Begging for money on the underground

I'm at bond street waiting for the tube, some young people came by with some buckets asking for money for breast cancer research. Just when I was about to give them some coins the police comes down, checking their contract (they were actually working for a proper charity!) but they did not have the permision to ask for money in the underground so they had to join the polices to the police station.... I felt sorry for the charity workers but at the same time it's quite nice being able to travel without beggars everywhere on the underground.

I started thinking of the tube in Stockholm and Milan were beggars and music players are asking for money almost every time I catch the tube and the security does nothing. Don't even know, is it illegal in Sweden and Italy to beg for money?

It's quite impressive how well UK and London really works in many aspects. They manage to keep beggers of the tubes and almost of the streets and even more worth to mention is that UK is like the only country who s being able to control their crazy football fans while Italy and Sweden are not able to do anything to stop the football fans destroy the cities and hurt each other. What's the secret UK?

Xoxo
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