Topic: Off/On ramp beggars....

[smokester]

Nowadays, somebody has to actually do something for me to give them money.

Yes but those laydeez like to be paid in advance.

[Skadi]

>_<

I do actually give money to street performers.

[frankcapri]

Yes but those laydeez like to be paid in advance.

Guess I left myself wide open for that

I do actually give money to street performers.

Me, too.  They're actually doing something 

San Francisco used to have a charity program called The Street Sheet.  Basically it was
a newspaper written by people within and involved with the homeless community. 
They gave out the papers to homeless people for free who would sell them for a dollar.
If I saw someone selling a Street Sheet, I'd buy one off them. 

[Skadi]

^ the people that sell those papers in my city are usually huge a-holes. And I always wonder if it's legit. One time one of their 'sponsors' was with them.. and he was a huge jerk to me. If I get wind of a grift ..sometimes I don't give. Sometimes I've given though to people that flat out tell me they're going to drink... I need to reread this thread.. I think I'm just looping my comments

[busterone]

I did have one that came up to me in a parking lot once and said that he was not going to lie to me, he needed a beer and had no money. He asked if I could spare some change so he could go buy himself a beer. I was so impressed with his honesty that I bought him a six-pack. 

[Robin-Graves]

Thats cool,, most make it out that theyre hungry or trying to make it home.

Ive even had one try and tell me that he was trying to get money so his ex wife could afford to get their son a new liver.
I heard the same story from three others over the next month,, guess it was working for them.

[ohcheap1]

Busterone......Im broke and was wondering if you could spare the change so I could buy a beer?

[Robin-Graves]

And I need a new liver for my son.

[frankcapri]

Thats cool,, most make it out that theyre hungry or trying to make it home.

Heh, not up in Arcata circa '02-'06.  A lot of street people had signs that said "Give for beer fund"
or "Need cash for booze". 

I think the funniest one I saw said "Need change to fall off wagon".  I gave that guy a quarter 

I hated buying beer downtown because inevitably someone would ask me if I could spare one.
Before then, the only people that ever bummed booze off me were my loser friends 

One time I was smoking outside of my workplace with my co-workers and some street people came over to us. 
One asked a co-worker, "Hey man, would you like to trade 5 dollars for some weed?"  I loled.

[Skadi]

Seriously.. I'm not afraid to say it and look stupid.. I think i've said it twice in this thread alone I've given money to someone who flat out told me it was for drinking. They looked like Vietnam era vets. F'it.. soul sick is soul sick. And they weren't trying to scam me...so it was real... and heart felt.

[smokester]

Some homeless people's life stories are tattooed all over their faces, sometimes literally.

[Skadi]

And it's obvious when they're carrying around a duffle bigger then most people taken camping.. that it has everything they own in it .. and they're definitely not faking   It also sucks when you drive by someone sleeping outside this time of year when the temperature is starting to dip down to 35F/1C. It's not bad enough to sleep outside this time of year.. but it's just the beginning of cold weather. And it's going to get lots colder.

[chekovsulu]

Today, at the train station, I saw a group of the ladies that beg for money getting off the train.  I recognised two of them because one of them knocked on my door once and the other one promised to pray for me.

It was really weird, because I've always assumed they lived in my town.  I didn't know if I should say hello.

[Skadi]

Today, at the train station, I saw a group of the ladies that beg for money getting off the train.  I recognised two of them because one of them knocked on my door once and the other one promised to pray for me.

It was really weird, because I've always assumed they lived in my town.  I didn't know if I should say hello.

That has all the makings of a 'Redemption of the Soul' scary movie/book plot. Hurry.. put down what you're doing and run write it! Then you can get rich.. and toss handfuls of coins daily

[dweez]

You can make it rain on the homeless!!