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Cindy said she has a number of homeless customers and believes everybody should be treated equally, but after the experience she may be more cautious.


Definition of a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. This week a homeless man pushed a passerby into the path of a truck. A homeless man threw large rocks into the windshields of passing cars. Don't hit me up for spare change because I will act to protect myself and my family members.

1 posted on 12/10/2018 6:46:37 PM PST by artichokegrower
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I don’t give money to beggars because most of them are either alcoholics, drug addicts, mentally ill, or con artists. I also have been lied to by some of them.


2 posted on 12/10/2018 6:51:11 PM PST by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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We need to implement work camps. In locations far, far away from cities. Planting trees, repairing forest roads, making firebreaks, etc.


3 posted on 12/10/2018 6:53:18 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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He probably wanted her to pay for it.


4 posted on 12/10/2018 6:53:54 PM PST by Spok
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Definition of a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged.

I've never been mugged, but I have a brain. 8>)

6 posted on 12/10/2018 6:58:20 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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A donut shop and there were no cops around?

You’re kiddin’ me, right?


7 posted on 12/10/2018 6:58:38 PM PST by moovova
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Hint to shop owner: it’s your surveillance gear.

Erase the day’s footage and give these bums a beating.


12 posted on 12/10/2018 7:06:06 PM PST by relictele
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Sean Penn thought it was awesome.


14 posted on 12/10/2018 7:17:33 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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A little more info from the article:

“The frightening encounter happened Friday morning. She said a customer’s young daughter began crying because the woman was wailing.

“I actually asked her to quiet down because she was scaring the girl, or leave,” Cindy said. “And she said ‘F you’ and just threw the coffee at me.”

Employees and customers told the woman to leave and called the police. Cindy said it’s not the first time the woman has been in her shop.”


20 posted on 12/10/2018 7:28:04 PM PST by Innovative
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Since I never carry cash, it’s not a problem for me.

At least when I tell the bums that I don’t have any money, I’m not lying.


23 posted on 12/10/2018 7:37:32 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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There was a time in the 19th century that America understood a crucial distinction: there are deserving poor and there are undeserving poor. The proliferation of private charities at the time used this distinction to target their efforts.

Unrepentant drunks and charlatans were “undeserving” and left to their own devices. Widows and children and others victimized through no fault of their own were sought out and offered serious assistance.

It was a system that worked to a great extent. It was destroyed by the “Progressive” Era of Teddy Roosevelt and the creation of a new profession: a bunch of trained busybodies known as “social workers” whose sole purpose was to replace private charity with government controlled handouts. We all can see the results of this miscarriage of judgment even today.

27 posted on 12/10/2018 9:21:43 PM PST by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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I responded to “homeless people” for 25 years. About 70% of them are substance abusers, or people with mental problems. Both of these categories can be unpredictable and dangerous. Most of the rest are scam artists.


31 posted on 12/10/2018 9:37:01 PM PST by fireman15
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This past summer, I had a skinny teenager approach me while I was putting groceries in the car. He said he had nothing to eat and was hungry. I told him I’d just purchased cold cuts and could make him a sandwich. He said, “No I want a Burger King,” and walked away.


34 posted on 12/10/2018 9:51:58 PM PST by WWG1WWA
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Like I say with people who complain in Chicago - “Keep voting Democrat!”


37 posted on 12/11/2018 5:03:58 AM PST by simpson96
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Years ago when Bill O'Rielly still had his show on Fox he said he was always being hit on by beggars in NYC. He told them "I'll take you to sandwich shop and but you what ever you want to eat." he said every bum turned him down.
41 posted on 12/11/2018 6:22:51 AM PST by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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