealing/fraud/violence/racketeering/all of the above.