Why are they homeless if they are making that kind of dough?
It seems like they can get a hotel room for $60 a day somewhere. Also where do they keep their cash?
I have handed food out the window of my car occasionally, but never money. One guy I gave a lunch to I knew wasn't homeless when he rifled through the bag and began handing sh*t back to me! Hungry my ass! Every time I see him now I just wave and keep going.
They are not homeless, but I would keep doing something if it works for me.
They keep it in a bank. IRS won't catch on if you transfer the money at a slow rate and it will be easier if you have multiple bank accounts.
When I was in Portland a few years ago, one of the local stations was having a slow news day and filmed the guy that was always at NE Stark bridge over I-205. At the end of his "work day" the guy's wife picked him up in a Lexus and they went home to a luxury apartment in a gated community
that's the one.
i last saw her at 1604/Blanco.
Wonder what ever happened to the group that used
dress as nurses and orderlies. They used to work the
traffic at 410/Ingram all the time. Haven't seen them for
awhile.
At the corner of 1-10 & Wurzbach ..
Stepping out of a 2007 Lincoln Navigator
You kidding? but seriously,
when I lived in Washington D.C. I seen this type of thing, but I saw a crack woman, really literally out walking in the alley getting crack, selling it again, climb out of a nice Range Rover.
I will never forget this....and it rings true to fatsack's story...
A few years ago I went on a Mission trip in Houston (I can't remember exactly where it was area-wise but it was off Airline...not the point though) and the pastor of the church we were staying at made a point of saying "There are panhandlers on this stretch of 10 and Airline, don't give them anything. If they ask for food direct them to the church we can give them food and whatever else they need. Some make more money they we do on a daily basis...and don't pay taxes..."
So, from now on I never give anyone anything when they're panhandling. It's really bad by the De Zavala Wal-Mart. I can hardly stand to go there, seriously.
Do you all remember the ordiance that Boerne wanted to pass where panhandlers had to pay $25 to do their thing? I thought was freaking hilarious. It died pretty quick. I think that was like Septemberish last year. Correct me if I'm wrong, someone.
Since moving to Albuquerque, Ive had to learn how to say no to the homeless. There just seem to be so many people trying to play a part that its really hard to tell whats what, which makes me really sad because I never had a problem with giving change to people while I was in Texas. If I really believe someone, as another poster said, I will just give them food or water.
I admit I give some $$ to those in need, who am I to judge, because I always remember "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. I was naked and you gave me clothes. I was homeless and you gave me a place to stay". You just never know.
I never give panhandlers money.
When I was about twenty or so I was homeless, and you know what I did, I worked.
I did day labor, made money and got by.
If you can walk around in the hot sun and go from car to car to ask for money, you can certainy get a job.
It's not easy when you have no phone number, and no address, but it's certainly possible, you have to use your street smarts and get it done.
Yeah. every panhandler drives a Navigator...
The most ed up thing I've seen is a guy fresh out of the military complete with Desert Storm uniform and military-issued back-pack luggage on his back panhandling on Fred road....
Mike Tyson used to panhandle as I recall...
did he look like this?At the corner of 1-10 & Wurzbach ..
Stepping out of a 2007 Lincoln Navigator
He's got to feed his family...did he look like this?
I'd a given him some cash. Semper Fi!!!Yeah. every panhandler drives a Navigator...
The most ed up thing I've seen is a guy fresh out of the military complete with Desert Storm uniform and military-issued back-pack luggage on his back panhandling on Fred road....
Worse I've been is when I had to sell my blood for some $$.
What's worse is when you try to sell your plasma and they tell you they won't buy it because it has too much iron...
But that's the difference, when some people go through hard times they dig deep, get creative and get by, other people get lazy and get a sharpie and the top of a pizza box...
You give $$ to bums knowing full well that you're perpetuating their cycle of dependence on others. And keeping the scammers in business.
I gave a bum one of Bible Verse keychain things on New Years Eve on my way out of the Bonham last year. I'm sure they were expecting that out of there.
I wish I could remember the verse. It was hilarious.
I understand that way of thinking and I'm not disagreeing with it at all. I just choose to act differently. Don't get me wrong, I don't just give out money to every panhandler....you all know I'm one cheap SOB...but I also admit that it is not easy for me to do nothing. Am I giving them money for booze or drugs? That is a very high probability but I for one don't have the capacity to know for sure. But enough of my kumbaya at ude.
Jim, those guys aren't homeless...they are actors playing a role.
I had one hit me up at the Valero last year...this was a very normal, lucid guy in his 30's wearing old but clean clothes...he had obviously had a shower recently...
I told him I have my charitable organizations I support but that I don't do street donations...I then pointed out the help wanted sign on the door of the Valero and said "why don't you just go inside and get an application? They're hiring..."
He got very angry and said " THAT!...I don't want a ing JOB...this gig is WAY too good!" and stomped off to hit up the guy at the pump...
My brother in AZ carries around work vouchers for his company where they'll give basically anyone with a pulse a job doing grunt labor at around $10/hour. He'll hand one of those to homeless guys who approach him and to this day not a single one of them has taken him up on it. Most of them throw the voucher on the ground and cuss him out and walk away.
Thats a really great idea. Are there many oppurtunities like that out there, or is your brother just ahead of the curve?
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