And he figured out a way to get deposit bottles to Michigan.
Posted on 07/14/2023 8:08:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It is a practice normally employed by the unemployed and people down on their luck.
However, begging is turning out to be a lucrative job for one individual in Mumbai, India.
Local media is reporting that beggar Bharat Jain has bagged himself $890,708 (₹7.5 crores) by panhandling on the streets of the tech and financial metropolis. It’s believed he takes home about 2500 rupees daily, which works out to be $30 a day or $904 a month.
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In my fantasy mind, I think begging could be quite lucrative if you used the money to invest and just make sure that you pay the taxes on your investment income.
I’ve talked to cops who tell me the really intimidating ones can earn $300/day.
How does he turn 900 a month into 1 million?
Thirty years of begging and not spending the money would do it.
And he figured out a way to get deposit bottles to Michigan.
A couple years ago an extremely disheveled obviously homeless man walks in one of my associate’s law office and begins telling a story about how he got arrested for assault. My buddy is thinking,’dude, you need to get a public defender.” At the next moment the homeless dude pulls out bank statements showing he has around $850k in the bank.
Homeless dude beats the charge and continues to live under a bridge.
One Eastern European beggar I read about has given, over his career, about $40,000 to the Church to feed the needy. He lives in a one room tin shack and gives what he earns to feed his fellow man.
what about the name it and claim it grifting pastors with their own Lear jets?
Back in the 70s in NYC there was a “training course” you could take that would teach you various methods of panhandling. Schpiels, outfits, etc. for posing as one-legged man, homeless vet, college student, doomsday preacher, bag lady, etc. Complete with what outfits you should wear.
I also remember the story of when the found the dead bag lady she had a key on a string around her neck that opened a locker at Penn Station with over $400K stashed in it.
It seems this guy had a good tech job but had some drug and alcohol issues leading to a divorce and with no diminished capacity, he just decided to walk away from it all.
When I did security for a building that had a government floor that served wards of the province, which included drug addicts who were beyond help, I knew a guy like that. He had a great business and had a very good life, but his life spiraled downward when his wife died. He just threw his life away over that.
How much did the course cost?
But that isn’t Zelenskyyy.
Zelinsky is the worlds richest beggar, but almost all politician grifters qualify.
I don’t remember - I think it was only a week long or so.
I actually had to panhandle once - I had to take the subway to catch my bus back home from college one weekend, and realized all I had was my bus ticket - zero money. I was standing there, saying “I’m a college student trying to get home - no really, honest” to dozens of strangers outside the subway entrance. Very weird feeling - between being ignored to hearing “get a job” etc. Finally I scrounged the 35 cents. But very unsettling experience to be in that position.
Are you guys in love with Zelensky?
n-no homo.
(How does he turn 900 a month into 1 million?)
Municipal bonds, Ted. Triple “A” rating.
A free mail truck?
I read a bunch of comments at the NYP waiting for some mention of the story which gave me a life-long skepticism of beggars!
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