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Posted on 05/01/2025 7:20:13 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
It happens from time to time my friends. This well groomed woman walks up to me on the street and talked fast. She's got a daughter staying at the women's shelter and she's got other problems. She's gotta keep my attention knowing most will walk away. She was not as convincing as much as she had it down-the sob story. Anyone down on their luck cannot be that expressive.
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Should the response be “You got it down!”?
I’ve got some muffin stumps she can have.
Give money to a panhandler and you’re buying drugs.
It’s called the short con and grifters have been playing it for centuries.
I walk away from panhandlers the same way I handle scam callers—quickly and without saying a word.
I love when they say they are out of gas and stranded walking the street and that that they will pay you back, just write down your address and they will mail it to you.
Pssshhhh! No way Jose
*Give money to a panhandler and you’re buying drugs.*
These people are well groomed and can communicate.
They rarely approach you if you are in a group of three or more.
If you call them out, such as asking them where their (out of gas) car is parked, or what clinic their daughter is being treated at, they get irate.
It’s almost always a threat display, to get you to back down, but these people will get very very aggressive.
They don’t like being outnumbered, because they feel they lose their advantage at getting pushy, because being pushy and aggressive is a bluff they need in their repertoire.
I was driving into town and at a red light a panhandler approached the car. He gave me a sob story and I took out a bunch of change and handed it to him. Had to be close to five bucks. He looked at it and said, “all you have is change?”
I no longer give panhandlers money. I keep a case of water in the car and hand out water bottles.
We get scams like that on NextDoor several times a year. The text is very convincing...until you find they have cut-and-pasted the exact same text from the last time or from some other part of the region or country. Fortunately, people on NextDoor are wise to that and quickly tell everybody “IT’S A SCAM!!”
Next question:
How do they manage to be all on the same page? Gotta be some kind of training out there for this. Can’t be coincidental.
They learned it from the mainstream media.
He hasn’t mastered that gig he doesn’t have a dog for the pity string to feed it.
Funny...my hub monitors our “Nextdoor”...someone named George Washington” just joined this a.m.
They’re called “high functioning.”
The last time I gave any dinero to a panhandler was...back in the day, I was moving my daughter into her condo. I was struggling with an IKEA closet on an undersized dolly.
Had a guy come up and help me. We were able to get it settled in (It was an off balanced weighty monster of a thing), then he hit me with his\their story. Introduced his wife who was pregnant. I gave him everything I had in my pocket.
I gave up on NextDoor after the 100th complaint about unruly kids on the lawn, doorbell ditch, “do you know who this is” from a Ring doorbell video, down-on-their-luck scammers, etc. I finally couldn’t take any more of that busybody crap. Now all I use it for is getting referrals and references for local handymen and contractors.
Good luck to your hubs on watching NextDoor. Has he seen the same nonsense in your area?
Did she have a squeegee? You’re not gonna make a dime without a squeegee.
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