Millennials are paying thousands to this ‘digital beggar,’ an unemployed pot fiend

https://nypost.com ^ | 12/15/2018 | Kyle Smith

[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 ...

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

At night, he’s Q, selling tshirts.

[lee martell]

I will be funny when he gets audited by the IRS.
That might make him put the crack pipe down for a little bit.
Any future girlfriends are put on notice that he will expect his date to pay for his meal too.

[Dr. Sivana]

. Try offering work to the guy at the on ramp holding the “Will work for food” sign.

Or offering food (not money) to same. Sometimes it is the real deal. Back when airlines offered real food I was not feeling well and didn’t eat mine, but closed the styrofoam cover and a guy asked me for food. I gave him the whole meal, walked around the block, and he was wolfing it down as if it were all you can eat in 2 minutes prime rib. Another time I was on North Ave in Chicago picking up the only New Haven style pizza for hundreds of miles for my deserving family. I was passing a man (I was parked far away) who asked me for some pizza.

I have him a couple of slices. He may never have another chance to have some of that type. Finally, I was recently refilling my gallon water jugs at an outdoor kiosque, and some middle aged man who was obviously walking a long time asked if he could have a jug of water, not money. The station was 25 cents a gallon. Of course I gave him one of my eight jugs. No regret on all three of those. More frequently, the beggar says he can’t early the food that I bought or myself, or in the case of gasoline, never had a car to put it in.

[BradyLS]

“The kid’s got moxie!”

[bk1000]

Once approached by a “hungry” guy panhandling at a gas station. Bought him a pre packaged sandwich when I went inside. As I was driving away he was headed inside, I assume to return the sandwich for cash. Some people are truly down on their luck, but many are professional beggars.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The dumbass “millennials” don’t have any money to pay their medical bills and college tuition but sure seem able to come up with money to be on vacation all the time traveling across the country and around the world. They never seem to have problems getting money for the newest” next big thing”. They can buy “books” put out by commie libs and go to their movies. They never seem to lack money to send to every moron who comes down the pike’s #GoFundMe account. They always seem to be able to afford the latest smart phone or a new car or two. What the hell is going on?

[BenLurkin]

Got a crush on Lenina Crowne She is so pneumatic.

[Mogger]

Do you think if I went on TV and asked for money I would get rivers of money from stupid suckers?

This guy is a piker, there are far worse thieves who have been doing worse for over 50 years

Happens every day, and they steal from some of the poorest and most vulnerable in the USA, the elderly.

The con artists?

Televangelists, radio and TV preachers.

They make this guy look like a saint.

[SaxxonWoods]

There is a lady who begs every day near the entrance to the grocery store we use. On a local website, someone wrote “Don’t give her money! She lives with her son down the street, he takes care of her. She takes the money straight into the grocery store and buys lotto tickets!”

Heh.

[Bob434]

i once tried helping someone who was down and out, knowing they didn’t have enough food many times- only to find out they were spending what i gave them on lottery tickets- when i confronted them about it they got angry and declared that i ‘had no right trying to dictate where the money i gave them went to’

Meh- if they didn’t want any more outside ‘help’, all they had to do was say so

[bramps]

The breeders of such millenials (both the beggar and giver)are the real bums. I choose not to use the word parents because they don’t deserve it.

[Leaning Right]

> There is a woman standing on the corner at our Walmart store begging for help. She has been there for months. <

Years ago I was walking through a college town when a young, well-dressed man (suit and tie) approached me. He said that he was visiting the campus, and his car had broken down. Could I spare $5 to help him out?

“Sorry, no”, I said as I kept on walking.

Anywho, about a month later I was back in that town, and there was that same guy asking folks for money. He sure must have bad luck with cars.

[upchuck]

Totally off topic but:

Whoa! Wanna be tracked? Visit the NY Post web site. Here's the Ghostery report:

11 advertising trackers
1 audio/video player tracker
1 customer interaction tracker
3 essential trackers
4 site analytics trackers
1 social media tracker

WOW! 21 trackers.

[Leaning Right]

> Televangelists, radio and TV preachers. They make this guy look like a saint. <

You’ve got that right. The great majority of them are simple grifters. They’ll take a quote out of scripture, then twist it as a reason why you must send them money.

I heard one on TV (Mike Murdock) say, “If you don’t have the money in your checking account, we take credit cards.” Yeah, go into debt for Mike’s sake. It’s repulsive in the extreme.

[Polyxene]

I was thinking the same thing! Well said!

[Leaning Right]

Good post there.

[a little elbow grease]

"Slightly more brazen than Blowsey-Ford and Stormy."

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LOL

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[SunkenCiv]

Maybe that just meant she sucked.

[Go_Raiders]

The money is given to him as gifts. He doesn’t owe taxes on any of it.

If a person gives him more than $12,000, the sender must pay a gift tax to the IRS. That’s the only tax angle to this story.