[BearCub]

Was your 9/11 sentiment "for all I care New Yorkers can all go get themselves killed"?

No, of course not. They're just rude, self-centered, heartless bastards is all. Remember that show where they put crying child actors on the street corners and only about every 20th person would help them?

[wideawake]

Remember that show where they put crying child actors on the street corners and only about every 20th person would help them?

I'm sure you are unaware that a common practice used by drug addicts in NYC is to use children as shills for panhandling purposes.

New Yorkers know that this is a scam and their impulse is to dial 911 and report what they see to children's services - not stop and hand a child money that is going to go straight into a nearby adult's crackpipe.

Every New Yorker has been taken by this scam at one point or another and now most of them are wiser.

[null and void]

Amazing! One in 20 is willing to risk being accused of being a child molester?