Homeless people, tbh..

[spurraider21]

i used to work at a frozen yogurt place, and there was a starbucks in the same plaza. sometimes during my break i'd walk over and get a small coffee or w/e. there was usually this one bum who would kick it in the plaza too. one time it was a particularly cold night (by LA standards, of course ) and i bought an extra hot chocolate to give to the bum. when i offered it to him he said "nah thanks i already got somethin" and showed me a beer. i told him to just talk the drink and have it whenever he wants, and he said no. so that. that was the last time i tried to do anything for bums

[Malik Hairston]

Most of the time I ignore them because here, it seems like a good bit of the population is "homeless" Not always the case. Most are lazy frauds looking for freebies.

What I do instead is donate the clothes I dont use or like anymore and stuff like that to the Salvation Army.

Yep, I do the same, tbh..

It's too bad all the hipsters have invaded thrift stores and Salvation Army stores, though, rather than the actual poor and homeless..

[spurraider21]

Yep, I do the same, tbh..

It's too bad all the hipsters have invaded thrift stores and Salvation Army stores, though, rather than the actual poor and homeless..

umm... the salvation army sells the stuff you donate and that's where they get funding for charity efforts. the stores aren't necessarily "for" the homeless. making poor people buy isn't really charity tbh

[Malik Hairston]

umm... the salvation army sells the stuff you donate and that's where they get funding for charity efforts. the stores aren't necessarily "for" the homeless. making poor people buy isn't really charity tbh

Well I stand corrected then, I guess I don't know about the Salvation Army..

[baseline bum]

i used to work at a frozen yogurt place, and there was a starbucks in the same plaza. sometimes during my break i'd walk over and get a small coffee or w/e. there was usually this one bum who would kick it in the plaza too. one time it was a particularly cold night (by LA standards, of course ) and i bought an extra hot chocolate to give to the bum. when i offered it to him he said "nah thanks i already got somethin" and showed me a beer. i told him to just talk the drink and have it whenever he wants, and he said no. so that. that was the last time i tried to do anything for bums

The amount of homeless people in Westwood is ing ridiculous. I had one who was holding one of those little 2.5 pound iron weights you put on adjustable dumbbells as a weapon and talking when I didn't give him any money, so I turned around and charged him like I was going to beat the out of him. He ran off, and never talked to me again. I figured better to charge this guy than get hit in the back of the head when he's walking behind me tbh. I have a friend who was almost killed by a homeless guy on the red line in Hollywood when the mother er hit him with a lead pipe. Needed plastic surgery on his forehead, but he lived because he got his hand up just in time. ing broke a ton of bones in his hand though.

[spurraider21]

The amount of homeless people in Westwood is ing ridiculous. I had one who was holding one of those little 2.5 pound iron weights you put on adjustable dumbbells as a weapon and talking when I didn't give him any money, so I turned around and charged him like I was going to beat the out of him. He ran off, and never talked to me again. I figured better to charge this guy than get hit in the back of the head when he's walking behind me tbh. I have a friend who was almost killed by a homeless guy on the red line in Hollywood when the mother er hit him with a lead pipe. Needed plastic surgery on his forehead, but he lived because he got his hand up just in time. ing broke a ton of bones in his hand though.

thankfully the experience i was talking about wasn't in westwood, this was my pre-ucla days. but yeah they're all over westwood. on every bench, they even roam onto campus all the time over at ackerman

[DMC]

Do you:

- Give them any money?

- Sympathize?

No

Sometimes

I don't give money because it encourages more people to do less, "homelessness" becomes a viable survival method and I feel most of them are alcoholics and drug addicts with zero will to improve. There used to be only a couple here and there, but now days you see one on every corner. You'll see 4 or 5 of them working an intersection and camping under an overpass. It's not a sign of hard times, it's a sign of lazy ers.

Sympathize? Yes, if the homeless person looks like they are mentally disabled and depressed, sure I sympathize and I know I could be there if I allowed it to happen, basically if I on everyone I ever knew and pissed away my life savings, became an alcoholic or drug addict for 20 years and never bathed again.

