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His nickname is now 'Larry Boots.'

Because a panhandler's choice of footwear has somehow become an object of great media fascination, Inside Edition is here to provide us with the latest update in the Shoeless Not Homeless BootGate 2012.

This is why we can't have nice things: journalists.

“He does have stable housing,” said Seth Diamond, New York City's homeless services commissioner.

"What do I get?” Hillman wants to know. “This went around the world, and I want a piece of the pie."

The officer keeps the receipt from the boots with him: “to remind me that sometimes people have it worse.”