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.
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