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==Lifestyle== Gutter punks are sometimes [[Refusal to work|voluntarily unemployed]] and may acquire income by [[Begging|panhandling]], sometimes holding signs (known as "flying a sign") requesting spare change (known as “spange,” with the act called “spanging.”)<ref name="Bentley"/><ref name="DNAC"/> Some gutter punks are [[drug dealers]] or refer "custies" ('customers') in exchange for "finder's fee".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/meet-the-crusties-6422293|title=Meet the Crusties|last=Holthouse|first=David|date=1998-02-26|website=Phoenix New Times|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191115154352/https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/meet-the-crusties-6422293|archive-date=November 15, 2019|access-date=2019-11-15|quote=Some of them also sell drugs, or connect customers--"custies"--with dope for a finder's fee. As a result, Mill Avenue is now a street where it's safe and easy to score anything you want, especially heroin, if you know the right crusty to make eye contact with.}}</ref> Some earn a meager but honest income as "[[buskers]]", playing acoustic instruments such as the guitar, banjo, mandolin and ukulele on the sidewalk for tips. Other gutter punks earn income as temporary or [[migrant workers]].
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