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I stood in line behind a bum at a Mickey D's in Corpus once. Dude pulled out the fattest roll of cash I'd ever seen...and it looked like 5's and 10's...not just the ones you'd expect.
Nice not having to deal with that pesky income tax and all...
At the corner of 1-10 & Wurzbach ..
Stepping out of a 2007 Lincoln Navigator
I stood in line behind a bum at a Mickey D's in Corpus once. Dude pulled out the fattest roll of cash I'd ever seen...and it looked like 5's and 10's...not just the ones you'd expect.
Nice not having to deal with that pesky income tax and all...
that's why if a panhandler says he's hungry i buy him food. if he's thirsty i buy him water. plus if he doesn't smell like a sack of sweaty anuses(anni, perhaps)mixed with death, he ain't getting a damn thing.At the corner of 1-10 & Wurzbach ..
Stepping out of a 2007 Lincoln Navigator
Dang straight. I want my bums to look and smell like ... bums!
We have a whole mess of them living in a community under the I-10 bridge at Canal St. and Claiborne. I guess people feel guilty .. give them $$$ all the time. I don't give them anything.
screw that . 2007 Lincoln Navigator. She ain't the only one.
I never give those "panhandlers" any of my hard earned cash.
other day at 1604 and blanco a bum had a sign that said "need 37 cents for the bus please help" so i gave him 40 cents just to help the guy..i got played..next day there he was again same sign..so i rolled down my window and was like WTF and he walked fast the other way
Well, the price of gas IS getting out of hand and those Navigators aren't exactly easy on gas mileage.
i think i know what i'll be doing during my lunch hour.....
lol
She could have been earning the money another way.
hey. get a video camera and expose this jackass. that's what i would do. youtube, baby.
Get a lot baby. My Rodeo needs gas too.
All the panhandlers here are homeless veterans apparently. At least that's what their signs say.
Tschlong is right -- I'll grant that some of them are homeless vets. But I'll be darned if I fork over my hard-earned $$ to any old bum, regardless of their VA status.
Some of the lefties in the New Orleans city gummint want to put these homeless people living in the tent cities under the bridge at Canal & Claiborne (they used to live in the park across from City Hall!) into apartments, paid for by the city.
It'll probably happen. Messed-up city.
the lady with the 1980's dress (with the lace) that always holds up the sign "christian woman needs help" is my favorite.
If you see a guy claiming to be a homeless vet, standing at an intersection out in an affluent suburb, he's a fraud. Now if you see one two blocks from the overpass six dozen homeless use as a shelter when there aren't any open beds at the mission, then he might be legit. If he's two blocks from the overpass and is wearing an old coat on an 80-degree day, he's even more likely to be legit. If he is sitting down all huddled and hardly moving, he's that much more likely to be legit.
Bubba in a dirty T-shirt pacing back and forth is a fraud.
Yeah ... I'm sure the majority of the inhabitants of tent city are legit. There may be a few student protesters mixed in, but I'm sure they're mostly really homeless.
I still don't give them $$, though. Not only are they likely to blow it anyway, but I have my doubts that giving it is the truly charitable thing to do. Such was the thesis in "Ministries of Mercy," (I forget the author), that taught that the church needs a more comprehensive approach to mercy ministries, and not something that revolves around soup kitchens and clothing drives (though those are okay).
The author correctly pointed out that while generally homelessness is the result of bad decisions made (poor $$ skills, drug addiction, committing adultery, criminal history), sometimes it results from things outside of one's control (a storm, maybe a husband threw the wife out, medical or mental problems).
There is a homeless man who has built his own little "lean-to' in a field off Wurzbach near the intersection at Bab . The kids and I watched it go from a couple of sticks and a sheet to what might be a two bedroom hut! I'm just surprised the cops haven't busted him yet. He's been there for at LEAST 6 weeks.
i don't think the cops care much as long as they're not getting calls/complaints about it.
We've had squatters move into abandoned houses in New Orleans, start fixing them, and trying to move in.
One guy paid the property taxes on a shotgun house in Gentilly, off Franklin, and was halfway through the repairs, when the owner showed up from Mississippi or somewhere. I guess at first he though it was a church who was helping him on his house. Imagine his surprise!!
If you feed a hungry man a meal, he will eat for a day, if you teach him to panhandle, he will drive a Lincoln for a year.
Last edited by Jimcs50; 06-11-2008 at 12:22 PM.
If you feed a hungry man a meal, he will eat for a day, if you teach him to panhandle, he will drive a Lincoln.
truer words have never been spoken.
now she's a richer too.
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51736
When I made this thread everybody laughed at me, but some homeless people make around 700-1000 dollars a day.
Dang ... I'm tempted to quit my career and go into panhandling. Then again, I have some sense of shame. I don't think I could do it for very long, I'd begin to feel guilty, and bad about myself.
I guess it's the notion that work is one of the things that make us human. Being perpetually out of work is dehumanizing, certainly humiliating.
Is she the blonde whose sign sometimes says, "Single mom, laid off from job"? I haven't seen her around in a while.
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