Hooks: the flower salesman

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"Hooks" is how this colorful street salesman is known. He is a local flower salesman that has no hands. In place of the hands he has metal hooks. Unlike a pirate's hook these are able to open and close so that he may grip things such as the flowers he sells. Hooks is a real downtown character and one that you will not soon forget if he approaches you on a quiet Sunday night in The Blind Tiger Pub. Hooks does not own a shop and it is rumored that he obtains his flowers by clipping them out of local homeowners pots and gardens.