OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Nearly half of the citations that have been written under Oklahoma City's new panhandling ordinance were issued at the same intersection, officials said.

According to The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/2fZvC8J ), police wrote 73 tickets through Nov. 3 to people for standing or sitting on a median. Thirty-four of those were issued to people who were in a median near the Interstate 235 off-ramp at Northeast 23rd Street and Santa Fe Avenue.

Wendell Knight was among those whose been ticketed so far this year. He said he received a citation recently after he stopped on the median to say hello to a friend who was panhandling there.

"I believe they giving the wrong people tickets — I believe they should be ticketing the people who are giving the money out. They are the ones obstructing traffic," Knight said. "They have money — we don't."