I had a case a few years ago where a guy with an empty gas can came up to me one evening and asked for money...
I asked him where his car was...
He said and I asked him why he had walked passed 2 gas stations to get where he was, about 1/2 mile from where he told me his car was parked..
I then told him since it was a ways back to his car I would buy him some gas at the station just 2 blocks back and drive him to his car...
Do you know he said he couldnt go right then, he didnt have time and he had to keep going the way he was walking to visit his mother in the hospital ???
I said come back when he had walked the mile to the hospital and back and wed talk about gas some more...
a woman standing near called me names and gave him money...
I said to her face she was stupid...
That's a standard scam. Got that one pulled on me in West Palm over thanksgiving. Naturally, I said no. Saw the guy about 20 minutes later pedaling his bicycle to the another filling station. He didn't even have a gas can.
The guy at the QT here in GA actually did have a car. He just expected to bum money for gas. then there was the bum that asked me for a dollar to go toward buying some wine. I gave him a dollar for honesty.
I had a guy pull the “I need gas” line on me.
Seven years later I encountered him still working that scam on the same block.