Here, have a cookie.

[Coca Cola]

anybody ever get the "I ran out of gas and I'm from (insert city) do you have spare change" sometimes it even happens at grocery stores, he/she just points to the gas station across the street or claim their car is at gas station a few blocks away.

 

[Maleficus]

The few times I have given people something, they were very grateful. The last one I remember is a box of little fruit/sports drinks or something and some meals from Boat n Net (it was a family of 2 children and the parents)

I think it's the same as everything else, there will always be those genuinely in need, and those who are out to scam you.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: thepd7

Originally posted by: Jugernot
There was article on CNN a year or two ago about a woman who wasn't homeless, but would beg for money in NYC I think... she apparently made over 6 figures a year from begging. She didn't even make up excuses or anything, she just asked and people gave.

What a miserable human being.

Jugs

100k = $17/hour if she "worked" 16 hours a day EVERY day. Don't believe everything you see on TV, or at least get your facts straight.

in a busy place like NYC that's not hard to believe, I use to work at a little local liquor store, we had beggers from time to time. It wasn't uncommon for one to get 40-50 bucks over the course of an hour. People give them a buck here 2 bucks there. We would run them off, but typically if they went a few hours undetected by us, they'd already have made more than I did working 10 hours. People would give them FIVE BUCKS! If they did it all year like a job, 6 figures would be pretty easy with all the saps, suckers and people who just seem to love to give away money.

I bet in a crowded place like NYC thhe same dude from outside our store could have made 200 bucks an hour.

Hell I watched a dude at the gas station walk around and ask people filling up for change the other day. Most said no but I watched 4 give him at least a buck, it took him all of 2 minutes to ask everyone at the station. I wish I could make 4 bucks in 2 minutes The crazy thing is if you were paying attention you had to hear him asking everyone else too. So like the 10th person he asked who gave him money I don't see how they didn't hear him ask at least 1/2 of the other people before them.

 

[Ns1]

When I'm feeling nice I offer them if they want food, and then I buy them something. If they don't want food but desperately seek money, then fuck em.

One guy refused to walk with me half a block so I could buy him a slice of pizza (after I refused to give him pizza + "money for the bus")

I live in/around DTLA, so there's definitely REAL homeless here

but there's also drug addicts and lazy fucks too


I respect the guy with a shopping cart and 14 bags loaded with cans WAY more than the douchebag at the 110S Wilshire exit panhandling every single goddamn morning.

 

[sutahz]

Yeah $17/hr begging would be easy in a crowded place. $1 here, $.5 there, some sap gives you $10 and a 'god bless'. My god, thats why they do it.
Professional panhandlers are why I dont hand out my hard earned cash. I also use my CC nearly exclusivly so no monies to hand out.
Some guy and his family or gf/wife begged some change for me, so i went over to his car and put $3 of gas in (not quite a gal at the time) and he tosses me some attitude about "well thats not going to get me far" so i explianed his car looks like it can get about 30mpg, has to have some gas in there so thats enough to get him somewhere where someone cares about him and can help him more. Fuck that ungrateful fuck. It'll be years before i help out 'someone in need' again.

But yes, this story of "money for food?" "Here is some food" "bah, i dont want your food" is an old and retold story.

 

[BigJ]

Most recent time someone asked me for money I was in KFC in Penn Station. Guy said he wanted money to buy food. I had two KFC snackers I was taking home for the train ride so I gave them to him. He was happy.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
Thats because they live on Change!! They can't survive on normal human food.

Guy ask for change? Will you??? West VA won't

lol...

 

[spacejamz]

Originally posted by: Jugernot
There was article on CNN a year or two ago about a woman who wasn't homeless, but would beg for money in NYC I think... she apparently made over 6 figures a year from begging. She didn't even make up excuses or anything, she just asked and people gave.

What a miserable human being.

Jugs

A local TV station in Dallas filmed a pan handler who sat off the exit of a major freeway. at the end of the day, this person got in their new car and drove off.

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: thepd7

Originally posted by: Jugernot
There was article on CNN a year or two ago about a woman who wasn't homeless, but would beg for money in NYC I think... she apparently made over 6 figures a year from begging. She didn't even make up excuses or anything, she just asked and people gave.

What a miserable human being.

Jugs

100k = $17/hour if she "worked" 16 hours a day EVERY day. Don't believe everything you see on TV, or at least get your facts straight.

in a busy place like NYC that's not hard to believe, I use to work at a little local liquor store, we had beggers from time to time. It wasn't uncommon for one to get 40-50 bucks over the course of an hour. People give them a buck here 2 bucks there. We would run them off, but typically if they went a few hours undetected by us, they'd already have made more than I did working 10 hours. People would give them FIVE BUCKS! If they did it all year like a job, 6 figures would be pretty easy with all the saps, suckers and people who just seem to love to give away money.

I bet in a crowded place like NYC thhe same dude from outside our store could have made 200 bucks an hour.

Hell I watched a dude at the gas station walk around and ask people filling up for change the other day. Most said no but I watched 4 give him at least a buck, it took him all of 2 minutes to ask everyone at the station. I wish I could make 4 bucks in 2 minutes The crazy thing is if you were paying attention you had to hear him asking everyone else too. So like the 10th person he asked who gave him money I don't see how they didn't hear him ask at least 1/2 of the other people before them.

Originally posted by: sutahz
Yeah $17/hr begging would be easy in a crowded place. $1 here, $.5 there, some sap gives you $10 and a 'god bless'. My god, thats why they do it.
Professional panhandlers are why I dont hand out my hard earned cash. I also use my CC nearly exclusivly so no monies to hand out.
Some guy and his family or gf/wife begged some change for me, so i went over to his car and put $3 of gas in (not quite a gal at the time) and he tosses me some attitude about "well thats not going to get me far" so i explianed his car looks like it can get about 30mpg, has to have some gas in there so thats enough to get him somewhere where someone cares about him and can help him more. Fuck that ungrateful fuck. It'll be years before i help out 'someone in need' again.

But yes, this story of "money for food?" "Here is some food" "bah, i dont want your food" is an old and retold story.

I'm not talking about $17/hour sometimes. I am talking about $17 an hour, 16 hours, EVERY day of the year.

You really think they could make $17/hour at 2pm when everyone who has money it at work? How about at 6 am? Like I said it would have to be 16 hours a day, so that's 6 am to 10 pm or 8 am to midnight. How many people would give money at night?

With the gas station bit: how long do you think they can do that before the attendant calls the cops or runs him off? Then when he sees him coming the next time do you think the homeless person even has time to hit up one person?

Let me know, I really don't believe 6 figures. I have no doubt they can do ok (they do pretty well here in Austin) but 6 figures?