Police: Oregon panhandlers raking in the green

KAFU-TV ^ | February 3, 2008

[2ndDivisionVet]

The left coast is a parallel universe.

[Bean Counter]

Parallel to what, is the scary part...

[doc1019]

That’s appox. 75K a year tax free and no overhead (allowing for two weeks vacation) … Great Job! ;-)

[Doogle]

...wait till they start washing your window on your just cleaned car with dirty water and expect a dollar. Then when you refuse, they kick a dent in your hybrid Mommie bus (SUV),or rip off your antenna and hammer across your open double moonview roof like a crazed baboon on crack that you see at animal drive thru’s at safari parks

[MarineBrat]

Good for more than just kids.

[Viking2002]

I've dealt with maggots like these in Georgetown and Adams Morgan in D.C. before. More proof that no amount of money can buy a human some dignity.

[doc1019]

Some folks don’t want dignity, just spend’n money. ;-)

[Graybeard58]

[healy61]

ome freepers need to pick a few saturdays and go down and panhandle and load the place up. Where clothes like the other panhandlers, and no ID. There will come a point where somebody with significant brains and authority will say, Enough. Just keep panhandling anyway.

[Graybeard58]

You can put an eye out with one of those things.

[healy61]

I can’t believe I wrote “where.” Guess I better go panhandle and buy a vowel.

[cmsgop]

When I was 17 I was out of gas coming back from TJ Mexico to OC. My buddy and I Panhandled for 90 Min. We made about $100, we went to Mc Donalds and ate our hearts out. You can make alot of Money begging.

[Hugin]

75K a year for holding a sign outside Wally World? Why would they do anything else?

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Every dollar donated to panhandlers is a vote begging them to stand in the doorway the next day, week, or month and continue begging. You get what you subsidize.

I wish generous people would just donate to their favorite charity and not vote to encourage panhandlers. Oh well... I can’t make people not be stupid.

[dighton]

“Most (panhandlers) have lived here a long time and actually have homes,” he said. “This is just their chosen profession.”

Paging Sherlock Holmes!

(Disclaimer: not a real person)

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

He said most panhandlers are not criminals. "They are nearly as likely to be victims of illegal acts as they are of committing them," he said.

B.S. - I'd be willing to bet that very few, if any, of them pay income tax on the money that they collect. Therefore, they are criminals. More than likely tax dollars are transfered TO them because they don't have any stated income. So they get thousands out of your and my pocket on top of the $75,000/year that they make asking people for money.

[martin_fierro]

[mtbopfuyn]

Kumbayah and a group hug!

[weegee]

If the Sheriff of Knottingham isn’t going to police the beggars making $300 a day then the IRS should. Good enough for Al Capone and Alan Freed, good enough for for Hobo Bob.

[MarineBrat]

You can put an eye out with one of those things.

Mom?!?!? What are you doing here?

Graybeard58

Did the Epilady I sent you break down? :)