...to sit at an intersection waiting for people to hand me money. How does this work? Isn't easier, and more profitable, to simply get a job, which typically is indoors and climate controlled?
...to sit at an intersection waiting for people to hand me money. How does this work? Isn't easier, and more profitable, to simply get a job, which typically is indoors and climate controlled?
I won't forget the time I saw this guy pan-handling on an entry ramp in Clarksville in '93.
His sign was simply: "Hungry, Please Help".
I decided that when I got off work for the night, I'd get two burgers. One for me and one for him.
"I don't want your G** D*** burger, give me a $20." was his response to the offered burgers.
So I had two burgers that night.
The next night I worked, I took a book and read while he begged. He waited out the 9 PM store closing traffic, then walked a couple blocks back to his BMW. He headed back onto the highway and back over to Louisville, according to his plate.
I really wonder how much tax free money these people pull in. Sure must be easier to look pathetic than do something that takes effort and enhances society somehow.
I won't forget the time I saw this guy pan-handling on an entry ramp in Clarksville in '93.
His sign was simply: "Hungry, Please Help".
I decided that when I got off work for the night, I'd get two burgers. One for me and one for him.
"I don't want your G** D*** burger, give me a $20." was his response to the offered burgers.
So I had two burgers that night.
The next night I worked, I took a book and read while he begged. He waited out the 9 PM store closing traffic, then walked a couple blocks back to his BMW. He headed back onto the highway and back over to Louisville, according to his plate.
I really wonder how much tax free money these people pull in. Sure must be easier to look pathetic than do something that takes effort and enhances society somehow.
I bet some of those professionals make $50 plus per hour. I've seen them get money from multiple cars during one red light in castleton.
i like the one homeless woman down on 82nd and 69 who has blond highlights and a fake tan.
uh huh
Local expose here found that they make damn good money doing it. Actually got one lady to admit it was just over 6 figures some years.
There is one guy that stands at the top of the EB70 to Emerson exit. He is in his late 40s, early 50s. He takes his teeth out and hobbles around on a cane, with one foot flexed up so he walks on his heel like he is crippled.
One day I left work late. I saw him speed walking toward his car, fit as a fiddle. Ever since I have been tempted to stick a sign at the base of the ramp "He isnt crippled, he is playing you".
Yep. Whenever I encounter someone who genuinely thinks they are helping, I tell them to donate that money to a legit foundation like the Wheeler MissionAs long as idiots give the healthy ones money that is their job.
Hebrews 13:1-2
Some may be scammers, but some may be in real need. Let us not equate them all to be the same.