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I don't know if this is good or bad.
I've done a pretty good job, I think, of keeping my patrol route (which is
really just my daily commuter route) clean, and I guess someone got tired
of me destroying a hundred dollars worth of signs every month. So
now they're doing something cheaper.
At lots of bus stops, pedestrian crosswalk button thingies, phone booths, etc.
paper handouts are starting to show up. There's the good ol' fashioned
tab-tearoff thing (an ad, with little centimeter-wide scraps containing
a phone number), and also little envelopes where victims are encouraged
to take a larger scrap of paper.
The content itself is the same old crap: make money fast, lose 40 pounds, etc.
Anyway, it's all in reach (scam victims have to be able to reach it, to take
a paper scrap, unlike a plastic sign where they just have to be able to
read it) so there's no special effort or tools needed to remove these.
It's a lot less work to clean 'em than a 13-feet-up signs do, but I'm
not costing the fraudsters as much when I do it.
So that's kind of a bummer. I guess I had always hoped they would retaliate
by raising the stakes, not lowing them. I was looking forward to having
to build new tools to destroy reinforced steel signs with electrified fences
and gun turrets, and here they go and switch to paper scraps!  This
could potentially result in the fun wearing off, I fear. 
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