Peter the Great decreed that vagrants should be beaten and exiled to Siberia; in Soviet times, homelessness was, in effect, illegal.
[New York Post] Concerned parents and nannies are complaining that vagrants regularly use a children's playground in McCarren Park in Williamsburg as a toilet.
"This Train" contrasts scenes of daily life in the Ukrainian Village with the story of the hobo alphabet, a lost language of hieroglyphs that vagrants used to signal danger or opportunity ahead.
It's also been suggested in the Mexican press that vagrants and stranded migrants have been removed, although no locals confirmed that they saw this happen.
"You can't assume that vagrants from one estuary can quickly replenish another estuary's stock that has been overfished," Thorrold says.
Rumours abounded that these vagrants were actually brigands in the pay of nobles, who were marching on villages to destroy the new harvest and coerce the peasants into submission.
Labelling migrants as "feral humans" and "cockroaches" who are "spreading like norovirus", Hopkins argued that "the vagrants making the perilous trip across the Med", should be warded off with gunships.
In 1547, the Vagabonds Act was passed that subjected vagrants to some of the more extreme provisions of the criminal law, namely two years servitude and branding with a "V" as the penalty for the first offence and death for the second.
(Part of the affront of Phoenix's prank is that behind his vagrant's disguise, he dares to live a private life).
Add to that the increasingly vagrant climate and hurricanes battering the eastern seaboard, and you get a wine growing area that is not for the faint of heart.
