"I'm always having to stop members of my family from putting lights on their guard cars," he said.
In Richmond, where they spent about a week's worth of nights in two different trees, their favorite perch was a towering oak next to a church parking lot, until one Sunday morning when they awoke to find a police officer guarding cars parked by worshipers.
He pointed to the extra-official payments, which especially impact the poor, that citizens fork over for everything from garbage collection to informal parking attendants "guarding" cars parked on the public streets.
Many of these service activities take place on the street, such as washing and guarding cars, serving as bus attendants, polishing shoes, transporting goods or collecting recyclables [ 4].
For the analyses, occupations were grouped into four job sectors: retail (selling products), service (cleaning or guarding cars, recycling, domestic work including accommodation facilities, shoe polishing, transporting goods), carpentering and construction.
For the information on the child's occupation, 12 response options were provided: selling products (such as clothes, candy, handcrafts, etc)., cleaning or guarding cars, begging, recycling, performing, stealing, drug dealing, other.
Nearly forty-six percent (45.7%) of street children were beggars while 14.7% were vendors, 21.2% guarded cars, and 4.1% were escorting blind parents (Table 5).
In Miami, security guards searched cars entering the airport, looking under the hoods and in trunks.
Aboveground, girls work snack stands, and little boys beg to guard your car in the parking lot.
The riot police are shown guarding the car and trying to keep the crowd away as demonstrators chant, "Our city is no place for a traitor".
