Hippie town's homeless attack portends trend

Ricky Green wandered into this town some months ago, a stranger just a bit stranger than most. He had shed his middle-class respectability _ a job as a graphic artist in the 'burbs _ strapped a guitar over his shoulder and landed here on what he told people was "a spiritual journey."

Bolinas seemed like a good fit. The unincorporated town of 1,600 on the Pacific coast is Marin County's most blatant throwback to the Summer of Love, a hippie haven that is bent on stopping tourists from spoiling its laid-back groove.

The 33-year-old Green, prone to age of Aquarius-speak about the moon and the stars, already looked sort of like a local.

As one …