According to a recent article published on VegasChatter.com, street vendors have been banned from selling items on Las Vegas Boulevard effective immediately. Here's a link to the article:
Stop!
This makes me happy. They cause bottlenecks on the walkways and can be a dangerous distraction, encouraging pickpockets to aggressively attempt to take your wallet when you're looking elsewhere. Plus there are some aggressive individuals who try to sell their CDs and other items and follow people for half a block, asking (begging) repeatedly for a sale. This usually causes the individuals to side-step or move quickly in order to avoid them, and then you end up with tourists in the middle of the Strip, trying to get around the people who are trying to get around the vendors.
The law does not affect the costumed characters as long as they don't ASK for money, or the "porn slappers" who are protected by the Freedom of Speech because they are advertising, not collecting. In addition, the beggars who are increasingly clogging up the sidewalks and overpasses on the Strip - with or without their pets or musical instruments in tow - are not affected by this new law, either.
I can only hope that Clark County comes up with a law covering panhandling, as well. It is unfortunate that people are unable to walk around without being accosted by so many different individuals while they attempt to get from point A to point B on any given day of their vacations. All I need is for Texas to legalize gambling and I will abandon my favorite vacation spot if Vegas lawmakers don't start to see the value of the people who bring in the money on a daily basis.
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