"What was interesting is a lot of people didn't want to took at him because they figured, 'Oh, here's another person panhandling," said Gordon Molendyk, the spokesperson for the Vernon–North Okanagan RCMP detachment.

That made it easy for Taylor to radio to his colleagues around the corner in order to tell them which cars to stop, and for what infraction. Molendyk said 11 tickets were issued in an hour.

Is that a good tally?

"Put it this way, it was high enough that [the officers are] saying we'll be doing it again," Molendyk said.