Whoa. CBS just figured out that a lot of panhandlers are professionals. Film at 11.
“Gypsies, tramps and thieves
We heard it from the people in the train they’d call us
Gypsies, tramps and thieves
But every night we’d hop in our Audi and count the money.”
They sound a lot like bloggers.
“I can’t comment on individual cases that might be begging fraud, but I do know that it does not represent Roma as a whole,” said Carol Silverman, anthropology and folklore professor at the University of Oregon.
Not all Roma are deceitful, lying beggars. They are also deceitful, lying ‘craftsmen’ peddling wildly inferior home repair services.
My Dad told me that he traded me to the gypsies for a three legged cat.
He said after a day, they brought me back and put a curse on him.
And the liberals in the Bay area contribute because they feel better about themselves.
In recent years, I’ve noticed many allegedly destitute or homeless standing in highway median strips, panhandling, especially at left turn lanes where the cars have to stop for the red light.
I’ve heard that many of these people are frauds.
Some make $100 a day begging??
Add it up, if they work a normal five days a week, they are getting $500 a week tax free.
I’m sick of them all coming up to me practically anywhere, gas stations and such. One weird woman approached me at a gas station wanting me to use her credit card to pump gas into my truck. When I questioned her she told me it would help her pay her phone bill. WTH? I told her I didn’t understand what she was doing and she never mentioned me giving her cash for use of her credit card. I suspect she didn’t tell me the scheme when I was not playing her game whatever the hades it was. Freaking Weirdos out there.
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Talking to a friend yesterday I remarked on how many beggars there are on the streets of Manhattan and on the subway trains. Some openly brag about collecting $200/day. NYC has very high taxes and extensive social services. You would think that NYC taxpayers would figure that they had already paid for the care of the indigent, but they seem willing to add more on top, I guess. Sure conflicts with the NYC image of being hard and unsentimental, but I saw it repeatedly with my own eyes.
Back in the day, watched a woman with baby begging at a McDonalds in Burlingame.
She must have taken in at least $200 during the lunch rush alone.
Watched her walk down the street a few blocks as she was leaving, turn into a side street and drive out in a late model Mercedes Benz SL
We had squatters next door after the owner defaulted. 20 to 30 people moved through there. They were definitely professional criminals. I thought I was going to be killed.
It took me six months to get them out. 13 cop cars finally showed up. My the world has changed. Mostly Democrat constituents.
They are more than just annoying ne’er do wells. They dangerous as hell. Look up “Foxglove Murders San Francisco”
When I was in Northern VA in the 70’s 3 car loads staged a commando style raid on the Safeway around the corner. Cleaned it out of all sorts of expensive meats and liquors before the mgmt could get the cops. Simply overwhelmed the staff. Think Flash Mob. Criminal scum.
She actually said that.
Is there less dignified way to travel than by subway?
Look at a crucifix:
Jesus’ feet are both pierced by a SINGLE nail, right? Originally there were supposed to be one for EACH foot, though.
On the way to his crucifiction, whipped by the Romans, Jesus stumbled and one of the nails was LOST.
The Gypsies say the lost nail was recovered and kept by a gypsie boy who darted out of the crowd and to this day that nail represents a kind of special, side covenenant with God:
“God says it’s okay for gypsies to steal...”
On Good Friday especially on the east coast almost all cops have no time off, as vans loaded from Gypsies go on a huge, day-long festival of especially eggregious stealing.
They usually hit huge, high-end malls, and they go from one to the next, alllllll day on that day.
I’ve been hit up on numerous occasions, with the same sob story being told by a young pregnant woman in front of the local WalMart and the very next day I see the same woman in the middle of a 4-way controlled intersection.
gypsies have a reputation and sadly, its mostly true...
While BART is well aware of the panhandling groups, “It’s a First Amendment protected right to panhandle,” said Alvarez.
That’s weapons grade stupid.