True story: When I was in my early 20's and living in SA, I was coming out of an HEB and this guy was out there with his hand out. The guy ahead of me must have dropped change in his hand because it was still there when he put his hand out to me. I took 50 cents and said "Thanks".

[DMC]

Yep, I do the same, tbh..

It's too bad all the hipsters have invaded thrift stores and Salvation Army stores, though, rather than the actual poor and homeless..

I knew a manager at a Salvation Army location and he told me it was a weekly occurrence that a transient would rip them off. They hire these people to work in the stores, and one guy brought in a used car and donated it. The transient sold the car to someone he knew and kept the money. He was arrested but released because the city doesn't want to house these folks either.

[TE]

I usually just buy them food. I once bought the resident homeless of our city (everybody knows the guy) a double meat double cheese combo. Another time after walking out of grocery store, I saw this old lady and man sitting outside so I went inside and bought them a few can foods and a pack of water.


It just depends on the situation tbh but usually I'll find myself giving.

[Malik Hairston]

I knew a manager at a Salvation Army location and he told me it was a weekly occurrence that a transient would rip them off. They hire these people to work in the stores, and one guy brought in a used car and donated it. The transient sold the car to someone he knew and kept the money. He was arrested but released because the city doesn't want to house these folks either.

that's a nice hustle, tbh, have to give respect to that..

[Huey Freeman]

I don't mind handing over my change or a couple of bucks. I don't judge them, it just doesn't matter to me why/how they got that way.

This

If I have money to give (don't carry cash or coins) I'll give them some

[spurraider21]

On the topic, how annoying are those assholes outside of supermarkets that walk up to you with a clipboard/binder?

[silverblk mystix]

When I was younger I would give - either food or money -I used to sometimes wait until my change jar was full and then find a homeless guy and make his day - usually there was 35-50 bux worth of change...

When I lived in Hollywood - I got cured of the compulsion - those Hollywood deadbeats are the most aggressive lazy pieces of in the world.
They will stalk you and argue with you if you refuse to give them - they will approach your table at restaurants and ask for money and if you refuse they will try and intimidate you -and fight with you in front of your family/date/friends

So I grew tired and basically now - I just tell them to gtfo out of my face and get a in job. (this goes over real well btw lol)


I also have noticed that most of the lazy people in the world are black or white -

Very few Latinos are begging for money in my experience.

[spurraider21]

When I was younger I would give - either food or money -I used to sometimes wait until my change jar was full and then find a homeless guy and make his day - usually there was 35-50 bux worth of change...

When I lived in Hollywood - I got cured of the compulsion - those Hollywood deadbeats are the most aggressive lazy pieces of in the world.
They will stalk you and argue with you if you refuse to give them - they will approach your table at restaurants and ask for money and if you refuse they will try and intimidate you -and fight with you in front of your family/date/friends

So I grew tired and basically now - I just tell them to gtfo out of my face and get a in job. (this goes over real well btw lol)


I also have noticed that most of the lazy people in the world are black or white -

Very few Latinos are begging for money in my experience.

Kinda true. The Latinos gather around corners and beg for work, not pity. Don't think I've eve seen an Asian beggar here in cali

[Malik Hairston]

I had a crazy-ass looking, old Asian man begging today, tbh..I was sitting at the light and this slow-ass was walking awkwardly from car-to-car and not saying a word, just literally staring and brushing up against the whip with his hands out..

I don't usually see Asians living that life, either, tbh..

[z0sa]

I was raised that beggars get your change, the poor people actually hustling with overpriced candy apples or whatever get your dollar bills. Neither one gets talked down to or frowned upon as long as they arent being abrasive or assholes.

[SnakeBoy]

I usually give out a few $20's to panhandlers when I'm on vacation but only to the ones that have a good story or other type of shtick. those ones that just sit there trying to look pitiful.

There's a fake homeless crew that works the Leon Springs area. Once my wife fell for one of them that was using a puppy as a prop on Thanksgiving day. She felt so bad for him and the puppy that she actually made the effort to turn around drive back and gave the guy $60. She was all proud when she told me and then pissed when I told her if she wanted to give him more money she could find him at the starbucks every morning working on his ipad.