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It’s been a little quiet lately at the downtown London intersection of Dundas and Richmond streets.

Jordan Minter hasn’t seen the two men who have been fixtures – and chronic nuisances – on the southeast corner lately. He figures they’ve been keeping a low profile since a crackdown on their street preaching antics by city hall and the law.

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Minter, a self-described creature of the downtown, is used to having Steven Ravbar, 50, and Matthew Carapella, 32, in front of the variety store on the corner, wearing their Tilley hats and khakis in the summer or bundled up in the winter, and always sporting their offensive sandwich boards while spewing hate and berating people.

“That’s where I’ve seen them get hit by snowballs and eggs,” Minter said. “And that’s where I saw the younger guy get pushed into a snow bank.”

The two have become part of Minter’s downtown landscape from his apartment window – an annoying, disturbing stain.