[Ramius]

Yah... knowing them they'd probly just curb-60 the poor guy, which was about the last thing he needed. :-)

But it is true that he has the advantage of not being a teenager in Tumwater.

I'm the sort of personality that often gets taken advantage of by persons begging for help. I always want to think that I'm helping somebody that really needs it. But then I usually find out later that I've been scammed by somebody playing the game of emotions. There's been several times I've given a twenty to somebody on the corner with a really convincing sign explaining how horrible life has been to them.

But then again, I'm the guy that picks up a well-dressed couple in the rain in downtown Seattle, stranded late at night after the buses quit... only to find out that he's a pimp and she's a hooker... and don't I want to party with them? [ack... no... I don't...] Drop them off and find out the next morning that they'd stolen about $2K worth of camera gear from my bag in the back seat.

[sigh] No good deed ever goes unpunished.

[HairOfTheDog]

Heh - I barely remembered that story!

[HairOfTheDog]

Hey - this is pretty cool.

[HairOfTheDog]

oops - forgot to link it!

OK Freepers, lets see how good your geography skills are

[Alkhin]

It is probably uncharitable of me, and I shouldn't think this way, but any time someone in need asks me for help, my first thoughts fly to all the headlines talking about missing people and dead bodies somewhere. I tell myself God can punish me later for it, but until then Im not going to make my reunion with Him easier for the criminal.

Im hardhearted I know.