There was an expose’ on TV a few years ago that showed a “homeless” woman driving her new car to a spot and then walking a couple of blocks away to panhandle on the street...After a few hours, she walked back to her car and drove to her very nice two bedroom condo...
The TV people stopped her and she did an interview...She claimed she panhandled between 80 and 100 thousand dollars each year and paid no taxes...
I wonder how the IRS feels about that.
There were panhandlers near UNC-Greensboro who were rich high school kids who just did it for a good. They pretended to be homeless because they were kicked out of the house for being gay or liberal or whatever.
Back in the late 40s before TV, my Dad would occassionally bring home reels of 8mm film to play on the kitchen window shade...mostly cartoons. One I remember had a skit of a “blind” beggar selling pencils on the street. Suddenly a looooong, chauffeur driven limo would pull to the curb in front of him. He would pack up his kit, enter the limo and be driven away.
There is nothing new under the sun.
[ There was an expose’ on TV a few years ago that showed a “homeless” woman driving her new car to a spot and then walking a couple of blocks away to panhandle on the street...After a few hours, she walked back to her car and drove to her very nice two bedroom condo...
The TV people stopped her and she did an interview...She claimed she panhandled between 80 and 100 thousand dollars each year and paid no taxes... ]
I am normally against knifing someone’s tires, but in this case, I could totally see being on a jury for someone who knifed her tires and saying “NOT GUILTY”
We’ve had a few of those exposed in our small city. People have become more aware. I think it’s mainly because the beggars are everywhere now. People are sick of it.