Posted on 11/11/2015 7:18:27 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
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Things are only worth what someone’s willing to pay.
A bum hit me up in NOLA a while back. She said “I need money to go to the hospital!”.
I said “Good luck.”.
Pretty damn good income. Tax free too!
I've never given them a dime. But I do sometimes drop a dollar or two into the violin case of this string quartet that often plays in the Lexington St. Passage. I have no problem with tipping performance artists. But if you are just going to sit on the sidewalk with a cardboard sign, forget about it.
No she doesn't. Anyone without the means can get treatment at the ER, gratis. Illegals do it all day long.
There are certainly signs it’s organized- that’s how it is with the gypsies in London, 100% structured there actually
There used to be these guys who hung outside the LA Int’l Auto Show every year and walked up to those attendees they thought to be rubes with a broken fan belt in their hand, ‘I am desperate’, pregnant wife in the car, etc.
I seen it, same thing three years straight lol
I had a lady in a Wal-mart parking lot come up to me and tell me she needed $2 for a cup of coffee. I looked up, saw a Mickey D’s and told her to follow me up there and I’d buy her one.
She never showed.
We have them here with signs saying , “Bad Heart and Hungry” ,but we have welfare and Free Health care and people still give them money . One lives in a big house with 3 cars right next to where she begs
Yuppies and tourists are the most gullible and naive. They are very easily manipulated by scam artists.
...rich hypocrite libs hold on to their money very tightly.
Always thought that you could do pretty well begging if you played the accordion badly and had a little old dog with cataracts that howled on cue.
There used to be a couple that took turns sitting with the dog at the intersection of 81 and 11. They had a sign that said the dog needed food. One day I stopped and told him that I would give him $25 if he would give me the dog. The last time I heard language like that was in boot camp.
[[She said âI need money to go to the hospital!â.]]
Should have said “Hospitals take walk-ins who can’t pay. Have an nice day”
Jose and Jesus were street beggars. Jose always brought home
more than Jesus, so Jesus asked Jose “how come?”
Jose showed Jesus his sign’
“Ten more dollars and I can go home to Mexico”
I’m the same way. An artist is doing something. There’s a guy in DC who drums a bunch of 5 gallon pails and a shopping cart.
He gets money.
Most handout bums are nearby to places of employment and have a couple grand worth of “body art” and smoking cigarettes. Can’t be too poor.
There was a t-shirt vendor in the Bay Area a few years ago, who sold a shirt emblazoned with the words, “No, I Don’t Happen to Have Any Spare Change.”
Maybe we should start a nationwide business renting out dogs -or children- to the beggars by the hour.
We could even offer an iPhone app for it, most of these guys have smart phones they bought with their welfare checks probably anyway
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