Posted on 12/15/2018 7:57:12 AM PST by heterosupremacist
"... the tin cup is such a low-tech way to beg. There’s a better way. Meet Jovan Hill, digital beggar. Hill is an unemployed Brooklyn man who spends his days asking strangers for donations on social media and is now bathing in other people’s money ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
If Obama had a son...literally!
I have a hangnail. Please send me $$$$$$.
He is not unemployed! The author of that headline took us for fools. He is receiving more money than me, and is not paying taxes on it.
Unemployed implies poor. Designed to pull at our sympathy strings. Won’t work with me.
Besides, he’s on pot, so he gets no sympathy from me, and I condemn him for using this money to smoke pot. He’s a useless lowlife living off money from stupid suckers. About the stupid suckers - what a bunch of a$$holes!
You can always ask me what I think, and you’ll get a straight answer.
Do you think if I went on TV and asked for money I would get rivers of money from stupid suckers? I don’t smoke pot, I drink an infinitesimally small amount of alcohol, and don’t wear a chain around my neck. Oh, and I’m not the right race to pull off this scam.
And he’s still a bum.
Smells like drug money laundering to me
Slightly more brazen than Blowsey-Ford and Stormy.
Apropos of nothing, anyone here ever read Aldous Huxley?
There is a story that is about 60 years old about a fellow who put an ad in the NY Times. It simply read: “Send in your dollar”, and gave a PO box.
Thousands send in their dollars.
he should run for office!!
Is he a registered charity? If not, he's broken another law right there.
He is not unemployed! The author of that headline took us for fools. He is receiving more money than me, and is not paying taxes on it.
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Actually the author does a good job of saying that he provides entertainment or fulfills other emotional needs for the people who donate.
Although, some of the people who donate may get a nasty surprise if they think their gifts are tax deductible.
This guy’s a bum, obviously, but he doesn’t seem to be conning anyone or stealing. He’s just openly begging, using social media. And millenials and other assorted fools are meeting his begging needs. Their money, their business - as long as they don’t try to claim their donations to this bum as a tax deduction.
There is a woman standing on the corner at our Walmart store begging for help. She has been there for months.
Not far away is a group that helps people down on their luck, all she has to do is walk in.
Time to bring back the Vagrancy laws of the 1960s.
“There is a story that is about 60 years old about a fellow who put an ad in the NY Times. It simply read: “Send in your dollar”, and gave a PO box.”
Mom told me of a beggar who was always in front of J.P. Allen’s in Atlanta when she was growing up in the ‘30s. He would get picked up by his driver each afternoon. It’s always a scam. Try offering work to the guy at the on ramp holding the “Will work for food” sign.
A fool and his money...
Many people dream about sitting around all day getting high, doing nothing, and making money.
This guy goes out and achieves the dream.
I kinda admire him.
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