During the investigation, police have tracked leads pointing to vagrants in Zimmerman's off-campus neighborhood.

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In a fateful confrontation, Isaac kills one of the vagrants to save his friend.

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Those living in streets backing onto the demolition zones have complained of rats, vagrants and drug users, attracted to the empty properties.

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Black vultures, once just vagrants this far north, thrive in New Haven.

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Instead vagrants, who wandered from job to job, were frequently whipped and sent to prison for short periods if they weren't working.

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The vagrants often would knock on doors and beg for money.

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From its humble beginnings (for a while, the fire-fighting force consisted largely of drunks and vagrants) the service gradually became more professional, developing new techniques and introducing smokejumpers (special teams that parachute into hot spots).

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When the Kittredge house is burglarized in a crime wave that the newspapers are blaming on vagrants, the plot becomes a mild mystery that Kit tries to solve for the sake of her young hobo friend Will (Max Thieriot).

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