My grandfather, a devout Catholic, was an engineer on the NYC RR. Each day when he pulled the train into Grand Central Station, he would drop a few coins in the basket held by a nun. On one occasion, the train arrived late and he saw the nun walking out of the terminal. He followed her and was taken aback to discover her climbing into the rear of a limousine, as she pulled off her veil. Turns out, she was a man feigning as a woman religious. He was quite bitter over having been tricked in such a manner.
I had a similar experience in New Orleans years ago. I watched a street musician play for a few minutes with the normal container for change. As I was walking away he bent over and I saw a cell phone in his back pocket. Mind you this was when cell phones cost $400 or #500 hundred a month.
Isn’t that disgusting.