He's 37??????
How would you punish this?‘Beggar’ who sat outside Natwest bank with a ‘hungry and homeless’ sign raked in £300 A DAY while living in a £300,000 flat
Make him work.
Happens here more than you know.
Got a much better idea; how about cutting out the 300k homes, opening up all those spaces to young families who might actually eventually want to get a home, not to mention lowering the costs of rent and housing at the same time since you'll be removing the ‘floor’ that the council has established in rents. Eject everyone. If you feel bad about it, set up a tent city for them, see how long people will actually sit on their duffs and how many will suddenly find the ability to hunt for a job.
Punish him?
For what, excelling at capitalism?
False Advertising ?
Ability to manage money well ?
I keep telling folks that over half the ones here do this as their job. They are dropped of in the morning by a “pimp” if you will who gives them a cell phone and picked up in the evening. They split the proceeds. If they can collect more than $64 in an 8 hour day they are making out better than someone making $8/hr after you take out taxes. Homeless my ares.
Ever wonder why you don’t see them on weekends? Are they not homeless then as well. They are off just like you and I are...
Not paying taxes on his income maybe?
probably tax evasion.
Wasn’t there a Sherlock Holmes story about this?
He deliberately targeted people making cash withdrawals from this cash point and was extremely aggressive and abusive to anyone who refused to give him money. Many people felt frightened and intimidated by him, and there is some evidence to suggest that he used his dog to threaten and pressure people into handing over their cash.” …
OK. Now I see why you asked that question.
Gee... he sounds just like our IRS.
He was working on his resume to get a government job.
I won’t give to a person on the street. I will give to an organization that provides services and helps those who want to ease back in to society, to do so.
In selected places in Seattle the bums can make up to $1,000 a day. Once they get a few thou they go on a heroin binge and end up at Harborview Medical Center.
He's 37??????
I was reading these stories 50 years ago.
I have a policy that protects me from these people; I never give money to anyone begging, ever. Never have. I would be humiliated to beg strangers for money and that’s the same way I feel about anyone who does beg. You have time to stand here all day? Then you have time to do something productive for someone and earn money. Oh, I see. Begging IS your job. You could at least entertain people in exchange for their generosity. Like this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXMuWi0dUBc Now that’s worthy of a buck. But no, you just want free money. Oh, I see. Begging IS your job. Well, f you buddy.
I wish I didn’t have so much pride.
Obviously, I have ZERO respect for this scammer, but consider, the British legal system is doing something about him, and showing a lot of indignation about him personally,
yet they continue to funnel millions of pounds to discontent radical Muslims, who, as a reward for Brit largesse, threaten to destroy the entire UK.I am not saying they’ve got their “priorities” backwards, exactly, but there is a clear reason
why they come down hard on this guy, while only pretending to wrestle with the much tougher nuts to crack, the Muslims living on the dole, and mouthing off aggressively in the Mosques.In psychology, it’s called “displacement”.
I hate this so much. I wouldn’t care if they shot him. This just disgusts me to the core.
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Also tax free, and with any other gov benefit he could ask for.