Ideas...

I like the thought of eating ice cream with a knife as intimidation. A conversation I had, he preferred to stay anonymous to avoid getting the hobo in trouble. He was serious:

anon: i had a hobo buy me gin yesterday

Ben Magnuson: nice haha

anon: motherfucker gouged me though sonnn. ha. and he was trippin so hard about the cops

Ben Magnuson: obviously

anon: unnecessarily though

Ben Magnuson: he's a hobo dude ain't no shame in hustlin

anon: i went to give him the cash and hes like WHOA COOL IT wait a second and then made me walk with him to the bus stop and do some james bond shit you knwo hand off the money all secretively
anon: then he comes back by and just drops the bottle and keeps walkin hahah

Ben Magnuson: hahaha
Ben Magnuson: haha that's fuckin great.

anon: yeah it was funny. sketch though man his fuckin homie was standin there next to me eatin a pint of ice cream with a knife

Ben Magnuson: hahahahaha
Ben Magnuson: i love this story it keeps getting better

anon: and santa cruz has like a shitload of stabbings. especially downtown. rapes too but i wasnt really trippin on that

Ben Magnuson: hahahahaha