Best is to carry protein bars or bags of nuts and hand them to the beggars by the sides of the road. If they are truly hungry it will help them.
I have recently seen some of these people being “dropped off” at their exit in a nice car. Nicer than mine at the time. This angered me. I am wondering if there is a big pimp style organization that uses these people and collects The money.
That kind of ugly business is pretty common in some foreign countries, particularly in Asia. It is really bad news for the people caught up in it.
A panhandler, a young man, stood at an intersection where I would often be stopped at the light. I would give him a dollar now and again. Then one day I see him and he had one whole side of his face tattooed with a big black design like Kiss I think.
I never gave him another dollar.
Then I saw him there only now he is sitting in a wheelchair and he has had one foot amputated. I saw him one more time and he looked deathly ill, no doubt he was and I have never seen him again. Wasted life, very sad.