They slept on the walkways night and day, and sometimes in drunken stupors would defecate or urinate wherever they happened to be. Sometimes one would attack tourists, worshippers, or temple staff. Local papers scoffed that the beggars had run the caretakers out of town, and Japanese media labeled the temple a "high-risk area for tourists."
他們不分白天晚上在迴廊席地而躺，有時醉得不省人事、隨地便溺，甚至攻擊觀光客、香客、廟裡執事人員，大眾傳播媒體譏為「乞丐趕廟公」，日本媒體還稱龍山寺為「危險觀光區」。