[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.

[BearCub]

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.

No, the kids weren't asking for money. They were well dressed kids crying that they couldn't find their mommy.